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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 203 | G H Teed; V Fremlin; Robert Murray; Gilbert Chester; Gwyn Evans; E S Brooks; Rex Hardinge | Fourteen Union Jack Magazines |
London | 1920s; 1930s | AUD 400.00 - 500.00 | AUD 63.50 |
| 204 | Marc Brody | Illustrated Stories Hot Off The Press |
Sydney | ND 1950s | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | AUD 25.40 |
| 205 | Thirteen random copies of The Phantom comic |
Sydney | 1950s | AUD 500.00 - 600.00 | AUD 63.50 | |
| 206 | Michael Papantonio; null; null; null; null; null; Frank Broomhead; Tom Conroy; Hpward M; Meiric K. Dutton; Sydney Morris Cockerell & Joan Rix Tebbutt; Meiric K. Dutton; John P Harthan; Andrea Krupp; Anne Chambers | 15 Bookbinding Bibliographies |
New York; Wisconsin; San Francisco; Australia; Dallas; New York; Ravelston; USA; London; Norwood; null; Norwood; London; Newcastle; London | 1972; 1983; 1978; 1984; 1993; 1988; 1986; 2002; 1965; 1926; 1980; 1926; 1985; 2008; 1986 | AUD 500.00 - 600.00 | AUD 63.50 |
| 207 | Walter W. Stone; null; null; Holbrook Jackson; Anthony Rota; James Bettley; Dilys Winn; William H. Bond | Eight books on books |
null; 1947; 1988; 1950; 2002; null; null; null | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | AUD 38.10 | |
| 208 | Walter Burkert; Compton Reeves; Robert Fossier; Hugh Kennedy; Carole Rawcliffe; null; J. V. S. Megaw | Seven Ancient History Books |
1994; 1995; 1997; 2002; 1995; 2005; 1970 | AUD 150.00 - 250.00 | AUD 101.60 | |
| 209 | Peter Yule | The Forgotten Giant of Australian Aviation |
2001 | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold | |
| 210 | Peter C. Smith; Henri Hegener | Fairchild-Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II; Fokker-The Man and The Aircraft |
2000; 1961 | AUD 120.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold | |
| 211 | Michael Cannon | Old Melbourne Town - Before The Gold Rush |
N/A | AUD 150.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold | |
| 212 | A "Donald Times" Jubilee Souvenirs Past & Present; Past & Present - The "Donald Times" Jubilee Souvenir; Past and Present. The Donald Times Jubilee Souvenir |
1989 | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | AUD 63.50 | ||
| 213 | William Noonan | Lost Legion - Mission 204 and the Reluctant Dragon |
1987 | AUD 100.00 - 150.00 | Not Sold | |
| 214 | Elsie Ritchie | Crusaders of the Southern Cross - The Australian Light Horse in the Middle East from the letters of Colonel Jack Davies M.C., V.D. |
1998 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | AUD 127.00 | |
| 215 | Tom Roberts | Om Roberts' War Diaries ... Will We Be Disappointed - After? |
1995 | AUD 100.00 - 150.00 | AUD 25.40 | |
| 216 | N.K. Sligo; James Balzano | 3 Books about Australian Goldfields and Goldrushes |
1989; 1993; 1980 | AUD 100.00 - 150.00 | Not Sold | |
| 217 | Report of the National Rifle Association of New South Wales For 1910 and 1913 |
1911; 1914 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 218 | Robert Ampt; Gwen James; Andrew Tink; Helena Hall; Bill Tyrrell; Geoffrey Moorhouse; Gary Deirmendjian; May Munro | 11 books about Sydney |
1955; 1893-1913; 1961 | AUD 200.00 - 250.00 | AUD 127.00 | |
| 219 | Jean Demoor; Jean Massart; Emile Vandervelde | Evolution by Atrophy In Biology And Sociology |
London | 1899 | AUD 400.00 - 500.00 | Not Sold |
| 220 | Mark Evans; Stefan Weppelmann; Martin Davies; Friedbert Ficker; Ludwig Baldass; Marianne Roland Michel; Max J. Friedlander; Luisa Morton; Tom Henry; Paul Joannides | The Renaissance: A collection of very good art books, Dutch, German, Italian |
2016; 1958; 1953; 1987; 1978; 2012 | AUD 300.00 - 400.00 | Not Sold | |
| 221 | ME Mulsant | Lettres a Julie sur l'entomologie, suivies d'une description methodique de la plus grande partie des insectes de France |
1830 | AUD 300.00 - 400.00 | AUD 101.60 | |
| 222 | William Cooper; Frederic Jones | A collection of 8 books on Australian Animals |
1923; 1924; 1925 | AUD 150.00 - 250.00 | Not Sold | |
| 223 | Millard Meiss | "French Painting in the Time of Jean de Berry: The Limbourgs and Their Contemporaries" |
1974 | AUD 150.00 - 250.00 | Not Sold | |
| 224 | E. Gans-Ruedin; P. R. J. Ford; Paul Durrieu; Henry-Pierre Fourest | A collection of 4 books depicting art and design in the past |
N/A | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold | |
| 225 | J. P. Dowling; W. Fleichmann | A collection of 4 books on the dairy industry of the late-19th and 20th Century, focusing on Australia |
Australia | 1961; 1893; 1896; 1937 | AUD 150.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold |
| 226 | Wendy Franks; S.B. Andrews; Calder H. Chaffey; D.L. Jones; S.C. Clemecia | Seven books on Australian Ferns |
N/A | AUD 100.00 - 150.00 | Not Sold | |
| 227 | Joseph M. Forshaw; William T. Cooper; Mark Shephard | Australian Parrots; Parrots of the World; Aviculture in Australia, Keeping and Breeding Aviary Birds |
Australia | 2002; 1981; 1989 | AUD 150.00 - 250.00 | AUD 127.00 |
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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