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
76	PRESCOTT, Dorothy and BROWN, Graham.	Ovens Valley Gold Resource. Proposed Dredging Project. Preliminary Environmental Report.		1985	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Unknown
77	ZUNYI, Yang, and others.	The Geology of China.	Oxford	1983	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Unknown
78	by Richard E. Donovan and Joseph S.F. Murdoch.	The Game of Golf and the Printed Word, 1566-1985: A Bibliography of Golf Literature in the English Language	New York	1988	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Unknown
79	HARDING, George R.	The Acts and Orders Relating to the Jurisdiction, Practice and Pleading of the Supreme Court of Queensland.	Brisbane	1885	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Unknown
80		University of Edinburgh Roll of Honour 1914-1919.	Edinburgh	1921	AUD 250.00 - 300.00	Unknown
81		The History of the Legacy Club of Sydney by Lt. Col. E. Hilmer Smith.	Published in Sydney by the Club	1944 and 1950	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Unknown
82		Official Railway Map of England and Wales.	Published in London by the Railway Clearing House in	1918	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	Unknown
83	James Bonwick	The British Colonies and Their Resources; French Colonies and Their Resources	London	1886	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Unknown
84		An album of eleven original late nineteenth century photographs of a pastoral estate in Australia.			AUD 250.00 - 300.00	Unknown
85	DAWSON, Warren.	The Banks Letters. A calendar of the manuscript correspondence of Sir Joseph Banks preserved in the British Museum London		1958	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Unknown
86	EHRENPREIS, Irvin.	Jonathan Swift. The Man, His Works, and the Age.	London	1962-1983.	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Unknown
87		Report of the Second Interstate Conference on Artesian Water.	Brisbane	1914	AUD 250.00 - 300.00	Unknown
88		New South Wales Commission on Primary, Secondary, Technical and Other Branches of Education. Interim Report of Commissioners on Certain Parts of Primary Education.	Sydney	1903	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Unknown
89	BRASSEY, Baroness Annie.	A Voyage in the Sunbeam'. Our home on the ocean for eleven months.	Chicago	1881	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Unknown
90	GRIFFITHS, Arthur.	Memorials of Millbank and Chapters in Prison History. With illustrations by R. Goff and the author.	London	1884	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Unknown
91	GRENWOOD, James.	The Adventures of Reuben Davidger; Seventeen years and four months captive among the Dyaks of Borneo.	London	1865	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Unknown
92		The Poems of Shane Leslie.	London	1928	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Unknown
93		Illustrations of Northern Antiquities, from the Earlier Teutonic and Scandinavian Romances; Being an abstract of the Book of Heroes, and Nibelungen Lay	Edinburgh	1814	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	Unknown
94	PALMER, Charles John and TUCKER, Stephen (editors).	Palgrave Family Memorials.	Norwich	1878	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Unknown
95		General Genealogical Chart of the De Havilland and Havilland Families.	Published by the family in	1855	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	Unknown
96		Private Correspondence of William Cowper, Esq.	London	1824	AUD 250.00 - 300.00	Unknown
97	by Rolf Boldrewood.	Two novels : The Crooked Stick or Pollie's Probation. ; A Sydney-Side Saxon.	London	1895, 1891	AUD 150.00 - 200.00	Unknown
98	HAWKE, Jessica.	Follow My Dust! A Biography of Arthur Upfield.	London	1957	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Unknown
99	By L'Abbe de Tressan, translated from the French by H. North.	Mythology Compared with History: or, The Fables of the Ancients Elucidated from Historical Records. For the use of young persons Together with some account of the Ancient Druids.	London	1797	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	Unknown
100	BOYCE, Francis Bertie.	The Drink Problem in Australia or the Plagues of Alcohol and the Remedies.	London and in Sydney and Brisbane	1893	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	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.