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
305	Kylie Tennant	1. Ride On Stranger 1943 2.The Joyful Condemned 1953 3. Foveaux 4. Time Enough Later 1945			AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
306	L E Threlkeld; John Fraser .	An Australian Language as spoken by the Awabakal, the People of Awaba or Lake Macquarie, being an Account of their Language, Traditions, and Customs		1892	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	AUD 476.25
307	J Campbell Robinson	The Free Presbyterian Church of Australia	Melbourne	1947	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
308	D H Lawrence	Aaron's Rod	London	1922	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
310		Australian Theatre Programs 1930s-1940s		1930s-1940s	AUD 250.00 - 350.00	AUD 152.40
311		Views of Christchurch and New Zealand Three books 1) 48 views illustrating Christchurch. Gold Medal Series	Germany.		AUD 150.00 - 250.00	AUD 88.90
312		Walkabout Magazine 1938-9. Twelve issues.		1938-9	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
313	Person of Quality edited by RD.	Several Occasions for Poems		1928	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 139.70
314	Phil May and other wartime cartoonists.	A collection of Phil May and other wartime cartoonists.			AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
315		Panama Canal Official Handbook Ancon Canal Zone 1913.		1913	AUD 150.00 - 200.00	AUD 88.90
316		Pope And Kaiser Is Rome Pro-German? A Lecture By Digby Berry, M.A. (Late Canon of St. Paul's, Melbourne, and Examining Chaplain to the Bishop of Melbourne.)	Melbourne	1915	AUD 120.00 - 180.00	AUD 76.20
317		AN AMATEUR TRAMP: Rambles with Pen and Camera		1920	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 63.50
318		Dymock's book of views: a handsome souvenir of Sydney.	Sydney	circa 1910s.	AUD 80.00 - 120.00	AUD 152.40
319		A bundle of publications on Australian Design and Architecture and Building from the 1930s and 1940s.		1930s and 1940s.	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 127.00
320	Edwin Carton Booth	A collection of black and white engravings likely from Australia Illustrated by Edwin Carton Booth	London	circa 1870s.	AUD 150.00 - 250.00	Not Sold
321		150 Postcards Some real photographs. Many from Europe with France and England the majority but also India, Australia, and South Africa.			AUD 120.00 - 180.00	Not Sold
322	Ballooning drawn Clement and engraved Warren.	A collection of Steel Engravings and Interesting Prints. Ballooning drawn by Clement and engraved by Warren.			AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 63.50
323		A collection of portraits on men and women.	Mostly from Europe		AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
324		A collection(12) of Australian studio portraits(7) and some landscapes(5) with notes that look suspiciously like Australia.			AUD 150.00 - 250.00	Not Sold
325		1937 Men's Fashions - London Styles Periodical No 56 Summer 1937.			AUD 50.00 - 80.00	AUD 25.40
326		A collection of books on Ancient History published by Folio Society.			AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 539.75
327		A collection of books on British History.			AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 152.40
328		A collection of books on Religion published by Folio Society.			AUD 300.00 - 400.00	AUD 317.50
329		Six books about Americas published by the Folio Society.			AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 63.50
330		Folio Society Fiction.			AUD 300.00 - 400.00	AUD 412.75

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.