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
78	DESAI, Davangana.	Erotic Sculpture of India. A Socio-Cultural Study.	New Delhi	1975	AUD 100.00 - 150.00	AUD 63.50
79		Four shelves of books on fishing, mostly sea angling and fish identification guides.			AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 127.00
80		Australian Timbers.	Chicago	1893	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	AUD 317.50
81	Ion Idriess	A collection of Ion Idriess titles all published by Angus and Robertson.			AUD 250.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
82		A collection of modern books on Sydney Histories.			AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
83		A collection of Hordern House publications and catalogues.			AUD 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
84		A collection of titles concerning Jewish histories including Israel and immigrants in Australia.			AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
85		A big collection of books of Royalty. Mostly English/ Includes 14 volumes from the Book Club series where each volume focuses on a member of the family.			AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 127.00
86		Letters Received by the East India Company.			AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 127.00
87	Jensen Elfrida & Rolf Jensen	Colonial Architecture In South Australia: A Definitive Chronicle Of Development 1836-1890 & The Social History Of The Times	Adelaide	1980	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	AUD 190.50
88		1. The Australian Almanac For The Year 1870.	Sydney	1870	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
89		Facsimile Edition of A Voyage to New South Wales: The Journal of Lieutenant William Bradley of HMS Sirius 1786 to 1792;		1969	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
90		McPherson's Ltd Engineers Supplies Catalogue for 1953 Thin board covers.		1953	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
91	James Bonwick.	The Last Of The Tasmanians Or The Black War Of Van Diemens Land	London	1870	AUD 600.00 - 800.00	AUD 539.75
92	Lady Catherine Charlotte Jackson	The Works. by Lady Catherine Charlotte Jackson	London	c.1899	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
93	Frederick McCoy.	Natural History of Victoria. Prodromus of the Zoology of Victoria; or, figures and descriptions of the living classes of the Victorian indigenous animals	Melbourne	1890	AUD 4,000.00 - 5,000.00	AUD 2,540.00
94		1. The Artist & The Desert by Sandra McGrath and John Olsen . Sydney Bay Books 1981 2. Arthur Boyd Agony & Ecstasy by Deborh Hart.			AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
95	Photographs Takahashi Bin	The Arts of Japan. Volume 1: Ancient and Medieval. Volume 2: Late Medieval to Modern by Noma Seiroku, Translated and Adapted by Glenn T Webb.	Tokyo	1978	AUD 600.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
96		Smith & Miles Catalogue of Type Faces issued in December 1954.		1954	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 127.00
97		1. Norman Linsay Favourite Etchings.	Sydney	1977	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
98	Rev W H Daniels	The Illustrated History of Methodism in Great Britain, America, and Australia, from the days of the Wesleys to the present time.	Sydney and Melbourne	no date.	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 127.00
99		A bound volume of The Sydney Mail Annuals for 1931; 1932; 1934; 1935; 1936; 1937, 1938.			AUD 300.00 - 400.00	AUD 254.00
100		Implementation of Government Responses to the Recommendations of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody.		1993/94.	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 127.00
101		Four of the individual reports from the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Deaths in Custody. Reports on the deaths of 1. Christine Lesley Ann Jones 2.James Archibald Moore 3. Paul Lawrence Kearney 4. Harrison Day			AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
102		Department of Lands and Agriculture , Victoria. Report of the Secretary For Agriculture To Which Is Added: Report of the Inspector-General of Gardens, Parks and Reserves.	Melbourne	1873	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	Not Sold

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.