Sydney Rare Book Auctions: Science, Mining, Natural History, Exploration, Art books and First editions, A182, Ultimo
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- May 01, 2026 - May 01, 2026
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 303 | Roscoe and Brimmel | James Lumsden & Son of Glasgow: Their Juvenile Books and Chapbooks |
Pinner | 1981 | AUD 50.00 - 80.00 | Not Sold |
| 304 | Cecil Beaton | The Face Of The World: An international scrapbook of people and places |
London | 1957 | AUD 150.00 - 200.00 | AUD 127.00 |
| 305 | JS Prout | Sydney Illustrated 1842-3 |
Sydney | [1947] | AUD 120.00 - 180.00 | Not Sold |
| 306 | Reiner Musterbuch aus codex Vindobonensis 507 |
1979 | AUD 500.00 - 600.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 307 | Joseph Conrad | Nostromo: A tale of the seaboard |
London; New York | 1904 | AUD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 308 | Joseph Conrad | 'Twixt Land & Sea . A smile of Fortune, The Secret Sharer, Freya of the Seven Isles; Within the Tides Tales; The Arrow of Gold; A Set of Six |
London | 1912; 1915; 1919; 1908 | AUD 800.00 - 1,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 309 | Joseph Conrad | An Outcast of the Islands |
London | 1896 | AUD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 310 | G. J. Whyte-Melville; J. E. Taylor; H. Rider Haggard; E. P. Roe | Objects of the Sea Shore; Songs and Verses; Fifty Celebrated Men. Their Lives and Trials, and the Deeds that Made them Famous; Our Island Continent: A naturalist's holiday in Australia; She. A History of Adventure; Found Yet Lost and Other Stories |
London | c. 1889; ND; 19th c.; 1886; 1887; c. 1900 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | AUD 63.50 |
| 311 | David Liddle; Nicholas Draffin | Erotica. Aspects of the erotic in Australian Art; Australian Artists At War; The Art of M. Napier Waller |
Melbourne | 1977; 1977; 1977 | AUD 100.00 - 150.00 | Not Sold |
| 312 | E.H. Shepard; Fred Gettings; Colin White | The Works of E.H. Shepard; Arthur Rackham, Fred Gettings; Edmund Dulac |
New York | 1980; 1975; 1976 | AUD 100.00 - 150.00 | AUD 63.50 |
| 313 | Sir Paul Harvey; Alberto Manguel; David Nichol Smith; Aldren Watson; Jonathan Swift; Stephen Potter; John Donne | The Oxford Companion To Classical Literature; A Reading Diary; The Oxford Book Of Eighteenth Century Verse; Washington. Rip Van Winkle and The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow; Gulliver's Travels And Selected Writings In Prose & Verse; Select Poetry & Prose; John |
Oxford; New York; London | 1946; 2005; 1936; ND; 1934; 1933; 1932 | AUD 150.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold |
| 314 | Atkyns; Anne Chambers; Charles Ramsden | A Pair on Printing; The Practical Guide to Marbling Paper; Book Binders of the United Kingdom (outside London) 1780-1840; London Books Binders 1780-1840 |
1982; 1986; ND; ND | AUD 150.00 - 180.00 | AUD 50.80 | |
| 315 | James Plimpton; Phillip Cox; Julian Symons; John Fowles; Mary F. Thwaite | Decorative Printed Maps of the 15th to 18th centuries; The art of the bookplate; The Printed Book In America; Take a Cold Tub, Sir! The Story of the Boy's Own Paper; Tom Adams' Agatha Christie Cover Story; John Harris's Books for Youth 1801-1843; From Pri |
London; New York; Limpsfield; Cambridge; Boston | 1967; 2003; 1977; 1982; 1981; 1976; 1972 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold |
| 316 | Alison Adburgham | Great Victorian Engravings; The Story of Picture Printing in England during the Nineteenth Century or Forty Years of Wood and Stone; Illustrators of the Eighteen Sixties. An illustrated survey of the work of 58 British artists; Victorian Book Illustration |
London; New York; Boulogne | 1980; 1928; 1975; 1973; 1974; ND; 1961 | AUD 150.00 - 250.00 | AUD 25.40 |
| 317 | Rossana Bossaglia, Enzo Carli and Franco Russoli | 1200 Years Of Italian Sculpture |
New York | 1968 | AUD 100.00 - 150.00 | AUD 25.40 |
| 318 | Poetry of Architecture: or, the architecture of the nations of Europe considered in its association of natural scenery and national character on Gallipoli, in 1915 |
Melbourne | [1964] | AUD 100.00 - 150.00 | AUD 25.40 | |
| 319 | E. Morris Miller; Robert Darlington; Caroline Fairfax Simpson; Egon and Elise Kunz; Ron Edwards | Australian Literature from its beginnings to 1935; Sudan to Vietnam; Ascham Remembered 1886-1986; Sydney Opera House in its Harbour Setting; To Sail Beyond The Sunset. Natural History in Australia 1699-1829; A Continent Takes Shape; Historic Towns Of Aust |
Melbourne; Sydney; Adelaide | 1940; 1987; 1986; 1996; 1984; 1971; 1973; 1913; 1976; 1971 | AUD 400.00 - 500.00 | AUD 63.50 |
| 320 | Robertson; Pearson | Australian Architecture and more |
Barcelona | ND | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | AUD 25.40 |
| 321 | Ian R Munro | The Fishes Of New Guinea |
Port Moresby | 1967 | AUD 300.00 - 400.00 | AUD 190.50 |
| 322 | R. E. Teusner; Ronald Parsons; Tony Lucas; Tony Parkinson | Four books on South Australia Local History |
1968; 1998; 1972; ND | AUD 100.00 - 150.00 | AUD 114.30 | |
| 323 | A box of ephemera with Anzac memorabilia, a blank book and pamphlets |
ND | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | AUD 76.20 | ||
| 324 | Oceania |
London | 1886 | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | AUD 152.40 | |
| 325 | John Shirlow; R. H. Croll | The Etched Work of John Shirlow |
Melbourne | [1920] | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | AUD 25.40 |
| 326 | Simon Montefiore; William Dalrymple; Sean McMeekin; Dan Jones; Roy Porter; Simon Sebag Montefiore; Antonia Fraser; Jared Diamond | N Books, including: The Romanovs |
2016; 2019; 2015; 2017; 1987; 2011; 2001; 2012 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | AUD 127.00 | |
| 327 | Diarmid McCulloch; Miri Rubin; Sankara Saranam; Lynn Picknett; Simon Schama; John Allen | N Books, including: History of Christianity |
2009; 2009; 2008; 2006; 2013; 2005 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | AUD 25.40 |
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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. -
Forum Auctions
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 -
Forum Auctions
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