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
51 SMITH, Cyril Stanley & GNUDI, Marthe Teach (translators).

The Pirotechnia of Vannoccio Biringuccio.

New York 1942 AUD 400.00 - 500.00 Unknown
52 BARBA, Alvaro Alonso.

The Art of Metals, in which is declared the manner of their generation, and the concomitants of them.

AUD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Unknown
53 JACK, Robert L.

Report to the Honourable the Minister for Mines on the Normanby and Marengo Goldfields.

Publ 1879 AUD 250.00 - 300.00 Unknown
54

Substantial collection of Victorian parliamentary papers on the Victorian gold-fields,

Melbourne 1855 and 1880 AUD 300.00 - 400.00 Unknown
55 WHITING, J.W. and RELPH, R.E.

The Occurrence of Opal at Lightning Ridge and Grawin, with Geological Notes on County Finch.

1959 AUD 200.00 - 250.00 Unknown
56 MORGAN, John F.

Report on Central North Kimberley Region. North Kimberley Survey & Mapping Expedition 1954.

1955 AUD 300.00 - 400.00 Unknown
57

Report from the Board Appointed to Consider Applications for Rewards for the Discovery of New Gold Fields Published in Melbourne by the Parliament of Victoria, and dated 1864.

AUD 100.00 - 200.00 Unknown
58 WHITELAW, O.A.L.

The Wedderburn Gold-Field (with map, sections, plates, and figures). From the Memoirs of the Geological Survey of Victoria,

Melbourne 1911 AUD 250.00 - 300.00 Unknown
59

Four issues of the Western Australian Annual Reports of the Department of Mines.

printed by Frederick Simpson AUD 750.00 - 1,000.00 Unknown
60

Original auction sale notice for Windamurra station,, of 3,500 acres on the Murrumbidgee River.

1940 AUD 250.00 - 300.00 Unknown
61

Ephemera from the Aero Club of N.S.W.

AUD 100.00 - 150.00 Unknown
62 PORTLOCK, Nathaniel.

A Voyage Round the World but More Particularly to the North-West Coast of America: Performed in 1785, 1786, 1787 and 1788 in the King George and Queen Charlotte, Captains Portlock and Dixon.

AUD 150.00 - 200.00 Unknown
63

Two reports from the Geological Survey of Victoria relating to gold deposits at Wood's Creek.

AUD 400.00 - 500.00 Unknown
64

Five books on technical aspects of mining, all are clothbound octavos, in very good condition:

BRUNSWIG AUD 250.00 - 300.00 Unknown
65 BASEDOW, Herbert.

Physical Geography and Geology of the Western Rivers' District, Northern Territory of Australia.

Adelaide AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
66

Geological Survey of Western Australia Bulletin Number 28, comprising two maps and five mining plans.

Perth 1907 AUD 400.00 - 500.00 Unknown
67

Three rare technical geological publications on the gold and copper deposits at Walhalla (Gippsland, Victoria).

AUD 300.00 - 400.00 Unknown
68

Four books on gold mining in Australian and New Guinea.

AUD 250.00 - 300.00 Unknown
69

The Tomalla Gold Mine by D.W. Suppel.

1966 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
70 ANDREWS, E.C.

Report on the Hillgrove Gold-Field.

Sydney 1900 AUD 300.00 - 400.00 Unknown
71 AUHL, Ian.

The Story of the Monster Mine. The Burra Burra Mine and Its Townships

1845-1877. AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
72 CLELAND, E.

Davenport. West Australian Mining Practice.

AUD 400.00 - 500.00 Unknown
73 JUKES, Joseph Beete.

The Student's Manual of Geology.

Edinburgh 1857 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
74 [BROWN, Robert] MABBERLEY, D. J.

Jupiter Botanicus. Robert Brown of the British Museum.

Published by J. Cramer in Braunschweig and the British Museum in London 1985 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
75

Prospectus of the King Cassilis Gold Mining Company, North Gippsland.

Not dated but 1901 AUD 400.00 - 500.00 Unknown
  • 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
  • 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.