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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 182 | VR Burkhardt | Chinese Creeds and Customs |
Hong Kong | 1972-1975 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold |
| 183 | Lin Yutang | From Pagan to Christian |
London | 1960 | AUD 150.00 - 250.00 | AUD 88.90 |
| 184 | Christopher Hibbert; Lesley Blanche | The Dragon Wakes: China and the West 1793-1911; The Wilder Shores of Love |
London | 1970; 1954 | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold |
| 185 | Yasunosuke Fukukita | TEA CULT OF JAPAN |
Tokyo | 1935 | AUD 60.00 - 100.00 | AUD 38.10 |
| 186 | JF Blacker | The ABC of Japanese Art |
1911 | AUD 150.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold | |
| 187 | Mortimer Menpes | Japan: A Record in Colour |
1905 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold | |
| 188 | Uyeno Naoteru | JAPANESE ARTS AND CRAFTS IN THE MEIJI ERA |
Tokyo | 1958 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold |
| 189 | Rokujiuyen | THE MAGICAL CARPENTER OF JAPAN |
1965 | AUD 120.00 - 180.00 | Not Sold | |
| 190 | Basil Gray | Japanese Woodcuts; Wood-Block Prints; The Colour-prints of Japan: an appreciation and history |
circa 1950; 1910 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold | |
| 191 | Rene Grousset; Juliane Schober; AK Narain | In the Footsteps of Buddha; Sacred Biography in the Buddhist Traditions of South and South-East Asia; Studies in Buddhist Art of South Asia |
1971; 2002 | AUD 180.00 - 220.00 | Not Sold | |
| 192 | Yasunosuke Fukukita; Okakura-Yoshisaburo | Japan's Innate Virility; The Japanese Spirit |
Tokyo; London | 1905 | AUD 150.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold |
| 193 | Miriam Beard; Sansom; Sadler; Bacon; Frank Clune | 5 Books, including: Realism in Romantic Japan |
London | 1930; 1962; 1988; 1893 | AUD 200.00 - 250.00 | Not Sold |
| 194 | Piggott | Japanese Mythology; Asiatic Mythology |
N/A | AUD 80.00 - 120.00 | Not Sold | |
| 195 | Shiojiri; Kurata; Raspail | 5 Books, including: Kappa |
N/A | AUD 150.00 - 250.00 | Not Sold | |
| 196 | James Gardiner; Jonathan D Spence | 4 Books, including: Twenty-Six Years in China in and Out of China Cities |
Sydney | 1949; 1988 | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold |
| 197 | Bland and Backhouse; James Zee-Min Lee; Henry McAleavy; Schurmann and Schell; Fitzgerald | 5 Books, including: China Under The Empress Dowager |
1911; 1961; 1963; 1952 | AUD 180.00 - 220.00 | Not Sold | |
| 198 | Rewi Alley; Cusack; Yutang; Peck | 6 Books, including: Land and Folk in Kiangsi |
N/A | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold | |
| 199 | Bushell; Kingscome Nisbet; Liu Yutang; Wu Ching Tzu; J Dyer Ball; Rossbach; James Legge | 8 Books, including: Victorian & Albert Chinese Art |
1924; 1952; 1952; 1957; 1930 | AUD 200.00 - 250.00 | Not Sold | |
| 200 | Carl Pulszky; Friedrach Fischbach | Ornamente der Hausindustrie Ungarn's |
Budapest | 1878 | AUD 250.00 - 300.00 | AUD 152.40 |
| 201 | 4 Books, including: Fringe Dwellers |
Canberra; Brisbane | 1959; 1981; 1957; 1956 | AUD 100.00 - 150.00 | AUD 76.20 | |
| 202 | S. B. Dickinson | The Structural control of ore deposition in some south Australian copper fields no. 1 |
1942 | AUD 150.00 - 250.00 | Not Sold | |
| 203 | P. W. Spriggs; Jim Smith | Our Blue Mountains Yesterdays; The Blue Mountains Mystery Track; Lindeman Pass |
1990 | AUD 50.00 - 100.00 | Not Sold | |
| 204 | James Jervis; E. A. Crome; Jack Carroll | 5 Books, including: The Beginnings of the Settlement in the Parish of Castle Hill |
Sydney | 1963; 1982 | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold |
| 205 | Leo J. Jones | Limestone, Dolomite, Lime and Hydraulic Cement |
1925 | AUD 200.00 - 250.00 | Not Sold | |
| 206 | Album of Sydney |
c.1890s | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold |
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