Sydney Rare Book Auctions: Moments in History: Maps, Photographs, Art, Costumes and Books, A184, Ultimo
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- May 24, 2026 - May 24, 2026
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bathurst (N.S.W.) To Melbourne (Vic.) 493 1/4 Miles; The Pioneer Motor Car Trip of Australia |
Melbourne | 1900 | AUD 1,800.00 - 2,000.00 | Not Sold | |
| 2 | Hector MacQuarrie | Round the World in a Baby Austin |
London | 1936 | AUD 300.00 - 400.00 | AUD 254.00 |
| 3 | James Bruce | Travels Of James Bruce Through Part Of Africa, Syria, Egypt, And Arabia Into Abyssinia To Discover The Source Of The Nile |
London | N/A | AUD 300.00 - 400.00 | AUD 203.20 |
| 4 | DARWIN Charles | The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life |
London | 1875 | AUD 400.00 - 500.00 | Not Sold |
| 8 | Richard Bonynge | Joan Sutherland: Designs for a Prima Donna |
New South Wales | 1985 | AUD 300.00 - 400.00 | AUD 203.20 |
| 9 | Margot Fonteyn | Letter to Father Hutch; Photograph of Margot Fonteyn |
N/A | AUD 300.00 - 400.00 | Not Sold | |
| 10 | Photograph of Joan Sutherland |
N/A | AUD 400.00 - 500.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 11 | Frederick McCoy | Prodromus of the Zoology of Victoria; or Figures and Descriptions of the Living Species of all Classes of the Victorian Indigenous Animals |
Melbourne | 1885-1890 | AUD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | AUD 1,905.00 |
| 12 | A Liversidge | The Minerals of New South Wales, Etc |
London | 1888 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold |
| 13 | Report of The Executive Commissioner For New South Wales To The World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893 |
1894 | AUD 500.00 - 600.00 | AUD 317.50 | ||
| 14 | Frederick Ross | The Ruined Abbeys of Britain |
1882 | AUD 300.00 - 400.00 | AUD 412.75 | |
| 15 | The Order of the Administration of the Lord's Supper or Holy Communion |
c1865 | AUD 300.00 - 400.00 | AUD 203.20 | ||
| 16 | J. O Westwood | Illuminated illustrations of the Bible |
1846 | AUD 800.00 - 1,000.00 | AUD 539.75 | |
| 17 | Birket Foster; Henry Mayhew | The Rhine and Its Picturesque Scenery |
1856 | AUD 250.00 - 350.00 | AUD 285.75 | |
| 18 | James E. Doyle | A Chronicle of England B.C. 55 - A.D. 1485 |
1864 | AUD 300.00 - 400.00 | AUD 381.00 | |
| 19 | Fauna Hawaiiensis |
1893-1913 | AUD 2,500.00 - 3,000.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 20 | 13 Books, including: Socialism New and Old |
London | 1875-1894 | AUD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | Not Sold | |
| 21 | Joseph Fowles | The Sydney Drawing Book; The Elementary Free-Hand Drawing Book |
Sydney | 1855 | AUD 300.00 - 400.00 | AUD 228.60 |
| 22 | Swain Edward Harold Fulcher | An Australian Study of American Forestry |
Brisbane | 1918 | AUD 100.00 - 150.00 | AUD 63.50 |
| 23 | Huxley Thomas H. | American Addresses with a Lecture on the Study of Biology |
London | 1877 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold |
| 24 | Noad Henry | A Manual of Electricity: including Galvanism, Magnetism, Diamagnetism, Electro-Dynamics, Magneto-Electricity and the Electric Telegraph |
London | 1859 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | AUD 177.80 |
| 25 | Bhulabhai Desai; General Mohan Singh; Asoka Mehta; K.J. Save | 12 Books, including: I.N.A. Defence |
Delhi; Bombay | 1945; 1946; 1940; 1943; 1934; 1922; 1921 | AUD 250.00 - 300.00 | AUD 254.00 |
| 26 | Firdaus Rizvi; G.M.D. Sufi; Mahmud Ahmad; Syed Abdul Latif; Syed Mahmud; Bakar Ali Mirza | 6 Books, including: Pakistan Defined |
circa 1945; 1946; 1930; 1939; 1949; 1944 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | AUD 152.40 | |
| 27 | Report on the Leather Industries of the Bombay Presidency |
circa 1910 | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 28 | H.l. Adam | Police Reports of the Bombay Presidency for 1912; The Indian Criminal |
London | 1912; 1909 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | 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. -
Forum Auctions
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 -
Forum Auctions
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