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

Auction Reports

Auction Name Books on Mining, Geology, Medicine, History, Military And More Total Sales (AUD) 60,255.15
Auction Date February 01, 2026 - February 01, 2026 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (AUD) 57,940.00
Sale Number #20126 High Estimate of Lots Sold (AUD) 82,400.00
Total Lots 345
Sold Lots 212.0 Low Estimate of All Lots (AUD) 136,940.00
% of Lots Sold 61.45% High Estimate of All Lots (AUD) 184,550.00
Unsold Lots 133 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 32.65%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
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
39 WEDEL, Georg Wolfgang.

Opiologia ad Mentem Academiae Naturae Curiosorum.

1682 AUD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 AUD 2,540.00
3 QUICK, John and GARRAN, Robert Randolph.

The Annotated Constitution of the Australian Commonwealth.

1901 AUD 400.00 - 500.00 AUD 1,397.00
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 [...].

1653 AUD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 AUD 1,270.00
180

Twelve novels written by Edgar Mittelholzer .

AUD 800.00 - 1,000.00 AUD 1,206.50
50 HOOVER, Herbert - AGRICOLA, Georgius.

De re Metallica.

1912 AUD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 AUD 1,079.50
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
341

Tasmanian Friends And Foes Feathered, Furred And Finned : A Family Chronicle Of Country Life Natural History And Veritable Adventure by Louisa Anne Meredith.

1880 AUD 600.00 - 700.00 AUD 1,079.50
29 CHRYSOSTOMOS (John of Antioch).

Quintus et Ultimus Tomus Operum

 1558 AUD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 AUD 1,016.00
43

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

AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 889.00
233

Round About the World on Bicycles : The pleasure tour of G.W. Burston and H.R. es, Melbourne Bicycle Club, Australia.

1890 AUD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 AUD 889.00
13 CASTILLO, Antonio del.

El devoto peregrino, viage de Tierra Santa.

1705 AUD 600.00 - 800.00 AUD 825.50
7 The Book of Common Prayer.

Cambridge, printed by John Parker for the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge 1840.

AUD 400.00 - 500.00 AUD 762.00
373 Edited by C. Warren Bonython

I'm No Lady. Reminiscences of Constance Jean, Lady Bonython, O.B.E. 1891-1977.

1977-1981. AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 762.00
14 WILKINSON, Tate.

The Wandering Patentee; Or, A History of the Yorkshire Theatres, from 1770 to the Present Time.

1795 AUD 600.00 - 800.00 AUD 635.00
211 by P.G Wodehouse

Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit

 1954 AUD 300.00 - 400.00 AUD 635.00
360

Too Clever By Half ; Or, The Harroways by John Lang With Eight Full Page Engravings.

Bourke Street East. AUD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 AUD 635.00
4 MILTON, John.

Paradise Regain' A Poem in Four Books Volume the first..

1753 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 603.25
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
400

Circular Quay with outline of Quay Station superimposed, two sheets.

AUD 800.00 - 1,000.00 AUD 571.50
83 James Bonwick

The British Colonies and Their Resources; French Colonies and Their Resources

 1886 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 539.75
23 FLINDERS, Matthew.

A Voyage to Terra Australis; undertaken for the purpose of completing the discovery of that Vast Country, and prosecuted in the years 1801, 1802, and 1803, in His Majesty's Ship the Investigator Facsimile of the 1814 edition,

 1966 AUD 300.00 - 400.00 AUD 508.00
27 GAMBIGLIONI, Angelo.

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

1585 AUD 750.00 - 1,000.00 AUD 508.00
138

1908 Western Australian Geological Survey Bulletin No. 32 No. 1 Notes On The Geology Of The Green Bushes Tinfield With Special Reference To The Deep Leads) 2 A Report Upon The Mount Malcolm Copper Mine. ...

 AUD 800.00 - 1,000.00 AUD 508.00
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