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
356	John Quick and Robert Garran.	The Annotated Constitution of the Australian Commonwealth	Sydney	1901	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	AUD 476.25
357	John O'Donoghue.	Historical Memoir of The O'Briens		1860	AUD 150.00 - 250.00	AUD 152.40
358		Bonaparte, and The French People Under His Consulate. Translated from the German.	London	1804	AUD 250.00 - 350.00	AUD 203.20
359	Edward Herbert.	The Life and Reign of King Henry the Eighth.	London	1683	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 476.25
360		The History of the Reigns of Henry the Seventh, Henry the Eighth, Edward the Sixth, and Queen Mary.			AUD 150.00 - 250.00	AUD 285.75
361		A collection of good and interesting history and travel books.			AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
362		A shelf of Literature and Philosophy.			AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
363	Ian Fleming.	The Man with the Golden Gun		1965	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
364		A little bundle of publications on Ian Fairweather. 1) The Drunken Buddha by Ian Fairweather.		1965	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 88.90
365	Clive Turnbull.	The Art of Rupert Bunny Appreciation	Sydney	1948	AUD 150.00 - 250.00	Not Sold
366		A little bundle of Australian. Design, Art and Gardening.			AUD 50.00 - 100.00	AUD 38.10
367	Sabina Howitt Singleton	Journal and scrapbook of Sabina Howitt Singleton (?-1887) with many additions by her daughter Violet Etta Collins (1877-1964).			AUD 400.00 - 500.00	AUD 381.00
368		1937 Around the World Trip Diary Handwritten journal with receipts of the trip and business cards and cards.			AUD 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
369	Capt H Butler Stoney.	A Residence in Tasmania with a Descriptive Tour Through the Island from Macquarie Harbour to Circular Head Facsimile of the 1856 edition.	Hobart,	1982	AUD 200.00 - 250.00	AUD 127.00
370	Charles Smith.	The Ancient and Present State of the County and City of Cork: Containing A Natural, Civil, Ecclesiastical, Historical, and Topographical Description Thereof		1815	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
371	Eugene O'Curry.	On the Manners and Customs of the Ancient Irish		1873	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	AUD 254.00
372	Francis Grose.	Military Antiquities Respecting a History of the English Army from the Conquest to the Present Time. A new edition with material additions and improvements	London	1801	AUD 700.00 - 900.00	Not Sold
373	John Alden.	Souvenir and Official Programme of the Centennial Celebration of George Washington's Inauguration as First President of the United States	New York	1889	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
374	Edited Edward Gibbon Wakefield.	A View of the Art of Colonization with present reference to the British Empire in Letters between a statesman and a colonist.	London	1849	AUD 600.00 - 700.00	AUD 381.00
375	Alfred McFarland	Mutiny in the Bounty and Story of the Pitcairn Islanders	Sydney	1884	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 127.00
376	Louis de Freycinet	Reflections on New South Wales 1788 - 1839 , facsimile edition		2001	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 139.70
377		3 Volumes of The Davidson Collection Auction Catalogues by Australian Book Auctions (Part I first sale 2005, II second sale 2006 and III third sale 2007).			AUD 300.00 - 350.00	Not Sold
378		Five Hakluyt Society. Hardcovers			AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 127.00
379	John West.	The History of Tasmania		1852	AUD 400.00 - 600.00	AUD 285.75
380		Early Voyages to Terra Australis Now Called Australia:		1859	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 476.25

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.