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
200	Charles R. Hodge,	That Codicil'		date unknown (c1900)	AUD 150.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
201	Syd Miller.	A linocut bookplate for Will Mahony, designed			AUD 80.00 - 100.00	Not Sold
202		A black inked Ex Libris bookplate for Robert C. Littlewood, designer unknown.			AUD 50.00 - 100.00	AUD 38.10
203		A collection of 5 novels focused on nature; 'The Secret Garden' by Frances Hodgson Burnett, 'The Blue Bush' by J. P. Bourke, and 'A Key to the Eucalypts by W. F. Blakely.			AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
204		A copy of a 'Bay View Estate' estate sale poster created by the company Callaghan and Co. in Beaumaris, Victoria.		circa 1884	AUD 500.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
205	John Vale and Son.	A landscape real estate poster advertising an auction of 51 lots in Malvern -- Wattletree and Tooronga Roads -- to be sold			AUD 500.00 - 600.00	AUD 317.50
206		A real estate poster for the 134 lot estate sale by F. L. Flint, in conjunction with R. G. Cameron and Co. in Doncaster Heights.			AUD 500.00 - 600.00	AUD 317.50
207		A typewritten letter addressed to 'the Nobility, Gentry, Clergy, and Freeholders, of the county of York.',		1790	AUD 50.00 - 80.00	AUD 38.10
208		A buyers guide, 1960 issue, for South Australia,		1960's	AUD 50.00 - 100.00	AUD 38.10
209		Export Catalogue of Modern Saddlery, Harness, Horse Clothing, &c.'		1910	AUD 120.00 - 180.00	AUD 241.30
210		4 brightly coloured posters, advertising fruit companies, date unknown, presumably c1960s.			AUD 50.00 - 80.00	AUD 38.10
211		A collection of books, brochures and posters related to cooking; recipes, things to do with certain products, advertisements, cooking technologies...etc.			AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 127.00
212		First Edition of Cabinet of Natural Curiosities, The Complete Plates In Colour 1734 - 1765,		2001	AUD 650.00 - 750.00	AUD 412.75
213		A collection of postcards and photographs, including ancient culture, paintings, warships...etc.			AUD 30.00 - 50.00	AUD 25.40
214	John. H. Blythe.	Two folders of architectural plans for a Mr E. Pocock, designed by John. H. Blythe.			AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 63.50
215		A collection of maps from the mid 1900's on the Sydney Metropolitan Water and Sewerage Draining System.		mid-1900's	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
216		Duplicates of 'Map of New South Wales Showing Electrical Supply Systems', June 1950. Taken from parliamentary papers.		1950	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
217		A collection of photographs from c1950 on construction, industrial areas and the like in NSW		c1950	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
218	Maiden.	108 Volumes of The Forest Flora of New South Wales			AUD 800.00 - 1,000.00	Not Sold
219		Briggs and Companies Patent Transferring Papers. Patented for the United States of America.			AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
220	W. Moon	The Life of Robert Bloomfield: In Type for the Blind, or, Ein Verbessertes Lesesystem Mit Erhoten Buchstaben Fur Die Blinden.	Brighton	1859	AUD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Not Sold
221	Paul Gauchat.	Marionettes	Zurich	1949	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 76.20
222	Albert Camus	7 books by Albert Camus			AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
223		Bulging Box of Books 20X Books in excellent condition, paperback.		2011	AUD 150.00 - 300.00	AUD 101.60
224		1. 10X Geography books in very good condition, 2. Horrible Geography of the World, 3. Who's Horrible in History, 4. Horrible Histories Terrible Trenches			AUD 120.00 - 240.00	AUD 76.20

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