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
26 PRAED, Rosa.

My Australian Girlhood. Sketches and impressions of bush life.

London 1902 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
27 GAMBIGLIONI, Angelo.

Angeli a Gambilionibus de Aretio. In Quatuor Institutionum Iustiniani Libros Commentaria.

Venice 1585 AUD 750.00 - 1,000.00 AUD 508.00
28 PEREZ, Antonio.

Praelectiones in duodecim Libros Codicis Justiniani Imp. Quibus Leges omnses & Authenticae perpetua serie explicantur, mores hodierni inferuntur, & quid sit Iuris Antiqui Novi, & Novissimi, enodatur, & breviter exponitur [...].

Amsterdam 1653 AUD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 AUD 1,270.00
29 CHRYSOSTOMOS (John of Antioch).

Quintus et Ultimus Tomus Operum

 Basel 1558 AUD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 AUD 1,016.00
30 CAMERON, W.H. Morton (editor).

Ports & Cities of the World. One of a Series of Standard Commercial Encyclopedias of the Actual and Potential Markets of the World.

London no date but circa 1925 AUD 600.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
31 BRUCE, James.

Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, in the years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772, and 1773.

Edinburgh 1790 AUD 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 Not Sold
32 CORACHAN, Juan Bautista.

Arithmetica Demonstrada Theorico-Practica para lo Mathematico y Mercantil.

Barcelona 1715 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 139.70
33 IRENAEUS, Bishop of Lyons.

D. Irenaei Episcopi Lugdunensis, Opus eruditissimum

 Basel 1571 AUD 750.00 - 1,000.00 Not Sold
34 PUENTE, Ludovico de [PONTE].

Dux Spiritualis in quo agitur De oration, Meditatione & Contemplatione...

Cologne 1613 AUD 500.00 - 700.00 Not Sold
35 CUNNINGHAM, Peter.

Two Years in New South Wales; Comprising Sketches of the Actual State of Society in That Colony; of Its Peculiar Advantages to Emigrants; of Its Topography, Natural History, &c. &c.

London 1827 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 254.00
36 FAHY, Andrew and SIMPSON, Andrew.

Australian Furniture: Pictorial History and Dictionary 1788 1938.

Sydney 1998 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 127.00
37 RADCLIFFE, Ann.

The Mysteries of Udolpho.

Dublin 1794 AUD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 Not Sold
38 MOCENICO, Aloisio.

Novissimum statuterum ac venetiarum legum volumen, duabus in partibus divisum.

Venice 1729 AUD 400.00 - 500.00 AUD 285.75
39 WEDEL, Georg Wolfgang.

Opiologia ad Mentem Academiae Naturae Curiosorum.

Jena 1682 AUD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 AUD 2,540.00
40 MANILIUS.

Astronomicon ex Recensione Richardi Bentleii

 Strasbourg 1767 AUD 400.00 - 500.00 AUD 317.50
41

Parliamentary reports relating to the Victorian goldfields.

AUD 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
42

Report Relating to the Gold Mining Industry of Australia. Prepared for the Development and Migration Commission of the Commonwealth Parliament

 Melbourne 1928 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 63.50
43

Papers on Crown Lands in Australian Colonies. Part I: New South Wales and Victoria.

AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 889.00
44

Six books on mining and geology: Black Sands. A History of Mineral Sand Mining in Eastern Australia by Morley (1981); The Hoddle Years Surveying in Victoria by Scurfield (1995);...

 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 88.90
45 HITCHCOCK, Edward.

The Religion of Geology and its Connecetd Sciences.

London 1871 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 63.50
46

A collection of seven old books on mining and geology.

AUD 250.00 - 300.00 AUD 203.20
47

Cache of original letters, diagrams and documents relating to a gold and copper mining lease in Gippsland operated by a Victorian miner named John David Avery.

AUD 600.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
48

Share Certificate for The Wombat Hydraulic Sluicing Company of 140 Queen street, Melbourne.

AUD 400.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
49

This lot comprises eleven Australian mining and geological reports, most date from the early decades of the twentieth century.

AUD 250.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
50 HOOVER, Herbert - AGRICOLA, Georgius.

De re Metallica.

London 1912 AUD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 AUD 1,079.50