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
103	Written Lieutenant William Bligh.	A Narrative Of The Mutiny , On Board His Britannic Majesty's Ship Bounty; And The Subsequent Voyage Of Part Of The Crew in the Ship's Boat, From Tofoa, one of the Friendly Islands, to Timor, A Dutch Settlement in the East Indies. Facsimile edition publis		1977	AUD 600.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
104		1. The Original Australians . Story Of The Aboriginal People by Josephine Flood 2. Black Australians : The Prospects For Change edited by Erik Olbrei 3. Dreaming In Motion. Celebrating Australia's Indigenous Filmmakers. Edited by Keith Gallasch			AUD 50.00 - 100.00	AUD 38.10
105	William Charles Henry.	Memoirs of the Life and Scientific Researches of John Dalton	London	1854	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 127.00
106		1. The Forgotten Valley Macdonald Valley & St Albans NSW by Hutton Neve 1982 2. Victor Harbour From Pioneer Port to Seaside Resort SA by Michael Page 1987 3.			AUD 100.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
107		Two Photography books with the bookplate of Lewis Morley 1. Photo . Photography magazine published in Paris 1980s 2. VIP Very Important Photographs 1840s to 1940s.			AUD 100.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
108		Eleven issues of The Sydney Herald. A consecutive run from Saturday September 11, to Wednesday September 22.		1841	AUD 600.00 - 800.00	AUD 381.00
109		A printed poster measuring 51 x 31 cm and folded.		No date but circa 1933	AUD 800.00 - 1,000.00	Not Sold
110	Maxwell L Howell, Lingyu Xie, Paul Neazor, Bensley Wilkes	They Came to Conquer. International Rugby Union Tours to Australia 1884- 2002.		2003	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
111	Edited, With Notes, William Huggins.	Spectrum Analysis In Its Application To Terrestrial Substances, And The Physical Constitution Of The Heavenly Bodies. Familiarly Explained.	London	1872	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
112	Edited J. C. Beaglehole.	1. The Endeavour Journal of Joseph Banks 1768-1771 in Two Volumes.	Sydney	1963	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	AUD 285.75
113	Ion Idriess.	The National Edition of Ion Idriess. 12 volumes All signed .			AUD 800.00 - 1,000.00	Not Sold
114		1. Onward Australia. Developing Continent 1944 First 2. One Wet Season 1949 First in dustwrapper 3.			AUD 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
115		The Works of Robert Browning	London	1912	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
116	Edited Malcolm Sainty and Keith A. Johnson	Census of New South Wales. November 1828	Sydney	1980	AUD 150.00 - 200.00	AUD 114.30
117	J. D. Fage with William Tordoff	A History Of Africa. Two volume in slipcase		2008	AUD 150.00 - 200.00	AUD 88.90
118	E V Timms.	Seven Historical Romance novels by the Australian author E V Timms.	Sydney	early 1950s.	AUD 50.00 - 100.00	AUD 50.80
119	Andrezel, Pierre (pseudonym. of Karen Blixen and also Isak Dinensen)	The Angelic Avengers	New York	1947	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 127.00
120		1. Robert Klee Ireland A History 1981 2.. John Ranelagh : Ireland An Illustrated History 3.			AUD 40.00 - 80.00	AUD 25.40
121		Geological Sketch Map of Pilbara & Ashburton Goldfields Western Australia Showing Areas Photographed & Investigated During 1936.			AUD 40.00 - 50.00	Not Sold
122		1941 Aerial, Geological and Geophysical Survey of Northern Australia. Report For The Period Ending 31st December, 1940.		1941	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 38.10
123		Nine NSW Parliamentary Papers of Postal History Interest 1. Increased Postage 1864 2.Braidwood Postal Time Table 1862 3.			AUD 80.00 - 100.00	AUD 38.10
124	Iain Sinclair	White Chappell, Scarlet Tracings	Uppingham	1978	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
125		1. Up From The Mission Selected Writings Noel Pearson 2009 PB 2. The Original Australians Story Of The Aboriginal People Josephine Flood 2006 PB 3.			AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
126		The Literary Chatelaine. Souvenir of the Launceston Mechanics Institute Bazaar and Gift Book For Home Friends .	Launceston	1858	AUD 500.00 - 600.00	AUD 476.25
127	Alexander Harris.	Martin Beck : Or, The Story Of An Australian Settler	London	1852	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 127.00

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.