Sydney Rare Book Auctions: Books on Mining, Geology, Medicine, History, Military And More, 20126, Ultimo

Auction Details

Auction Date: February 01, 2026 - February 01, 2026

Page Size: 345 items in 14 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1	FLOYER, Sir John and BAYNARD, Dr. Edward.	The History of Cold Bathing, both Antient and Modern Together with the wonderful effects of the bath-water, drunk hot from the pump, in decay'd stomachs, and in most diseases of the bowels, liver, and spleen, &c.	London	1732	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	AUD 381.00
2	FIELDING, Henry.	The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon.	London	1755	AUD 600.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
3	QUICK, John and GARRAN, Robert Randolph.	The Annotated Constitution of the Australian Commonwealth.	Sydney and Melbourne	1901	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	AUD 1,397.00
4	MILTON, John.	Paradise Regain' A Poem in Four Books Volume the first..	London	1753	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 603.25
5	GREENE, Graham.	Yes and No and For Whom the Bell Chimes.	London	1983	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	AUD 285.75
6	TISSOT, Samuel Auguste.	L'Onanisme. Dissertation sur les maladies produites par la masturbation Quatrieme edition, considerablement augmentee.	Lausanne	1768	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	AUD 349.25
7	The Book of Common Prayer.	Cambridge, printed by John Parker for the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge 1840.			AUD 400.00 - 500.00	AUD 762.00
8	[HAMILTON, George].	Experiences of a Colonist Forty Years Ago; A Journey from Port Phillip to South Australia in the Year 1839 and a Voyage from Port Phillip to Adelaide in 1846.	Adelaide	1880	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	AUD 254.00
9		Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing.	London	circa 1900	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
10	BLACKMAN, Barbara.	Certain Chairs, A Table or Two and other Inanimates of Our Acquaintance.	St. Lucia	1968	AUD 200.00 - 250.00	Not Sold
11	ELLIS, Bret Easton.	Imperial Bedrooms.	London	2010	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 165.10
12	SMITH, Sir Ross.	The First Aeroplane Voyage from England to Australia.	Sydney	1920	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
13	CASTILLO, Antonio del.	El devoto peregrino, viage de Tierra Santa.	Madrid	1705	AUD 600.00 - 800.00	AUD 825.50
14	WILKINSON, Tate.	The Wandering Patentee; Or, A History of the Yorkshire Theatres, from 1770 to the Present Time.	York	1795	AUD 600.00 - 800.00	AUD 635.00
15		Single leaf of a manuscript on parchment, 222 x 296 mm., in a mount with the old $75 price stamp of Rusack's Antiques of Berwyn Illinois, presumably a business now long closed.			AUD 300.00 - 400.00	AUD 190.50
16	SPEIRS, Hugh.	Landscape Art and the Blue Mountains. The artistic, historical, and environmental influences upon the landscape art of the Blue Mountains, New South Wales, Australia.	Sydney	1981	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 127.00
17	HARDY, Philip Dixon (editor).	The Dublin Penny Journal.		1834-1835.	AUD 250.00 - 300.00	AUD 152.40
18	DUHAMEL DU MONCEAU, [Henri-Louis].	Traite de la conservation des grains, et en particulier du froment.	Paris	1754	AUD 500.00 - 750.00	Not Sold
19		Biblia Sacra Vulgate Editionis	Venice	1714	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	AUD 254.00
20	BRETON, William Henry.	Excursions in New South Wales, Western Australia, and Van Dieman's Land, During The Years 1830, 1831, 1832, And 1833.	London	1833	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	AUD 381.00
21	MARTIN, John.	An Account of the Natives of the Tonga Islands, in the South Pacific Ocean.	London	1818	AUD 600.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
22	CAPOTE, Truman.	A text book signed by Truman Capote as a minor attending military school: William Rabenort's Geography of Asia, Africa and Australia,		1918	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 127.00
23	FLINDERS, Matthew.	A Voyage to Terra Australis; undertaken for the purpose of completing the discovery of that Vast Country, and prosecuted in the years 1801, 1802, and 1803, in His Majesty's Ship the Investigator Facsimile of the 1814 edition,		1966	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	AUD 508.00
24	HENNINGES, Hieronymus.	Secundi et Tertii Regni in Quarta Monarchia pars altera, Prior Continens Genealogicis Tabellis Comprehensas Familias Invictissimorum Imperatorum	Magdeburg	1598	AUD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	Not Sold
25	[Saint Bernard of Clairveaux].	Sancti Bernardi Abbatis Primi Clarae-Vallensis.	Paris	1690	AUD 500.00 - 1,000.00	AUD 349.25

