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
151

Bradshaw's Continental Railway Guide and General Handbook, Illustrated with Local and Other Maps, Special Edition.

2012 AUD 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
152 Frank Cash.

Parables of the Sydney Harbour Bridge: - Setting forth the preparation for, and progressive growth of, the Sydney Harbour Bridge, to April 1930.

1930 AUD 250.00 - 350.00 AUD 349.25
153

Film and photography. Four books from the Collins Photography Workshop by Michael Freeman

AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
154

Two shelves with over 50 hardcover in dust wrappers in excellent condition.

AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 127.00
155 Baldacci, Gillette , Tremayne, Follett, Ludlum, and more.

Two shelves with over 65 paperback fiction.

AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
156

Charming hand-painted postcard of Sydney Harbour with Yacht.

AUD 100.00 - 150.00 AUD 114.30
157

A Pocket Guide to Abergavenny: containing a map of the district, 17 illustrations and descriptive letterpress.

1906 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
158

A collection of books on Asia including A guide to rugs and carpets, histories and art,

AUD 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
159

A collection of Music books. A couple of histories but mostly paperback pocket music script books.

AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
160

A collection of non-fiction books, a mix of science, natural history and history books.

AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
161 Giovanni Boccaccio.

Decameron of Boccaccio [unexpurgated].

1960 AUD 120.00 - 180.00 AUD 88.90
162

A shelf of dictionaries, Spanish, German, French, Italian, Fables and a Thesaurus for good measure.

AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
163

Sydney Views 1920s-1930s 1) The Most Up-To-Date Sydney Panoramic Views.

circa 1920-1930s. AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
164

A collection of Australian postcards.

c.1900-1920s AUD 300.00 - 500.00 AUD 539.75
165

Georg Jensen Jewelry by David A. Taylor.

2005 AUD 150.00 - 250.00 AUD 190.50
166

Sailing-Ship Models A Selection from European and American Collections with Introductory Text by R. Morton Nance.

1924 AUD 150.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
167

Charles Dickens 25 volume set.

AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
168

Poetry Collection -, including. Poems by Robert Browning, Tennyson, John Milton, J.G Whittier, John Keats, Byron.

AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 127.00
169

25 volumes of The Worlds Great Classics by Grolier, including The Works of Shakespeare, The Divine Comedy, The Odyssey, Plutarch, Huckleberry Finn, Vanity Fair, Ivanhoe & many more.

AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
170 Mary & Elizabeth Durack

The Way of The Whirlwind

1944 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 203.20
171

Keylock's Dams of Winners of all Flat Races in Great Britain and Ireland

AUD 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
172

7 Volumes in 8 Parts of Historical records of New South Wales and Facsimiles of Charts 1762 to 1780 to accompany Volume 1, Part 1.

AUD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
173

16 Thomas Hardy pocket books c.1910s-1950s

c.1910s-1950s AUD 150.00 - 200.00 AUD 88.90
174

8 Volumes of Pictures from Punch Magazine.

AUD 400.00 - 500.00 AUD 254.00
175

Three Volumes of The Modern Bricklayer; A Practical Work on Bricklaying In All Its Branches, by William Frost.

c.1920s AUD 300.00 - 400.00 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