Sydney Rare Book Auctions: Fine Bindings, 1st Editions, Science, Philosophy, Art, Photography, Fishing, 165A, Ultimo
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- October 26, 2025 - October 26, 2025
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 51 | [WAGREZ, Jacques] | Boccacio Dekameron illustretet af Jacques Wagrez. Paa dansk ved S. Prahl |
Copenhagen | 1904 | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold |
| 52 | BEDDIE, M. K. (editor) | Bibliography of Captain James Cook |
1970 | AUD 100.00 - 150.00 | Not Sold | |
| 53 | MORISON, Stanley | Four Centuries of Printing |
New York | 1949 | AUD 100.00 - 150.00 | AUD 127.00 |
| 54 | NICOLSON, Nigel (editor) | The Letters of Virginia Woolf |
London | 1983 | AUD 100.00 - 150.00 | AUD 88.90 |
| 55 | Joseph Hocking | Five adventure romance novels by Joseph Hocking |
London | 1920-1932 | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold |
| 56 | IDRIESS, Ion L. | Tracks of Destiny |
1961 | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold | |
| 57 | DICKINSON, H. W. | James Watt. Craftsman & Engineer |
Cambridge | 1935 | AUD 80.00 - 100.00 | AUD 38.10 |
| 58 | Four hardcover volumes from the History of Silver series |
London | 1959-1974 | AUD 150.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold | |
| 59 | A bound set of The Victorian Naturalist: The Journal and Magazine of the Field Naturalists Club of Victoria |
Melbourne | AUD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 60 | A quality lot of Australiana titles, comprising some 16 books, mostly hardcover |
AUD 250.00 - 300.00 | AUD 165.10 | |||
| 61 | The S.A. White Ornithology Collection |
Originally published 1866-1870 | AUD 750.00 - 1,000.00 | AUD 825.50 | ||
| 62 | STRUTT, William | Victoria the Golden |
Melbourne | 1980 | AUD 100.00 - 150.00 | AUD 114.30 |
| 63 | NORMAN, W.H. | Exploration Expedition |
Melbourne | 1862 | AUD 250.00 - 300.00 | AUD 165.10 |
| 64 | Five books on Australian artists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, especially Hugh Ramsay, Tom Roberts and Arthur Streeton |
AUD 250.00 - 300.00 | AUD 152.40 | |||
| 65 | BARNETT, P. | Neville. Australian Book-Plates and Book-Plates of Interest to Australia |
Sydney | 1950 | AUD 500.00 - 750.00 | AUD 539.75 |
| 66 | Michael Zavros |
Bondi Junction | 2017 | AUD 250.00 - 300.00 | AUD 152.40 | |
| 67 | CHIUSOLE, Antonio | La Genealogica delle case Piu Illustri di Tutto il Mondo |
Venice | 1743 | AUD 400.00 - 500.00 | Not Sold |
| 68 | George David Perrottet | Ten bookplates by George David Perrottet (1890-1971) |
1939 | AUD 250.00 - 300.00 | AUD 412.75 | |
| 69 | Bookplate for esteemed Australian artists Margaret Preston and her husband William |
1927 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | AUD 165.10 | ||
| 70 | Bookplate of George Collingridge (1847-1931), cartographic historian and owner of the Hornsby hacienda "Java le Grand" |
AUD 100.00 - 150.00 | AUD 114.30 | |||
| 71 | Two woodblock bookplates designed and printed by Australian artist Margaret Oppen (1890-1975) |
(1890-1975) | AUD 100.00 - 150.00 | AUD 63.50 | ||
| 72 | Bookplate by Norman Lindsay for James Simeon Colebrook Elkington, an Australian public health advocate |
Circa 1900 | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 73 | Lewis Roy Davies | Four bookplates designed and printed by Lewis Roy Davies (1897-1979) |
AUD 150.00 - 200.00 | AUD 88.90 | ||
| 74 | Francis William Mahony, aka Will Mahony | Four woodcut bookplates designed and printed by Francis William Mahony, aka Will Mahony, 1905-1989 |
circa 1930 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | AUD 127.00 | |
| 75 | STREHLOW, T.G.H. | Journey to Horseshoe Bend |
Sydney | 1969 | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | AUD 88.90 |
![<b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 16:</b> [Austen, Jane]. A handsome first edition of <i>Sense and Sensibility,</i> the author's first novel. $60,000 to $80,000.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/9a74d9ff-42dd-46a1-8bb2-b636c4cec796.png "<b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 16:</b> [Austen, Jane]. A handsome first edition of <i>Sense and Sensibility,</i> the author's first novel. $60,000 to $80,000.")
![<b>Heritage, Dec. 15:</b> John Donne. <i>Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Author's Death.</i> London: M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, 1633.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/8caddaea-4c1f-47a7-9455-62f53af36e3f.jpg "<b>Heritage, Dec. 15:</b> John Donne. <i>Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Author's Death.</i> London: M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, 1633.")
