Sydney Rare Book Auctions: Icons: Opera House, Idriess Manuscripts, Art and History, 40624, Ultimo

Auction Details

Auction Date: April 06, 2024 - April 06, 2024

Page Size: 338 items in 14 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
26	Garryowen (Edmund Finn)	The Chronicles of Early Melbourne 1835 to 1952 Historical, Anecdotal and Personal	Melbourne	1888	AUD 600.00 - 700.00	Not Sold
27		Fauna Hawaiiensis Being The Land-Fauna of the Hawaiian Islands. Volumes 1 , 2 and 3 of	Cambridge		AUD 500.00 - 600.00	AUD 2,921.00
28	Virginia Woolf	The Years	London	1937	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	AUD 412.75
29	IDRIESS, Ion L.	"Cyaniding for Gold".	Sydney	1939	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	AUD 412.75
30		1) Small Town Tyrant	New York	1944	AUD 200.00 - 250.00	Not Sold
31		Guide to the city of Sydney and pleasure resorts of New South Wales	Sydney	[1938?]	AUD 150.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
32		Bill Baillie His Life and Adventures. With Eight Coloured Illustrations	Melbourne	1908	AUD 100.00 - 150.00	AUD 76.20
33	Edward Pelham Brenton.	The Naval History of Great Britain, from the Year 1783 to 1822 In Three Volumes	London	1823/1824	AUD 200.00 - 250.00	AUD 139.70
34	a clergyman' (Reverend John Morison),	Australia in 1866 or Facts and Features, Sketches and Incidents of Australia and Australian Life with Notices of New Zealand		1868	AUD 100.00 - 150.00	AUD 101.60
35	Mrs Ellis Rowan.	A flower-hunter in Queensland and New Zealand.	London	1898	AUD 150.00 - 200.00	AUD 139.70
36	Godfrey Charles Mundy.	Our Antipodes: or, Residence and Rambles in the Australasian Colonies with a Glimpse of the Gold Fields	London	1852	AUD 500.00 - 800.00	AUD 508.00
37		Kevin Fahy: Nineteenth Century Australian Furniture.	Sydney	1985	AUD 250.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
38	Ida Lee	Early Explorers in Australia, From the Log-Books and Journals	London	1925	AUD 100.00 - 120.00	AUD 76.20
39	Capt. Charles Sturt.	Two Expeditions into the Interior of Southern Australia, during the Years 1828, 1829, 1830, and 1831: with Observations on the Soil, Climate, and General Resources of the Colony of New South Wales	London	1833	AUD 1,200.00 - 1,500.00	AUD 1,206.50
40	Eris O'Brien	The Foundation of Australia (1786-1800) (A Study in Penal Colonisation)	London	1936	AUD 100.00 - 120.00	AUD 76.20
41	William Henry Wells.	A Geographical Dictionary or Gazetteer of the Australian Colonies: their Physical and Political Geography, together with a brief notice of all the Capitals, Principal Towns and Villages; also of rivers, bays, gulfs, mountains, population and general stati	Sydney	1848	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	AUD 317.50
42	the Rev . Earle Legh Langston	The British Mandate for Palestine and its Significance	London	No date but 1920	AUD 150.00 - 200.00	AUD 127.00
43	Daisy Bates .	The Passing Of The Aborigines A Lifetime spent among the Natives of Australia	London	1938	AUD 120.00 - 150.00	AUD 88.90
44		The Works of The Rev. Sydney Smith Including His Contributions to the Edinburgh Review In Two Volumes.	London	1860	AUD 100.00 - 120.00	Not Sold
45	Phyllis Mander - Jones	Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Library of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia (South Australian Branch) Inc. Compiled	Adelaide	1981	AUD 100.00 - 120.00	AUD 76.20
46	The Rev Robert Young	The Southern World. Journal of a Deputation From the Wesleyan Conference to Australia and Polynesia: Including Notices of a Visit to the Gold Fields	London	1855	AUD 100.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
47	Baldwin Spencer and FJ Gillen	Across Australia	London	1912	AUD 200.00 - 250.00	AUD 127.00
48	A B Paterson; Rolf Boldrewood	The Man From Snowy River And Other Verses	Sydney; London and Edinburgh; Glasgow	1895	AUD 3,000.00 - 3,500.00	AUD 5,334.00
49	A B Paterson; Rolf Boldrewood	The Man From Snowy River And Other Verses	Sydney ; London	1895	AUD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00	AUD 2,032.00
50	Ross Gillett	The Royal Australian Navy: the first seventy-five years text	Brookvale NSW	1986	AUD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Not Sold

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Ketterer Rare Books
Auction May 27th

Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
K. Marx, Das Kapital,1867. Dedication copy. Est: € 120,000

Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
Latin and French Book of Hours, around 1380. Est: € 25,000

Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
Theodor de Bry, Indiae Orientalis, 1598-1625. Est: € 80,000

Ketterer Rare Books
Auction May 27th

Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
Breviary, Latin manuscript, around 1450-75. Est: € 10,000

Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
G. B. Piranesi, Vedute di Roma, 1748-69. Est: € 60,000

Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
K. Schmidt-Rottluff, Arbeiter, 1921. Orig. watercolour on postcard. Est: € 18,000

Ketterer Rare Books
Auction May 27th

Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
Breviarium Romanum, Latin manuscript, 1474. Est: € 20,000

Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
C. J. Trew, Plantae selectae, 1750-73. Est: € 28,000

Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
M. Beckmann, Apokalypse, 1943. Est: € 50,000

Ketterer Rare Books
Auction May 27th

Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
Ulrich von Richenthal, Das Concilium, 1536. Est: € 9,000

Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
I. Kant, Critik der reinen Vernunft, 1781. Est: €12,000

Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
Arbeiter-Illustrierte Zeitung (AIZ) / Die Volks-Illustrierte (VI), 1932-38. Est: €8,000

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