Sydney Rare Book Auctions: History, Science, Mining, Exploration, Zines, Beer and Wine, Photographs and more, A167, Ultimo

Auction Details

Auction Date: November 30, 2025 - November 30, 2025

Page Size: 513 items in 21 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1	Lou Klepac , James Gleeson.	Beyond the screen of sight	2004	AUD 1,800.00 - 2,000.00	Not Sold
2		An Eye For Photography: The Camera In Australia by Alan Davies	2004	AUD 800.00 - 1,000.00	Not Sold
3		Landscape Scenery Illustrating Sydney, Paramatta, Richmond, Maitland, Windsor, and Port Jackson,	1855	AUD 600.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
4		Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides by James Boswell with Samuel Johnson's poetical pieces relative to the tour.	1785	AUD 600.00 - 700.00	AUD 381.00
5	Mrs Daly.	Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia	1887	AUD 600.00 - 700.00	AUD 381.00
6	LINDSAY, Norman.	Micomicana.	1979	AUD 600.00 - 800.00	AUD 381.00
7	[UNKNOWN COMPILER].	Armorials of Somerset.	1800	AUD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00	AUD 635.00
8	Department of Mines .	Memoirs of the Geological Survey of New South Wales. Geology Number 7' Geology and Mineral Resources of the Southern Coal-Field with Maps and Sections. Part 1, the South Coastal Portion by L F Harper.	1915	AUD 1,200.00 - 1,500.00	Not Sold
9		Western Australia Geological Survey. Bulletin No. 10 Maps, Plans, and Sections to accompany report on The Mining Groups of the Yilgarn Goldfield North of the Great Eastern Railway.	1950	AUD 1,200.00 - 1,500.00	Not Sold
10	Hobson, Miles & Matheson.	1952 Western Australia Geological Survey Bulletin 103 Supplementary Atlas No 1. Geological Maps of Portion of the Mt. Margaret Goldfield.	1952	AUD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Not Sold
11		Bulletin De La Societe Geologique De France !833 to 1854. 22 volumes.	!833 to 1854	AUD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	AUD 952.50
12	the Rec W. B. Clarke	Remarks on the Sedimentary Formations of New South Wales Illustrated by References to Other Provinces of Australasia	1878	AUD 500.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
13	compiled Robert Logan Jack	Eight Parliamentary Papers compiled by Robert Logan Jack	1870s and 1880s.	AUD 4,000.00 - 5,000.00	AUD 8,890.00
14	Harrie Wood.	Mineral Products of New South Wales. Notes on the Geology of New South Wales by C S Wilkinson and Description Of The Minerals of New South Wales by Archibald Liversidge.	1882	AUD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00	Not Sold
15	John Evans	The Ancient Stone Implements, Weapons and Ornaments, of Great Britain	1872	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 127.00
16	Alfred J. Ewart	Flora of Victoria	1930	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	AUD 254.00
17	Louis Pasteur	Studies on Fermentation: The Diseases of Beer, Their Causes and the Means of Preventing Them, Translated into English by Frank Faulkner and D. Constable Robb	1879	AUD 800.00 - 1,000.00	Not Sold
18		The Minerals of New South Wales, Etc by A Liversidge. With Map.	1888	AUD 600.00 - 800.00	AUD 381.00
19	H C Russell	Climate of New South Wales: Descriptive, Historical, and Tabular.	1877	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
20		Tabular List of all the Australian Birds at Present Known to the Author, showing the Distribution of the Species over the Continent of Australia and Adjacent Islands.	1888	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
21	POPE, John Alexander, GETTENS, Rutherford John, and others.	The Freer Chinese Bronzes.	1967-1969.	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
22		Three voyage accounts published by Nico Israel in the late sixties and early seventies, being high quality facsimile editions with maps and charts.		AUD 400.00 - 500.00	AUD 254.00
23	MAGRIEL, Paul.	Bibliography of Boxing. A Chronological Check List of Books in English Printed Before 1900.	Before 1900	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 63.50
24		Eighteen issues of the War Pictorial and related publications, from 1917 and 1918.	1917-1918	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 127.00
25	ROUSSELOT, Jean-Loup, ABEL, Bernard, and others.	Masques Eskimo d'Alaska.	1991	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold

Sotheby’s
Fine Manuscript and Printed Americana
27 January 2026

Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: An extraordinary pair of books from George Washington’s field library, marking the conjunction of Robert Rogers, George Washington, and Henry Knox. $1,200,000 to $1,800,000.

Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: An extraordinary letter marking the conjunction of George Washington, the Marquis de Lafayette, and Benjamin Franklin. $1,000,000 to $1,500,000.

Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: Virginia House of Delegates. The genesis of the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights. $350,000 to $500,000.

