Sydney Rare Book Auctions: Natural history, Voyages, Military, Fine Bindings , 156, Ultimo

Auction Details

Auction Date: July 27, 2025 - July 27, 2025

Page Size: 306 items in 13 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
275		An Epitome Of The Official History Of New South Wales, From the Foundation Of The Colony, In 1788, ...		1883	AUD 120.00 - 200.00	AUD 88.90
276	Xavier Herbert ,	Capricornia A Novel	Sydney	1938	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
277	Sydney Walter Powell,	1) May and December by Sydney Walter Powell,	London	1953	AUD 150.00 - 200.00	AUD 101.60
278		Collections Zoologiques du Baron Edm. de Selys Longchamps. Catalogue systematique et descriptif.	Brussels	1910	AUD 500.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
279		The Broken Hill Proprietary Company Limited, Barrier Ranges Silver Field New South Wales. Reports & Statements of Account For Half-year ending 30th November, 1898.			AUD 300.00 - 400.00	AUD 190.50
280		Etude sur les Mymarommidae et les Mymaridae de la Belgique (Hymenoptera Chalcidoidea). Par Hubert Robert Debauche (avec 24 planches hors text).	Brussels	1948	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	AUD 254.00
281	Philip Lutley.	The Ibis, A Quarterly Journal of Ornithology edited		1892-1950	AUD 250.00 - 350.00	AUD 177.80
282		Sixteen Books of Natural History. Mostly Hardback and in very good condition.			AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
283	Rex Ellis.	Four Outback Books by Rex Ellis.			AUD 60.00 - 100.00	Not Sold
284		Six Books about Flora and Gardening. Mostly Australian.			AUD 150.00 - 250.00	Not Sold
285	P.J. Higgins, J.M. Peter and S.J. Cowling.	1) Handbook of Australian, New Zealand & Antarctic Bird. Edited		1990	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
286	Joseph M Forshaw. Illustrations by William T Cooper.	Pigeons and Doves in Australia		2015	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 190.50
287	Fred Cahir, Ian D. Clark and Philip A. Clarke.	Aboriginal Biocultural Knowledge in South-eastern Australia - Perspectives of Early Colonists		2021	AUD 100.00 - 150.00	AUD 88.90
288	J. H. Maiden	1) A Critical Revision of The Genus Eucalyptus Vol.II. Part 1-3, 5-10 1910-1914. Parts 11-20 1914.			AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 88.90
289		Three books of Natural History published in 19th Centenary.			AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 63.50
290	Prideaux John Selby.	Illustrations of British Ornithology		1883	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
291	Baron Ferd. Von Mueller	1) Eucalyptographia. A Descriptive Atlas of The Eucalypts of Australia and The Adjoining Island;		1882-1884.	AUD 250.00 - 350.00	AUD 165.10
292	Keith A. W. Williams.	Native Plants of Queensland		1987-1989	AUD 100.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
293		6 books primarily on the Pacific, a mixed lot including auction catalogues, navigation and history.			AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
294		4 books on America, mostly North America with 1 book being on South America.			AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
295		4 books on boats, seamanship and coastal navigation.			AUD 150.00 - 250.00	AUD 101.60
296		2 books on Asian Art and a photograph of Bali backed onto cardboard.			AUD 150.00 - 250.00	Not Sold
297	Larry Stein.	Faberge Eggs: Imperial Russian Fantasies with photographs	NY	1983	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 63.50
298	Havelock Ellis	Kanga Creek: An Australian Idyll	London	1922	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 114.30
299		De Aeterna Felicitate Sanctorum ("On the Eternal Happiness of the Saints")	Rome	1616	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 127.00

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