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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 450 | Douglas West; Philip E High; Nigel Lloyd; Bertram Chandler; Isaac Asimov; Brian Aldiss | Authentic Science Fiction Monthly |
1957 | AUD 170.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold | |
| 451 | James Blish; Damon Knight; Frederick Pohl; Isaac Asimov; Randall Garrett; Fritz Leiber | Infinity |
1956;1957;1958 | AUD 150.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold | |
| 452 | Isaac Asimov; Robert Bloch; John Wyndham; Zenna Henderson; Theodore Sturgeon; Philip K Dick; Philip Hose Farmer | Beyond Fantasy Fiction |
New York; Leicester | 1953;1954 | AUD 170.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold |
| 453 | Isaac Asimov; Ron Hubbard; Edmond Hamilton; Arthur C Clarke; James Blish; Neil R Jones; HG Wells; Sprague de Camp | Two Complete Science-Adventure Books |
1950;1951 | AUD 170.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold | |
| 454 | Theodore Sturgeon; Geoff St Reynard; Clee Garson; Paul W Fairman | Fantastic Adventure |
1950 | AUD 170.00 - 200.00 | AUD 101.60 | |
| 455 | James P. Hogan | Inherit the Stars |
1977 | AUD 80.00 - 100.00 | AUD 50.80 | |
| 456 | Walter Tevis | The Man Who Fell to Earth |
1976 | AUD 80.00 - 100.00 | AUD 50.80 | |
| 457 | Robert Buchard | Thirty Seconds over New York |
New York | 1970 | AUD 70.00 - 150.00 | AUD 38.10 |
| 458 | James McConnell; Lester del Rey; Charles Chilton; HP Lovecraft; George O Smith; Ross Rocklynne; Otis Adelbert Kline | 8 Books, including: The Game of White |
1953;1958;1949;1950;1973;1962 | AUD 150.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold | |
| 459 | 11 Books, including: Super Science Stories |
1941;1950;1951;1952 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | AUD 127.00 | ||
| 460 | Lovecraft Howard Phillips | The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath |
Buffalo | 1955 | AUD 750.00 - 1,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 461 | Heinrich Zeller; Schiller; Ludwig Ganghofer; Detlev von Liliencron; John Bunyan; Joseph Victor Von Scheffel | 10 Books, including: Frisch auf! |
1903;1889;1899;1894;1893;1880s-90s;1890;1897;1905 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold | |
| 462 | Geoffrey Stephens | 5 Books, including: Tasmanian Insights |
1962;1969-2019;1863-1988 | AUD 100.00 - 150.00 | Not Sold | |
| 463 | Kevin Fahy | Australian Art Pottery 1900-1950 |
2004 | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | AUD 63.50 | |
| 464 | Lin Bloomfield | The Complete Etchings of Norman Lindsay |
North Sydney | 1998 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | AUD 190.50 |
| 465 | Captain Watkin Tench; Dorothy Carmichael; Marghanita da Cruz; Freda MacDonnell; Terry Kass | 7 Books, including: Sydney's First Four Years |
1962;1969-2019;1863-1988 | AUD 100.00 - 150.00 | AUD 114.30 | |
| 467 | Pauline Rohatgi; Pheroza Godrej; Rahul Mehrotra; Jon Lang; Madhavi Desai; Miki Desai; Helder Carita | Bombay To Mumbai - Changing Perspectives; Architecture & Independence; Palaces of Goa |
2007;1997;1999 | AUD 150.00 - 250.00 | Not Sold | |
| 468 | Gavin Fry; Colleen Fry; Jill Poulton; Elizabeth Ellis; Richard Neville; John J. Taylor | 6 Books, including: Donald Friend - Australian War Artist 1945 |
1945;2020 | AUD 150.00 - 250.00 | Not Sold | |
| 469 | Mark Hampton; Pauline C. Metcalf; Stephen Calloway; Charlotte Gere | 6 Books, including: The Decorative Tile in Architecture and Interiors |
2000;1768-1899 | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold | |
| 470 | Megan Aldrich; Michael Hall | Gothic For The Steam Age - An Illustrated Biography of George Gilbert Scott; Gothic Revival; George Frederick Bodley and The Later Gothic Revival in Britain |
2015;1994;2014 | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold | |
| 471 | Beverley Sherry; Douglass Baglin; Anne Wark; John Dawes | 7 Books, including: Australia's Historic Stained Glass |
1991;1825-2000 | AUD 150.00 - 250.00 | Not Sold | |
| 472 | Anderson; Mark Laird; John Morley | Anderson's Manual of The Glower Garden and Shrubbery; The Formal Garden; Regency Design. 1790-1840 |
c1900;1992;1790-1840 | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold | |
| 473 | Arthur Stratton; Robin Boyd; Andrea Palladio | Elements of Form & Design In Classic Architecture; The Puzzle of Architecture; The Four Books of Architecture |
1987;1965 | AUD 100.00 - 150.00 | Not Sold | |
| 474 | William Alexander; George Henry Mason | Views of 18th Century China. Costumes. History. Customs; Views of The Pearl River Delta - Macau, Canton and Hong Kong |
1988 | AUD 60.00 - 120.00 | Not Sold | |
| 475 | Mark Bence-Jones; Wendy Hitchmough; Gert Streidt; Klaus Frahm | 4 Books, including: A Guide to Irish Country Houses |
1996; 1973 | AUD 100.00 - 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