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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 | Ellis H. A. | Some Economic Aspects of the Principal Tantalum-Bearing Deposits of the Pilbara Goldfield, North-west Division |
Pert | 1950 | AUD 250.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold |
| 30 | Manion Margaret M. | The Wharncliffe Hours |
London | 1981 | AUD 70.00 - 100.00 | AUD 63.50 |
| 31 | Seguy Marie-Rose | The Miraculous Journey of Mahomet |
London | 1977 | AUD 150.00 - 200.00 | AUD 50.80 |
| 32 | More Sir Thomas | The Workes of Sir Thomas More Knyght, Sometyme Lorde Chauncellour of England, wrytten by him in the Englysh tonge |
London | 1978 | AUD 400.00 - 500.00 | AUD 203.20 |
| 33 | Angelin N. P. | Crinoideorum in Stratis Sueciae Siluricis Fossilum |
Stockholm | 1878 | AUD 300.00 - 400.00 | Not Sold |
| 34 | Darwin Francis | The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, including an Autobiographical Chapter |
London | 1888 | AUD 400.00 - 500.00 | Not Sold |
| 35 | Darwin Charles | The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals |
London | 1872 | AUD 750.00 - 1,000.00 | AUD 476.25 |
| 36 | Drummond Henry | The Lowell Lectures on the Ascent of Man |
London | 1894 | AUD 250.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold |
| 37 | Wilson Gahan | Fifty Years of Playboy Cartoons by Gahan Wilson |
Seattle | 2009 | AUD 80.00 - 100.00 | AUD 127.00 |
| 38 | Holtham Thomas Edwin | On Yarra Banks |
Melbourne | 1894 | AUD 150.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold |
| 39 | Stirling James | Physiography of the Tambo Valley |
Melbourne | 1887 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold |
| 40 | Walker James Backhouse; Crittenden Victor | The Deportation of the Norfolk Islanders to the Derwent in 1808; King of Norfolk Island |
Hobart; Canberra | 1895; 1993 | AUD 250.00 - 300.00 | AUD 152.40 |
| 41 | de Quesada Alejandro; Pegler Martin | 5 Books, including: MP 38 and MP 40 Submachine Guns |
2010; 2012; 2014; 2015; 2017 | AUD 150.00 - 200.00 | AUD 88.90 | |
| 42 | Parker Mary Ann; Hamilton George | A Voyage Round the World; A Voyage Round the World in His Majesty’s Frigate Pandora |
1991; 1998 | AUD 250.00 - 300.00 | AUD 152.40 | |
| 43 | Fleurieu C. P. Claret | A Voyage Round the World performed during the Years 1790, 1791, and 1792 |
Amsterdam | 1969 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold |
| 44 | Hardy Frank; Williams Ray | The Realist |
1961-1966 | AUD 250.00 - 300.00 | AUD 152.40 | |
| 45 | Randell J. O.; Peck Harry H.; Randell John Ormond | The Pastoral Pattersons; Memoirs of a Stockman; Kimbolton |
Melbourne | 1942; 1976; 1977 | AUD 250.00 - 300.00 | AUD 152.40 |
| 46 | Cross C. F.; Bevan E. J. | Researches on Cellulose |
London | 1906 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold |
| 47 | Stuart J. McDougall; Sturt Charles; Warburton Peter Egerton; Carron William; Joyce E. B.; McCann D. A. | 5 Books, including: Explorations Across the Continent of Australia |
Adelaide | 1965; 1988; 1996; 2011 | AUD 300.00 - 400.00 | AUD 190.50 |
| 48 | Terry Michael | The Last Explorer |
1987 | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | AUD 88.90 | |
| 49 | Smith W. Ramsay | Myths & Legends of the Australian Aboriginals |
London | 1930 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | AUD 444.50 |
| 50 | Harcus William; Wilkinson G. B.; James Horton | South Australia: Its History, Resources and Productions; South Australia. Its Advantages and Resources; Six Months in South Australia |
Adelaide | 1983; 1996 | AUD 250.00 - 300.00 | AUD 152.40 |
| 51 | White Patrick | The Twyborn Affair |
London | 1979 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | AUD 139.70 |
| 52 | Browning Robert; Gray Thomas | Poems of Robert Browning; Poems of Thomas Gray |
London; Oxford | 1814; 1923 | AUD 250.00 - 300.00 | AUD 152.40 |
| 53 | South German Reef Extended Gold Mining Company Share Certificate |
c. 1900-1905 | AUD 100.00 - 150.00 | AUD 101.60 |
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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