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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| 115 | Erte | Erte: Sculpture |
1986 | AUD 150.00 - 250.00 | Not Sold | |
| 116 | Clare Gibson | Goddess Symbols; The English Dreamers; The Fantastic Kingdom |
1998 | AUD 100.00 - 150.00 | Not Sold | |
| 117 | Cotton; Charles Sturt | Ludwig Leichhardt and the Great South Land; Narrative of an Expedition into Central Australia |
1938 | AUD 150.00 - 200.00 | AUD 114.30 | |
| 118 | Will Durant | The Mansions of Philosophy |
New York | 1929 | AUD 180.00 - 220.00 | Not Sold |
| 119 | Sylvia Plath; TS Eliot | Collected Poems; The Bastard from the Bush; Selection of Prose |
N/A | AUD 50.00 - 60.00 | Not Sold | |
| 120 | James Cook | A Voyage towards the South Pole, and Round the World |
Adelaide | 1970 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | AUD 165.10 |
| 121 | HB Carter | Sir Joseph Banks |
1988 | AUD 150.00 - 250.00 | AUD 190.50 | |
| 122 | N.J.B. Plomley | The Baudin Expedition and the Tasmanian Aborigines 1802 |
Tasmania | 1983 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | AUD 285.75 |
| 123 | Jacqueline Bonnemains; Elliott Forsyth; Bernard Smith | Baudin in Australian Waters: The Artwork of the French Voyage of Discovery to the Southern Lands 1800-1804 |
Melbourne | 1988 | AUD 150.00 - 250.00 | AUD 101.60 |
| 124 | Gunter Schilder | Australia Unveiled: The share of the Dutch navigators in the discovery of Australia |
1976 | AUD 100.00 - 150.00 | AUD 101.60 | |
| 125 | Ellis Rowan | A Flower-Hunter in Queensland and New Zealand |
Sydney | 1898 | AUD 150.00 - 180.00 | AUD 1,778.00 |
| 126 | Mrs Aeneas Gunn | We of the Never Never |
London | 1908 | AUD 500.00 - 600.00 | AUD 1,651.00 |
| 127 | Arthur Upfield | Wings Above the Diamantina |
Sydney | 1936 | AUD 150.00 - 250.00 | AUD 88.90 |
| 128 | Arthur Upfield | The Mystery of Swordfish Reef |
Sydney | 1939 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold |
| 129 | T E Lawrence | Seven Pillars of Wisdom |
London | 1935 | AUD 300.00 - 500.00 | AUD 190.50 |
| 131 | Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge | 22 Books, including: The Townley Gallery |
1831; 1838; 1846; 1847 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold | |
| 132 | Alfred J North | Nests and Eggs of Birds found breeding in Australia and Tasmania |
Sydney | 1906-1914 | AUD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 133 | Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge | 11 Books, including: The Menageries |
1830; 1831; 1832; 1833; 1835; 1838; 1846 | AUD 400.00 - 600.00 | Not Sold | |
| 134 | Ian Fleming | The Man With The Golden Gun |
London | 1965 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | AUD 203.20 |
| 135 | Ian Fleming | On Her Majesty's Secret Service |
1963 | AUD 300.00 - 400.00 | AUD 952.50 | |
| 136 | Ian Fleming | Octopussy and The Living Daylights |
London | 1966 | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | AUD 241.30 |
| 137 | Ian Fleming | Goldfinger |
London | 1959 | AUD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | AUD 1,079.50 |
| 138 | Ian Fleming | Thunderball |
London | 1961 | AUD 800.00 - 1,000.00 | AUD 698.50 |
| 139 | Ian Fleming | The Spy Who Loved Me |
London | 1962 | AUD 800.00 - 1,000.00 | AUD 508.00 |
| 140 | Ian Fleming | Dr No |
1958 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | AUD 825.50 |
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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.