Sydney Rare Book Auctions: The Enchanting World of Books: illustrated books, gift books, publisher bindings, art and history, A181, Ultimo
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- April 19, 2026 - April 19, 2026
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | AB Waring (1823 – 1875) | 1862 INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION BY WARING |
London | 1862-3 | AUD 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 | AUD 1,079.50 |
| 2 | MARCUS WARD BELFAST BINDING: ILLUMINATED PRESENTATION TO ANTHONY DENNY 1885 |
Belfast; London | 1885 | AUD 2,500.00 - 3,000.00 | Not Sold | |
| 3 | Peter Crayford | CRESSIDA CAMPBELL SIGNED FIRST |
Bronte (Sydney) | 2008 | AUD 1,800.00 - 2,000.00 | AUD 1,206.50 |
| 4 | Donald Friend | 1977 DONALD FRIEND ORIGINAL DRAWING |
Sanur in Bali | 1977 | AUD 500.00 - 750.00 | AUD 698.50 |
| 5 | Dante Alighieri | 1472 INCUNABLE DIVINE COMEDY |
Foligno (Perugia) | 1472 | AUD 500.00 - 750.00 | Not Sold |
| 6 | A. Trevor Crispin | 1873 ILLUMINATED CHRISTMAS ALBUM |
London | 1873 | AUD 500.00 - 750.00 | AUD 349.25 |
| 7 | Christopher Anstey | 1830 SUPERB GILT BINDING |
London | 1830 | AUD 300.00 - 400.00 | AUD 190.50 |
| 8 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | 1852 LONGFELLOW POEMS GILDED BINDING |
London | 1852 | AUD 500.00 - 750.00 | Not Sold |
| 9 | H.M. Cundall | 1921 KATE GREENAWAY DELUXE EDITION |
London | 1921 | AUD 500.00 - 750.00 | Not Sold |
| 10 | Alfred Tennyson; Gustave Dore | 1868 GUSTAVE DORE TENNYSON FOLIO |
London | 1868 | AUD 500.00 - 750.00 | Not Sold |
| 11 | 1865 CASSELL’S NATURAL HISTORY. |
London | 1865-1866 | AUD 500.00 - 750.00 | Not Sold | |
| 12 | W.H. Russell; Robert Dudley | 1863 ROYAL WEDDING FOLIO ALBUM |
London | 1863 | AUD 300.00 - 400.00 | AUD 190.50 |
| 13 | Oliver Goldsmith; Bolton Corney | 1845 JAMES HAYDAY GILT BINDING |
London | 1845 | AUD 250.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold |
| 14 | Norman Macleod | 14 CHRISTIAN MEDITATIONS FINE BINDING |
London | 1862 | AUD 250.00 - 300.00 | AUD 152.40 |
| 19 | E C Andrews | NSW MINERAL RESOURCES |
1916 | AUD 300.00 - 400.00 | Not Sold | |
| 20 | 1863 PARLIAMENT OF N.S.W. |
Sydney | 1863 | AUD 250.00 - 300.00 | AUD 152.40 | |
| 21 | Thomas Baines (1820-1875) | 1874 THOMAS BAINES PRINT |
London | c. 1874 | AUD 150.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold |
| 22 | Arthur Machen (Arthur Llewellyn Jones); S.H. Syme | 1907 ARTHUR LLEWELLYN JONES FIRST EDITION |
London | 1907 | AUD 250.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold |
| 23 | Harry Morgan Ayres; Adrian Jacob Barnouw | 1932 MARY OF NIMMEGEN |
Cambridge, Massachusetts | 1932 | AUD 150.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold |
| 24 | C.S. Christian; S.J. Paterson | 1953 TOWNSVILLE-BOWEN REGION |
Melbourne | 1953 | AUD 150.00 - 200.00 | AUD 88.90 |
| 25 | Kenneth Clark | 1969 LEONARDO ANATOMICAL DRAWINGS |
London | 1969 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | AUD 241.30 |
| 26 | Philip M. O’Brien | LAWRENCE OF ARABIA BIBLIOGRAPHY |
Delaware | 2000 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | AUD 127.00 |
| 27 | Josiah Ranville Leach | 1904 YERKES FAMILY CHRONICLE |
Philadelphia | 1904 | AUD 400.00 - 500.00 | Not Sold |
| 28 | Dwight Whitney Marsh | 1895 MARSH FAMILY GENEALOGY |
Massachusetts | 1895 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold |
| 29 | Charles Waterton | 1839 WANDERINGS IN SOUTH AMERICA |
London | 1839 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold |
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Sotheby's Book Week
