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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 153 | Geoffrey Barraclough; John Harthan; Elie Kedourie | The Christian World; Books of Hours; The Jewish World |
ND | AUD 150.00 - 200.00 | AUD 25.40 | |
| 154 | Roloff Beny; Gore Vidal; Anthony Thwaite; Peter Porter; Brian de Breffny; Seyyed Hossein Nasr; Mitchell Crites | In Italy; Persia |
Italy; Persia | ND | AUD 100.00 - 150.00 | AUD 127.00 |
| 155 | Brunnichii; P. Rambur; Kerremans; Aug Lameere | Brunnichii Zoologiae fundamenta praelectionibus academicis accommodata; Histoire Naturelle des Insectes. Nevropteres; Monographie des Buprestides. Volume 3 & 4 only; Manuel De La Faune De Belgique: Insects Inferieurs |
Hafniae; Lipsiae; Paris; Bruxelles | 1772; 1842; 1908-1909; 1900 | AUD 300.00 - 400.00 | AUD 25.40 |
| 156 | Lacordaire | US Department of Agricultural Entomology Bulletins; Introduction a l'entomologie |
ND; Paris | 1885-1900; 1834 | AUD 450.00 - 550.00 | AUD 63.50 |
| 157 | Walter E. Roth; Raymond Haynes; Roslynn Haynes; David Malin; Richard McGee | Fighting Weapons; Explorers of the Southern Sky: A History of Australian Astronomy |
Queensland; Australia | 1909; 1996 | AUD 150.00 - 250.00 | AUD 25.40 |
| 158 | Entomologist's Annual |
London | 1855; 1856; 1857; 1858; 1859; 1860; 1861; 1862; 1863; 1864; 1867; 1868; 1869; 1870; 1871; 1872 | AUD 350.00 - 450.00 | AUD 63.50 | |
| 159 | Carl Johan Schoenherr | Curculionidum dispositio methodica, cum generum characteribus, descriptionibus atque observationibus variis, seu Prodromus ad Synonymiae, insectorum partem IV |
Lipsiae | 1826 | AUD 350.00 - 450.00 | Not Sold |
| 160 | Noel Antoine Pluch | Spectacle de la Nature, or Nature Delineated |
London | 1744 | AUD 150.00 - 250.00 | AUD 63.50 |
| 161 | FGA Barnard | The Victorian Naturalist |
Melbourne | 1905-7 | AUD 150.00 - 250.00 | Not Sold |
| 162 | Charles De Geer; Johann August Ephraim Goeze | Abhandlungen zur Geschichte der Insekter |
Leipzig | 1775 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | AUD 152.40 |
| 163 | Gottlieb Tobias Wilhelm | Insectem volume Unterhaltungen aus der Naturgeschichte |
ND | AUD 350.00 - 450.00 | AUD 139.70 | |
| 164 | Johann Friedrich Glaser | Physikalisch-Oconomische Abhandlung von den Schadlichen Raupen der Obstbaume, und bewahrten Hulfmitteln, solche Raupen von den Obstbaumen abzuhalten und zu vertreiben |
Leipzig | 1780 | AUD 250.00 - 350.00 | AUD 63.50 |
| 165 | Friedrich Christian Lesser | Insecto-theologia |
Franckfurt | 1738 | AUD 250.00 - 350.00 | AUD 63.50 |
| 166 | Frank Cridland; Jas. Steele; James S. Hassall; Isadore Brodsky | Port Hacking and Sutherland Shire; Early days of Windsor; In Old Australia; Heart of the Rocks of Old Sydney |
NSW | ND | AUD 50.00 - 100.00 | AUD 25.40 |
| 167 | Earnest Hunter | "Vicarious Dreaming with Jack Idriess on Madman's Island" |
2019 | AUD 50.00 - 100.00 | AUD 25.40 | |
| 168 | Cutten History Committee of The Fitzroy History Society | Fitzroy - Melbourne's First Suburb |
1989 | AUD 150.00 - 250.00 | AUD 101.60 | |
| 169 | David A. Weston; Arthur Victor Palmer; Michael Jones | Armidale and District Historical Society Journal No.24-27; The Sleeping City - The story of Rookwood Necropolis; The Gold Mines of Bendigo; Frankston - Resort To City |
Victoria | 1980-84; ND; ND; 1989 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | AUD 25.40 |
| 170 | Alfred Deakin; Allan Sierp; J.M. Freeland; Robert P. Whitworth; G Scurfield; W.K. Birrell | The Crisis in Victorian Politics, 1879-1881; Colonial Life in Victoria; Melbourne Churches 1836-1851 - An Architectural Record; Bailliere's Victorian Gazetteer and Road Guide, containing The most recent and accurate information as to every place in the co |
Victoria | 1957; 1972; ND; 1879; ND; ND | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | AUD 25.40 |
| 171 | Eric R. Guiler | Thylacine: The Tragedy of the Tasmanian Tiger |
1985 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | AUD 139.70 | |
| 172 | James Boyce; Capt. h. Butler Stoney; Sam Everingham; Mrs. Arthur H.Garnsey | Pockets & Corners - Furry Facts and Thylacine Fiction in the Hartland of Tasmania; Van Diemen's Land; A Residence in Tasmania: with A descriptive Tour Through the Island From Macquarie Harbour To Circular Head; Madam Lash - Gretel Pinniger's scandalous li |
Tasmania | ND; 2008; 1856; 2010; ND | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | AUD 127.00 |
| 173 | Betty Osborn; C.P. Harris; J. W. Collinson | Maryborough - A Social History 1854-1904; Local Government and Regionalism in Queensland 1859 to 1977; More about Cairns: 3. Recollections of a Varied Life; 100 Years of Progress - The Story to Toowoomba |
Queensland | 1854-1904; 1859 to 1977; 1946; ND | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | AUD 25.40 |
| 174 | Department of Mines Bulletins of the Geological Survey of Victoria |
Victoria | 1920 | AUD 150.00 - 250.00 | AUD 101.60 | |
| 175 | Department of Mines Bulletins of the Geological Survey of Victoria |
Victoria | 1925 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | AUD 127.00 | |
| 176 | Department of Mines Bulletins of the Geological Survey of Victoria |
Victoria | 1926 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | AUD 127.00 | |
| 177 | Department of Mines Bulletins of the Geological Survey of Victoria |
Victoria | 1923 | 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. -
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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