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Auction Info

Auction Name
End of Year Sale: Books, Ephemera, Maps
Auction Date
12/28/2025 - 12/28/2025
Sale Number
#A169
Total Lots
440
Sold Lots
223.0
Lots Sold
50.68%
Unsold Lots
217
Total Sales (AUD)
31,838.90
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (AUD)
40,440.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (AUD)
62,460.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (AUD)
102,870.00
High Estimate of All Lots (AUD)
153,310.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.
20.77%

Top twenty five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
46 Peter Lombard

49 leaves printed both sides (so 98 pages) written

 1487 AUD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 AUD 1,905.00
293 SYDNEY LONG AND SQUIRE MORGAN

SYDNEY LONG AND SQUIRE MORGAN CORRESPONDENCE AND DOCUMENTATION

 AUD 1,800.00 - 2,200.00 AUD 1,143.00
426 Lionel Lindsay.

The Art of Sir Lionel Lindsay.

1982-7 AUD 700.00 - 900.00 AUD 1,079.50
51 NANSEN, Fridtjof (series editor).

The Norwegian North Polar Expedition 1893-1896. Scientific Results.

1900 AUD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 AUD 952.50
50

A set of six Agatha Christie books. Bound in full leather and with all edges gilt.. A special limited edition set Number 22 of 350 copies with The Mysterious Affair at Styles (The Author's first book) bearing the number and the signature of Rosalind Hicks

 1990 AUD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 AUD 635.00
75

7 Volumes in 8 Parts of Historical records of New South Wales

AUD 500.00 - 700.00 AUD 571.50
415

Norman Lindsay's Ship Models.

 1966 AUD 350.00 - 450.00 AUD 539.75
5 DELAMOTTE, Philip H.

The Practice of Photography. A manual for students and amateurs.

1855 AUD 250.00 - 350.00 AUD 539.75
6

The Colonial Intelligencer, or, Aborigines Friend 1848-1854

1848-1854 AUD 250.00 - 350.00 AUD 412.75
190

Boswell's Life Of Johnson Illustrated .

 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 381.00
52

Fourteen volumes of finely bound poetry books. All in half leather with lots of gilt decoration and marbling. Poets here are: Lamb Keats Byron Heman Pope Hood Tennyson Eliza Cook Moore Cowper Burns Scott Shelley Longfellow

 AUD 600.00 - 700.00 AUD 381.00
111 Meredith J. Smith.

Marsupials of Australia. Volume 1: Possums, the Koala Wombats. Text

 1980 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 381.00
44

A bundle of fine bindings. Mostly half leather with gilt details on spine. One Sangoorski and Sutcliffe. In good to excellent condition.

 AUD 400.00 - 500.00 AUD 317.50
9 Giovanni Maria Cassini

Five coloured copper engravings. Includes: 4 double zodiac spreads (Ring, sheets 1-4) with centre crease. One single page with arcs and angles. Pages tanned.

1792-1801. AUD 500.00 - 800.00 AUD 317.50
78 Nakamura Baisen, Yokoyama Kei and Inoue Seiji

Japanese Manga Travel Maps.

AUD 500.00 - 700.00 AUD 317.50
110 Robert David Fitzgerald.

1) Australian Orchids Volume 1 only.

 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 317.50
4 RENNELL, James.

The Geographical System of Herodotus, examined, and explained,

 1800 AUD 500.00 - 600.00 AUD 317.50
310

Four books relating to Waddesdon Manor & the Rothschild Collections.

 AUD 400.00 - 700.00 AUD 317.50
149

Victoria and Riverina. With which is incorporated Victoria 1930, Victoria and Riverina 1931 and Victoria and Riverina 1931 - 1932.

 1933 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 285.75
204

Four books about Australian Army in Vietnam.

AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 285.75
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