Sydney Rare Book Auctions: Rare Books On History, Science And Travel, Including A Selection Of Antique Fine Silver, A171, Ultimo

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
January 18, 2026 - January 18, 2026
Page Size: 339 items in 14 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
26

A bound volume of the newsletter of Kyre College in Adelaide, titled "The Kryian"

 1910 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 127.00
27

South Australian Parliamentary report on the Colorado Beetle, a noxious bug then endangering the potato crops of this fine state.

1877 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 63.50
28

Three books on genealogy and family history in Australia. All are clothbound hardcover books, fine condition:

AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 63.50
29

Port Phillip Government Gazette. Comprising Numbers 1 through 34, dated 1 January 1851 to 9 July 1951.

1851-1951 AUD 300.00 - 400.00 AUD 1,079.50
30 Charles Oman.

Castles

 London 1926 AUD 80.00 - 100.00 AUD 50.80
31

A wonderful run of "The Corian", being the newsletter of the Geelong Church of England Grammar School. Comprising volumes 45 to 54 complete, from 1920-19

 1920-19 AUD 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
32 GREENBLATT, Samuel H. (editor).

A History of Neurosurgery in Its Scientific and Professional Contexts.

Park Ridge, Illinois 1997 AUD 250.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
33 HINGSTON, James (editor).

Guide for Excursionists from Melbourne. Second edition,

Melbourne 1869 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 101.60
34 FIELDING, Henry.

The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon.

London 1892 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 63.50
35

Victorian Municipal Directory with Gazetteer for 1895. Melbourne,

1895 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 63.50
36 MOORE, J.S.

The Pictorial Book of Ancient Ballad Poetry of Great Britain A new edition

 London 1860 AUD 150.00 - 200.00 AUD 152.40
37 Joseph A. Dowling.

Title reads: An Important Case to Medical Men. In the King's Bench Fairchild vs. Graham. Minutes of the trial of this case for defamation, at Chelmsford Summer Assizes 1819

 London 1819 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 412.75
38 Authors include Suetonius, Plutarch, Tacitus, Cicero, Thucydides, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Xenophon and so forth.

Fourteen books on classical Greek and Roman history, mostly Penguin Classics.

AUD 80.00 - 100.00 AUD 50.80
39 ALLEN, Percy.

The drought antidote for the north-west, or, The utilisation of the artesian resources of New South Wales. Read before the Sydney University Engineering Society, 10th October, 1906.

Sydney 1907 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 127.00
40 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

 AUD 100.00 - 150.00 AUD 76.20
41

The Tunbridge Wells Guide.

Tunbridge Wells 1817 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 63.50
42

A Description of Pitcairn's Island and its Inhabitants, with an authentic account of the Mutiny on the Ship Bounty Pacific voyage books, with his bookplate.

 . New York 1832 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 127.00
43

Five old books on shipwrecks and maritime disasters:

AUD 300.00 - 400.00 AUD 190.50
44 HEYWOOD, B.A.

Memoir of Captain Prescot William Stephens R.N. Late of H.M.S. "Thetis".

London 1884 AUD 250.00 - 300.00 AUD 165.10
45 STIRTON, John.

Crathie and Braemar. A History of the United Parish.

Aberdeen 1925 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 139.70
46 BOULTON, Richard.

Treatise on the Gout

 London 1713 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
47 CARMICHAEL, R. (editor).

Ryde 1790-1926.

Published by F.S. Pacey of Lee Avenue in Ryde 1926 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 127.00
48 TUCKEY, James Hingston.

Maritime Geography and Statistics, or a Description of the Ocean and its Coasts, Maritime Commerce, Navigation &c. Volume three only.

London 1815 AUD 250.00 - 300.00 AUD 152.40
49 GRIMM, George.

The Australian Explorers. Their labours, perils, and achievements.

Melbourne 1888 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
50 BEAGLEHOLE, John Cawte.

The Exploration of the Pacific.

 London 1934 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold