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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 178 | Geological Survey of New South Wales, The Mineral Resources of New South Wales |
New South Wales | 1901 | AUD 400.00 - 500.00 | AUD 63.50 | |
| 179 | Tasmania Report of the Secretary for Mines |
Tasmania | 1908 | AUD 600.00 - 700.00 | AUD 63.50 | |
| 180 | Department of Mines Bulletins of the Geological Survey of Victoria, with plans and sections |
Victoria | 1922 | AUD 800.00 - 1,000.00 | AUD 63.50 | |
| 181 | Western Australia Geological Survey Bulletin No. 71, Maps and Sections to Accompany Report on The Geology and Mineral Resources of Yilgarn Goldfield, Part III, Plates I - XIX |
1917 | AUD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 182 | Western Australia Geological Survey Bulletin 68, Maps and Sections to Accompany Report on The Geology and Ore-Deposits of Meekatharra, Murchison Goldfield, plates I - XXV |
1916 | AUD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 183 | The Royal Society of Western Australia Vol. IX, Part II |
1923 | AUD 600.00 - 700.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 184 | The Popular Science Review |
1862-1868 | AUD 150.00 - 250.00 | AUD 228.60 | ||
| 185 | Memorial of Alexander Lyman Holley, C.E. LL.D. |
N/A | AUD 50.00 - 100.00 | AUD 25.40 | ||
| 186 | John Tyndall | Sound; The Forms of Water; Light |
1880's | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | AUD 88.90 | |
| 187 | Alexander von Humboldt | Cosmos: A Physical Description of the Universe |
1847; 1848; 1851; 1858 | AUD 150.00 - 250.00 | AUD 285.75 | |
| 188 | NAPIER TERCENTENARY MEMORIAL VOLUME |
1915 | AUD 50.00 - 100.00 | AUD 25.40 | ||
| 189 | Seven Sydney Local History Books |
1959; 1996; 1987; 1960; 1937; 1997; 1948 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 190 | Six Hakluyt Society publishing |
N/A | AUD 150.00 - 250.00 | AUD 101.60 | ||
| 191 | Catherine Drummond Cotton; William Beard; E.M. Webster; Max Soling and Peter Reynolds | Ludwig Leichhardt and The Great South Land; Journey Triumphant - The Story of Leichhardt's Famous Expedition from the Darling Downs to Port Essington; An Explorer at Rest - Ludwig Leichhardt at Port Essington and on the homeward voyage 1845-1846; Leichhar |
1938; 1955; 1986; 1997 | AUD 120.00 - 200.00 | AUD 76.20 | |
| 192 | Jean Taylor; Pip Wilson | Brazen Hussies - A Herstory of Radical Activism in the Women's Liberation Movement in Victoria 1970-1979; Faces in the Street - Luisa and Henry Lawson and the Castlereagh Street Push |
2009; 2007 | AUD 100.00 - 150.00 | Not Sold | |
| 193 | John Lynch; James T. Ryan; Charles Ramsay; Richard Charles Mills; Bertha Mac Smith; John Kirwan; k. Forrest | Seven Books about Australian Pioneers and Settlers |
N/A | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | AUD 25.40 | |
| 194 | Sreten Bozic; Cyril havecker; Diana Eades; null; null; Sarah Colley; Juliette Blevins | Seven Australian Aboriginal History Books |
1972; 1996; 2013; 1978; 2010; 2002; null | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | AUD 25.40 | |
| 195 | Five books about Australian Aboriginal Art |
1973; null; 1989; 1992-1994; 2010 | AUD 120.00 - 200.00 | AUD 38.10 | ||
| 196 | James Cowan; Ainsline Roberts; Charles E. Hulley | Four Aboriginal Dreaming Books |
1993; 2002; 1975; 1988 | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | AUD 38.10 | |
| 197 | Margaret Kemarre Turner; K M MacAulay; Colin Tatz & Paul Tatz | Iwenhe Tyerrtye: What It Means to Be an Aboriginal Person; Black Anna; Black Pearls - The Aboriginal and Islander Sports Hall of Fame |
2009; 1976; 2018 | AUD 150.00 - 200.00 | AUD 38.10 | |
| 198 | Terence Lane; Nadine Amadio; David Boyd; Geoffrey Dutton; Lou Klepac | Six Australian Impressionism books |
2007; 1923; 2004; 1985; 2013; 1998 | AUD 150.00 - 250.00 | AUD 25.40 | |
| 199 | Andrew Tink; Arthur Hoyle | Thirty books on early Australian settlement and colonial history |
2009; 2001 | AUD 300.00 - 400.00 | AUD 127.00 | |
| 200 | Bede Maxwell; William Westgarth; Elyne Mitchell | Approximately 100-120 books on Australia |
1948; 1864; 1945 | AUD 250.00 - 300.00 | AUD 63.50 | |
| 201 | Picturesque Mackay |
ND 1950s | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | AUD 190.50 | ||
| 202 | Tasmania. The Isle Of Scenic Beauty |
ND 1950s | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | 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