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
128	G. Butler Earp,	The Gold Colonies of Australia: Comprising their History, Territorial Divisions, Produce, and Capabilities. How to get to the Gold Mines, and Every Advice to Emigrants.			AUD 150.00 - 300.00	AUD 177.80
129	C.E.W. Bean	The Dreadnought of the Darling	London	1911	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 127.00
130	F. W. Gunning.	Lure of the North : Seventy Years Memoirs of George Joseph Gooch and His Pioneer Friends of Western Australia	Perth	1952	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	AUD 190.50
131		Handbooks on Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa with Maps .		1912	AUD 600.00 - 700.00	Not Sold
132	Fergus Hume	The Miser's Will	Published by Anthony Treherne in	1903	AUD 600.00 - 700.00	Not Sold
133	Ion Idriess.	Nemarluk King Of The Wilds. This is the original typed manuscript of Nemarluk as submitted to the publisher, Angus and Robertson.			AUD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00	Not Sold
134		1.Kangaroos Images Through The Ages by Younger 1988 2. John Gould's Birds of Great Britain 1980 3 John Gould's Hummingbirds 1990	colour illustrations and vey good copies		AUD 150.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
135	James Greenberg	Roman Polanski: A Retrospective		2013	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 63.50
136	Ian Fleming.	You Only Live Twice	London	1964	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 114.30
137	(N.E. Brookes, A.F. Wilding, M.E. McLoughlin and W.A. Larned).	"AUSTRAL". Lawn Tennis in Australasia. With 62 action photos taken in great matches in Australasia of the four greatest players in the world.	Sydney	1912	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
138	TAKASHIMA, S.	Illustrations of Japanese Life. Described by S. Takashima, A.B., Professor om the Higher Commercial College.	Tokyo	1918	AUD 80.00 - 100.00	AUD 38.10
139	PRATT, Charles Stuart.	Baby's Lullaby Book. Mother Songs by Charles Stuart Pratt.	Boston	1888	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 63.50
140	LANDESMAN, Fran.	More Truth than Poetry. Designed and illustrated by Avril Broadley.	London	1984	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
141	GHOSE, Sudhin.	Folk Tales and Fairy Stories from India. With illustrations by Shrimati E. Carlile.	London	1961	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 63.50
142		An endearing cache of The Dome: a Quarterly containing Examples of all the Arts.	London	various dates	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
143	POPE, John Alexander, GETTENS, Rutherford John, and others.	The Freer Chinese Bronzes.	Washington D.C.	1967-1969.	AUD 150.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
144	Tchaikovsky	Australian sheet music for the Nutcracker Suite by Tchaikovsky, with a front cover illustration by Ida Rentoul Outhwaite (initialled IRO).	Melbourne	1941	AUD 80.00 - 100.00	AUD 38.10
145		Rgyan-Drug Mchog-Gnyis.	Gangtok, Sikkim		AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 101.60
146	CALDECOTT, R.	Randolph Caldecott's Last Graphic Pictures.	London	1888	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
147	[HAMILTON, George].	Experiences of a Colonist Forty Years Ago; A Journey from Port Phillip to South Australia in the Year 1839 and a Voyage from Port Phillip to Adelaide in 1846.	Adelaide	1880	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	AUD 539.75
148		Three books on Australian military operation in East Timor, both large hardcover books in near-fine condition.			AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
149		This lot comprises an excellent selection of books on the Royal Australian Air Force.	especially the Pacific theatre.		AUD 500.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
150		This lot comprises an excellent selection of books on the military aviation, principally operations in the Second World War, especially the Pacific theatre.			AUD 400.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
151	TRACEY, Michael.	Australian Prisoners of War.		1999	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
152		This lot comprises an excellent selection of 14 mixed military books.			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.