Sydney Rare Book Auctions: Science and Art : books and original works, 51726, Ultimo
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- May 17, 2026 - May 17, 2026
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 476 | Gold and Civilisation |
N/A | AUD 60.00 - 100.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 477 | Thomas Jayne; David Larkin; Mark Alan Hewitt | The Finest Rooms in America; Victorian America - Classical Romanticism to Gilled Opulence; The Architect & the American Country House 1890-1940 |
1990 | AUD 80.00 - 150.00 | Not Sold | |
| 478 | M. Henri Martin | Histoire De France |
Paris | c. 1840-50s | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | AUD 127.00 |
| 479 | The Saturday Evening Post |
c. 1950s | AUD 150.00 - 250.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 480 | 20 Books, including: Bligh of the 'Bounty' |
1930; 1931 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | AUD 127.00 | ||
| 481 | Official History of Australia in the War Bean |
1939; 1942; 1938 | AUD 400.00 - 500.00 | AUD 285.75 | ||
| 482 | A D Hope; Watson; May Gibbs; Max Dupain | Multiple Books, including: Watson History of Canberra |
N/A | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | AUD 63.50 | |
| 483 | 17 Books, including: Sydney Town Hall |
N/A | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 484 | Patrick White; Thea Astley; Frank Dalby Davison; Jessica Anderson; Thos E Spencer; Xavier Herbert; Peter Carey; Bernard O'Dowd; Sumner Locike-Elliott; George Landen Dann; P R Stephensen | AUSTRALIAN LITERATURE |
N/A | AUD 150.00 - 250.00 | Not Sold | |
| 485 | Henry Norbert Birt | Benedictine Pioneers in Australia |
c1970s | AUD 80.00 - 120.00 | Not Sold | |
| 486 | Rev. James Ballantyne | Our Colony in 1880 |
1880 | AUD 250.00 - 350.00 | AUD 152.40 | |
| 487 | Year-Book of the Church In The Diocese for Ballarat, For 1896 |
1896; 1897 | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 488 | Zenker-Schultes Piano Factory Catalogue |
c1940s | AUD 100.00 - 150.00 | AUD 63.50 | ||
| 489 | Kew Baptist Church - The Achievements and Progress during 75 years |
1856-1931 | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 490 | Eric Harding | Uniform Railway Gauge |
1958 | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | AUD 444.50 | |
| 491 | Roger Lawrence | Aboriginal Habitat and Economy |
1969 | AUD 150.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold | |
| 492 | T. Salisbury; P.J. Gresser | Windradyne of the Wiradjuri - Martial Law At Bathurst in 1824 |
1971 | AUD 150.00 - 200.00 | AUD 215.90 | |
| 493 | Catherine J. Ellis | Field Notes - On Tape Recordings of Aboriginal Songs Made in 1962-63 |
1962-63; 1964 | AUD 100.00 - 150.00 | AUD 63.50 | |
| 494 | A.P. Elkin | Two Rituals in South and Central Arnhem Land |
Sydney | 1972 | AUD 150.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold |
| 495 | A.P. Elkin | Studies in Australian Totemism |
1933 | AUD 150.00 - 250.00 | Not Sold | |
| 496 | J.E. Murphy; E.W. Easton | Wilderness to Wealth - Being a History of the Shires of Nanango, Kingaroy, Wondai, Murgon, Kilkivan, and the Upper Yarraman Portion of the Rosalie Shire |
1850-1950 | AUD 150.00 - 200.00 | AUD 88.90 | |
| 497 | Wollaston | Wollaston's Picton Journal 1841-1844; Wollaston's Albany Journals 1848-1856 |
N/A | AUD 100.00 - 150.00 | Not Sold | |
| 498 | Goldfields Reminiscences - Castlemaine's Golden Era |
Castlemaine | 1977 | AUD 100.00 - 150.00 | AUD 114.30 | |
| 499 | Carboni Raffaello | The Eureka Stockade: The Consequence of Some Pirates Wanting on Quarter-Deck A Rebellion; Journal of Landsborough's Expedition From Carpentaria, In |
1962; 1971; 1969 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold | |
| 500 | William Henry Archer | The Progress of Victoria: A Statistical Essay |
1873 | AUD 250.00 - 350.00 | AUD 177.80 |
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