Sydney Rare Book Auctions: Moments in History: Maps, Photographs, Art, Costumes and Books, A184, Ultimo
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- May 24, 2026 - May 24, 2026
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
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| 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 |
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Dominic Winter Auctioneers
Printed Books, Maps & Wisdens, English Bibles
1500-1800
22nd July 2026Dominic 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 2026Dominic 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 2026Dominic 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 2026Dominic 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. -
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Case Auctions
2026 Summer Auction
August 1st and 2ndCase 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 2ndCase 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 2ndCase 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.