Sydney Rare Book Auctions: Science, Mining, Natural History, Exploration, Art books and First editions, A182, Ultimo
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- May 01, 2026 - May 01, 2026
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 153 | Geoffrey Barraclough; John Harthan; Elie Kedourie | The Christian World; Books of Hours; The Jewish World |
ND | AUD 150.00 - 200.00 | AUD 25.40 | |
| 154 | Roloff Beny; Gore Vidal; Anthony Thwaite; Peter Porter; Brian de Breffny; Seyyed Hossein Nasr; Mitchell Crites | In Italy; Persia |
Italy; Persia | ND | AUD 100.00 - 150.00 | AUD 127.00 |
| 155 | Brunnichii; P. Rambur; Kerremans; Aug Lameere | Brunnichii Zoologiae fundamenta praelectionibus academicis accommodata; Histoire Naturelle des Insectes. Nevropteres; Monographie des Buprestides. Volume 3 & 4 only; Manuel De La Faune De Belgique: Insects Inferieurs |
Hafniae; Lipsiae; Paris; Bruxelles | 1772; 1842; 1908-1909; 1900 | AUD 300.00 - 400.00 | AUD 25.40 |
| 156 | Lacordaire | US Department of Agricultural Entomology Bulletins; Introduction a l'entomologie |
ND; Paris | 1885-1900; 1834 | AUD 450.00 - 550.00 | AUD 63.50 |
| 157 | Walter E. Roth; Raymond Haynes; Roslynn Haynes; David Malin; Richard McGee | Fighting Weapons; Explorers of the Southern Sky: A History of Australian Astronomy |
Queensland; Australia | 1909; 1996 | AUD 150.00 - 250.00 | AUD 25.40 |
| 158 | Entomologist's Annual |
London | 1855; 1856; 1857; 1858; 1859; 1860; 1861; 1862; 1863; 1864; 1867; 1868; 1869; 1870; 1871; 1872 | AUD 350.00 - 450.00 | AUD 63.50 | |
| 159 | Carl Johan Schoenherr | Curculionidum dispositio methodica, cum generum characteribus, descriptionibus atque observationibus variis, seu Prodromus ad Synonymiae, insectorum partem IV |
Lipsiae | 1826 | AUD 350.00 - 450.00 | Not Sold |
| 160 | Noel Antoine Pluch | Spectacle de la Nature, or Nature Delineated |
London | 1744 | AUD 150.00 - 250.00 | AUD 63.50 |
| 161 | FGA Barnard | The Victorian Naturalist |
Melbourne | 1905-7 | AUD 150.00 - 250.00 | Not Sold |
| 162 | Charles De Geer; Johann August Ephraim Goeze | Abhandlungen zur Geschichte der Insekter |
Leipzig | 1775 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | AUD 152.40 |
| 163 | Gottlieb Tobias Wilhelm | Insectem volume Unterhaltungen aus der Naturgeschichte |
ND | AUD 350.00 - 450.00 | AUD 139.70 | |
| 164 | Johann Friedrich Glaser | Physikalisch-Oconomische Abhandlung von den Schadlichen Raupen der Obstbaume, und bewahrten Hulfmitteln, solche Raupen von den Obstbaumen abzuhalten und zu vertreiben |
Leipzig | 1780 | AUD 250.00 - 350.00 | AUD 63.50 |
| 165 | Friedrich Christian Lesser | Insecto-theologia |
Franckfurt | 1738 | AUD 250.00 - 350.00 | AUD 63.50 |
| 166 | Frank Cridland; Jas. Steele; James S. Hassall; Isadore Brodsky | Port Hacking and Sutherland Shire; Early days of Windsor; In Old Australia; Heart of the Rocks of Old Sydney |
NSW | ND | AUD 50.00 - 100.00 | AUD 25.40 |
| 167 | Earnest Hunter | "Vicarious Dreaming with Jack Idriess on Madman's Island" |
2019 | AUD 50.00 - 100.00 | AUD 25.40 | |
| 168 | Cutten History Committee of The Fitzroy History Society | Fitzroy - Melbourne's First Suburb |
1989 | AUD 150.00 - 250.00 | AUD 101.60 | |
| 169 | David A. Weston; Arthur Victor Palmer; Michael Jones | Armidale and District Historical Society Journal No.24-27; The Sleeping City - The story of Rookwood Necropolis; The Gold Mines of Bendigo; Frankston - Resort To City |
Victoria | 1980-84; ND; ND; 1989 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | AUD 25.40 |
| 170 | Alfred Deakin; Allan Sierp; J.M. Freeland; Robert P. Whitworth; G Scurfield; W.K. Birrell | The Crisis in Victorian Politics, 1879-1881; Colonial Life in Victoria; Melbourne Churches 1836-1851 - An Architectural Record; Bailliere's Victorian Gazetteer and Road Guide, containing The most recent and accurate information as to every place in the co |
