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
28	Charles L Pack.	Victoria: The half-length portraits and the twopence queen enthroned	New York	1923	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
29		Books on Australian Stamp Collecting.			AUD 250.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
30	Edited Percy Bishop.	The Philatelic Journal of Great Britain.	London	1891-1892.	AUD 250.00 - 300.00	AUD 152.40
31	JOHNSTON, Jennifer.	The Gingerbread Woman.	London		AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
32	GRANT, A.C.	Bush Life in Queensland, or, John West's Colonial Experiences.	Edinburgh	1888	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
33	YARDLEY, Herbert.	The Education of a Poker Player. Introduced by Ian Fleming.	London	1959	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 165.10
34	edited Louis Tolhausen	Technological Dictionary In The English, German & French Languages: Containing About 76,000 Technical Terms And Locutions Employed In Arts, Trades And Industry in General	Leipzig	1878	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 127.00
35	CHATWIN, Bruce.	On the Black Hill.	London	1982	AUD 250.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
36	James McElroy.	Two first UK editions by James McElroy. Hind's Kidnap.	London	1970	AUD 250.00 - 300.00	AUD 152.40
37	STEVENSON, Robert Louis.	Catriona. A Sequel to "Kidnapped".	London	1893	AUD 250.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
38	DARWIN, Charles.	The Formation of Vegetable Mould, through the Action of Worms, with Observations on their Habits.	London	1882	AUD 500.00 - 750.00	Not Sold
39	RAE, W.F.	Westward by Rail: The New Route to the East.	London	1870	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
40	COLE, Edward.	The White Australia Question.	Melbourne	1903	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 190.50
41	DORNEY, Muriel.	An Adventurous Honeymoon. The first motor honeymoon around Australia.		1928	AUD 120.00 - 150.00	AUD 127.00
42	YORKE, Philip.	The Royal Tribes of Wales.	Wrexham	1799	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
43	MORGAN, Joseph and VALENCIA, Mark.	Atlas for Marine Policy in Southeast Asian Seas.	Berkley	1983	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
44	MURRAY, A.S.	Twelve Hundred Miles on the River Murray.	Melbourne	1898	AUD 250.00 - 300.00	AUD 203.20
45	Tate Adams.	Tropical Wood-Engravings.	Melbourne	1997	AUD 2,500.00 - 3,000.00	Not Sold
46	Victorian Railways.	Rolling Stock Branch. Diagrams and particulars of locomotives, cars, and trucks. Facsimile of the original government publications, covering the years 1904-1961.			AUD 400.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
47	BRANDL, E.J.	Australian Aboriginal Paintings in Western and Central Arnhem Land. Temporal Sequences and Elements of Style in Cadell River and Deaf Adder Creek Art.	Canberra	1973	AUD 150.00 - 200.00	AUD 88.90
48	WATERHOUSE, E.G.	Camellia Quest. With four plates in colour and six in monochrome by Adrian Feint and Paul Jones.	Sydney	1947	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 349.25
49	COATES, John.	An Atlas of Australia's Wars. Australian Centenary History of Defence Volume VII.	Melbourne	2001	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
50		Five books on Russian and Soviet Union military history. CARELL, Paul. Unternehmen Barbarossa im Bild.	Vienna	1979	AUD 250.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
51		Journals of the Legislative Council. Sessions of the Parliament of Tasmania.	Hobart Town		AUD 600.00 - 800.00	AUD 381.00
52	Compiled by L. M. W. Judell and	Down the Years to 1936 : The Historical and Topical Review of Jamestown, Spalding and Caltowie and Adjacent Districts. The Official Souvenir Book of the Jamestown Centenary Celebrations and 'Back to Jamestown' Carnival, October 14th. to 18th., 1936	Jamestown	1936	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	AUD 190.50

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.