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
26 EDGE-PARTINGTON, James.

Ethnographical Album of the Pacific Islands.

1996 AUD 400.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
27

NSU Wankel Spider convertible advertising publication from 1963.

AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 63.50
28

Bartholomew's New Reduced Survey Sheet 19 -- Isle of Skye.

circa 1920 AUD 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
29

Star Wars promotional brochure

1977 AUD 100.00 - 150.00 AUD 63.50
30

The Voyage of Governor Phillip Voyage to Botany Bay...

1950 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 177.80
31

Four Australian nineteenth century books related to the Methodist Church.

nineteenth century AUD 400.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
32

Five books on the London Missionary Society and related evangelical missions in the South Pacific and Australia.

AUD 300.00 - 400.00 AUD 190.50
33 Gustav Warneck. edited George Robson.

Outline of a History of Protestant Missions From the Reformation to the Present Time: With an Appendix Concerning Roman Catholic Missions

1906 AUD 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
34

Three antiquarian Christian spiritual books: Hymns for Infant Minds.

1818 AUD 250.00 - 300.00 AUD 152.40
35 TERRAS, James H.

The Mission of the Presbyterian Church of New South Wales.

1928 AUD 150.00 - 200.00 AUD 88.90
36

A bound volume of ten pamphlets

1947-1968 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
37 PETTY, John.

The History of the Primitive Methodist Connexion. From its Origin to the Conference of 1860, the First Year of the Connexion.

1864 AUD 250.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
38

A complete run of the Melbourne Wesley College Chronicle, from May 1925 to August 1941.

1925-1941. AUD 400.00 - 500.00 AUD 254.00
39

An archive relating to the missionary activities of Albert Grieg and his wife in China, active from 1896 to 1927.

1896-1927. AUD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 AUD 2,921.00
40

Six books on South Pacific history and anthropology: DOUGLAS, Bronwen. Across the Great Divide.

AUD 250.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
41 Charles Sturt

Two Australian exploration books by Charles Sturt

AUD 300.00 - 400.00 AUD 190.50
42 IVENS, Walter.

The Island Builders of the Pacific. How and why the people of Mala construct their artificial islands, the antiquity and doubtful origin of the practice, with a description of the social organization, magic and religion of their inhabitants.

1930 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 127.00
43 HORNBEIN, Thomas and BROWER, David (editor).

Everest. The West Ridge.

1965 AUD 250.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
44 [FRANKLIN, Sir John, and others].

Votes and Proceedings of the Legislative Council of Van Diemen's Land, 1837-1839.

1840 AUD 500.00 - 750.00 AUD 317.50
45

Five books on Australian inland exploration.

AUD 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
46 NEREVY, [J.F.]

The Torrent of the French Revolutions...

1873 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
47

From Ergot to 'Ernutin'. An Historical Sketch. Lecture Memoranda, Australian Medical Congress Melbourne 1908.

AUD 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
48

An Authentic Journal of the Expedition under Commodore Phillips to Botany Bay... by an Officer.

1789; 1975 AUD 150.00 - 200.00 AUD 152.40
49

Private Journal of W.H. Tietkens on an Expedition to the Nullarbor Plain. February 1879 to January 1880.

1998 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 203.20
50 WARE, James.

Remarks on the Opthalmy, Psorophthalmy, and Purulent Eyes of New Born Children... London, printed for T.

1814 AUD 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
  • 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
  • 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.