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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 76 | Peter Mitchell; ND; Alan McNairn; Didier Bodart; Lorne Campbell; ND; Ronni Baer; Arthur Wheelock | 8 Books on Dutch Master Painters |
1968; 1978; 1980; 1990; 1998; 1998; 2000; 2009 | AUD 300.00 - 400.00 | Not Sold | |
| 77 | Marianne Roland Michel; ND; Jacques Thuillier | 3 Books on Antoine Watteau and Simon Vouet |
New York; Paris; Paris | 1984; 1985; 1990 | AUD 250.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold |
| 78 | Bernard Berenson | Italian Pictures of the Renaissance. A list of the principal artists and their works with an index of places |
Oxford | 1957; 1963; 1968 | AUD 500.00 - 750.00 | AUD 127.00 |
| 79 | F. J. B. Watson | The Wrightsman Collection |
New York | 1966 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | AUD 127.00 |
| 80 | Luigi Malle | Museo Civico di Torino. Catologo del Museo d’Arte Antica |
Torino | 1963-1972 | AUD 250.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold |
| 81 | Diane Russell; Pierre Rosenberg; Marcel Roethlisberger | Claude Gelle edit Claude Lorrain; Im Licht von Claude Lorraine |
Paris; Munchen | 1983 | AUD 150.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold |
| 82 | Heinrich Kreisel | Die Kunst des deutschen Mobels. Band II: Spatbarock und Rokoko |
Munchen | 1970 | AUD 300.00 - 400.00 | Not Sold |
| 83 | Federico Zeri; ND; ND; ND; ND; ND; David Ekserdijian; Francis Haskell; ND; ND | 11 Books on Renaissance Old Masters and Baroque Painters |
Roma; ND; Liverpool; Liverpool; ND; Paris; ND; ND; London; ND | 1955; 1963; 1977; 1977; 1985; 1994; 2010; 2013; 2016; ND | AUD 300.00 - 400.00 | Not Sold |
| 84 | A Catalogue of the Margrave Pallavicini Collection and Other Properties |
1927 | AUD 250.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 85 | Hugo Morley-Fletcher | Early European Porcelain & Faience as Collected by Kiyi and Edward Pflueger |
London | 1993 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold |
| 86 | Andrew Garran; ND | Medley Australiana lot |
Melbourne; ND; ND | 1880; 1898; ND | AUD 150.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold |
| 87 | Karl Friedrich August Gutzlaff; H. H. Lindsay | A Voyage to the Northern Ports of China, in the ship Lord Amherst |
London | 1833; 1834 | AUD 300.00 - 400.00 | AUD 190.50 |
| 88 | Rodolfo Pallucchini; ND; ND; Francesco Frangi; Alessandro Morandotti; Rosella Vodret; Vincent Delieuvin | 12 Books on Italian Renaissance and Baroque Art |
ND; Cento; ND; ND; ND; ND; ND | 1961; 1987; 1988; 2002; 2011; 2012; ND | AUD 300.00 - 400.00 | Not Sold |
| 89 | John Pope-Hennesy; Kenneth Clark; Eve Borsook; Carolyn Wilson; ND; Giovanni Agosti; Dominique Thiebaut; Helen Langdon | 12 Art Monographs on the Italian Renaissance and Baroque |
London; ND; ND; Houston; ND; ND; ND; ND | 1950; 1951; 1960; 1996; 2001; 2008; 2010; ND | AUD 400.00 - 500.00 | Not Sold |
| 90 | Reinis Zusters | Spiral Vision |
Sydney | 1981 | AUD 600.00 - 800.00 | Not Sold |
| 91 | Howard Willoughby | Australian Pictures Drawn with Pen and Pencil |
London | 1886 | AUD 300.00 - 400.00 | AUD 190.50 |
| 92 | Ernest Giles | The Journal of a Forgotten Expedition |
Adelaide | 1979 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | AUD 127.00 |
| 93 | William Henry Traill | A Queenly Colony - Pen Sketches and Camera Glimpses |
Brisbane | 1901 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | AUD 190.50 |
| 94 | Bernard Smith & Alwyne Wheeler | The Art of the First Fleet & other early Australian drawings |
Melbourne | 1988 | AUD 100.00 - 150.00 | AUD 38.10 |
| 95 | John Stackhouse | From The Dawn Of Aviation. The Qantas Story 1920 - 1995 |
ND | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold | |
| 96 | William Bickford | Vathek |
London | 1815 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | AUD 88.90 |
| 97 | A.C. Michael | An Artist in Spain |
London | c. 1914 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold |
| 98 | Kenneth Macqueen | Adventure in Watercolour. An artist's story |
Sydney | n.d. 1938 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | AUD 152.40 |
| 99 | George Barnard | The Theory and Practice of Landscape Painting in Water Colours |
London | 1855 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | AUD 215.90 |
| 100 | Edward Gibbon | Mr. Gibbon's History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire Abridged |
London | 1790 | AUD 500.00 - 600.00 | AUD 228.60 |
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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
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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
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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 -
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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
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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