Sydney Rare Book Auctions: Moments in History: Maps, Photographs, Art, Costumes and Books, A184, Ultimo

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
May 24, 2026 - May 24, 2026
Page Size: 316 items in 13 pages
Auction Lot Books
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1

Bathurst (N.S.W.) To Melbourne (Vic.) 493 1/4 Miles; The Pioneer Motor Car Trip of Australia

Melbourne 1900 AUD 1,800.00 - 2,000.00 Not Sold
2 Hector MacQuarrie

Round the World in a Baby Austin

London 1936 AUD 300.00 - 400.00 AUD 254.00
3 James Bruce

Travels Of James Bruce Through Part Of Africa, Syria, Egypt, And Arabia Into Abyssinia To Discover The Source Of The Nile

London N/A AUD 300.00 - 400.00 AUD 203.20
4 DARWIN Charles

The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life

London 1875 AUD 400.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
8 Richard Bonynge

Joan Sutherland: Designs for a Prima Donna

New South Wales 1985 AUD 300.00 - 400.00 AUD 203.20
9 Margot Fonteyn

Letter to Father Hutch; Photograph of Margot Fonteyn

N/A AUD 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
10

Photograph of Joan Sutherland

N/A AUD 400.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
11 Frederick McCoy

Prodromus of the Zoology of Victoria; or Figures and Descriptions of the Living Species of all Classes of the Victorian Indigenous Animals

Melbourne 1885-1890 AUD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 AUD 1,905.00
12 A Liversidge

The Minerals of New South Wales, Etc

London 1888 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
13

Report of The Executive Commissioner For New South Wales To The World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893

1894 AUD 500.00 - 600.00 AUD 317.50
14 Frederick Ross

The Ruined Abbeys of Britain

1882 AUD 300.00 - 400.00 AUD 412.75
15

The Order of the Administration of the Lord's Supper or Holy Communion

c1865 AUD 300.00 - 400.00 AUD 203.20
16 J. O Westwood

Illuminated illustrations of the Bible

1846 AUD 800.00 - 1,000.00 AUD 539.75
17 Birket Foster; Henry Mayhew

The Rhine and Its Picturesque Scenery

1856 AUD 250.00 - 350.00 AUD 285.75
18 James E. Doyle

A Chronicle of England B.C. 55 - A.D. 1485

1864 AUD 300.00 - 400.00 AUD 381.00
19

Fauna Hawaiiensis

1893-1913 AUD 2,500.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
20

13 Books, including: Socialism New and Old

London 1875-1894 AUD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
21 Joseph Fowles

The Sydney Drawing Book; The Elementary Free-Hand Drawing Book

Sydney 1855 AUD 300.00 - 400.00 AUD 228.60
22 Swain Edward Harold Fulcher

An Australian Study of American Forestry

Brisbane 1918 AUD 100.00 - 150.00 AUD 63.50
23 Huxley Thomas H.

American Addresses with a Lecture on the Study of Biology

London 1877 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
24 Noad Henry

A Manual of Electricity: including Galvanism, Magnetism, Diamagnetism, Electro-Dynamics, Magneto-Electricity and the Electric Telegraph

London 1859 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 177.80
25 Bhulabhai Desai; General Mohan Singh; Asoka Mehta; K.J. Save

12 Books, including: I.N.A. Defence

Delhi; Bombay 1945; 1946; 1940; 1943; 1934; 1922; 1921 AUD 250.00 - 300.00 AUD 254.00
26 Firdaus Rizvi; G.M.D. Sufi; Mahmud Ahmad; Syed Abdul Latif; Syed Mahmud; Bakar Ali Mirza

6 Books, including: Pakistan Defined

circa 1945; 1946; 1930; 1939; 1949; 1944 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 152.40
27