Victoria | 1957; 1972; ND; 1879; ND; ND | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | AUD 25.40 |
| 171 | Eric R. Guiler | Thylacine: The Tragedy of the Tasmanian Tiger |
1985 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | AUD 139.70 | |
| 172 | James Boyce; Capt. h. Butler Stoney; Sam Everingham; Mrs. Arthur H.Garnsey | Pockets & Corners - Furry Facts and Thylacine Fiction in the Hartland of Tasmania; Van Diemen's Land; A Residence in Tasmania: with A descriptive Tour Through the Island From Macquarie Harbour To Circular Head; Madam Lash - Gretel Pinniger's scandalous li |
Tasmania | ND; 2008; 1856; 2010; ND | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | AUD 127.00 |
| 173 | Betty Osborn; C.P. Harris; J. W. Collinson | Maryborough - A Social History 1854-1904; Local Government and Regionalism in Queensland 1859 to 1977; More about Cairns: 3. Recollections of a Varied Life; 100 Years of Progress - The Story to Toowoomba |
Queensland | 1854-1904; 1859 to 1977; 1946; ND | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | AUD 25.40 |
| 174 | Department of Mines Bulletins of the Geological Survey of Victoria |
Victoria | 1920 | AUD 150.00 - 250.00 | AUD 101.60 | |
| 175 | Department of Mines Bulletins of the Geological Survey of Victoria |
Victoria | 1925 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | AUD 127.00 | |
| 176 | Department of Mines Bulletins of the Geological Survey of Victoria |
Victoria | 1926 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | AUD 127.00 | |
| 177 | Department of Mines Bulletins of the Geological Survey of Victoria |
Victoria | 1923 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | AUD 25.40 |
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Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
28th May 2026Forum, May 28: Book of Hours.- Heures de nostre dame a l'usaige de Romme, Paris, Antoine Chappiel pour Germain Hardouin, [1504]. £6,000-8,000Forum, May 28: Colonna (Francesco). La Hypnerotomachia di Poliphilo, second edition, Venice, Sons of Aldus Manutius, 1545. £15,000-20,000Forum, May 28: The Christ Child holding a crystal orb and surrounded by banderoles with devotional exhortations, on a leaf most probably from a Book of Hours, [Southern Netherlands, last decades of the fifteenth century]. £2,000-3,000Forum Auctions
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28th May 2026Forum, May 28: Jackson (Shirley). The Haunting of Hill House, first English edition, signed presentation inscription from the author to Claude Fredericks, 1960. £2,000-3,000Forum, May 28: Lennon (John). In His Own Write, first edition, first impression, signed by the author, 1964. £3,000-4,000Forum, May 28: Doves Press.- Keats (John). [Poems], one of 200 copies on paper, Doves Press, 1914. £5,000-7,000Forum Auctions
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28th May 2026Forum, May 28: Rodrigues (João Barbosa). Sertum Palmarum Brasiliensium, 2 vol., first and only edition, Brussels, 1903. £8,000-12,000Forum, May 28: Newton (Sir Isaac). Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica…editio ultima, auctior et emendatior, Amsterdam, Sumptibus Societatis, 1714. £8,000-12,000Forum, May 28: Kepler (Johannes). Ad Vitellionem paralipomena, wuibus astronomiae pars optica traditur, first edition, Frankfurt am Main, 1604. £5,000-7,000Forum Auctions
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28th May 2026Forum, May 28: Tagliacozzi (Gaspare). De Curtorum Chirurgia per insitionem, libri duo, first edition, Venice, Gasparo Bindoni, 1597. £7,000-10,000Forum, May 28: Lootsman (Jacobsz). The Lightning Colomne, or Sea-Mirrour, containing the Sea-Coasts of the Northern, Eastern and Western Navigation..., 1670. £8,000-12,000Forum, May 28: Ribelles y Helip (José), Attributed to. An album comprising 33 finely executed watercolours of Spanish costume, bull-fighting scenes, and other genre subjects, [circa 1830]. £10,000-15,000 -