2 June - 9 JulySotheby’s, June 25: Smith, Adam. The Wealth of Nations, on its 250th anniversary. $180,000 to $250,000.Sotheby’s, June 17: Fontana, Lucio. Concetto Spaziale. 1967. Leporello en papier doré. Bel exemplaire signé. €4,000 to $€,000.Sotheby’s, June 25: Fitzgerald, F. Scott. "So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past”. $150,000 to $200,000.Sotheby’s, June 25: Washington, George (as First President). Washington decries “an ostentatious imitation, or mimickry of Royalty” in his Presidency. $250,000 to $500,000.Sotheby’s, June 17: Lope de Vega. Rare manuscrit autographe signé de la préface dédicatoire de "El Cardenal de Belen" (le cardinal de Bethléem), pièce composée en 1610. €40,000 to €60,000. -
June 23rd, 24th & 25th 2026 Fonsie Mealy’s, June 23-25: Medical Incunabula: Petit (Jean)publisher & Kerver (Thielman)printer. Regimen Sanitatis Salernitanum, sm. 8vo, Paris [1498]Fonsie Mealy’s, June 23-25: Hugo (Victor) [Wraxall (Lascelles)]. Les Miserable, 3 vols., 8vo, L. (Hurst & Blackett) 1862, First Authorized English Translation (copyright).Fonsie Mealy’s, June 23-25: Shelley (Mary Wollstonecraft). Frankenstein: or The Modern Prometheus, 8vo, 2 vols. in one, L. (G. & W.B. Whittaker, Ave-Maria-Lane) 1823.June 23rd, 24th & 25th 2026 Fonsie Mealy’s, June 23-25: Cuisine: Anon. Cookery, Pastry, and Sweet Meats in three Books, Alphabetically Digested, 8vo 1710.Fonsie Mealy’s, June 23-25: Lambert (Aylmer Bourke). A Description of the Genus Pinus, with Directions Relative to the Cultivation…, 2 vols. Sm. folio L. (Messrs. Weddell) 1832.Fonsie Mealy’s, June 23-25: Botany: Curtis (William). Flora Londinensis: or Plates and Descriptions of such Plants as Grow Wild in the Environs of London, 2 vols. folio, London (B. White) 1777 – 1798.June 23rd, 24th & 25th 2026 Fonsie Mealy’s, June 23-25: Le Moire (J.M.) Maple Leaves, Canadian History and Quebec Scenery (Third Series) 8vo Quebec (Hunter, Rose & Co.) 1865. First Edn.Fonsie Mealy’s, June 23-25: The Earliest Extant Printed House Contents Sale Catalogue in Ireland: Baillie, Auctioneer, Abby Street. A Catalogue of the Goods and Stock of the late Edward Wingfield…Fonsie Mealy’s, June 23-25: William III King of England. Autograph Letter Signed ("William R") to an unnamed correspondent [possibly Charles-Henri de Lorraine] discussing his strategy against the French forces during the siege of Namur.June 23rd, 24th & 25th 2026 Fonsie Mealy’s, June 23-25: [Austen (Jane) (1785-1817]. Pride and Prejudice, 3 vols. sm. 8vo, L. (T. Egerton) 1813.Fonsie Mealy’s, June 23-25: Heaney (Seamus). Ugolino, sm. folio D. (Dolmen) 1979, Limited Edn. No. 78/125 Copies, Signed by Seamus Heaney, Louis le Brocquy, Liam Miller and Andrew Carpenter.Fonsie Mealy’s, June 23-25: Voltaire (F.M. Avouet de). Petits Ouvrages, attribues a M. de Voltaire, sm. folio manuscript, dated 1776, containing 9 works. -
Bonhams, June 14-23: Franklin D. Roosevelt Presentation Gold Pocket Watch. Estimate: $20,000 - 30,000Bonhams, June 14-23: Presentation Copy of the First Issue of the Lincoln Douglas Debates Signed by Abraham Lincoln in Pencil to a Sangamon County Illinois Republican. Estimate: $150,000 - 250,000Bonhams, June 14-23: A Senate Resolution Signed in the Tense Days After the Union's Humiliating Defeat at the First Battle of Bull Run. Estimate: $80,000 - $120,000Bonhams, June 14-23: Seven Passages to a Flight, an Artists Book with a Story Quilt by Faith Ringgold, the Publisher's Own Copy. Estimate: $80,000 - 120,000Bonhams, June 14-23: A New Charter for Virginia, A Response to the First Armed Rebellion in the American Colonies. Estimate: $15,000 - 25,000Bonhams, June 14-23: Earliest obtainable printing of the Bill of Rights. Estimate: $8,000 - 12,000Bonhams, June 14-23: Edward Curtis Orotone. Estimate: $7,000 - 9,000Bonhams, June 14-23: Owned by Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis: A Butter or Dessert Plate from FDR's State Dinner Service. Estimate: $3,000 - 5,000Bonhams, June 14-23: An Early Large-Format Plan of the City of Washington. Estimate: $1,500 - 2,500Bonhams, June 14-23: Containing the First Map to Name the Hudson River. Estimate: $20,000 - 30,000Bonhams, June 14-23: America's First Major Novelist, a Complete Chapter in Autograph Manuscript by James Fenimore Cooper. Estimate: $15,000 - 20,000Bonhams, June 14-23: The Only Full-Length Book by Jefferson, with the Justly Famous Map. Estimate: $12,000 - 18,000 -
June 25, 2026 Doyle, June 25: Houdini's biography, boldly signed. $3,000 to $5,000.Doyle, June 25: A volume from Abraham Lincoln's library, signed just before heading to Washington for his inauguration. $20,000 to $30,000.Doyle, June 25: A very early Confederate recruiting manual belonging to the chief commissary in Lee's Army. $600 to $800.Doyle, June 25: Rare hand-colored lithographs of the life of Napoleon. $20,000 to $30,000.Doyle, June 25: The "Holster Atlas" of the American Revolution. $5,000 to $8,000.Doyle, June 25: Jewish ceremonies in fine hand-colored engravings. $7,000 to $10,000.Doyle, June 25: A very rare work on Turkish military costume. $1,000 to $1,500.June 25, 2026 Doyle, June 25: The most important illustrated work on the Mexican-American War. $10,000 to $15,000.Doyle, June 25: The finest illustrated book on Afghanistan. $10,000 to $15,000.Doyle, June 25: Henry Justice Ford St. George rescues the Princess from the horrible Dragon. $2,000 to $3,000.Doyle, June 25: A rare work of Prussian Army uniforms under Frederick William II, with exquisite hand-colored engravings. $800 to $1,200.Doyle, June 25: Lenny Bruce typed letter signed to a Village bohemian during his obscenity trials, with a manuscript note and drawing. $300 to $500.Doyle, June 25: Schiff's scarce Shanghai Sketchbook. $300 to $500.Doyle, June 25: The first accurate published representation of the American flag. $2,000 to $4,000. -
Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 123. Celebrate 250 Years of Independence with Original Stars and Stripes (1790) Est. $1,400 - $1,700Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 20. Keulen's Spectacular Chart of the World Featuring California as an Island (1728) Est. $12,000 - $15,000Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 42. Schedel's Ancient World Map with Fantastic Humanoid Creatures (1493) Est. $14,000 - $17,000Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 591. Matching Set of 3 Stunning Globe Gores of Eastern Asia from Coronelli's 3.5 Foot Globe (1688) Est. $5,500 - $7,000Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 9. Speed's Popular World Map with Allegorical Representations of the Elements (1651) Est. $14,000 - $17,000Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 168. First Separate Map of Kansas & Nebraska Territories (1854) Est. $5,500 - $7,000Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 43. Only Macrobius Map with Britain Attached to Europe (1515) Est. $800 - $950Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 250. Rare Map of Boston and One of the Earliest Maps of the Revolutionary War (1775) Est. $2,000 - $2,300Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 79. Schenk's Uncommon Map Featuring Two Figurative Title Cartouches (1696) Est. $1,200 - $1,500Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 681. Hand-Colored Image of the Annunciation to the Shepherds (1502) Est. $800 - $950