Sydney Rare Book Auctions: Easter Sale: History, Art, Illustrated books, Fine Bindings, Firsts, Signed books, Bookplates, 177, Ultimo

Auction Details

Auction Date: April 12, 2026 - April 12, 2026

Page Size: 499 items in 20 pages

Auction Lot Books
Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
26	SHIEL, Matthew.	Prince Zaleski by M. P. Shiel.	London and Boston	1895	AUD 750.00 - 1,000.00	AUD 476.25
27	ELLIS, Brett Easton.	The Informers.	New York	1994	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
28		Three books by Herbert Ernest Bates, all are first editions with their dust-jackets.	London	N/A	AUD 200.00 - 250.00	Not Sold
29	WILLIAMSON, Henry.	Three books from the author of ‘Tarka the Otter’, detailing nature life in Britain amongst autobiographical themes.	London	1948	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 63.50
30	Salman Rushdie.	The Jaguar Smile. >Haroun and the Sea of Stories.	New York, London	1987. 1990.	AUD 125.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
31	PRING, Peter.	The Star Kingdom Story.	Sydney	1983	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 76.20
32	JENKINSON, Hilary.	Palaeography and the Practical Study of Court Hand.		1915	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 127.00
33		Mirror of the Australian Navigation by Le Maire. A facsimile of the Spigel der Australische Navigatie... being a voyage of Jacob le Mare and Willen Schouten 1615-1616 published in Amsterdam 1622.	Sydney	1999	AUD 100.00 - 120.00	Not Sold
34	COLLINS, David. Edited by Brian Fletcher.	An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales.	Sydney	1975	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 203.20
35	DAWSON, Warren.	The Banks Letters. A calendar of the manuscript correspondence of Sir Joseph Banks preserved in the British Museum…	London	1958	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 127.00
36		A large collection of the Penrose Pictorial Annual.	in London	1891-1976.	AUD 250.00 - 300.00	AUD 317.50
37	by Ernest Scott.	The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders, R.N.	Sydney	1914	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 63.50
38	SINCLAIR, Upton.	Mammonart. An Essay in Economic Interpretation.	Pasadena	1925	AUD 250.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
39	HORDERN, Marsden.	Mariners are Warned! John Lort Stokes and H. M. S. Beagle in Australia 1837-1843.	Melbourne	1989	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 165.10
40	MAUGHAM, W. Somerset.	The Constant Wife. A Comedy in Three Acts.	London	1927	AUD 250.00 - 300.00	AUD 165.10
41	HILDER, Brett.	El Viaje de Torres de Veracruz a Manila. Descubrimiento de la costa meridional de Nueva Guinea y del estrecho de su nombre.	Madrid	1992	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
42	SEGHERS, Anna.	The Revolt of the Fishermen.	London	1929	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
43	HENEY, Thomas.	In Middle Harbour and Other Verse Chiefly Australian.	London	1890	AUD 150.00 - 200.00	AUD 88.90
44	WYATT, Ransome T.	The History of Goulburn N.S.W.		1941	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 88.90
45	NEBEWSKY-WOJKOWITZ, Rene De.	Tibetan Religious Dances. Tibetan Text and Annotated Translation of the Chams Yig.	New Delhi	1997	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
46		How Wars End: The United Nations and the Termination of Armed Conflict 1946-1964 by Sydney D. Bailey.		1982	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
47		Five volumes from the Frontier Edition of the collected works of Ion Idriess.	Sydney	in the fifties	AUD 250.00 - 300.00	AUD 317.50
48		Warragamba Dam. Official opening by the Honourable R.J. Heffron, M.L.A., premier of New South Wales, Friday, 14th October, 1960.	Sydney	1960	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 152.40
49	PERUCCHI-PETRI, Ursula.	Cucchi. Drawings 1975-1989.	New York	1990	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
50	McGILL, Ormond.	The New Encyclopedia of Stage Hypnotism.	Wales	1996	AUD 120.00 - 150.00	AUD 139.70

Sotheby’s
Shelf Life: Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper from the Library of Stanley J. Seeger and Christopher Cone
25 June – July 7

Sotheby’s, July 7: Ludwig van Beethoven. Autograph sketches for the overture "Die Weihe des Hauses", op.124, [1822], UNPUBLISHED. £150,000 to £200,000.

Sotheby’s, July 7: Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice, 1813, first edition, 3 volumes, contemporary half calf. £50,000 to £70,000.

Sotheby’s, July 7: Walt Whitman. Leaves of Grass, Brooklyn, 1855, first edition, first issue, original green cloth, the Doheny copy. £50,000 to £70,000.

Sotheby’s, July 7: Binding—Sangorski & Sutcliffe—Omar Khayyam. Rubaiyat, London, 1872, third edition, in a magnificent jewelled Peacock binding. £15,000 to £20,000.

