Sydney Rare Book Auctions: Fine Bindings, 1st Editions, Science, Philosophy, Art, Photography, Fishing, 165A, Ultimo

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
October 26, 2025 - October 26, 2025
Page Size: 400 items in 16 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
151

Four Finely bound classics

London c 1865 AUD 300.00 - 400.00 AUD 190.50
152 Edited by Charles Knight

The 'Chandos Classics' Half Hours of English History in Four Volumes Selected and Edited by Charles Knight

London circa 1860s AUD 500.00 - 600.00 AUD 381.00
153 Charles Knight

Half-Hours With The Best Authors

London 1860s AUD 600.00 - 700.00 AUD 444.50
154 Edited by Hon. Andrew Garran

Australasia Illustrated

Sydney 1892 AUD 600.00 - 700.00 AUD 381.00
155

Webster's International Dictionary Of The English Language Being the Authentic Edition of Webster's Unabridged Dictionary,...

Springfield 1904 AUD 500.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
156

All Round The World An Illustrated Record of Voyages , Travels , and Adventures in all Parts of The Globe with Two Hundred Illustrations

London c 1870s AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
157

Chambers Encyclopaedia A Dictionary Of Universal Knowledge For The People Illustrated With Maps and Numerous Wood Engravings Revised Edition

London 1856 AUD 400.00 - 500.00 AUD 254.00
158 Edited by Robert Chambers

Chambers Cyclopaedia of English Literature. A History, Critical and Biographical, of English Authors with Specimens of Their Writings

London 1884 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 228.60
159 Edited by William and Robert Chambers

Chambers Information For The People

London 1883 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 127.00
160

The National Portrait Gallery

London Circa 1870s AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
161 Sowerby

A few old leather bindings: Walkers Pronouncing Dictionary Of The English Language

London 1870s AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 88.90
162 Edward Walford

Greater London A Narrative of Its History, Its People, And Its Places

London 1880s AUD 500.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
163

Picturesque Europe with Illustrations On Steel and Wood by The Most Eminent Artists

1890s AUD 600.00 - 700.00 Not Sold
164 William Hepworth Dixon

Her Majesty's Tower

London 1885 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
165 Walter Thornbury

Old and New London: A Narrative of its History, its People, and its Places

London c. 1875 AUD 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
166 Hetti Perkins & Hannah Fink

Papunya Tula: Genesis and Genius edited

Australia 2000 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 127.00
167 Ion L Idriess

Four original photograph.gs of Ion L Idriess

AUD 500.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
168

Two slightly different maps of NSW Compiled,

Sydney 1913 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
169

A Journal of A Tour of Discovery Across The Blue Mountains, New South Wales

1913 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 63.50
170 Cressida Campbell, Peter Crayford, editor

The Woodblock Painting of Cressida Campbell

2009 AUD 800.00 - 1,000.00 AUD 571.50
171 F. W. Ludwig Leichhardt, M. Aurousseau, editor

The Letters of F. W. Ludwig Leichhardt

1968 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 127.00
172 Anthony JP Meyer

Oceanic Art

1995 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
173

Four books on Papua New Guinea

1996 AUD 120.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
174

13 comics from the Colossal Marvel Collection

2015 AUD 90.00 - 150.00 AUD 76.20
175

Insignia Standard's: Motor Colours & Varnishes incorporating enamels and spraying paints

Circa 1930s AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 127.00
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    December 9-17, 2025
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Francesco Colonna. Hypnerotomachie, Paris, 1546, Parisian calf by Wotton Binder C for Marcus Fugger. €200,000 to €300,000.
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    December 9-17, 2025
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    December 15, 2025
    Heritage, Dec. 15: John Donne. Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Author's Death. London: M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, 1633.
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