Sydney Rare Book Auctions: Science and Art : books and original works, 51726, Ultimo
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- May 17, 2026 - May 17, 2026
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 232 | Charles David Jones Bryant; J Muir Auld; C E W Bean; Boyd Cable | The Sydney Mail (2 issues) |
1913 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold | |
| 233 | Julian Cox | Spirit into Matter: The Photographs of Edmund Teske |
2004 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold | |
| 234 | Official Illustrated Guide to Adelaide & Environs |
Adelaide | 1906 | AUD 500.00 - 600.00 | Not Sold | |
| 235 | Return of Diseases in the Various Establishments Under The Charge of The Chief Medical Officer For The Year 1871; Report of the Inspector-General for the Year Ending 31st December 1871 |
1872 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 236 | Jean Guiart | The Arts of the South Pacific |
1963 | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold | |
| 237 | Papers connected with the late sale of Land at Kilmany Park North Gippsland; Plan of the ground |
1876 | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 238 | Solomon & Higgins; Michel Foucault; Coulton; Warraq; Hobson; Kirsch; Hardison | 7 Books, including: A Short History of Philosophy |
1996; 2007; 1950; 2002; 1999; 2000; 1968 | AUD 300.00 - 400.00 | Not Sold | |
| 239 | Isaac Asimov; Damon Knight; Kurt Vonnegut; Murray Leinster; A Bertram Chandler; Eric Frank Russell; Poul Anderson; John Campbell; Clifford D Simark | 30 Books, including: New Worlds Science Fiction |
N/A | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold | |
| 240 | Report of The Select Committee of The Senate of The United States On The Sickness and Mortality on Board Emigrant Ships |
1854 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 241 | William Bligh | A Voyage To The South Sea, Undertaken By Command of His Majesty, For The Purpose of Conveying The Bread-Fruit Tree To The West Indies |
1979 | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | AUD 177.80 | |
| 242 | Basil Lubbock | 5 Books, including: The Nitrate Clippers |
1946; 1953; 1969-70 | AUD 300.00 - 400.00 | Not Sold | |
| 243 | BOOKS ON BOOKS |
N/A | AUD 80.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 244 | Horrible Histories Blood-Curdling Set |
N/A | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 245 | Daisy Lion-Goldschmidt | Ming Porcelain |
1978 | AUD 100.00 - 150.00 | Not Sold | |
| 246 | J.M. Synge | My Wallet of Photographs - The Collected Photographs of J.M. Synge |
1971 | AUD 100.00 - 150.00 | Not Sold | |
| 247 | Judy White | 4 Books, including: When Gentlemen were Gentlemen Speeches |
1992 | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold | |
| 248 | A. M. Duncan-Kemp | Where Strange Paths Go Down |
Brisbane | 1964 | AUD 250.00 - 350.00 | AUD 152.40 |
| 249 | Samuel Rodgers | Italy A Poem |
London | 1830 | AUD 200.00 - 250.00 | AUD 254.00 |
| 250 | W.G. Woolnough | Direction Finding. By Sun, Moon and Stars. Simple Methods Not Involving Mathematical Calculations. |
Sydney | 1943 | AUD 150.00 - 250.00 | AUD 254.00 |
| 251 | J.S. Weeding; Hilda Archer Johnson; J.R. Skemp; John Seymour Weeding; Coultman Smith; Gary White | 15 Books, including: Gravely Tasmania |
N/A | AUD 150.00 - 250.00 | AUD 88.90 | |
| 252 | Megan Holmes | Fra Filippo Lippi: The Carmelite Painter; From Filippo Lippi to Piero Della Francesca. Fra Carnevale and the Making of a Renaissance Master |
1999; 2005 | AUD 100.00 - 130.00 | AUD 88.90 | |
| 253 | Nolhac Pierre de (1859-1936) | Francois Boucher : premier peintre du roi, 1703-1770 |
1907 | AUD 600.00 - 800.00 | AUD 381.00 | |
| 254 | Jenny Gaschke | 7 Books, including: Dutch Classicism in Seventeenth-Century Painting |
Rotterdam; Tielt; Washington | 1990; 2000; 2008; 2010; 2018 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | AUD 127.00 |
| 255 | Denys Hay | 4 Books, including: The Renaissance Portrait from Donatello to Bellini |
London | 1967; 1998 | AUD 150.00 - 200.00 | AUD 63.50 |
| 256 | Philip Rylands | 5 Books, including: Giovanni Bellini's St. Francis in the Frick Collection |
1964; 1987; 1992; 2001; 2003 | AUD 130.00 - 180.00 | Not Sold |
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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