Sydney Rare Book Auctions: Books and Maps: an Eclectic Mix, A132, Ultimo

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
November 10, 2024 - November 10, 2024
Page Size: 508 items in 21 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1

Further Papers Relative to the Recent Discovery of Gold in Australia. (In continuation of papers presented to parliament, 14 June, 1852). Presented to both Houses of Parliament by Her Majesty, February 28, 1853.

London 1853 AUD 700.00 - 800.00 AUD 698.50
2

Contributions to the Tertiary Flora of Australia. By Dr. Constantin , Baron von Ettingshausen. Professor of Botany, University of Graz, Austria.

AUD 250.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
3

The World of Adventure. A Collection of stirring scenes and moving accidents.

London 1895 AUD 125.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
4 Timperley, C.H.

Encyclopedia of Literary and Typographical Anecdote; Being a Chronological Digest of the Most Interesting Facts Illustrative of the History of Literature and Printing From the Earliest Period to the Present Time. Interspersed with biographical sketches o

London 1842 AUD 80.00 - 100.00 AUD 165.10
5 Dodsey, R.

Select Fables of Esop and Other Fabulists in Three Books. A new edition

London no date but circa 1770 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 1,016.00
6 BERENSON, Bernard.

Italian Pictures of the Renaissance. Florentine School in Two Volumes. A list of principal artists and their works, with an index of places by Bernard Berenson.

London 1963 AUD 200.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
7 GRAVES, George.

The Naturalist's Pocket-Book, or Tourist's Companion, being a brief introduction to the different branches of natural history, with approved methods for collecting and preserving the various productions of nature.

London 1817 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 127.00
8 Du HALDE, P.

The General History of China. Containing a geographical, historical, chronological, political and physical description of the Empire of China, Chinese Tartary, Corea and Thibet...

London 1736 AUD 150.00 - 200.00 AUD 381.00
9

A New Collection of Voyages, Discoveries and Travels... in seven volumes.

London 1767 AUD 300.00 - 500.00 AUD 444.50
10 DUGDALE, Sir William.

The Antiquities of Warwick, and Warwick Castle; extracted from Sir William Dugdale's Antiquities of Warwickshire. To which is added, from an ancient manuscript in the possession of the Corporation of Warwick, a detail of the Earl of Leicester's arrival at

Warwick, 1786 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 88.90
11 WALLACE, Alfred R. (editor).

Australasia. With an ethnological appendix by A.H. Keane. From the series "Stanford's Compendium of Geography and Travel".

London 1879 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 203.20
12 HINGSTON, James.

The Australian Abroad. Series one: Branches from the main routes around the world. Series two: Ceylon, India, and Egypt.

London 1879 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 114.30
13 WOOD, William.

General Conchology; or, a Description of Shells, Arranged according to the Linnean System, and illustrated with plates, drawn and coloured from nature. Volume One.

London 1815 AUD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
14

Picturesque Atlas of Australasia edited by Hon Andrew Garran.

Sydney and London 1886 AUD 400.00 - 500.00 AUD 349.25
15

Malcolm's History of Persia (Modern) edited and adapted to the Persian Translation of Mirza Hairat, with notes and dissertations by Lieut. Colonel M.H. Court, 15th Bengal Cavalry.

in Lahore 1888 AUD 300.00 - 500.00 AUD 203.20
16

Eight books of Victorian topographic and scenic views. All are

London AUD 250.00 - 400.00 AUD 152.40
17 MERLE D'AUBIGNE, J.H.

History of the Reformation in the Sixteenth Century. With twelve engravings on steel after P.A. Labouchere.

London 1880 AUD 125.00 - 150.00 AUD 76.20
18

Bound volume of 54 copper engraved natural history plates,

London 1803 and 1810. AUD 750.00 - 1,500.00 AUD 635.00
19

This document is titled "Despatch of Vice-Admiral de Robeck reporting the Landing of the Army on the Gallipoli Peninsula..."

1915 AUD 200.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
20 CARLYON, T. and McMAHON, T.

Three issues of the Diggers' Book: respectively titled 'Diggerettes', 'Digger Doings' and Fun in the Forces'.

circa1940 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 152.40
21 [HARDY, Robert Spence].

[HARDY, Robert Spence]. Autograph Album of Wesleyan Methodist Missionaries and Elders.

AUD 750.00 - 1,200.00 AUD 889.00
22 WITTGENSTEIN, Ludwig.

Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. With an introduction by Bertrand Russell, F.R.S.

London 1922 AUD 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 AUD 2,667.00
23 ROSS, Sir John.

Narrative in Search of North-West Passage, and of a Residence in the Arctic Regions.

London 1835 AUD 200.00 - 400.00 AUD 228.60
24 DRYDEN, John.

The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis and of Aulus Persius Flaccus. Translated into English by Mr. Dryden, and other eminent hands. To which is prefix'd a discourse concerning the Original and Progress of Satir. The fifth edition, adorned with sculpture

London 1713 AUD 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
25

Three books on Napoleon and Arthur Wellesley, the Duke of Wellington:

AUD 150.00 - 200.00 AUD 101.60
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