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
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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