Sydney Rare Book Auctions: Views, Maps, Firsts and Limited editions, 191, Ultimo

Auction Details

Auction Date
July 12, 2026 - July 12, 2026
Page Size: 306 items in 13 pages
Auction Lot Books
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
252 Mackail JW

The Life of William Morris; Collected Works of William Morris

1920; 1916 AUD 75.00 - 100.00 Unknown
253 Seton-Thompson Ernest

The Trail of the Sandhill Stag

New York 1900 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 Unknown
254 Milne A A

When we Were Very Young

London 1924 AUD 150.00 - 200.00 Unknown
255 Vernon Jones V S; Rackham Arthur

Aesop's Fables

London 1912 AUD 100.00 - 150.00 Unknown
256 Swift Jonathan

Travels Into Several Remote Nations of The World

London 1886 AUD 100.00 - 150.00 Unknown
257 Lear Edward; Brooke Leslie

Nonsense Songs

London circa 1910 AUD 75.00 - 150.00 Unknown
258

Japanese: Complete Series of World Fine Art Art of the World

1928 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 Unknown
259 Chatwin Bruce

On the Black Hill

London 1982 AUD 120.00 - 200.00 Unknown
260 Yorke Philip

The Royal Tribes of Wales

Wrexham 1799 AUD 150.00 - 200.00 Unknown
261 Harlan Jan

A.i. Artificial Intelligence: From Stanley Kubrick to Steven Spielberg: the Vision Behind the Film

2009 AUD 150.00 - 200.00 Unknown
262 Cooper John Butler

The History of St Kilda

Melbourne 1931 AUD 120.00 - 200.00 Unknown
263 Collas P; Purves J.R.W.; Campbell H.M.

N Books, including: The Postal History of Internees and Prisoners of War in Australia During World War II

1982; 1966; 1963; 1962 AUD 120.00 - 200.00 Unknown
264 Bligh William

A Narrative of the Mutiny on Board His Majesty's Ship Bounty; A Voyage to the South Sea

Melbourne 1952; 1969 AUD 120.00 - 200.00 Unknown
265 Kipling Rudyard; Stevenson Robert Louis

Barrack-Room Ballads and Other Verses; Kidnapped Being The Adventures of David Balfour

London 1899 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 Unknown
266 Ballantyne James

Our Colony in 1880

Melbourne 1880 AUD 300.00 - 400.00 Unknown
267 Pack Charles L

Victoria: The half-length portraits and the twopence queen enthroned

New York 1923 AUD 100.00 - 150.00 Unknown
268 Stevenson Robert Louis

Catriona

London 1893 AUD 120.00 - 200.00 Unknown
269 Smith S Percy

Hawaiki: The Whence of the Maori

Wellington 1898 AUD 100.00 - 150.00 Unknown
270

20 Books, including: Tallinn 1973

1973 AUD 50.00 - 100.00 Unknown
271 Fener Charles

Australian Ephemera

1921; 1943 AUD 120.00 - 200.00 Unknown
272 Purtscher Joyce

Births, Deaths and Marriages in Australia; Apprentices and Absconders; The Sick & Poor In Tasmania

1994 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 Unknown
273

Illustrated Magazine - War Years

1938-1948 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 Unknown
274 Waters Thorold

The Australian Musical News and Musical Digest

Australia 1930-1945 AUD 75.00 - 100.00 Unknown
275 Conyers Evelyn; Fleming W.M.

Babes in the Bush and other verses; Bunyip Says So

1927 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 Unknown
276 Grey Zane

Zane Grey's Western Magazine

Sydney 1949 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 Unknown
  • Sotheby’s
    Shelf Life: Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper from the Library of Stanley J. Seeger and Christopher Cone
    25 June – July 7
    Sotheby’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, 2026
    Forum, 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. £10,000-15,000
    Forum, 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. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, 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. £3,000-4,000
    Forum Auctions
    The Private Library:
    Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
    July 9, 2026
    Forum, 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. £2,000-3,000
    Forum, 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. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, 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. £1,000-1,500
    Forum Auctions
    The Private Library:
    Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
    July 9, 2026
    Forum, July 9: Martin (John) Illustrations of the Bible, complete set of 20 mezzotints, good impressions, rarely found in early states, [c.1831-1835]. - Est. £1,000-1,500
    Forum, 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. £5,000-7,000
    Forum, 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. £10,000-15,000
    Forum Auctions
    The Private Library:
    Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
    July 9, 2026
    Forum, 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. £10,000-15,000
    Forum, July 9: Wynkyn de Worde.- [Terentius Afer (Publius)] [Comedie...], [Paris, Josse Badius: sold in London by Wynkyn de Worde, & others], [15 July 1504]. - Est. £4,000-6,000
    Forum, 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, 2026
    Forum, 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. £12,000-18,000
    Forum, 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]. £30,000-50,000
    Forum, July 16: Qu'ran, Arabic manuscript on burnished, stencilled, and gold-flecked paper, 447ff., Sultanate Gujarat, Ahmadabad, [after 1411 but no later than 1442]. £15,000-20,000
    Forum Auctions
    The 10th Anniversary Sale
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    July 16, 2026
    Forum, 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-£30,000
    Forum, July 16: Spenser (Edmund). The Faerie Queene. first edition, Printed [by John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, 1590. £30,000-40,000
    Forum, July 16: Shakespeare (William). The Comedie of Errors, extracted from the first folio, Isaac Jaggard and Edward Blount, 1623. £15,000-20,000
    Forum Auctions
    The 10th Anniversary Sale
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    July 16, 2026
    Forum, July 16: Fleming (Ian). Casino Royale, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author, 1953. £40,000-60,000
    Forum, July 16: d'Agoty (Jacques-Fabien Gautier). Anatomie de la Tête, first edition, Paris, chez le Sieur Gautier, 1748. £10,000-15,000
    Forum, 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. £50,000-70,000
    Forum Auctions
    The 10th Anniversary Sale
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    July 16, 2026
    Forum, July 16: Warre (Capt. Henry James). Sketches in North America and the Oregon Territory, first edition, rare hand-coloured issue, 1848. £30,000-40,000
    Forum, July 16: Norie (John William). The Marine Atlas, or Seaman's Complete Pilot for all the principal places in the known world..., 1826. £30,000-50,000
    Forum, 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