Forum Auctions
Natural History: The remaining stock of Antiquariaat Junk, 1899-2026
25 March 2026

Forum, Mar. 25: Botany.- Andrews (H.C.) Coloured Engravings of Heaths, 4 vol. in 2, first edition, [1710,--94]-1802-1809-[1830]. £10,000 - £15,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Butterflies.- Cramer (Pierre) and Caspar Stoll. De Uitlandsche Kapellen voorkomende in de drie Waereld-Deelen…,, 5 vol., Amsterdam & Utrecht, 1779-91. £8,000 - £12,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Voyages.- Darwin (Charles) and others. Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle, 3 vol. in 4, including Appendix to vol.2, first edition, 1839. £8,000 - £12,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Butterflies.- de Graaf (Willem Diederik Vincent). [Inlandsche Kapellen in beeld], 170 fine original watercolours, [Enkhuizen], [1800-40]. £8,000 - £12,000.

Forum Auctions
Natural History: The remaining stock of Antiquariaat Junk, 1899-2026
25 March 2026

Forum, Mar. 25: Birds.- Dresser (Henry Eeles). A History of the Birds of Europe, 9 vol., including supplement, first edition, by the author, 1871-96. £6,000 - £8,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Zoology.- Felines.- Elliot (Daniel Giraud). A Monograph of the Felidæ or Family of the Cats, first edition, for the Subscribers, by the Author, [1878]-1883. £25,000 - £30,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Birds.- Frisch (Johann Leonard). Vorstellung der Vögel Deutschlandes, 2 vol., first edition, Berlin, Friedr. Wilhelm Birnsteil, [1736]-1763. £40,000 - £60,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Birds.- Gould (John). The Birds of Great Britain, 5 vol., first edition, by the author, 1862-1873. £30,000 - £40,000.

Forum Auctions
Natural History: The remaining stock of Antiquariaat Junk, 1899-2026
25 March 2026

Forum, Mar. 25: Pomology.- France.- Poiteau (A.) Pomologie Française. Recueil des Plus Beaux Fruits cultivés en France, 4 vol., Paris, 1846. £30,000 - £40,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Botany.- [Robin (Jean)]. Histoire des Plantes, nouvellement trouvées en l'Isle Virgine…,, 1620; with Geoffrey Linocier L'Histoire des plantes, second edition, 1619-20. £3,000 - £4,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Asia.- Japan.- Siebold (P.F. von). Nippon. Archiv zur Beschreibung von Japan, 7 parts in 6 vol., first edition, Leyden, [1832]-1852. £35,000 - £45,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Asia.- Valentijn (Francois). Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indiën..., 5 vol. in 8, first edition, Dordrecht [&] Amsterdam, 1724-26. £8,000 - £12,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Botany.- Australia.- Redouté (P.J.).- Ventenat (Étienne Pierre). Jardin de la Malmaison, 2 vol.,, Paris, 1803-04[-05]. £30,000 - £40,000.
Books & Autographs
Wednesday 25 March

Koller, Mar. 25: KAFKA, FRANZ, SCHRIFTSTELLER. Eigenh. Brief mit Unterschrift. Prag, 20. Oktober [19]15. CHF 30,000-40,000.

Koller, Mar. 25: EINSTEIN, ALBERT. Zwei eigenhändige Briefe an Ernst Gabor Straus, unterschrieben "A.E" bzw. "A. Einstein". [Princeton], [19]45. und [1950]. CHF 30,000-40,000.

Koller, Mar. 25: HORTENSE DE BEAUHARNAIS, MUTTER VON NAPOLEON III. Album aus ihrem Besitz mit 69 Aquarellen und Pinselzeichnungen in Sepia oder Grau… CHF 14,000-18,000.

Koller, Mar. 25: ZOOLOGIE - ORNITHOLOGIE - Seligmann, Johann Michael. Verzameling van uitlandsche en zeldzaame Vogelen. Teile 1-8 (von 9) in 2 Bänden. Mit 421 prächtig altkolorierten Kupfertafeln. CHF 14,000-20,000

Koller, Mar. 25: BOTANIK - Berlèse, Lorenzo und Johann Jakob Jung. Iconographie du genre camellia... 3 Bände. Mit 300 Farbstichtafeln "a la poupée.” Paris, [1839-]1841-1843. CHF 12,000-18,000.