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

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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
402 Rev T R Malthus

An Essay on the Principle of Population; or, a View of its Past and Present Effects on Human Happiness; with an Inquiry into our Prospects Respecting the Future Removal or Mitigation of the Evils which it Occasions.

1888 AUD 600.00 - 800.00 AUD 381.00
403 John Lindley

The Vegetable Kingdom; or, The Structure, Classification, and Uses of Plants : Illustrated Upon the Natural System.

1853 AUD 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
404

Parliamentary Standing Committee On Public Works Report Together With Minutes of Evidence And Plan Relating to the Propose System of Sewage For The Municipality of Wollongong.

1916 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
405

A Practical Treatise on Metallurgy Adapted from the Last German Edition of Prof. Kerl's Metallurgy.

AUD 400.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
406 J C math; N M Gray and H J Ward

Western Australia Geological Survey Bulletin 107 Supplementary Atlas The Geology of The Country About Coolgardie, Coolgardie Goldfields, W.A.

AUD 800.00 - 1,000.00 Not Sold
407

Seven Historical Romance novels by the Australian author E V Timms.

the early1950s. AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
408 Manning Clark

A History Of Australia in Six Volumes.

AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 139.70
409

1. John Knatchbull by Roderick Inscribed by Frank Clune 2. Australia Round-up Edited by and signed by Colin Roderick 3. The Lady and The Lawyer Inscribed by Roderick 4. Such Is Life By Tom Collins.

AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
410 JB Jaquet.

Geology of the Broken Hill Lode and Barrier Ranges Mineral Field, New South Wales with Maps, Plates and Sections

AUD 150.00 - 250.00 AUD 127.00
411 Frank Clune.

Scandals Of Sydney Town

AUD 500.00 - 600.00 AUD 698.50
413

The Frontier Edition of Ion L Idriess.

No date, 1951 AUD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 AUD 1,905.00
414

1858 Fort Macquarie and Garden Island.

1858 AUD 400.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
415 John Kerouac

The Town and the City

1951 AUD 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
416 Dr Oscar Hertwig.

Text-Book of the Embryology of Man and Mammals

1892 AUD 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
417 Richard Whately.

Remarks on Transportation and on a recent Defence of the System in a Second Letter to Earl Grey

1834 AUD 400.00 - 500.00 AUD 254.00
418

Victorian stud book : containing pedigrees of race horses, etc. from the earliest accounts to the year compiled and edited by William Yuille.Volume III.

AUD 300.00 - 400.00 AUD 190.50
419

The Paintings of Russell Drysdale.

AUD 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
420 James Gleeson.

William Dobell with 32 tipped in Colour Plates and 118 illustrations in monochrome

1964 AUD 100.00 - 150.00 AUD 63.50
421

Young India 1919-1931. Thirteen volumes.

1981 AUD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
422 STRUTT, William.

Victoria the Golden. Scenes, sketches and jottings from nature.

1980 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 127.00
423

Readings in Victorian Prehistory. Volume 2: The Victorian Aboriginals 1800 to 1860 by PHF Coutts.

1981 AUD 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
424 Henry Holman Drake.

Hasted's History of Kent : Corrected, Enlarged, and Continued to the Present Time, from the Manuscript Collection of the Late Rev. Thomas Streatfeild and the Late Rev. Lambert Blackwell Larking, the Public Records. Part I. the Hundred of Blackheath.

AUD 400.00 - 500.00 AUD 254.00
425 Daniel Maclise.

The Story of the Norman Conquest

1866 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
426

Fifty Masterpieces of Photography": Containing some of the last and finest works of this internationally famous master by Dr Julian Smith.

1948 AUD 400.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
427

City Streets Progressive Adelaide 75 Years On by Lance Campbell and Mick Bradley.

2012 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