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
275 WM Fleming

Bunyip Says So, A Tale of the Australian Bush by WM Fleming With Illustrations in colour and black and white by R.W. Sturgess.

AUD 40.00 - 120.00 Unknown
276

A collection of Janes Fighting Ships refence books 1) Janes Air-Launched Weapons, issue 34 2) Janes Fighting Ships 1987-88, Nineteenth edition 3) Janes All The World's Aircraft 1998-99, 89th year of issue ...

AUD 100.00 - 200.00 Unknown
277

Emigrant's Handbooks for the Australian state

London 1906 AUD 250.00 - 300.00 Unknown
278

Four early scenic tourist brochures from Sydney.

AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
279

A letter from Andrew and James Paterson, respectively father and uncle of the poet A. B. "Banjo" Paterson.

"Illalong"the family cattle station past Yass in New South Wales. 1854 AUD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Unknown
280 by George Grey.

Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North West and Western Australia during the years 1837, 38 and 39 under the Authority of Her Majesty's Government.

London 1841 , 1969 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
281 BLOSSEVILLE, Marquis de.

Histoire de la colonisation penale et des etablissements de lAngleterre en Australie.

Evereux 1859 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
282

A Descriptive and Historic Guide through St. Mary's Cathedral, Limerick.

Limerick 1887 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 Unknown
283 DAVIDSON, George.

An Examination of Some of the Early Voyages of Discovery and Exploration on the Northwest Coast of America, from 1539 to 1603.

Washington 1887 AUD 300.00 - 400.00 Unknown
284 FITZPATRICK, Gary.

The Early Mapping of Hawai'i. Volume I Palapala-aina.

Honolulu 1986 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
285

The Discovery of Australia by George Collingridge.

Sydney 1895 AUD 300.00 - 400.00 Unknown
286

A nice bundle of Hakluyt Society books, all octavos in blue cloth.

AUD 300.00 - 400.00 Unknown
287

A nice clot of three ornithology books: OLSEN, Penny. An Eye for Nature. The Life and Art of William Cooper.

Canberra 2014 AUD 250.00 - 300.00 Unknown
288

10 books on Joinery and Construction.. 1) Decorative Design in Plaster,

AUD 250.00 - 350.00 Unknown
289

Great Philosophers of the Ancient World 5 Volume Set in a slipcase.

AUD 300.00 - 500.00 Unknown
290 by Charles B. Boynton

The History of the Navy During the Rebellion

1869 AUD 600.00 - 800.00 Unknown
300

Olympia 1936 : Die Olympischen Spiele 1936 in Berlin und Garmisch-Partenkirchen.

Altona-Bahrenfeld 1936 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 Unknown
301

Four Military History Books.

AUD 100.00 - 200.00 Unknown
302

Five books of the Australian Coal Mining History.

AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
303

A collection of Newcastle, Hunter and Maitland Local History.

AUD 150.00 - 250.00 Unknown
304

Nine books about Australian History.

AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
305

A Miscellaneous lot with eight books.

AUD 100.00 - 200.00 Unknown
327

A small bundle of Children's books.

AUD 100.00 - 200.00 Unknown
328

Five Folio Society Books all in mint condition in the original slipcase 1. St. Augustine Confessions 2. ...

AUD 250.00 - 300.00 Unknown
329 by Ray Parkin

H.M. bark Endeavour: With an Account of Her Construction, Crew and Equipment and a Narrative of Her Voyage on the East Coast of New Holland in the Year 1770

1997 AUD 150.00 - 200.00 Unknown
  • 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 286 - Walton (William, 1902-1983). Autograph manuscript full score for Belshazzar’s Feast, [1930-31]. £20,000-30,000
    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