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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 257 | El Greco, Identity and Transformation; El Greco, Phaidon Edition |
Madrid, Spain | 1938; 1999 | AUD 100.00 - 150.00 | Not Sold | |
| 258 | Michael Snodin; Nigel Llewellyn; Maurizio Dell'Arco | Baroque Style in the Age of Magnificence; Great Baroque and Rococo Sculpture |
London | 1978; 2009 | AUD 80.00 - 120.00 | Not Sold |
| 259 | Stephan Kemperdinck | The Master of Flemalle and Rogier van der Weyden |
2009 | AUD 350.00 - 500.00 | Not Sold | |
| 260 | Frank Clarke | In The Botanic Gardens Melbourne |
Melbourne | 1924 | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold |
| 261 | Souvenir View Book of Melbourne |
N/A | AUD 150.00 - 250.00 | AUD 101.60 | ||
| 262 | C.M. Bowra; William Edward Harney | Primitive Song; Songs of the Songmen |
London | 1962; 1968 | AUD 150.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold |
| 263 | Jean Walker; Joan Lyons | 5 Books, including: Southern Tasmanian Licensed Anglers Association Annual Report season 1969-1970 |
1969-1970; 1988; 2000 | AUD 100.00 - 150.00 | Not Sold | |
| 264 | Karl Von Steglitz; Max I. Crawford | 14 Books, including: Parish of Buckland Tasmania |
1933-1949 | AUD 120.00 - 150.00 | Not Sold | |
| 265 | Ian Brand; Richard Lord | 4 Books, including: Port Arthur 1830-1877 |
1975; 1976; 1978 | AUD 100.00 - 130.00 | Not Sold | |
| 266 | Ian Boss-Walker; J. W. Beattie; Linda Monks; Roy Cox; Cwen Cox | 5 Books, including: Peaks and High Places |
Hobart | 1945; 1950; c.1950; 1959 | AUD 200.00 - 250.00 | Not Sold |
| 267 | J A Sears | 36 Views Tasmania Descriptive and Illustrative With Panoramas |
N/A | AUD 200.00 - 250.00 | Not Sold | |
| 268 | New Guinea, a detailed map |
Sydney | ca. 1940 | AUD 100.00 - 130.00 | Not Sold | |
| 269 | A.P Fleming; Hilde J. Shaw; Adrian Twitt | 5 Books, including: Methodist Church in Goulburn Valley 1873-1977 |
1951; 1966; 1980 | AUD 100.00 - 150.00 | Not Sold | |
| 270 | David Blair | The History of Australasia |
Glasgow | 1878 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | AUD 539.75 |
| 271 | E. J. Sullivan | Sintram and His Companions |
London | c.1908 | AUD 300.00 - 350.00 | Not Sold |
| 272 | John Hayter; Owen Jones | An introduction to perspective : practical geometry, drawing and painting |
1845 | AUD 300.00 - 400.00 | AUD 476.25 | |
| 273 | Jacob et Abel Grimmer. Catalogue raisonne |
Brussel | 1991 | AUD 80.00 - 120.00 | AUD 63.50 | |
| 274 | Cecil Gould | Parmigianino |
New York | 1995 | AUD 100.00 - 150.00 | Not Sold |
| 275 | David Franklin; Linda Murray | Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, and the Renaissance in Florence; Italian Paintings of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; Michelangelo: His Life Work and Times |
New Haven; Ottawa; Washington; London | 1984; 1996; 2005 | AUD 150.00 - 200.00 | AUD 63.50 |
| 276 | Hubertus von Sonnenburg; Walter; Gary Schwartz; Jonathan Bikker | Rembrandt/Not Rembrandt 2 Vol Set; Rembrandt: His Life, His Paintings; Rembrandt; The Late Works |
London | 1991; 1995; 2014 | AUD 150.00 - 200.00 | AUD 63.50 |
| 277 | Paolo Mantegazza | The Legends of Flowers: or 'Tis Love That Makes The World Go Round |
London; Edinburgh | 1908 | AUD 150.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold |
| 278 | Walter Crane | Flowers from Shakespeare's Garden: A Posy from the Plays |
London | 1909 | AUD 350.00 - 450.00 | Not Sold |
| 279 | W. & G. Audsley | Polychromatic Decoration as Applied to Buildings in the Medieval Styles |
London | 1882 | AUD 500.00 - 700.00 | AUD 317.50 |
| 280 | Thomas Day | The History of Sandford & Merton |
Edinburgh | c. 1867 | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold |
| 281 | Johan Ludvig Runeberg | Fanrik Stals Sagner |
Stockholm | 1883 | AUD 150.00 - 200.00 | 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