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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 476 | Gold and Civilisation |
N/A | AUD 60.00 - 100.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 477 | Thomas Jayne; David Larkin; Mark Alan Hewitt | The Finest Rooms in America; Victorian America - Classical Romanticism to Gilled Opulence; The Architect & the American Country House 1890-1940 |
1990 | AUD 80.00 - 150.00 | Not Sold | |
| 478 | M. Henri Martin | Histoire De France |
Paris | c. 1840-50s | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | AUD 127.00 |
| 479 | The Saturday Evening Post |
c. 1950s | AUD 150.00 - 250.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 480 | 20 Books, including: Bligh of the 'Bounty' |
1930; 1931 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | AUD 127.00 | ||
| 481 | Official History of Australia in the War Bean |
1939; 1942; 1938 | AUD 400.00 - 500.00 | AUD 285.75 | ||
| 482 | A D Hope; Watson; May Gibbs; Max Dupain | Multiple Books, including: Watson History of Canberra |
N/A | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | AUD 63.50 | |
| 483 | 17 Books, including: Sydney Town Hall |
N/A | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 484 | Patrick White; Thea Astley; Frank Dalby Davison; Jessica Anderson; Thos E Spencer; Xavier Herbert; Peter Carey; Bernard O'Dowd; Sumner Locike-Elliott; George Landen Dann; P R Stephensen | AUSTRALIAN LITERATURE |
N/A | AUD 150.00 - 250.00 | Not Sold | |
| 485 | Henry Norbert Birt | Benedictine Pioneers in Australia |
c1970s | AUD 80.00 - 120.00 | Not Sold | |
| 486 | Rev. James Ballantyne | Our Colony in 1880 |
1880 | AUD 250.00 - 350.00 | AUD 152.40 | |
| 487 | Year-Book of the Church In The Diocese for Ballarat, For 1896 |
1896; 1897 | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 488 | Zenker-Schultes Piano Factory Catalogue |
c1940s | AUD 100.00 - 150.00 | AUD 63.50 | ||
| 489 | Kew Baptist Church - The Achievements and Progress during 75 years |
1856-1931 | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 490 | Eric Harding | Uniform Railway Gauge |
1958 | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | AUD 444.50 | |
| 491 | Roger Lawrence | Aboriginal Habitat and Economy |
1969 | AUD 150.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold | |
| 492 | T. Salisbury; P.J. Gresser | Windradyne of the Wiradjuri - Martial Law At Bathurst in 1824 |
1971 | AUD 150.00 - 200.00 | AUD 215.90 | |
| 493 | Catherine J. Ellis | Field Notes - On Tape Recordings of Aboriginal Songs Made in 1962-63 |
1962-63; 1964 | AUD 100.00 - 150.00 | AUD 63.50 | |
| 494 | A.P. Elkin | Two Rituals in South and Central Arnhem Land |
Sydney | 1972 | AUD 150.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold |
| 495 | A.P. Elkin | Studies in Australian Totemism |
1933 | AUD 150.00 - 250.00 | Not Sold | |
| 496 | J.E. Murphy; E.W. Easton | Wilderness to Wealth - Being a History of the Shires of Nanango, Kingaroy, Wondai, Murgon, Kilkivan, and the Upper Yarraman Portion of the Rosalie Shire |
1850-1950 | AUD 150.00 - 200.00 | AUD 88.90 | |
| 497 | Wollaston | Wollaston's Picton Journal 1841-1844; Wollaston's Albany Journals 1848-1856 |
N/A | AUD 100.00 - 150.00 | Not Sold | |
| 498 | Goldfields Reminiscences - Castlemaine's Golden Era |
Castlemaine | 1977 | AUD 100.00 - 150.00 | AUD 114.30 | |
| 499 | Carboni Raffaello | The Eureka Stockade: The Consequence of Some Pirates Wanting on Quarter-Deck A Rebellion; Journal of Landsborough's Expedition From Carpentaria, In |
1962; 1971; 1969 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold | |
| 500 | William Henry Archer | The Progress of Victoria: A Statistical Essay |
1873 | AUD 250.00 - 350.00 | AUD 177.80 |
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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