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
280	Arthur Northwood and Leonard Rapport	Rendezvous with Destiny: A History of the 101st Airborne Division		1948	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 127.00
281	Richard Harding Davis.	The Cuban and Porto Rican Campaigns by acclaimed war correspondent Richard Harding Davis.	London	1899	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
282	James E. Reed,	The Fighting 33rd Nomads During World War II: A Diary of a Fighter Pilot with Photographs and Other Stories of 33rd Fighter Group Personnel. Volumes 1 and 2		1987	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 127.00
283		GUARDIAN NEWSPAPER 1890S	Manchester	1890S	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
284	Richard Thompson.	Historical Essay on the Magna Carta to which are added the Great Charter in Larin and English etc.	London	1829	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 1,016.00
285	Thomas Reid	Two voyages to New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land, with a description of the present condition of that interesting colony: including facts and observations relative to the state and management of convicts of both sexes. And reflections on seduction and	London	1822	AUD 750.00 - 1,000.00	AUD 539.75
286	Frank Hutchinson and Francis Myers.	The Australian Contingent. A History of The Patriotic Movement in New South Wales, an Account of The Despatch of Troops To The Assistance of The Imperial Forces In The Soudan		1885	AUD 150.00 - 250.00	AUD 285.75
287		An account of the English Colony in New South Wales with Remarks on the Dispositions, Customs, Manners & c. of The Native Inhabitants of That Country.		1971	AUD 150.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
288		Anglia Rediviva; England's Recovery: Being the History Of the Motions, Actions, and Successes of the Army under the Immediate Conduct of His Excellency Sr. Thomas Fairfax, Kt. Captain General Of all the Parliaments Forces in England.	London	1647	AUD 250.00 - 350.00	AUD 476.25
289	James Grant.	British Battles		circa 1875	AUD 350.00 - 450.00	Not Sold
290		Macquarie Dictionary First edition.		1981	AUD 150.00 - 200.00	AUD 317.50
291	J A Ferguson, Mrs A G Foster & H M Green	The Howes and Their Press by J A Ferguson, Mrs A G Foster & H M Green	Sydney	1936	AUD 150.00 - 200.00	AUD 254.00
292	John McPhee	Joseph Lycett: Convict Artist		2006	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 241.30
293	James Colwell;	Story of Australia: Past and Present in Pen and Picture edited		1925	AUD 150.00 - 200.00	AUD 114.30
294	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	AUD 571.50
295		The National Parks Journal 1962-74.			AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 114.30
296	S T Gill.	The Australian Sketch-Book	Melbourne	1974	AUD 100.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
297		Four books about Australian Medical History.			AUD 100.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
298		A small bundle of Books on Books.			AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 114.30
299	C.E. W. Bean.	The Dreadnought of the Darling		1956	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 63.50
300	Elizabeth Riddell.	Poems by Elizabeth Riddell. Designed and decorated by Douglas Annand.		no date c1948.	AUD 100.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
301		3 Prints published in 19th Century.		19th Century.	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
302	Victor Cobb.	St Peter's Easter Hill. Original etching		1928	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
303		Artists Proof inscribed to Sir Willian Elliot Johnson KCMG Speaker of the Representative of Federal Parliament.		1920	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
304		1. Old Blastus Of Bandicoot.	Melbourne	1932	AUD 250.00 - 350.00	Not Sold

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.