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

Print and Bindings from the 15th to the 21st Century

This auction we take you on a journey through the history of printing and the dissemination of knowledge. You will see examples from the late 15^th Century until the 21^st century. You will notice little has changed over this time. From the way we use headings, columns and different size fonts to split up information and the way we organise with indexes and point to page numbers. The internet borrows lots of these ideas. For example, as you scroll through our catalogue index page you will click on page or lot numbers and read the paragraphs. 

25.5b

32.1

17.1

47.2

9.1

31.2

18.3

38.1b

7.1b

40.1

41.1b

 

When 12 noon, Sunday 7th 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 5th September 2025

Please get questions in before 3pm Sydney Time Friday 5th September  2025