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
53		Reports of the Department of Mines for the Year 1917. Western Australia.	Perth.		AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 127.00
54		A wonderful report published by the Geological Survey of Victoria relating to gold deposits at Wood's Creek.			AUD 150.00 - 200.00	AUD 88.90
55		Seven books on angling, including some on fishing in Western Australia.			AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
56		Ten books on angling, including some nice vintage titles.			AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
57		Fourteen books on angling, including some good books on freshwater fishing for bass and pike.			AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
58		Eight books on tying flies for trout and salmon.			AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
59		Seven books on flyfishing for trout and salmon.			AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
60		Twelve books on flyfishing for trout and salmon.			AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 101.60
61		Cowles & Dunn Price List of Fishing Tackle. Season 1936-1937.	Sydney	1936	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 127.00
62	Marjorie Barnard with Decorations by Frank Medworth.	Macquarie's World	Sydney	1941	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 127.00
63		Eight books on flyfishing for trout and salmon.			AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
64		Nine books on flyfishing for trout and salmon.			AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
65		Hardy's Angler's Guide 1951, with price list loosely inserted.			AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
66		Eight books on flyfishing for trout and salmon.			AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
67	John Veniard	Three books on tying flies for trout and salmon fishing,	Edinburgh and London	1977	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
68	David Scholes.	Seven books on fly-fishing for trout by David Scholes.			AUD 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
69		Eleven books on flyfishing for trout and salmon.			AUD 150.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
70		Seven books on flyfishing for trout and salmon.			AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
71		Seven books on flyfishing for trout and salmon in New Zealand.			AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
72		Eleven books on flyfishing for trout and salmon in Tasmania.			AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 127.00
73		Six books on saltwater fly-fishing.			AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
74		Ten books on tying flies for trout and salmon.			AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
75		Seventeen books and pamphlets on tying flies for trout and salmon.			AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
76		Nine books on tying flies for trout and salmon.			AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
77	GRANT, James.	The Narrative of A Voyage of Discovery, Performed In his Majesty's vessel The Lady Nelson, of Sixty Tons Burthen, With Sliding Keels, In The Years 1800, 1801 and 1802, to New South Wales	Melbourne	1973	AUD 150.00 - 200.00	AUD 114.30

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.