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
381	William Fraeme	Four Sydney Histories			AUD 300.00 - 400.00	AUD 317.50
382	Charles H Bertie	The Story of Old George Street. A Chapter in Old Sydney	Sydney	1920	AUD 100.00 - 150.00	AUD 63.50
383		Historical sketch of St. James' Sydney. 1819-1919.			AUD 100.00 - 150.00	AUD 63.50
384	William Fraeme	Parramatta Past and Present		1925	AUD 100.00 - 150.00	AUD 63.50
385	Michael Pembroke.	Two books on Arthur Phillip. 1) Sailor Mercenary Governor Spy	Melbourne	2013	AUD 150.00 - 200.00	AUD 88.90
386	Eric Rolls.	A Million Wild Acres. 200 Years of Man and an Australian Forest	Melbourne	1981	AUD 100.00 - 150.00	AUD 139.70
387		The Gold-Fields Of Victoria. Reports Of The Mining Registrars For The Quarter Ended 30th September 1884.			AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
388	J Hillier	Gale Catalogue: Catalogue of the Japanese Paintings and Prints in the Collection of Mr. & Mrs. Richard P. Gale		1970	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
389		1. A Life Given To The Antarctic Douglas Mawson Antarctic Explorer by E Suzyumov 1968 2. Douglas Mawson The Life Of An Explorer.			AUD 150.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
390		The organization of Chinese emigration 1848-1888 : with special reference to Chinese emigration to Australia by/ Sing-wu Wang..		1978	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 444.50
391		1. The Sugar Mother by Elizabeth Jolley 1988 2. Flight Into Paradise by Margo Courtney 1953 3. The Sea Ants & Other Stories by Nancy Cato 1964 4.			AUD 300.00 - 400.00	AUD 190.50
392	Carlton Dawe	The Sign Of The Glove	London	1932	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
393		1. The Tree In Changing Light by Roger McDonald 2001 2. To The Islands by Randolph Stow 1958 3.			AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
394	Horace J Andrews.	The Indian Idol Mystery	London	No date but 1938	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	AUD 254.00
395		A lot of 14 old books.			AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
396	Idriess	Six books concerning Mining all by Idriess. 5 warmly inscribed by the author			AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 127.00
397		A shelf about 38 Quilting Textile Designs books.			AUD 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
398		An historical, practical and theoretical account of the Breakwater in Plymouth Sound.	London	1848	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
399	PIKE, Douglas and RITCHIE, John (series editors).	The Australian Dictionary of Biography.	Melbourne	1966 -1991	AUD 150.00 - 250.00	AUD 88.90
400	SETTON, Kenneth (series editor).	A History of the Crusades.		1969	AUD 150.00 - 250.00	AUD 241.30
401		13 Australiana Books. Mostly history.			AUD 150.00 - 250.00	Not Sold
402		The Tales of Beatrix Potter.		2002	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 101.60
403	Donough O'Brien.	History Of The O'Briens From Brian Boroimhe AD 1000 To 1845		1949	AUD 150.00 - 200.00	AUD 114.30
404		Two Graham Greene First Editions: Doctor Fischer of Geneva or the Bomb Party.	New York	1980	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
405		Ten books on flyfishing for trout and salmon.			AUD 150.00 - 200.00	AUD 88.90

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.