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
478 Charles Dickens.

Ten titles by or about Charles Dickens.

AUD 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
479 WOLF, Joseph.

The Life and Habits of Wild Animals.

1874 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 63.50
480

Geology of the Vegetable Creek Tin-Mining Field, New England District, New South Wales by TW Edgeworth David.

1887 AUD 200.00 - 400.00 AUD 152.40
481

1870 Victoria. Reports of the Mining Surveyors and Registrars Quarter Ending 31st March 1870.

AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
482

The Benevolent Society of New South Wales Sketches of the Poor by Edward Maxted Manager (An Appeal For Aid for the Widow and Orphan and The Aged and Decrepit Poor) Published by Authority of the Board of Directors.

1902 AUD 600.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
483

Stanley in Tropical Africa: His Travels, Heroism and Discoveries and Gallant Relief of Emin Pasha Including the Narrative of the Livingstone Search Expedition, of the Journey through Equatorial Africa, and That of the Founding of the Congo Free State by R

AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 63.50
484 Roald Dahl

Roald Dahl Complete Set Audio Books.

AUD 60.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
485

NSW Parliamentary Paper.

AUD 500.00 - 600.00 AUD 317.50
486

Coloured Sketch Map of New South Wales Shewing Localities of the Principal Minerals. Revised To Date under the direction of E F Pittman.

No date but circa 1900 AUD 400.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
487

NSW Parliamentary Paper. Report of the Comptroller-General of Prisons, New South Wales for the Year 1910

AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 127.00
488 Charles Dickens.

A Christmas Carol. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.

AUD 800.00 - 1,000.00 AUD 508.00
489 John F Power

Blind Alley

1946 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 38.10
490 Annette Kellerman with illustrations Marcelle Wooster.

Fairy tales of the south seas : and other stories

circa 1926 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 190.50
491 Baron Cuvier.

The Animal Kingdom arranges and organization forming a natural history of animals and an introduction to comparative anatomy

1884 AUD 150.00 - 250.00 AUD 76.20
492 James George Beaney.

The Generative System and Its Functions in Health and Disease

1875 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 127.00
493 John Alexander Ferguson.

Bibliography of Australia 1784 to 1900. 8 Volumes.

AUD 150.00 - 200.00 AUD 88.90
495

A collection of Victorian Government prize essays bound in one volume.

AUD 300.00 - 400.00 AUD 190.50
496

Australia and its settlements.

circa 1853 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 127.00
497 William John Wills. Edited his Father, William Wills.

A Successful Exploration through the interior of Australia from Melbourne to the Gulf of Carpentaria: From the Journals and Letters of William John Wills.

1863 AUD 600.00 - 700.00 AUD 381.00
498

Notable South Australians or colonists Past and Present by GE Loyau.

AUD 150.00 - 250.00 AUD 88.90
499

The Life of Edward John Eyre, Late Governor of Jamaica by Hamilton Hume.

1867 AUD 200.00 - 250.00 AUD 127.00
500

Kelly's Map of Herts

AUD 250.00 - 350.00 Not Sold
501 Duane Michals.

Take One and See Mt. Fujiyama and other stories

1976 AUD 100.00 - 150.00 AUD 63.50
502 John Jackson.

Ping pong to China

1971 AUD 100.00 - 150.00 AUD 38.10
503

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Twenty-five thousand by Lewis Carroll.

1895 AUD 250.00 - 350.00 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.