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
101 DICKENS, Charles.

The Life of Our Lord. Written expressly for his children by Charles Dickens.

London 1934 AUD 150.00 - 200.00 Unknown
102

Four books on convict transportation: ANDERSON, Hugh. Farewell to Judges & Juries. The Broadside Ballad & Convict Transportation to Australia, 1788 1868.

Melbourne 2000 AUD 250.00 - 300.00 Unknown
103

Complete run of the Journal of the Historical Society of South Australia, numbers 1 through 50, from the year 1975 to 2022.

1975-2022. AUD 250.00 - 300.00 Unknown
104 SCHMALENBACH, Werner.

Kurt Schwitters.

London 1970 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
105

Fifteen books from the Classics of Medicine library. All are facsimile editions of historical works in medicine and surgery, presented in ornamental bindings.

AUD 300.00 - 400.00 Unknown
106

An impressive shelf of books on cartography and map-making.

AUD 400.00 - 500.00 Unknown
107 SPROD, Daniel.

Proud Intrepid Heart. Leichhardt's First Attempt to the Swan River 1846 1847.

Hobart 1989 AUD 120.00 - 150.00 Unknown
108 [SCOTTISH MARTYRS].

The Trial of William Skirving, Secretary to the British Convention, Before the High Court of Justiciary, on the 6th and 7th of January, 1794; for Sedition.

Edinburgh 1794 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 Unknown
109 KEARTON, Richard.

With Nature and a Camera. Being the adventures and observations of a field naturalist and an animal photographer.

London 1898 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
110

This lot comprises a collection of 35 volumes (housed within in 28 protective slipcases), being high-quality facsimile editions of famous juvenile literature, drawn from the breathtaking Osborne Collection of Early Children's Books at the Toronto Public L

AUD 200.00 - 250.00 Unknown
111 JOHNSON, Keith A. and SAINTY, Malcolm.

Sydney Burial Grounds 1819-1901 (Elizabeth and Devonshire Streets) and History of Sydney's Early Cemeteries from 1788.

Sydney 2001 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
112

A collection of 37 books on genealogy and family history, most of the titles are Australian with a few North American family histories in the mix.

AUD 500.00 - 600.00 Unknown
113

Seven books on Colonial Australia and the development of our nation.

AUD 400.00 - 500.00 Unknown
114

A large collection of books about cricket.

AUD 250.00 - 300.00 Unknown
115

The first ten annual reports of the C.S.I.R.O. Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, from 1949 to 1958.

1949-1958. AUD 300.00 - 400.00 Unknown
116 C.T. Courtney Lewis

Two books by C.T. Courtney Lewis on English print-makers of the nineteenth century.

AUD 250.00 - 300.00 Unknown
117 BATCHELDER, Alf.

Hugh Trumble. A Cricketer's Life.

2009 AUD 250.00 - 300.00 Unknown
118

Thirteen children's fiction novels by Ethel Turner,

first decades of the twentieth century. AUD 500.00 - 600.00 Unknown
119

Ten children's fiction novels by Mary Grant Bruce

first decades of the twentieth century. AUD 250.00 - 300.00 Unknown
120 William Wymark Jacobs.

Twelve books by William Wymark Jacobs.

AUD 800.00 - 1,000.00 Unknown
121

A Century of Journalism Sydney Morning Herald Australian Life 1831-1931

Sydney 1931 AUD 150.00 - 250.00 Unknown
122 Illustrated by W.H. Nicholls.

The Complete Edition of Orchids of Australia.

1969 AUD 150.00 - 250.00 Unknown
123

3 books 1 record 1) The Australian Aboriginal Heritage. An Introduction through the Arts.

Sydney 1973 AUD 80.00 - 120.00 Unknown
124

1) Reader's Digest Complete Book of Australian Birds by Harold Frith 2) Australian and New Zealand Gemstones how and where to find them by Paul Hamlyn

AUD 50.00 - 70.00 Unknown
125

Seven books on Naval and Military themes..

AUD 100.00 - 150.00 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.