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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 307 | Clive Turnbull | The Art of Rupert Bunny Appreciation |
Sydney | 1948 | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | AUD 63.50 |
| 308 | Edward FitzGerald | The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam |
1904 | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | AUD 88.90 | |
| 309 | JH Fabre | Insect Life |
1901 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold | |
| 310 | The Strand Magazine |
1891; 1901 | AUD 300.00 - 400.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 311 | Gerard Tuck; Hermann Heinzel; Arnold R McGill; Rex Davies; AH Chisolm | A Field Guide of Seabirds of Australia and the World; Australian Warblers; Some Australian Birds |
Melbourne | 1981; 1971 | AUD 60.00 - 100.00 | AUD 38.10 |
| 312 | RJ Tillyard; William Blunt; Doris Mackinnon; RSJ Hawes | The Evolution of the Class Insecta; The Compleat Naturalist: A Life of Linnaeus; An Introduction to the study of Protozoa |
Hobert; New York; Oxford | 1930; 1971; 1961 | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold |
| 313 | Andrew J Beattie | The Evolutionary Ecology of Ant-Plant Mutualisms |
1985 | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold | |
| 314 | Landing Ship Infantry - H.M.A.S. Westralia |
1947 | AUD 150.00 - 250.00 | AUD 101.60 | ||
| 315 | A. A. Milne | When I Was Very Young |
New York | 1930 | AUD 400.00 - 500.00 | AUD 476.25 |
| 316 | TS Eliot | The Elder Statesman |
1959 | AUD 500.00 - 600.00 | Not Sold | |
| 317 | TS Eliot | The Confidential Clerk |
London | 1954 | AUD 60.00 - 100.00 | Not Sold |
| 318 | Norman Lindsay | Micomicana |
Melbourne | 1979 | AUD 500.00 - 600.00 | AUD 381.00 |
| 319 | Robyn Buchanan | Ipswich In the 20th Century |
N/A | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold | |
| 320 | Linda A. Rossow | The Saddest Chapter |
2009 | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold | |
| 321 | Gordon Buchanan | Packhorse and Waterhole With The First Overlanders To The Kimberley |
1933 | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold | |
| 322 | Frank O'Grady | Goonoo Goonoo |
1956 | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold | |
| 323 | Baldwin Spencer; F J Gillen; Daisy Bates; Robert Layton; Xavier Herbert; Ray Crooke | 6 Books, including: The Native Tribes of Central Australia |
1939; 1912; 1938; 1997; 1986; 1977 | AUD 150.00 - 250.00 | Not Sold | |
| 324 | R. Goldbery; K.J. Dickinson; Loftus Hills; J. b. Jaquet | 6 Books, including: Geology of the Western Blue Mountains |
1969; 1972; 1919; 1876; 1901 | AUD 150.00 - 250.00 | AUD 88.90 | |
| 325 | 21 Items, including: To Authorise and Regulate the Use of Steam Rollers upon Highways |
1892; 1861; 1885; 1875; 1865; 1874; 1863; 1872; 1877; 1870; 1879; 1929; 1884; 1912; 1887; 1990 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 326 | George Fox | Fox's Journal |
c1690s | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | AUD 139.70 | |
| 327 | Reports of Explorations and Surveys, To Ascertain The Most Practicable and Economical Route For A Railroad From The Mississippi River To The Pacific Ocean |
1956; 1856 | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 328 | Griswold; Chewon Kim; Peter H Pott; Lobsang Rampa; F Spencer | 4 Books, including: The Art of Burma Korea Tibet |
1964; 1956; 1938 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold | |
| 329 | Van Tien Dung; George Groslier; Wignesan; Wavell; Oswald Ziegler | 5 Books, including: After political failure The U.S. Imperialists Are Facing Military Defeat in South Vietnam |
Hanoi; Paris | 1966; 1916; 1972 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold |
| 330 | Maurice Collis; Allen Edwardes | The Land of the Great Image; Rape of India: A Biography of Robert Clive and a Sexual History of the Conquest of Hindustan |
1953; 1966 | AUD 120.00 - 180.00 | Not Sold | |
| 331 | Philip JC Dark; Roger G. Rose; Nicholas Thomas; Ann Stephen; Greg Dening; Vilsoni Tausie | 6 Books, including: Artistic Heritage in a Changing Pacific |
Melbourne | 1993; 1999; 1991; 1998; 1981 | AUD 225.00 - 280.00 | AUD 139.70 |
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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