Sydney Rare Book Auctions: Books on Mining, Geology, Medicine, History, Military And More, 20126, Ultimo

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
February 01, 2026 - February 01, 2026
Page Size: 345 items in 14 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
151

An excellent collection of books and catalogues relating to collecting Australian rare books and prints.

AUD 300.00 - 400.00 AUD 190.50
152

A box of approximately 100 Victorian local histories, published from the early decades of the twentieth century through to the sixties and seventies.

AUD 300.00 - 400.00 AUD 1,079.50
153

A box of approximately 100 local history books and booklets, principally NSW but a few from other states.

AUD 250.00 - 300.00 AUD 603.25
154

Medley of books and pamphlets relating to Australian mining and geology:

AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 203.20
155

Two booklets by Peg Maltby, both undated but printed in the forties: Pepita's Baby and Pip & Pepita.

Melbourne AUD 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
156

Complete Works of Charles Dickens, uniformly bound in thirty volumes.

London undated but circa1880-1890. AUD 500.00 - 600.00 AUD 317.50
157

Inter-State Banks Cricket Match (New South Wales versus Victoria). Fixture Card, Sydney 12th-17th February 1906.

AUD 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
158

Canberra Federal Capital. Photographed and published by J.A. Luscombe, photographer, Goulburn 1927.

AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 63.50
159

This lot comprises 13 pamphlets by colonial Presbyterian preacher George Dunmore Lang, and also the parliamentary papers listed below.

AUD 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
160

High quality facsimile reproduction of the Sydney Lithographic Sketches of Samuel Thomas Gill, originally in Sydney by Allan and Wigley Commercial Lithographers in Bridge street Sydney, in the year 1856.

Melbourne 1985 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
161 HANSON, W. (Government engineer).

Wallaroo Water Supply. Reports on best means of supplying water to Wallaroo, Kadina, and Moonta with water, together with estimated cost and plans of proposed works.

Published for the Legislative Council of South Australia 1865 AUD 250.00 - 300.00 AUD 412.75
162

Statistics of the Port Phillip District, (Now the Colony of Victoria) for the Year 1850.

Melbourne 1851 AUD 300.00 - 400.00 AUD 190.50
163

A bound collection of plans and documents relating to the construction of the Murray River Bridge at Abbotsford, on the border of NSW and Victoria.

(Sydney Government Printer 1924). AUD 400.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
164

Mrs Beeton's All About Cookery. New edition.

Melbourne 1913 AUD 300.00 - 400.00 AUD 190.50
165 Authored by Price Fletcher and others,

A bound collection of pamphlets about Queensland published for the Colonial and Indian Exhibition of 1886.

AUD 250.00 - 300.00 AUD 508.00
166 BUCHAN, John.

The King's Grace 1910-1935.

London 1935 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
167

The Vagabond Annual, Christmas 1877 Seventh thousand.

Sydney 1877 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
168 POTTLE, Frederick (editor).

Boswell in Holland 1763-1764.

London 1952 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
169 SUTTOR, Edwin.

Plunkett's Australian Magistrate

Sydney 1847 AUD 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
170 GORE, John.

Mary Duchess of Bedford 1865-1937.

London 1938 AUD 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
171 WAUGH, Evelyn.

A Tourist in Africa.

London 1960 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 139.70
172

Three pamphlets on Presbyterianism in Australia: Jubilee Sketch of Fifty Years of Presbyterianism in Sale 1854-1904.

Sale 1904 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
173

Australian Catholic pamphlets from the twenties and thirties.

AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
174

The Minerals of New South Wales, Etc by A Liversidge. With Map.

London 1888 AUD 400.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
175

1.Maroubra Surf Club by Symonds 1982 2. Caboolture Country 1973 3. ...

AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 139.70
  • ALDE, Mar. 11: AUGUSTIN (Saint). De civitate Dei. Rome, Konrad Sweynheym et Arnold Pannartz, 1470. €20,000 - €30,000.
    ALDE, Mar. 11: [REGNART (LE LIVRE DE)]. [Le] Docteur en malice, maistre Regnard, demonstrant les ruzes et cautelles qu'il use envers les personnes… Rouen, 1550. €20,000 - €30,000.
    ALDE, Mar. 11: TRITHÈME (JEAN). Polygraphie et universelle escriture cabalistique. Paris, [Benoît Prévost pour] Jacques Kerver, 1561. €8,000 - €10,000.
    ALDE, Mar. 11: CAUS (SALOMON DE). La Perspective, avec la raison des ombres et des miroirs. Londres, John Norton, 1612.
    ALDE, Mar. 11: NICERON (JEAN-FRANÇOIS). La Perspective curieuse ou magie artificielle des effets merveilleux de l'optique. Paris, Pierre Billaine, 1638. €6,000 - €8,000.
    ALDE, Mar. 11: VONTET (JACQUES). L’Art de trancher la viande et toute sorte de fruits… S.l.n.d. [probablement Lyon, vers 1647]. €20,000 - €30,000.
    ALDE, Mar. 11: HUGO (VICTOR). [Paysage spectral avec une église], [vers 1837]. €20,000 - €30,000.
    ALDE, Mar. 11: [HERVEY DE SAINT-DENYS (LÉON D')]. Les Rêves et les Moyens de les diriger. Observations pratiques. Paris, Amyot, 1867. €3,000 - €4,000.
    ALDE, Mar. 11: GACHET (PAUL-FERDINAND). Les Chats de Gachet (Manuscrit). S.d. [avant mai 1873]. €6,000 - €8,000.
    ALDE, Mar. 11: [REDON (ODILON)]. PICARD (EDMOND). Le Juré. Monodrame en cinq actes… Bruxelles, Mme veuve Monnom, 1887. €7,000 - €9,000.
    ALDE, Mar. 11: [TOULOUSE-LAUTREC (HENRI DE) ET HENRI-GABRIEL IBELS]. MONTORGUEIL (GEORGES). Le Café-concert. Paris, [1893]. €4,000 - €5,000.
    ALDE, Mar. 11: [TERRY (EMILIO)]. Projet de fontaine. Dessin original au stylo et à l'encre noire. 1938. €2,000 - €3,000.
  • Il Ponte, Feb. 25-26: HAMILTON, Sir William (1730-1803) - Campi Phlegraei. Napoli: [Pietro Fabris], 1776, 1779. € 30.000 - 50.000
    Il Ponte, Feb. 25-26: [MORTIER] - BLAEU, Joannes (1596-1673) - Het Nieuw Stede Boek van Italie. Amsterdam: Pieter Mortier, 1704-1705. € 15.000 - 25.000
    Il Ponte, Feb. 25-26: TULLIO D'ALBISOLA (1899-1971) - Bruno MUNARI (1907-1998) - L'Anguria lirica (lungo poema passionale). Roma e Savona: Edizioni Futuriste di Poesia, senza data [ma 1933?]. € 20.000 - 30.000
    Il Ponte, Feb. 25-26: IL MANOSCRITTO RITROVATO DI IPPOLITA MARIA SFORZA. TITO LIVIO - Ab Urbe Condita. Prima Decade. Manoscritto miniato su pergamena, metà XV secolo. € 280.000 - 350.000