Sydney Rare Book Auctions: An eclectic bunch of books from the 1500s until present time, A173, Ultimo

Auction Details

Auction Date: February 15, 2026 - February 15, 2026

Page Size: 402 items in 17 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
228		The Gold-Fields Of Victoria Reports of The Mining Registrars x 6 1) Quarter Ended 30th June, 1887.			AUD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	Not Sold
229		Five copies of the Bulletin Magazine from the 1930s		1930s	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 127.00
230		Four coloured engravings circa. 1880s			AUD 150.00 - 250.00	AUD 88.90
231	Clements R. Markham,	1) Famous Sailors of Former times: The Story of the Sea Fathers.	London	1886	AUD 150.00 - 250.00	AUD 88.90
232	J. T. Sutcliffe.	1) A History of Trade Unionism in Australia		1921	AUD 150.00 - 250.00	Not Sold
233		Bound volume of The Australasian Newspaper	Melbourne	1899	AUD 50.00 - 100.00	AUD 152.40
234	V. S. Naipaul	The Mimic Men	New York	1967	AUD 100.00 - 150.00	AUD 50.80
235		1. Gaol In Conflict 1966 Endpapers foxed. 2. Valley of No Escape 1961.			AUD 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
236		A wooden plaque of a Benny Hill movie poster 49x38cm			AUD 100.00 - 150.00	AUD 38.10
237		A 1932 Sydney Harbour Bridge commemoration scroll 'the Spirit of Achievement' 79 x 48cm.		1932	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 571.50
238		Nine hardcover books on Aboriginal Art Modern Australian Aboriginal Art by Rex Battarbee, Art + Soul by Hetti Perkins, Contemporary Aboriginal Art by Susan McCulloch, Australian Aboriginal Art.			AUD 150.00 - 250.00	Not Sold
239		A collection of books on erotica -Erotic Art of the Masters: The 18th, 19th & 20th Centuries by Bradley Smith -High Heels: Fashion, Femininity and Seduction by Ivan Vartanian ...			AUD 150.00 - 250.00	AUD 101.60
240		A box of all sort of ephemera comics, maps, reports, Western Australian Preserved Locomotives, Why do I Fight by Bushman, The Book Collector Autumn 1994, Peaks and High Places of Cradle Lake National Park Tasmania..			AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 203.20
241		Seven magazines on Erotica. Sex to Sexty, Sexorama, and Man Magazine.			AUD 150.00 - 250.00	Not Sold
242		A box of Aboriginal books, mostly on art and culture..			AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 241.30
243		Four Art books 1) The Feathered Serpent by Roland Robinson 2) Aboriginal Australian Art a visual Perspective 3) Australian Aboriginal Art by Ure Smith ...			AUD 150.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
244		1) The World of the First Australians by Ronald Berndt and Catherine Berndt 2) The Aborigines of Tasmania by Henry Ling Roth 3) Australian Aboriginal Studies, The 1961 Research Conference ...			AUD 150.00 - 250.00	AUD 349.25
245	Mike Donaldson	Kimberley Rock Art Vol. 1: Mitchell Plateau Area.		2012	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
246		Nine quality books on Aboriginal Australia 1) Archaeology of the Dreamtime by Josephine Flood 2) Triumph of the Nomads by Geoffrey Blainey ...			AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 152.40
247		A box of excellent books on Aboriginal History See photo for titles, in good condition			AUD 150.00 - 250.00	AUD 317.50
248		Two boxes of on Aboriginal histories In very good condition, please see photos for titles			AUD 300.00 - 400.00	AUD 1,079.50
249		A box of the Saturday Evening Post		1950s	AUD 200.00 - 250.00	Not Sold
250		Five books by William Edward Harney 1) Continent to lie in The Sun 2) To Ayers Rock and Beyond 3) Taboo 4) Life Among the Aborigines ...			AUD 250.00 - 350.00	AUD 165.10
251		1) Lament for the Barkindji by Bobbie Hardy, 1976 2) Quinkan Country By P.J Trezies, 1969 3) Among Cannibals by Carl Lumholtz, 1979			AUD 300.00 - 400.00	AUD 228.60
252		1) Australian Aboriginal Anthropology by Ronald. M. Berndt 2) Aranda Traditions T.G.H Strehlow, 3) Ayers Rock, Its People, Their Beliefs and Their Art by Charles P. Mountford			AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 1,016.00

Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
26th March 2026

Forum, Mar. 26: Book of Hours.- Heures a lusaige de Romme, printed on vellum, with 14 full-page illuminated miniatures, Paris, N. Higman for J. de Brie, [c.1521]. £20,000-30,000

Forum, Mar. 26: France.- Book of Hours, perhaps Use of the Abbey of Saint-Gildas de Rhuys, with thirteen miniatures surviving from an original cycle of at least twenty, [c. 1430]. £15,000-20,000

Forum, Mar. 26: Milton (John). Paradise lost. A Poem in Ten Books, first edition, Pforzheimer's sixth state, S. Simmons, 1669. £8,000-12,000

Forum, Mar. 26: Blake (William). Illustrations of the Book of Job, one of 215 first issue "Proof" copies, this one of 65 copies on "French" paper, Published by the Author, March 8, 1825 [but March, 1826]. £15,000-20,000

Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
26th March 2026

Forum, Mar. 26: Christie (Agatha). The ABC Murders, first edition, The Crime Club, 1936. £15,000-20,000

Forum, Mar. 26: Halley (Edmund). Astronomiae Cometicae Synopsis, in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, no. 297, pp.1882-99, March 1705. £10,000-15,000

Forum, Mar. 26: Haytham (Ibn al) [known as Alhazen]. Opticae Thesaurus...Item Vitellonis Thuringopoloni libri X..., first edition, Basel, August, 1572. £20,000-30,000

Forum, Mar. 26: Kepler (Johannes). Dioptrice seu demonstratio eorum quae visui & visibilibus propter conspicilla non ita pridem inventa accidunt, first edition, Augsburg, David Frank, 1611. £12,000-18,000
Forum Auctions
Natural History: The remaining stock of Antiquariaat Junk, 1899-2026
25 March 2026

Forum, Mar. 25: Botany.- Andrews (H.C.) Coloured Engravings of Heaths, 4 vol. in 2, first edition, [1710,--94]-1802-1809-[1830]. £10,000 - £15,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Butterflies.- Cramer (Pierre) and Caspar Stoll. De Uitlandsche Kapellen voorkomende in de drie Waereld-Deelen…,, 5 vol., Amsterdam & Utrecht, 1779-91. £8,000 - £12,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Voyages.- Darwin (Charles) and others. Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle, 3 vol. in 4, including Appendix to vol.2, first edition, 1839. £8,000 - £12,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Butterflies.- de Graaf (Willem Diederik Vincent). [Inlandsche Kapellen in beeld], 170 fine original watercolours, [Enkhuizen], [1800-40]. £8,000 - £12,000.

Forum Auctions
Natural History: The remaining stock of Antiquariaat Junk, 1899-2026
25 March 2026

Forum, Mar. 25: Birds.- Dresser (Henry Eeles). A History of the Birds of Europe, 9 vol., including supplement, first edition, by the author, 1871-96. £6,000 - £8,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Zoology.- Felines.- Elliot (Daniel Giraud). A Monograph of the Felidæ or Family of the Cats, first edition, for the Subscribers, by the Author, [1878]-1883. £25,000 - £30,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Birds.- Frisch (Johann Leonard). Vorstellung der Vögel Deutschlandes, 2 vol., first edition, Berlin, Friedr. Wilhelm Birnsteil, [1736]-1763. £40,000 - £60,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Birds.- Gould (John). The Birds of Great Britain, 5 vol., first edition, by the author, 1862-1873. £30,000 - £40,000.

Forum Auctions
Natural History: The remaining stock of Antiquariaat Junk, 1899-2026
25 March 2026

Forum, Mar. 25: Pomology.- France.- Poiteau (A.) Pomologie Française. Recueil des Plus Beaux Fruits cultivés en France, 4 vol., Paris, 1846. £30,000 - £40,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Botany.- [Robin (Jean)]. Histoire des Plantes, nouvellement trouvées en l'Isle Virgine…,, 1620; with Geoffrey Linocier L'Histoire des plantes, second edition, 1619-20. £3,000 - £4,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Asia.- Japan.- Siebold (P.F. von). Nippon. Archiv zur Beschreibung von Japan, 7 parts in 6 vol., first edition, Leyden, [1832]-1852. £35,000 - £45,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Asia.- Valentijn (Francois). Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indiën..., 5 vol. in 8, first edition, Dordrecht [&] Amsterdam, 1724-26. £8,000 - £12,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Botany.- Australia.- Redouté (P.J.).- Ventenat (Étienne Pierre). Jardin de la Malmaison, 2 vol.,, Paris, 1803-04[-05]. £30,000 - £40,000.