Sotheby’s
Fine Manuscript and Printed Americana
27 January 2026

Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: (Gettysburg). “Genl. Doubleday has taken charge of the battle”: Autograph witness to the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg, illustrated by fourteen maps and plans. $200,000 to $300,000.

Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: President Lincoln thanks a schoolboy on behalf of "all the children of the nation for his efforts to ensure "that this war shall be successful, and the Union be maintained and perpetuated." $200,000 to $300,000.

Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: [World War II]. An archive of maps and files documenting the allied campaign in Europe, from the early stages of planning for D-Day and Operation Overlord, to Germany’s surrender. $200,000 to $300,000.
Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
29th January 2026

Forum, Jan. 29: Plato. [Apanta ta tou Platonos. Omnia Platonis opera], 2 parts in 2 vol., editio princeps of Plato's works in the original Greek, Venice, House of Aldus, 1513. £8,000-12,000

Forum, Jan. 29: Book of Hours, Use of Rome, In Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum, [Southern Netherlands (probably Bruges), c.1460]. £6,000-8,000

Forum, Jan. 29: Correspondence and documents by or addressed to the first four Viscounts Molesworth and members of their families, letters and manuscripts, 1690-1783. £10,000-15,000

Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
29th January 2026

Forum, Jan. 29: Shakespeare (William). The Dramatic Works, 9 vol., John and Josiah Boydell, 1802. £5,000-7,000

Forum, Jan. 29: Joyce (James). Ulysses, first edition, one of 750 copies on handmade paper, Paris, Shakespeare and Company, 1922 £8,000-12,000

Forum, Jan. 29: Powell (Anthony). [A Dance to the Music of Time], 12 vol., first editions, each with a signed presentation inscription from the author to Osbert Lancaster, 1951-75. £6,000-8,000

Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
29th January 2026

Forum, Jan. 29: Chaucer (Geoffrey). Troilus and Criseyde, one of 225 copies on handmade paper, wood-engravings by Eric Gill, Waltham St.Lawrence, 1927. £3,000-4,000

Forum, Jan. 29: Borges (Jorge Luis). Luna de Enfrente, first edition, one of 300 copies, presentation copy signed by the author to Leopoldo Marechal, Buenos Aires, Editorial Proa, 1925. £3,000-4,000

Forum, Jan. 29: Nolli (Giovanni Battista). Nuova Pianta di Roma, Rome, 1748. £6,000-8,000

Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
29th January 2026

Forum, Jan. 29: Roberts (David). The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, & Nubia, 3 vol., first edition, 1842-49. £15,000-20,000

Forum, Jan. 29: Blacker (William). Catechism of Fly Making, Angling and Dyeing, Published by the author, 1843. £3,000-4,000

Forum, Jan. 29: Herschel (Sir John F. W.) Collection of 69 offprints, extracts and separate publications by Herschel, bound for his son, William James Herschel, 3 vol., [1813-50]. £15,000-20,000
Dominic Winter
Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
28th January 2026

Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 26. Company School. An album of 85 Indian mica paintings, Madras, c. 1852. £700-1,000

Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 28. Ross & Hooker. Notes on the Botany of the Antarctic Voyage, 1st edition, 1843. £4,000-6,000

Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 44. Gould (John). The Birds of Great Britain, 5 volumes, 1st edition, 1862-73. £30,000-40,000

Dominic Winter
Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
28th January 2026

Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 72. Edwards (George). A Natural History of Uncommon Birds… [and] Gleanings of Natural History, 7 volumes, 1st edition, 1743-64. £7,000-10,000

Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 87. Walcott (Charles D. et al.). Geologic Atlas of the United States, 227-volume set, U.S. Geological Survey, 1894-1945. £500-800

Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 236. A New Dictionary of the Terms Ancient and Modern of the Canting Crew…, By B. E. Gent., 1st edition, [1699]. £3,000-4,000

Dominic Winter
Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
28th January 2026

Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 245. Frost Fair Broadside. Upon the Frost in the Year 1739-40, Printed on the Ice upon the Thames at Queen-Hithe, 1739/40. £1,500-2,000

Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 270. Micheli (Antonino di). La Nuova Chitarra di Regole…, 1st edition, Palermo, 1680. £10,000-15,000

Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 280. Elgar (Edward). Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, [1910], signed presentation copy. £500-800

Dominic Winter
Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
28th January 2026

Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 282 - Griffes (Charles). Autograph Manuscript Score for Overture to Hänsel und Gretel, c. 1910. £2,000-3,000

Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 304. Churchill (Winston). A terracotta maquette of Churchill by Oscar Nemon, c. 1955. £1,500-2,000

Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 364 - Russian Imperial Archaeological Commission. Mecheti Samarkanda..., Fascicule I Gour-Emir, St. Petersburg, 1905. £2,000-3,000