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
51 SMITH, Cyril Stanley & GNUDI, Marthe Teach (translators).

The Pirotechnia of Vannoccio Biringuccio.

New York 1942 AUD 400.00 - 500.00 AUD 254.00
52 BARBA, Alvaro Alonso.

The Art of Metals, in which is declared the manner of their generation, and the concomitants of them.

AUD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 AUD 7,620.00
53 JACK, Robert L.

Report to the Honourable the Minister for Mines on the Normanby and Marengo Goldfields.

Publ 1879 AUD 250.00 - 300.00 AUD 165.10
54

Substantial collection of Victorian parliamentary papers on the Victorian gold-fields,

 Melbourne 1855 and 1880 AUD 300.00 - 400.00 AUD 203.20
55 WHITING, J.W. and RELPH, R.E.

The Occurrence of Opal at Lightning Ridge and Grawin, with Geological Notes on County Finch.

1959 AUD 200.00 - 250.00 AUD 165.10
56 MORGAN, John F.

Report on Central North Kimberley Region. North Kimberley Survey & Mapping Expedition 1954.

1955 AUD 300.00 - 400.00 AUD 190.50
57

Report from the Board Appointed to Consider Applications for Rewards for the Discovery of New Gold Fields Published in Melbourne by the Parliament of Victoria, and dated 1864.

AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 152.40
58 WHITELAW, O.A.L.

The Wedderburn Gold-Field (with map, sections, plates, and figures). From the Memoirs of the Geological Survey of Victoria,

 Melbourne 1911 AUD 250.00 - 300.00 AUD 152.40
59

Four issues of the Western Australian Annual Reports of the Department of Mines.

printed by Frederick Simpson AUD 750.00 - 1,000.00 AUD 476.25
60

Original auction sale notice for Windamurra station,, of 3,500 acres on the Murrumbidgee River.

1940 AUD 250.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
61

Ephemera from the Aero Club of N.S.W.

AUD 100.00 - 150.00 AUD 63.50
62 PORTLOCK, Nathaniel.

A Voyage Round the World but More Particularly to the North-West Coast of America: Performed in 1785, 1786, 1787 and 1788 in the King George and Queen Charlotte, Captains Portlock and Dixon.

AUD 150.00 - 200.00 AUD 101.60
63

Two reports from the Geological Survey of Victoria relating to gold deposits at Wood's Creek.

AUD 400.00 - 500.00 AUD 254.00
64

Five books on technical aspects of mining, all are clothbound octavos, in very good condition:

BRUNSWIG AUD 250.00 - 300.00 AUD 177.80
65 BASEDOW, Herbert.

Physical Geography and Geology of the Western Rivers' District, Northern Territory of Australia.

Adelaide AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
66

Geological Survey of Western Australia Bulletin Number 28, comprising two maps and five mining plans.

Perth 1907 AUD 400.00 - 500.00 AUD 254.00
67

Three rare technical geological publications on the gold and copper deposits at Walhalla (Gippsland, Victoria).

AUD 300.00 - 400.00 AUD 444.50
68

Four books on gold mining in Australian and New Guinea.

AUD 250.00 - 300.00 AUD 152.40
69

The Tomalla Gold Mine by D.W. Suppel.

1966 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
70 ANDREWS, E.C.

Report on the Hillgrove Gold-Field.

Sydney 1900 AUD 300.00 - 400.00 AUD 203.20
71 AUHL, Ian.

The Story of the Monster Mine. The Burra Burra Mine and Its Townships

 1845-1877. AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 127.00
72 CLELAND, E.

Davenport. West Australian Mining Practice.

AUD 400.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
73 JUKES, Joseph Beete.

The Student's Manual of Geology.

Edinburgh 1857 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
74 [BROWN, Robert] MABBERLEY, D. J.

Jupiter Botanicus. Robert Brown of the British Museum.

Published by J. Cramer in Braunschweig and the British Museum in London 1985 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 139.70
75

Prospectus of the King Cassilis Gold Mining Company, North Gippsland.

Not dated but 1901 AUD 400.00 - 500.00 AUD 254.00