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12 noon, Sunday 28th September

This is a diverse sale, featuring books and manuscripts across the arts and sciences. 

Material ranges from the signed autobiography of Barak Obama(lot 175), through to a superb facsimile ‘Aurora Australis’ on Shackleton’s Antarctic expedition (lot 183).

Furthermore, the auction contains important Pacific voyage books including a set of Hawkesworth on Captain Cook’s first voyage (lot 98); Intertropical Voyage of Phillip Parker King (lot 99); and Bougainville’s Voyage – London edition. (lot 92) 

For Australiana collectors, Read’s 1853 account of the Victorian goldfields with lithographic views of the diggings (Lot 90) or, manuscript material on the resistance of the Jandamarra Aboriginal people of the Kimberleys to the white invaders (Lot 112) might be of interest. 

Other highlights 

• Howitt’s Native Tribes of South-East Australia 1904 (Lot 250)
• 1911 Illuminated address to Prime Minister Andrew Fisher (Lot 94)
• Antarctic Exploration Byrd Signed 1st edition  (Lot 88)
• While the Billy Boils by Henry Lawson Signed first edition.  (Lot 148)
• Winds Of Evil by Arthur W Upfield First edition (Lot 147)
• 1945 Rare Hardy Wilson book titled Instinct (Lot 53) 
• Illustrated by Cruikshank – Victorian Comedy (Lot 294)
• Folio Society

When 12 noon, Sunday 28th September

175

148

147

112

94

92

88

47

43

42

Catalogue https://connect.invaluable.com/sydneybook/

Timed Auction online bidding and absentee

On Invaluable or our website.

Viewing is encouraged
Questions welcomed

Our office is located at Dalgety Square at –
C11/372-428 Wattle Street, Ultimo. We are on the corner of MacArthur with the entrance on Wattle Street. We are opened between 10am and 5pm week days.

Absentee bids are due by email 3pm Sydney Time Friday 26th September 2025

Please get questions in before 3pm Sydney Time Friday 26th September 2025

12 noon, Sunday 14th September

This auction we have Australian, Asia Pacific, Military, Mountaineering, Science & First Editions and Signed books.

Lot 169 Africa Photographs

Lot 14 1911 Three books on magic and conjuring

Lot 8 1920s Cache of industrial trade catalogues

Lot 16 1945 - Two Australian WW2 comics

Lot 33 1889 Folio Macbeth with plates by Moyr Smith.

Lot 30 1935 Pop-up books including Puss in Boots and Cinderella.

Lot 38 1856 Fine gilded binding of Thomas a Kempis

Lot 59 1852 James Duncan's Entomology, Super Coloured Plates

Lot 68 Tonga and Samoa Missionary Photograph Album

Lot 69 Hakluyt: Voyage to Easter Island Gonzalez

Lot 75 Vaugondy Family of Mapmakers

Lot 84 Albert Camus - The Plague

Lot 77 Notable South Australians Loyau Signed

Lot 102 Kimono fabric design c1919

Lot 103 Kimono Designs 1919 - Kangiku

Lot 145 Herpetological Papers 1889-1940

Lot 191 1920 Riots in Broome

Lot 256 1866 Silvester Diggles - Ornithology of Australia.

Lot 289 Brenchley HMS Curacoa South Sea 1865

Lot 302 Pacific Islands Edge-Partington

Lot 303 Art of Captain Cook's Voyages by Joppien & Bernard Smith

Lot 307 The Kiwai Papuans of British New Guinea 1st Ed

Lot 320 Art Objects, and Ritual in the Mimika Culture

Lot 321 2009 Ethnic Jewellery and Adornment

 

 Lots 301-362 are from the private library of an eminent Sydney Oceanic Art collector. The majority of the books are about Papua New Guinea  and surrounds, but there are also books on Tahiti, Hawaii, New Caledonia, New Zealand and Australia. Art and culture are strongly represented as well as cultures and traditions, objects and jewellery. A really fascinating collection.

We have early printings from Australia including 1820 Sydney Gazette done by George Howe Printer (Lot 56)

We have a few good military books including 1975 Grim Glory of the 2/19 Battalion A.I.F. in Malaya, WW2 (Lot 26) and The Scout by Idriess 1st ed (Lot 18).

There are mountaineering books on Everest (Lot 4) as wellas,  1896 Japanese Alps by Weston (Lot105)

We also have Complete Set Handbook of Australian, NewZealand & Antarctic Birds     (Lot100) and Natural History of Central Asia (Lot 147)

Signed books from historical figures Nelson Mandela (Lot117) and  Gough Whitlam (Lot 112)      

When 12 noon, Sunday 14th September

Catalogue https://connect.invaluable.com/sydneybook/

Timed Auction online bidding and absentee

On Invaluable or our website.

Viewing is encouraged
Questions welcomed

Our office is located at Dalgety Square at –
C11/372-428 Wattle Street, Ultimo. We are on the corner of MacArthur with the entrance on Wattle Street. We are opened between 10am and 5pm week days.

Absentee bids are due by email 3pm Sydney Time Friday 12th September 2025

Please get questions in before 3pm Sydney Time Friday 12th September 2025