Sydney Rare Book Auctions: History, Science, Mining, Exploration, Zines, Beer and Wine, Photographs and more, A167, Ultimo

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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
201 Charles Darwin.

The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication.

1875 AUD 700.00 - 800.00 AUD 508.00
202 Charles Darwin

Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visited During the Voyage of the H.M.S. Beagle Round the World, Under the Command of Capt. Fitz Roy, R.N.

1845 AUD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 AUD 635.00
203

Traditions of Lancashire by John Roby.

1892 AUD 150.00 - 200.00 AUD 88.90
204

The Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire as at Present Existing arranges and printed from the personal communications of the Nobility under the Gracious Patronage of the Queen's most excellent Majesty by Edmond Lodge.

1862 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 63.50
205

The Tar Baby and Other Rhymes of Uncle Remus by Joel Chandler Harris with Illustrations in colour by AB Frost and EW Kemble.

1904 AUD 400.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
206

Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk-tales: Selected, edited and translated by Robert Nisbet Bain and illustrated by EW Mitchell.

1902 AUD 200.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
207

The Savage South Seas by E Way Elkington and with colour plates originally painted by Noman H Hardy.

1907 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
208 William H Prescott.

Three volumes of the History of the Reign of Philip the Second King of Spain: Bentley.

1855 AUD 250.00 - 350.00 Not Sold
209

The History of Ballarat From The First Pastoral Settlement To The Present Time by William Bramwell Withers Second Edition with Plans, Illustrations, and Original Documents.

1887 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 476.25
210

Gippsland Heritage Journal.

1986-1993 AUD 300.00 - 400.00 AUD 412.75
211 AJ Drexel Biddle. (Boies Penrose II copy of )

The Land of the Wine Being an Account of the Madeira Islands

1901 AUD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
212

Diaries and Letters of Harold Nicholson. Three volumes. I) 1930-1939; II)1939-1945; III) 1945-1962

1968 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
213

The International Camellia Register compiled by Thomas Savige et al.

1993 AUD 150.00 - 250.00 AUD 88.90
214 E.G. Waterhouse

Camellia Quest by E.G. Waterhouse with four plates in colour and six in monochrome by Adrian Feint and Paul Jones.

1947 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 127.00
215

Larrakitj : Kerry Stokes Collection. Coordinated by Anne Marie Brody in association with Buku-Larrnggay Mulka from the Yirrkala Artists Centre with works of art documentation by Howard Morphy and landscape photography and artists portraits by Peter Eve.

2011 AUD 150.00 - 250.00 AUD 88.90
216

Theatre Technology by George C Izenour.

1996 AUD 250.00 - 350.00 AUD 152.40
217

English Furniture with some furniture of other countries in the Irwin Untermyer Collection. Introduction by John Gloag.

1958 AUD 150.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
218

Celsus de Medicina

1971 AUD 150.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
219 Julian Stockwin.

Kydd

2001 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
220

Vignelli Transit Maps with maps by Massimo Vignetti and text by Peter Lloyd and Mark Ovenden. New York Subways.

2012 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
221

The Sad Tale of the Greedy Boy with illustration by Imogen Chichester.

1944 AUD 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
222

The Olio: Being A Collection Of Essays, Dialogues. Biographical Sketches, Anecdotes. Parodies, Bon Mots, Epigrams, Epitaphs. By The Late Francis Grose

1792 AUD 150.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
223 J H Maiden

The Useful Native Plants of Australia (Including Tasmania)

1889 AUD 700.00 - 800.00 AUD 444.50
224 Bessie Threadgill.

South Australian Land Exploration 1856-1880 Two parts.

1922 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 127.00
225 edited with introduction Harold Loeb.

The Broom Anthology

1969 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 127.00
  • 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