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Included in the auction are books so rare the only other known copies are held by public libraries. One of these, Charles Pickering’s 1870 compilation of photographs of Sydney buildings, comes with a cool $30,000 to $40,000 estimate. Several others are valued at above the $20,000 mark.
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A feature of this book is the coloured aquatint view of Port Jackson and Sydney, along with four other aquatint plates and a folding coloured map. The upper estimate is $25,000.
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Lot 160 is Thomas Shepherd’s bound copy of Lectures on the Horticulture of New South Wales, as delivered at the Mechanics’ School of Arts in Sydney. Published in 1835, this is considered the first Australian gardening book but the main selling point in this case is that it comes from the personal library of explorer Charles Sturt, with his stamp at the head of the title, then of John Ridley, the inventor of the stripper harvesting machine.

See the full article from “Sydney Morning Herald”