Sydney Rare Book Auctions: Views, Maps, Firsts and Limited editions, 191, Ultimo
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- July 12, 2026 - July 12, 2026
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 227 | Wilson Gavin | Harbourlights: The Art and Times of Peter Kingston |
2004 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | Unknown | |
| 228 | Elliot Jenny; Blair Ron | N Books, including: Maryborough Central State School ANZACs |
Brandy Creek | 2002; 2000 | AUD 250.00 - 300.00 | Unknown |
| 229 | Nemecek Vaclav; McKee Alexander; McCue Paul; Bond Steve; Foreman John; Downes Colin; Delaforce Patrick | N Books, including: The history of Soviet aircraft from 1918 |
1986; 1962; 1992; 2011; 2005; 2014 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | Unknown | |
| 230 | Goldbery R | Geology of the Western Blue Mountains |
1969 | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | Unknown | |
| 231 | Wyatt Ransome T | The History of Goulburn, N.S.W.; The History of the Diocese of Goulburn |
Sydney | 1941; 1937 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | Unknown |
| 232 | Herman Morton; Dodd Andrew | The Blackets; JJ Clark: Architect Of The Australian Renaissance |
Australia | 1963; 2012 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | Unknown |
| 233 | Dakin W J | Whalemen Adventurers |
Sydney | 1938 | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | Unknown |
| 234 | Grey Zane; Haig-Brown Roderick L | Tales of Southern Rivers; The Western Angler |
Lyon, Mississippi | 1991 | AUD 150.00 - 200.00 | Unknown |
| 235 | Tooley R V; Hapgood Charles H | Collectors' Guide To Maps of The African Continent and Southern Africa; Maps Of The Ancient Sea Kings |
NY | 1969; 1979 | AUD 120.00 - 180.00 | Unknown |
| 236 | Smyth Arthur Bowes; Fidlon Paul G; Ryan R J | The Journal of Arthur Bowes Smyth; The Narrative of a Voyage of Discovery |
Melbourne | 1979; 1971 | AUD 150.00 - 250.00 | Unknown |
| 237 | Sallis Roger | Pinjarra-Narrogin Railway |
2009 | AUD 80.00 - 120.00 | Unknown | |
| 238 | Maddock John | The People Movers: A History of Victoria's Private Bus Industry 1910-1992 |
Kenthurst, NSW | 1992 | AUD 80.00 - 120.00 | Unknown |
| 239 | Jubilee of the Box Hill Methodist Church |
c.1934 | AUD 120.00 - 180.00 | Unknown | ||
| 240 | Smith Anne; Weissenborn Hellmuth | An Anthology of Love |
London | 1985 | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | Unknown |
| 241 | Hoare Benjamin | The Melbourne Harbor Trust Commissioners Jubilee Report 1877-1927 |
Melbourne | 1927 | AUD 400.00 - 500.00 | Unknown |
| 242 | Walker Mary Howitt; Chessell Gwen; Perry Frances; Vine Hall Nick | N Books, including: Come Wind, Come Weather |
Melbourne; Sydney | 1971; 2005; 1984; 1983 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | Unknown |
| 243 | Cannon Michael; de Serville Paul | Old Melbourne Town, Before the Gold Rush; Pounds and Pedigrees |
Main Ridge; Melbourne | 1991 | AUD 100.00 - 120.00 | Unknown |
| 244 | Fyans Foster; Brown P L; Croll Robert Henderson; Wettenhall Roland R | Memoirs recorded at Geelong, Victoria Australia; Dr. Alexander Thomson : a pioneer of Melbourne and founder of Geelong |
1986; 1937 | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | Unknown | |
| 245 | Barrie Douglas M; Pring Peter; Cavanough Maurice; Kirkwood Rhett; Meldrum Brian | Australia's Thoroughbred Idols; The Melbourne Cup 1861-2000 |
1973; 2001 | AUD 100.00 - 150.00 | Unknown | |
| 246 | Beaumont Ralph | Heckman's Canadian Pacific: A Photographic Journey |
2015 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | Unknown | |
| 247 | Reps John W | Canberra 1912: Plans and Planners of the Australian Capital Competition |
Melbourne | 1997 | AUD 60.00 - 80.00 | Unknown |
| 248 | Illustrations of Northern Antiquities, from the Earlier Teutonic and Scandinavian Romances |
Edinburgh | 1814 | AUD 150.00 - 200.00 | Unknown | |
| 249 | N Books, including: Type E Jaguar |
N/A | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | Unknown | ||
| 250 | Carroll Lewis; Lofting Hugh; Kastner Erich; Bannerman Helen; Ahm; Yee; Stevenson Louis; Hill; Lefevre; Spurling; Belloc Hilaire; Andersen Hans Christian | N Books, including: Alice in Wonderland |
1898; 1951; 1949; 1899; 1947; 1944; ND; 1899 | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | Unknown | |
| 251 | 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 200.00 - 300.00 | Unknown |
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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