Sydney Rare Book Auctions: Science, Botany, Philosophy, Anthropology, Art, Literature, First editions, & Associated copies, 61525, Ultimo

Auction Details

Auction Date: June 15, 2025 - June 15, 2025

Page Size: 453 items in 19 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1	Roderick Flanagan.	The History of New South Wales with an account of Van Diemen's Land [Tasmania], New Zealand, Port Phillip [Victoria], Moreton Bay, and other Australian settlements.		1862	AUD 700.00 - 800.00	AUD 635.00
2		Proeschel Atlas Australasia 1863 Atlas containing map of Australasia:	London	1863	AUD 10,000.00 - 12,000.00	Not Sold
3	Bernard C. Middleton.	A History of English Craft Bookbinding Technique	New York	1978	AUD 100.00 - 150.00	AUD 254.00
4	Gregory Blaxland	A Journal of a Tour of Discovery Across the Blue Mountains, New South Wales, in the Year 1813.	London	1863	AUD 100.00 - 150.00	AUD 50.80
5	Henry Lawson. Adelaide :	The Auld Shop and the New.		1923	AUD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00	AUD 2,667.00
6	Percy Neville Barnett.	Colour Prints of Hiroshige	Sydney, N.S.W Australia	1937	AUD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Not Sold
7	J Lort Stokes.	1) Discoveries in Australia			AUD 400.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
8	J.H. Maiden assisted by W.S. Campbell	The Flowering Plants and Ferns of New South Wales, with special reference to their economic value Parts 1-7	in Sydney	1895	AUD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00	Not Sold
9	A. B. Paterson	The Man From Snowy River And Other Verses	in Sydney		AUD 600.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
10	C. S. Forester.	The Man in the Yellow Raft		1969	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
11	Paul Gallico	Three Stories by Paul Gallico (The Snow Goose, The Small Miracle & Ludmila)	London	1964	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	AUD 190.50
12		La Journee Des Dupes: Piece Tragi-Politi-Comique: Representee Sur Le Theatre National Par Les Grands Comediens de La Patrie. 1790.			AUD 500.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
13		1789 European Magazine From January until June 1789.			AUD 300.00 - 400.00	AUD 190.50
14	Frederic Masson.	Livre du Sacre de l'empereur Napoleon	Paris:	1908	AUD 1,200.00 - 1,400.00	AUD 889.00
15	Dr. E. A. Wilson and the surviving members of the expedition	Scott's Last Expedition. In two volumes, Vol. I being the Journals, Vol. II being the Reports of the Journeys and the Scientific Work undertaken	in London	1913	AUD 900.00 - 1,000.00	AUD 571.50
16	Robert C Littlewood.	Bookplates for Pat Corrigan & Family	in Melbourne	2014	AUD 500.00 - 600.00	AUD 381.00
17	[Maria Graham]	1826 Sandwich Islands Voyage of HMS Blonde: to the Sandwich Islands, in the years 1824-1825. Captain the Right Hon. Lord Byron, Commander.	London:	MDCCCXXVI. (1826).	AUD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	AUD 1,905.00
18	George Mackaness.	Some Private Correspondence of Sir John and Lady Jane Franklin (Tasmania, 1837-1845). In 2 Parts. With Introduction, Notes & Commentary	Sydney, Australia		AUD 150.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
19	George Mackaness	1) Some Proposals For Establishing Colonies In The South Seas With Five Illustrations.	in Sydney		AUD 400.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
20	William Gates	Recollections of Life in Van Dieman's Land	in Sydney	1961	AUD 150.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
21	R S Anderson	Australian Gold Discovery Monographs No. 1 Australian Gold Fields Their Discovery, Progress and Prospects with Illustration,		1851	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
22	The Hon. Richard Keppel Craven	A Tour Through the Southern Provinces of the Kingdom of Naples , To which is subjoined A Sketch of the Immediate Circumstances Attending the Late Revolution	in London	1821	AUD 1,400.00 - 1,600.00	Not Sold
23	Edited-by Alexander Henderson	Henderson's Australian Families: A Genealogical and Biographical Record. Vol. I (complete and all published) Compiled and			AUD 1,200.00 - 1,500.00	AUD 762.00
24	Arthur Upfield	Walkabout Magazine December 1st 1934. Contains an article		1934	AUD 100.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
25	Michael Terry	A copy of Walkabout Magazine August 1st 1936. A beautiful Australiana illustrated magazine with good photographs. Contains an article		1936	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold

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Forum, July 17: Yeats (William Butler). The Secret Rose, first edition, with extensive autograph corrections, additions and amendments by the author for a new edition, 1897. £6,000 to £8,000.

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