Sotheby’s, July 7: George Eliot. Middlemarch, Edinburgh and London, 1871, first edition in the original parts. £20,000 to £30,000.
Forum Auctions
The Private Library:
Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
July 9, 2026

Forum, July 9: Hassall (Joan) A large collection of over 300 original woodblocks of engravings for various books, v.d., with Hassall's engraver's glass water-globe (Qty) - Est. £10,000-15,000

Forum, July 9: Eragny Press.- [Bradley (Katherine Harris) & Edith Emma Cooper], "Michael Field." Whym Chow, Flame of Love, one of only 27 copies, inscribed by Bradley, the rarest book from the press, 1914. - Est. £3,000-4,000

Forum, July 9: [Moore (Thomas Sturge)] [Wood Engravings], 71 wood-engravings printed by David Chambers from the original blocks, the only set on Japanese Hosho paper, from an edition of 5 sets, [1970]. - Est. £3,000-4,000

Forum Auctions
The Private Library:
Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
July 9, 2026

Forum, July 9: La Fontaine (Jean de) Contes et Nouvelles en vers, 2 vol., engraved plates after Eisen, fine early 19th century blue morocco, gilt, by Bradel l'ainé, Amsterdam [Paris], 1762. - Est. £2,000-3,000

Forum, July 9: Erotica.- Prostitution.- Pretty Women of Paris (The); Their Names and Addresses, Qualities and Faults..., [Paris], privately printed at the Press of the Prefecture de Police, 1883. - Est. £3,000-4,000

Forum, July 9: Vale Press.- Ricketts (Charles) & Lucien Pissarro. De la Typographie et de l'Harmonie de la Page Imprimée…, [one of 216 copies], bound in dark blue morocco tooled in gilt, by Sarah T.Prideaux, 1898. - Est. £1,000-1,500

Forum Auctions
The Private Library:
Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
July 9, 2026

Forum, July 9: Martin (John) Illustrations of the Bible, complete set of 20 mezzotints, good impressions, rarely found in early states, [c.1831-1835]. - Est. £1,000-1,500

Forum, July 9: Golden Cockerel Press.- Four Gospels of the Lord Jesus Christ (The), one of 500 copies, Mary Gill's copy, Waltham St. Lawrence, 1931 with a signed proof of engraving on japon numbered 10/10 (2) - Est. £5,000-7,000

Forum, July 9: Boccaccio (Giovanni) The Decameron, 3 vol., vol.1 extra-illustrated by John Buckland Wright with c.150 erotic original drawings in pen & ink and pencil, 1886 [extra-illustrated c.1940]. - Est. £10,000-15,000

Forum Auctions
The Private Library:
Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
July 9, 2026

Forum, July 9: Cox (Morris) Collection of Gogmagog Press Books, 35 vol., rare complete collection of printed books issued by the press, limited editions, most signed by Cox, 1957-83. - Est. £10,000-15,000

Forum, July 9: Wynkyn de Worde.- [Terentius Afer (Publius)] [Comedie...], [Paris, Josse Badius: sold in London by Wynkyn de Worde, & others], [15 July 1504]. - Est. £4,000-6,000

Forum, July 9: Mosley (James) Ornamented Types. Twenty-Three Alphabets from the Foundry of Louis John Pouchée, 2 vol., one of 10 copies for presentation, from an edition of 210, 1992-93. - Est. £1,000-2,000
Forum Auctions
The 10th Anniversary Sale
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
July 16, 2026

Forum, July 16: Inundation papyrus. P.Michael 4, the ‘Inundation papyrus’, a geographical account of the Nile near Canopus, in Greek, remains of two columns from a manuscript scroll on papyrus, Egypt, second century CE. £12,000-18,000

Forum, July 16: Book of Hours, use of Sarum, manuscript on vellum, 6 full-page miniatures, with famous Middle English inscriptions, Southern Netherlands for the English market, [c.1430]. £30,000-50,000

Forum, July 16: Qu'ran, Arabic manuscript on burnished, stencilled, and gold-flecked paper, 447ff., Sultanate Gujarat, Ahmadabad, [after 1411 but no later than 1442]. £15,000-20,000

Forum Auctions
The 10th Anniversary Sale
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
July 16, 2026

Forum, July 16: Turner (William). A New boke of the natures and properties of all wines that are commonly vsed here in England, rare first edition of the first English book on wine, By William Seres, 1568. £20,000-£30,000

Forum, July 16: Spenser (Edmund). The Faerie Queene. first edition, Printed [by John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, 1590. £30,000-40,000

Forum, July 16: Shakespeare (William). The Comedie of Errors, extracted from the first folio, Isaac Jaggard and Edward Blount, 1623. £15,000-20,000

Forum Auctions
The 10th Anniversary Sale
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
July 16, 2026

Forum, July 16: Fleming (Ian). Casino Royale, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author, 1953. £40,000-60,000

Forum, July 16: d'Agoty (Jacques-Fabien Gautier). Anatomie de la Tête, first edition, Paris, chez le Sieur Gautier, 1748. £10,000-15,000

Forum, July 16: Martial Arts.- Lee (Bruce). 'Praying Mantis style' Kung Fu book, containing numerous annotations, diagrams and graphs in Bruce Lee's hand, c. 1960. £50,000-70,000

Forum Auctions
The 10th Anniversary Sale
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
July 16, 2026

Forum, July 16: Warre (Capt. Henry James). Sketches in North America and the Oregon Territory, first edition, rare hand-coloured issue, 1848. £30,000-40,000

Forum, July 16: Norie (John William). The Marine Atlas, or Seaman's Complete Pilot for all the principal places in the known world..., 1826. £30,000-50,000

Forum, July 16: Mao Tse-tung.- Kim Il-sung.-[Note book for visitors from China to Korea], signed by Mao and Kim, [Beijing, 1954]. £10,000-15,000