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
51	Edited C. Warren Bonython	I'm No Lady. Reminiscences of Constance Jean, Lady Bonython, O.B.E. 1891-1977.	1977-1981.	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
52	Edited John Williamson, and others.	Venomous and Poisonous Marine Animals: A Medical and Biological Handbook.	1996	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 63.50
53		The Memoirs of Captain Liddell Hart.	1965	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
54	BRENNAN, Martin.	Reminiscences of the Gold Fields and Elsewhere in New South Wales, covering a period of forty-eight years as an Officer of Police.	1907	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 139.70
55		One of Australia's Daughters. An autobiography of Mrs. Harrison Lee.	1906	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
56	REID, Arthur.	Those Were the Days.	1933	AUD 250.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
57		Bohemia. The All-Australian Literary Magazine.		AUD 250.00 - 300.00	AUD 254.00
58		Facsimile edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica.		AUD 300.00 - 400.00	AUD 317.50
59	J. W. Collinson	Five scarce books by J. W. Collinson on the early history of North Queensland.		AUD 250.00 - 300.00	AUD 228.60
60	SPENCER, Baldwin and F.J. GILLEN.	The Northern Tribes of Central Australia.	1904	AUD 500.00 - 750.00	AUD 412.75
61		Victoria and Riverina.		AUD 300.00 - 400.00	AUD 190.50
62		Carlisle Leslie. Australian Historical Medals 1788 -- 1988. Incorporating Australian Commemorative Medals and Medalets from 1788.	2008	AUD 250.00 - 300.00	AUD 381.00
63	RYMILL, John.	Southern Lights. The official account of the British Graham Land Expedition 1934-1937.	1938	AUD 250.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
64	MAWSON, Sir Douglas.	The Home of the Blizzard. Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition 1911-1914...	1915	AUD 500.00 - 750.00	Not Sold
65	STURT, Charles.	Two Expeditions into the Interior of Southern Australia, during the Years 1828, 1829, 1830, and 1831: with observations on the soil, climate, and general resources of the colony of New South Wales by Capt. Charles Sturt.	1833	AUD 1,000.00 - 1,250.00	AUD 1,079.50
66	RIPLEY, Sidney Dillon.	A Synopsis of the Birds of India and Pakistan. Together with these of Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan and Ceylon.	1961	AUD 100.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
67	COOK, Captain James. BEAGLEHOLE, J.C. (editor).	The Journals of Captain James Cook. Comprising: I. The Voyage of the Endeavour, 1768-1771. II. The Voyage of the Resolution and Adventure, 1772-1775. III. The voyage of the Resolution and Discovery, 1776-1780 (two volumes for the third voyage).		AUD 1,000.00 - 1,250.00	Not Sold
68	PERKINS, Horace.	Melbourne Illustrated and Victoria Described.	1880	AUD 250.00 - 300.00	AUD 285.75
69	BLACK, Lindsay.	Cyclones. The mystery stones of the Darling River Valley. Part II. Being a continuation of a series on the customs of the Aborigines of the Darling River Valley and of Central New South Wales, "Burial Trees" being Part I.	1942	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 165.10
70	SHOBERL, Frederic.	The World in Miniature. South Sea Islands...	[1824].	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 254.00
71		An Account of The Polynesian Race. Its Origin and Migration and the Ancient History of the Hawaiian People to the Times of Kamehameha I.		AUD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00	AUD 635.00
72		Gold Dredging in New South Wales by D. S. L. Clift	1975	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
73	BRISSON, Mathurin-Jacques.	Ornithologie ou methode continent la division des oiseaux en ordres, sections, genres, especes et leurs varietes. A laquelle on a joint une description exacte de chaque espece...	1760	AUD 600.00 - 800.00	AUD 381.00
74	CHEESEMAN T. F. & HEMSLEY W. B. Edited T. F. Cheesman,	Illustrations of the New Zealand Flora.	1914	AUD 500.00 - 750.00	AUD 317.50
75	NANSEN, Fridtjof (series editor).	The Norwegian North Polar Expedition 1893-1896. Scientific Results. Edited by Fridtjof Nansen.	1900	AUD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Not Sold

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.
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