Auction Reports

Sydney Rare Book Auctions

Auction Info

Auction Name
Books, Photographs, Maps and More
Auction Date
05/25/2025 - 05/25/2025
Sale Number
#52525
Total Lots
469
Sold Lots
196
Lots Sold
41.79%
Unsold Lots
273
Total Sales (AUD)
82,842.10
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (AUD)
56,675.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (AUD)
82,870.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (AUD)
140,895.00
High Estimate of All Lots (AUD)
204,380.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.
40.53%

Top twenty five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
20

Two albums of Japanese woodblock prints. The first measures 25 x 36 cm., and contains 46 woodblock prints, conjoined to formed a "concertina style" book in the Japanese style. Original papered board covers, some external wear but internally in very good o

AUD 600.00 - 800.00 AUD 30,480.00
47 FORSHAW, Joseph M. and William T. COOPER.

Kingfishers and Related Birds.

1983-1994 AUD 2,500.00 - 4,000.00 AUD 7,620.00
187

A collection of 38 religious tracts dated 1655-1666.

1655-1666 AUD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 AUD 3,175.00
4

Norman Lindsay for Fred Lane Proof

AUD 300.00 - 400.00 AUD 2,032.00
1 Karen Blixen.

Out Of Africa

1937 AUD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 AUD 1,905.00
26

Biblia Latina. La Bible e Gutenberg. Reproduction facsimile de l'exemplaire de la Bibliotheque Mazarine, Paris. Johannes Gutenberg, Mayence, 1455.

2004 AUD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 AUD 1,270.00
10

The Official History of Australia's Involvement in Southwest Asian Conflicts 1948-1975. Complete 9 volumes set.

1992-2012 AUD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 AUD 1,270.00
63

A large collection of books on the orchids of West Australia.

AUD 400.00 - 500.00 AUD 952.50
255 Walter Gropius with typography by L. Moholy-Nagy.

Bauhaus

1925 AUD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 AUD 635.00
25 GILLETT, Ross.

The Royal Australian Navy, The First Seventy-Five Years. With twenty-six paintings by Phil Belbin.

1986 AUD 750.00 - 1,000.00 AUD 635.00
374 J. W. Norie.

Chart of the Mediterranean: The Adriatic, Black Sea, Gulf of Archipelago and Seas of Marmara and Azof

1830 AUD 600.00 - 800.00 AUD 635.00
200

Nineteen Reports of the Mining Surveyors & Registrars of Victoria 1864 to 1881.

AUD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 AUD 635.00
375 J. S. Hobbs hydrographer.

A chart of the Adriatic Sea, Gulf of Venice with the Ionian Islands and adjacent coast drawn from the surveys made by Order of the Austrian, English and Neopolitan governments

1st AUD 500.00 - 800.00 AUD 635.00
357

A Chart of the East of Coast of England from Dungeness to Newcastle.' Drawn from the surveys of J. S. Hobbs, Hydrographer; 1849 (additions 1850).

1849 by Charles Wilson as part of the Navigation Warehouse and Naval Academy. AUD 550.00 - 750.00 AUD 635.00
364

Plan of the Harbour and City of Havana, surveyed by Don Joseph Del Rio, Captain in the Spanish Navy; 1798.'

AUD 120.00 - 220.00 AUD 571.50
131

Blueprints and instruction book for a tank intended for manufacturing in Australia during the Second World War, but never brought into production, when the American forces flooded the Pacific (and Australasia) with mobile artillery, all following Pearl Ha

AUD 300.00 - 400.00 AUD 571.50
134 Barbara Hanrahan

Barbara Hanrahan First editions. The Scent of Eucalyptus, London 1973. And Sea Green, 1974.

AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 508.00
117 RECLUS, Elisee.

Nouvelle Geographie Universelle.

1878-1894 AUD 750.00 - 1,000.00 AUD 476.25
16 Tristan Allsop.

Typed manuscript of 109 leaves titled "Charles Montagu Doughty Research Document"

Undated but Circa1960 AUD 300.00 - 400.00 AUD 476.25
461

Swamp Thing Comics by DC. 2nd Printing 1982. Including No.1-126, 129-136, 139-171.

AUD 300.00 - 400.00 AUD 412.75

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