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
26 PRAED, Rosa.

My Australian Girlhood. Sketches and impressions of bush life.

London 1902 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
27 GAMBIGLIONI, Angelo.

Angeli a Gambilionibus de Aretio. In Quatuor Institutionum Iustiniani Libros Commentaria.

Venice 1585 AUD 750.00 - 1,000.00 Unknown
28 PEREZ, Antonio.

Praelectiones in duodecim Libros Codicis Justiniani Imp. Quibus Leges omnses & Authenticae perpetua serie explicantur, mores hodierni inferuntur, & quid sit Iuris Antiqui Novi, & Novissimi, enodatur, & breviter exponitur [...].

Amsterdam 1653 AUD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 Unknown
29 CHRYSOSTOMOS (John of Antioch).

Quintus et Ultimus Tomus Operum

Basel 1558 AUD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 Unknown
30 CAMERON, W.H. Morton (editor).

Ports & Cities of the World. One of a Series of Standard Commercial Encyclopedias of the Actual and Potential Markets of the World.

London no date but circa 1925 AUD 600.00 - 800.00 Unknown
31 BRUCE, James.

Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, in the years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772, and 1773.

Edinburgh 1790 AUD 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 Unknown
32 CORACHAN, Juan Bautista.

Arithmetica Demonstrada Theorico-Practica para lo Mathematico y Mercantil.

Barcelona 1715 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 Unknown
33 IRENAEUS, Bishop of Lyons.

D. Irenaei Episcopi Lugdunensis, Opus eruditissimum

Basel 1571 AUD 750.00 - 1,000.00 Unknown
34 PUENTE, Ludovico de [PONTE].

Dux Spiritualis in quo agitur De oration, Meditatione & Contemplatione...

Cologne 1613 AUD 500.00 - 700.00 Unknown
35 CUNNINGHAM, Peter.

Two Years in New South Wales; Comprising Sketches of the Actual State of Society in That Colony; of Its Peculiar Advantages to Emigrants; of Its Topography, Natural History, &c. &c.

London 1827 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
36 FAHY, Andrew and SIMPSON, Andrew.

Australian Furniture: Pictorial History and Dictionary 1788 1938.

Sydney 1998 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
37 RADCLIFFE, Ann.

The Mysteries of Udolpho.

Dublin 1794 AUD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 Unknown
38 MOCENICO, Aloisio.

Novissimum statuterum ac venetiarum legum volumen, duabus in partibus divisum.

Venice 1729 AUD 400.00 - 500.00 Unknown
39 WEDEL, Georg Wolfgang.

Opiologia ad Mentem Academiae Naturae Curiosorum.

Jena 1682 AUD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 Unknown
40 MANILIUS.

Astronomicon ex Recensione Richardi Bentleii

Strasbourg 1767 AUD 400.00 - 500.00 Unknown
41

Parliamentary reports relating to the Victorian goldfields.

AUD 300.00 - 400.00 Unknown
42

Report Relating to the Gold Mining Industry of Australia. Prepared for the Development and Migration Commission of the Commonwealth Parliament

Melbourne 1928 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 Unknown
43

Papers on Crown Lands in Australian Colonies. Part I: New South Wales and Victoria.

AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
44

Six books on mining and geology: Black Sands. A History of Mineral Sand Mining in Eastern Australia by Morley (1981); The Hoddle Years Surveying in Victoria by Scurfield (1995);...

AUD 100.00 - 200.00 Unknown
45 HITCHCOCK, Edward.

The Religion of Geology and its Connecetd Sciences.

London 1871 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 Unknown
46

A collection of seven old books on mining and geology.

AUD 250.00 - 300.00 Unknown
47

Cache of original letters, diagrams and documents relating to a gold and copper mining lease in Gippsland operated by a Victorian miner named John David Avery.

AUD 600.00 - 800.00 Unknown
48

Share Certificate for The Wombat Hydraulic Sluicing Company of 140 Queen street, Melbourne.

AUD 400.00 - 500.00 Unknown
49

This lot comprises eleven Australian mining and geological reports, most date from the early decades of the twentieth century.

AUD 250.00 - 300.00 Unknown
50 HOOVER, Herbert - AGRICOLA, Georgius.

De re Metallica.

London 1912 AUD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 Unknown
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    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.
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    Fine Manuscript and Printed Americana
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    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.
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  • Forum Auctions
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    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
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    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
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    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
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    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
  • 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
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    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
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