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
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 151 | CHOULES, Reverend John Overton. | The Cruise of the Steam Yacht North Star… |
Boston | 1854 | AUD 250.00 - 300.00 | AUD 152.40 |
| 152 | KENIHAN, G. H. (editor). | The Journal of Abel Jansz Tasman, 1642. With Documents Relating to his Exploration of Australian in 1644. |
Adelaide | 1964 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | AUD 177.80 |
| 153 | BAKER, Sir Samuel White. | The Albert N’Yanza, Great Basin of the Nile, and explorations of the Nile Sources. With maps and illustrations. |
London | 1870 | AUD 250.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold |
| 154 | STOUT, Rex. | If Death Ever Slept. |
London | 1958 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | AUD 127.00 |
| 155 | LANG, Andrew. | Books and Bookmen. |
London | 1887 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | AUD 127.00 |
| 156 | RACINE, Jean-Baptiste. | Oeuvres de Racine. Tome premier. |
Amsterdam | 1690 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | AUD 127.00 |
| 157 | HILL, L. Raven and GOLSWORTHY, Arnold. | The First Volume of the Butterfly. A Humorous and Artistic Periodical… |
London | October 1893. | AUD 150.00 - 200.00 | AUD 88.90 |
| 158 | by Ruth Park. by May Gibbs | 1) The Muddleheaded Wombat 2) The Complete Adventures Of Snugglepot and Cuddlepie |
2010, 2007 | AUD 80.00 - 100.00 | AUD 50.80 | |
| 159 | [H. MICHEL-LEVY]. | Catalogue des tableaux anciens, tableaux modernes, aquarelles, dessins, pastels, sculptures composant la collection H. Michel-Levy. Vente aux encheres de la Galerie Georges Petit. |
Paris | 1919 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold |
| 160 | Four books on architecture. |
N/A | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 161 | The Arts of Japan. Volume 1: Ancient and Medieval. Volume 2: Late Medieval to Modern by Noma Seiroku, |
Tokyo | 1978 | AUD 250.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold | |
| 162 | by Maxwell L Howell, Lingyu Xie, Paul Neazor, Bensley Wilkes | They Came to Conquer. International Rugby Union Tours to Australia 1884- 2002. |
2003 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | AUD 228.60 | |
| 163 | SIMMONDS, J.H. | Eucalypts. Trees From Other Lands for Shelter and Timber in New Zealand. |
Auckland | N/A | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold |
| 164 | The Comedies, Histories and Tragedies of William Shakespeare. |
New York | 1939-1940. | AUD 400.00 - 500.00 | Not Sold | |
| 165 | Report of the Committee on Homosexual Offences and Prostitution. |
London | September 1957 (reprinted in 1962). | AUD 80.00 - 100.00 | AUD 444.50 | |
| 166 | Dorothy Henslowe. | The book is titled Papuan Post |
Hobart | not dated but 1947-1948. | AUD 100.00 - 150.00 | AUD 63.50 |
| 167 | MURPHY, James. | The Shan Van Vocht. |
N/A | AUD 100.00 - 120.00 | AUD 63.50 | |
| 168 | Three popular thrillers from the teens and twenties, |
London | none are dated | AUD 100.00 - 150.00 | Not Sold | |
| 169 | Written by Lieutenant William Bligh. | A Narrative of the Mutiny, On Board His Britannic Majesty's Ship Bounty… (reprinting of William Spottiswoode’s 1790 Philadelphia edition) |
Philadelphia | 1977 | AUD 250.00 - 300.00 | AUD 152.40 |
| 170 | O’HANLON, Redmond. | Joseph Conrad and Charles Darwin. The influence of scientific thought on Conrad’s fiction. |
Edinburgh | 1984 | AUD 100.00 - 150.00 | Not Sold |
| 171 | FOWLER, John & CORNFORTH. | English Decoration in the 18th Century. |
London | 1978 | AUD 120.00 - 150.00 | Not Sold |
| 172 | JOHNSON, J. and GREUTZNER, A. | The Dictionary of British Artists. An Antique Collector’s Club Research Project. |
Suffolk | 1984 | AUD 100.00 - 150.00 | Not Sold |
| 173 | EXLEY, C.L. Edited by Franklin A. Barrett and Arthur L. Thorpe. | The Pinxton China Factory. |
Derby | 1963 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold |
| 174 | DELORME, Eleanor. | Josephine and the Arts of the Empire. |
Los Angeles | 2005 | AUD 150.00 - 200.00 | AUD 88.90 |
| 175 | Maralinga’s Long Shadow by Christine Mattingley (2016); Dreamtime of the New Millenium by Di Yerbury (2000); Central Australian Artist Albert Namatjira by John Brackenreg (1984); … |
N/A | AUD 150.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold |
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Sotheby’s
Shelf Life: Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper from the Library of Stanley J. Seeger and Christopher Cone
25 June – July 7Sotheby’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. -
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The Private Library:
Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
July 9, 2026Forum, 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. £10,000-15,000Forum, 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. £3,000-4,000Forum, 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. £3,000-4,000Forum Auctions
The Private Library:
Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
July 9, 2026Forum, 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. £2,000-3,000Forum, 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. £3,000-4,000Forum, 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. £1,000-1,500Forum Auctions
The Private Library:
Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
July 9, 2026Forum, July 9: Martin (John) Illustrations of the Bible, complete set of 20 mezzotints, good impressions, rarely found in early states, [c.1831-1835]. - Est. £1,000-1,500Forum, 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. £5,000-7,000Forum, 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. £10,000-15,000Forum Auctions
The Private Library:
Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
July 9, 2026Forum, 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. £10,000-15,000Forum, July 9: Wynkyn de Worde.- [Terentius Afer (Publius)] [Comedie...], [Paris, Josse Badius: sold in London by Wynkyn de Worde, & others], [15 July 1504]. - Est. £4,000-6,000Forum, 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 -
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The 10th Anniversary Sale
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
July 16, 2026Forum, 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. £12,000-18,000Forum, 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]. £30,000-50,000Forum, July 16: Qu'ran, Arabic manuscript on burnished, stencilled, and gold-flecked paper, 447ff., Sultanate Gujarat, Ahmadabad, [after 1411 but no later than 1442]. £15,000-20,000Forum Auctions
The 10th Anniversary Sale
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
July 16, 2026Forum, 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-£30,000Forum, July 16: Spenser (Edmund). The Faerie Queene. first edition, Printed [by John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, 1590. £30,000-40,000Forum, July 16: Shakespeare (William). The Comedie of Errors, extracted from the first folio, Isaac Jaggard and Edward Blount, 1623. £15,000-20,000Forum Auctions
The 10th Anniversary Sale
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
July 16, 2026Forum, July 16: Fleming (Ian). Casino Royale, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author, 1953. £40,000-60,000Forum, July 16: d'Agoty (Jacques-Fabien Gautier). Anatomie de la Tête, first edition, Paris, chez le Sieur Gautier, 1748. £10,000-15,000Forum, 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. £50,000-70,000Forum Auctions
The 10th Anniversary Sale
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
July 16, 2026Forum, July 16: Warre (Capt. Henry James). Sketches in North America and the Oregon Territory, first edition, rare hand-coloured issue, 1848. £30,000-40,000Forum, July 16: Norie (John William). The Marine Atlas, or Seaman's Complete Pilot for all the principal places in the known world..., 1826. £30,000-50,000Forum, 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