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

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
November 30, 2025 - November 30, 2025
Page Size: 513 items in 21 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
377 Paul Zweig

The River. A poem by Paul Zweig with an etching by Roger Selden.

1981 AUD 250.00 - 300.00 AUD 152.40
378 LORENTZ, H. A., EINSTEIN, Albert, MINKIWSKI, H. and WEYL, H.

The Principle of Relativity : A Collection of Original Memoirs on the Special and General Theory of Relativity.

1923 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 952.50
379 VERNER, Major Willough.

Range-Finders: Their use for tactical and topographical purposes...

1893 AUD 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
380 THOMAS, Dylan.

Under Milk Wood. A Play for Voices.

1954 AUD 150.00 - 200.00 AUD 88.90
381 JOHNS, Captain W.E.

Gimlet King of the Commandos.

1950 AUD 50.00 - 100.00 AUD 38.10
382 CALDECOTT, R.

Randolph Caldecott's Last Graphic Pictures.

1888 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
383

Youth Annual.

1930 AUD 100.00 - 150.00 AUD 63.50
384

Ryan-Drug Mchog-Gnyis.

1962 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
385 GREENE, Graham.

The Heart of the Matter.

1948 AUD 100.00 - 150.00 AUD 101.60
386

An endearing cache of The Dome: a Quarterly containing Examples of all the Arts.

AUD 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
387 LANDESMAN, Fran.

More Truth than Poetry. Designed and illustrated by Avril Broadley.

1984 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
388 BOLDREWOOD, Rolf.

Old Melbourne Memories.

1896 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 165.10
389 STEPHEN, Sir James.

Essays in Ecclesiastical Biography.

1872 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
390 GRIMM, George.

The Australian Explorers. Their labours, perils, and achievements.

1888 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 152.40
391 JOBSON, Frederick J.

Australia; with Notes by the Way, on Egypt, Ceylon, Bombay, and the Holy Land.

1862 AUD 300.00 - 400.00 AUD 190.50
392 [SCOTTISH MARTYRS].

The Trial of William Skirving, Secretary to the British Convention, Before the High Court of Justiciary, on the 6th and 7th of January, 1794; for Sedition.

1794 AUD 250.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
393 RUSDEN, G.W.

The Discovery, Survey and Settlement of Port Phillip.

1872 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 127.00
394 COOPER, H.M.

The Unknown Coast. Being the explorations of Captain Matthew Flinders, R.N. along the shores of South Australia 1802 by H.M. Cooper.

1953 AUD 300.00 - 400.00 AUD 190.50
395 KEARTON, Richard.

With Nature and a Camera. Being the adventures and observations of a field naturalist and an animal photographer.

1898 AUD 250.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
396 FALLEY, Margaret Dickson.

Irish and Scotch-Irish Ancestral Research.

1981 AUD 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
397 HEERES, J. E.

The Part Borne by the Dutch in the Discovery of Australia 1606 -- 1765. Het Aandeel Der Nederlanders in De Ontdekking Van Australie 1606 -- 1765.

1899 AUD 250.00 - 300.00 AUD 317.50
398 SPENCER, Robin (editor).

Whistler. A Retrospective.

1989 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
399 SPROD, Daniel.

Proud Intrepid Heart. Leichhardt's First Attempt to the Swan River 1846 -- 1847.

1989 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
400 JACK, Robert Logan and ETHERIDGE, Robert.

Geology and Palaeontology of Queensland and New Guinea.

1892 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 76.20
401

Report of The Commissioner For Road Transport And Tramways For The Year Ended 30th June 1936.

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