Report on the Leather Industries of the Bombay Presidency

circa 1910 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
28 H.l. Adam

Police Reports of the Bombay Presidency for 1912; The Indian Criminal

London 1912; 1909 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
  • Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    Printed Books, Maps & Wisdens, English Bibles
    1500-1800
    22nd July 2026
    Dominic Winter, July 22: Lot 83 – Westall & Owen. Picturesque Tour of the River Thames, 1st edition, 1828. £2,000-3,000.
    Dominic Winter, July 22: Lot 88 – Blume. Rumphia, Botanicae de plantis Indiae Orientalis, 1835-1848. £2,000-3,000.
    Dominic Winter, July 22: Lot 101 – Michaux. Histoire des arbres forestiers de l'Amérique septentrionale, 1810-1812. £700-1,000.
    Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    Printed Books, Maps & Wisdens, English Bibles
    1500-1800
    22nd July 2026
    Dominic Winter, July 22: Lot 102 – Miller & Shaw. Cimelia Physica, 1796 [but c. 1816]. £3,000-5,000.
    Dominic Winter, July 22: Lot 104 – Parkinson. Theatrum Botanicum: The Theater of Plants, London: Thomas Cotes, 1640. £800-1,200.
    Dominic Winter, July 22: Lot 159 – Plancius. Orbis Terrarum..., double hemisphere map, 1594-99. £5,000-8,000.
    Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    Printed Books, Maps & Wisdens, English Bibles
    1500-1800
    22nd July 2026
    Dominic Winter, July 22: Lot 217 – Illuminated Medieval Manuscript. From a Breviary, 14th/15th c. £3,000-4,000.
    Dominic Winter, July 22: Lot 224 – The newe Testament … By Wylliam Tyndall…, 1549. £3,000-5,000.
    Dominic Winter, July 22: Lot 238 – Douay-Rheims Bible. 3 volumes, 1582/1609/1610. £7,000-10,000.
    Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    Printed Books, Maps & Wisdens, English Bibles
    1500-1800
    22nd July 2026
    Dominic Winter, July 22: Lot 336 – Ashendene Press. A Treatyse of Fysshynge with an Angle, 1903. £1,000-1,500.
    Dominic Winter, July 22: Lot 393 – Sassoon. Memoirs of an Infantry Officer, signed limited edition, 1931. £800-1,200.
    Dominic Winter, July 22: Lot 402 – Dylan Thomas. Twenty-Five Poems, 1st edition in d.j., 1936. £400-600.
  • Case Auctions
    2026 Summer Auction
    August 1st and 2nd
    Case Antiques, Aug. 1: Timberlake, Henry: A DRAUGHT OF THE CHEROKEE COUNTRY on the West Side of the Twenty Four Mountains, Commonly Called "Over the Hills". $18,000 to $22,000.
    Case Antiques, Aug. 1: Manuscript orderly book detailing day to day activities of multiple Virginia regiments in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary,1776-1777. $7,000 to $8,000.
    Case Antiques, Aug. 1: Cormac McCarthy, The Orchard Keeper, Random House, New York, 1965. Signed 1st Edition. $3,800 to $4,200.
    Case Auctions
    2026 Summer Auction
    August 1st and 2nd
    Case Antiques, Aug. 1: Battle of Kings Mountain Pamphlet by Isaac Shelby, April 1823, Signed. $1,800 to $2,200.
    Case Antiques, Aug. 1: Large Tintype CSA Lt. Col. Thomas Coke Johnson, 19th GA, w/ Southern Cross, Book. $1,400 to $1,800.
    Case Antiques, Aug. 1: Rare Civil War Ambrotype, 19th GA Infantry with Johnson Family of GA. $800 to $1,200.
    Case Auctions
    2026 Summer Auction
    August 1st and 2nd
    Case Antiques, Aug. 1: A signed note written by Thomas Alva Edison to an unknown recipient, in which he shares his thoughts on Guglielmo Marconi, regarded as the inventor of the radio. $800 to $1,200.
    Case Antiques, Aug. 1: Rare 1931 TN Grasslands Steeplechase Book, Gallatin. $800 to $1,000.
    Case Antiques, Aug. 1: War of 1812 related Broadside, Petersburg Volunteers. $700 to $800.
    Case Antiques, Aug. 1: 2 World War I Posters, “Our Colored Fighters” and “No Slacker”. $800 to $1,000.