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
101		A good collection of Australian Aboriginal History books. A mixed lot in good condition Including:			AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 76.20
102	DENISON, Sir William, and others.	Defences of the Colony. (Despatches, &c, Respecting).	Sydney	1859	AUD 100.00 - 150.00	AUD 139.70
103		Nine books published by the renowned Australian bibliophile and collector George Mackaness.	Sydney.		AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 139.70
104		Seven books (in 16 volumes) published by the renowned Australian bibliophile and collector George Mackaness.	Sydney.		AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 508.00
105		Three books (in four volumes) published by the renowned Australian bibliophile and collector George Mackaness.	Sydney.		AUD 150.00 - 200.00	AUD 190.50
106	TATZ, Colin Martin.	Aboriginal Administration in the Northern Territory of Australia. A thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Australian National University, March 1964			AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
107	COHN, Ola.	Castles in the Air.	Melbourne	1936	AUD 100.00 - 150.00	AUD 88.90
108		Report from the Select Committee on Immigration, with Appendix and Minutes of Evidence.	Sydney	1845	AUD 100.00 - 150.00	AUD 76.20
109		Seven Australian battalion and regimental histories.			AUD 400.00 - 500.00	AUD 317.50
110	BYRNE, Lieutenant J.R.	New Zealand Artillery in the Field 1914-1918.	Auckland	1922	AUD 150.00 - 200.00	AUD 101.60
111	CAPLAN, H.H.	The Classified Directory of Artists' Signatures, Symbols and Monograms.	London	1983	AUD 150.00 - 200.00	AUD 165.10
112		Missale Romanum ex Decreto Sacrosancti Concilii Tridentini Restitutum, S. PII V Pontificus Maximi Jessu Editum, Clementis VIII et Urban VIII.	Paris	1852	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
113		Five high quality facsimile editions of books on discovery and exploration in Australia and the South Pacific.			AUD 350.00 - 400.00	AUD 215.90
114	Captain W.E. Johns,	Two Biggles books	Melbourne	during the Second World War.	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 165.10
115	Captain W.E. Johns,	Six Biggles books			AUD 75.00 - 100.00	AUD 50.80
116	Captain W.E. Johns,	Six Biggles adventures			AUD 400.00 - 500.00	AUD 285.75
117	JOHNS, Captain W.E.	Biggles Goes to War.	London	1943	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 139.70
118	Capt. W.E. Johns.	Five Biggles books			AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
119	Captain W.E. Johns.	Three science fiction books			AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 165.10
120	BOYCOTT, A.G.	The Elements if Imperial Defence. A study of the geographical features, material resources, communications, and organisation of the British Empire.	Aldershot	1936	AUD 120.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
121		Four excellent books on fly-fishing. Titles are as follows:			AUD 500.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
122	Authors include Peladan, Felix Pyat, Theodore Muret, Alexandre Piedagnel, R.P. Felix and others.	A collection of French revolutionary and utopian literature, from the generation of the 1848 revolution onwards.	Paris	1850's	AUD 250.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
139		The first Twenty Three issues of the Journal Aboriginal History 1977 to 1999, Issued from the ANU in Canberra.	Canberra.	1977-1999	AUD 600.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
140		A rare and pristine first edition of Walt Disney Uncle Scrooge and Donald Duck: The Don Rosa Library Gift Box Set, Volumes 9 & 10		2018	AUD 1,500.00 - 3,000.00	Not Sold
141		Complete 21 volume set of Agatha Christie Graphic novels,	London	2005	AUD 800.00 - 1,200.00	AUD 508.00

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