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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
428		On The Hop! A Selection from the Australian Drawings of Livingston Hopkins ("Hop" of the Bulletin.)	1904	AUD 120.00 - 180.00	Not Sold
429		A large albumen photograph(38x30cm) of the Moroney's Railway Hotel on the corner of Elizabeth and Flinders Street in Melbourne.		AUD 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
430	Tchaikovsky	Australian sheet music for the Nutcracker Suite by Tchaikovsky, with a front cover illustration by Ida Rentoul Outhwaite (initialled IRO).	1941	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
431	Gilbert Abbott a Beckett	The Comic Blackstone By Gilbert Abbott a Beckett Part I Of the Rights of the Persons.	1844	AUD 120.00 - 180.00	AUD 88.90
432		Milestones One Hundred Years: the History of the Firm of Tucker & Co by LA Saunders.	[1939].	AUD 100.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
433		Grif: The Story of an Australian Life by BL Farjeon.	1898	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 127.00
434		Transactions and Proceedings, and Report of the Royal Society of South edited by Robert T Litton.	[1891].	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
435	Herries Beattie	A collection of Otago History by Herries Beattie booklets		AUD 100.00 - 150.00	AUD 63.50
436		Guide to Sydney & Pleasure Resorts of NS Wales.	1900s	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
437		Voyages 1) The China Clippers by Lubbock.	1914	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 127.00
438	JE Philp.	Three books on Whaling. 1) Whaling Ways of Hobart Town	1936	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	AUD 190.50
439		Polar Exploration 1) The Conquest of the North Pole. Recent Arctic Exploration Hayes.	1934	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
440	W. Balls-Headley.	The Evolution of The Diseases of Women	1894	AUD 150.00 - 250.00	Not Sold
441		The History of the Sydney Hospital from 1811 to 1911, by J.	1911	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
442	Herausgegeben im Auftrage der Geographischen Gesellschaft in Hamburg von Dr. G. Neumayer und Otto Leichhardt.	Dr. Ludwig Leichhardt s Briefe an seine Angehorigen.		AUD 600.00 - 700.00	Not Sold
443		Parliamentary Paper Port Curtis Report on Present Condition of Settlement with 2 Maps.		AUD 400.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
444		Natural History - mostly Australia 1) Select Extra-tropical Plants, Readily Eligible for Industrial Culture or Naturalization, with Indications of Their Native Countries and Some of Their Uses by Ferdinand Von Mueller.	1885	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 127.00
445	JONES, D.L. and MUIR, T.B. (editors). W.H. Nicholls	Orchids of Australia. The complete edition drawn in natural colour by W.H. Nicholls with descriptive text.	1969	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 127.00
446		Zoological Atlas Anatomy of Invertebrates and Vertebrates (Including Comparative Anatomy) With Practical Directions and Explanatory Text for the Use of Students: Vertebrata by D M'Alpine.	1881	AUD 120.00 - 180.00	Not Sold
447	FHH Guillemard.	The Life of Ferdinand Magellan and the First Circumnavigation of the Globe. 1480-1521	1890	AUD 150.00 - 200.00	AUD 88.90
448	David Kennedy Jr.	Four books on Voyages of the Southern Seas. 1) Kennedy's Colonial Travel: A Narrative of a Four Years' Tour Through Australia, New Zealand, Canada	1876	AUD 300.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
449	compiled John C. Symons and Joseph Dare.	The Storm and the Haven: a tribute to the memory of the Rev. D.J. Draper, late representative from the Australasian Conference to the British Conference	1866	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 127.00
450		Travels in the Crimea, and along the shores of the Black Sea, performed during the year 1803 by J Reilly.	1807	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 127.00
451		The Songs of Scotland: Ancient and Modern by All Cunningham.	1825	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 476.25
452		A little bundle of sweet small bindings to decorate your shelf. 1) Murrell's Poison's 2) French English Conversations 3) Geography of Australasia 4) Poetical works of Thomas Campbell Finely		AUD 150.00 - 250.00	AUD 63.50

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