Sydney Rare Book Auctions: The Enchanting World of Books: illustrated books, gift books, publisher bindings, art and history, A181, Ultimo
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- April 19, 2026 - April 19, 2026
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 80 | Stella Barber | 2007 MELBOURNE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA |
Melbourne | 2007 | AUD 80.00 - 100.00 | Not Sold |
| 81 | 1950'S NAMOI & MITCHELL REGION NSW |
1958; 1952 | AUD 100.00 - 150.00 | AUD 88.90 | ||
| 82 | Alexander Allan; Members of the Royal Art Society | 1916 ANZAC BOOK & OTHERS |
Melbourne; Sydney | 1934; 1926; 1916; 1929 | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold |
| 83 | Gaston Tissandier; J. Thomson | 1876 PHOTOGRAPHY BY TISSANDIER |
London | 1876 | AUD 250.00 - 300.00 | AUD 152.40 |
| 84 | 1916 NETHERLANDS EAST INDIES |
Batavia; Buitenzorg, Java | 1916 | AUD 150.00 - 200.00 | AUD 88.90 | |
| 85 | Plutarch | 1699 PLUTARCH'S GREEK AND ROMAN LIVES |
London | 1699-1700 | AUD 400.00 - 500.00 | AUD 1,524.00 |
| 86 | William Gill | 1856 GEMS FROM CORAL ISLANDS |
Philadelphia | 1856 | AUD 100.00 - 150.00 | AUD 63.50 |
| 87 | Daniel Puseley | 1857 AUSTRALIAN COLONIAL DIRECTORY |
London | 1857 | AUD 200.00 - 250.00 | AUD 139.70 |
| 88 | Garnet Walch | 1874 CHRISTMAS FUN BOOK |
Melbourne | 1874 | AUD 100.00 - 150.00 | Not Sold |
| 89 | F. T. Whittington | 1936 BISHOP WILLIAM GRANT BROUGHTON |
Sydney | 1936 | AUD 100.00 - 150.00 | AUD 76.20 |
| 90 | Patrick McCaughey | 1981 RUDY KOMON ART GALLERY |
Sydney | 1981 | AUD 100.00 - 150.00 | AUD 88.90 |
| 91 | John Walker | 1814 LONDON GENTLEMAN’S MAGAZINE |
London | 1814 | AUD 100.00 - 150.00 | AUD 63.50 |
| 92 | Guy Boothby | 1897 GUY BOOTHBY NOVELS |
New York; London | 1906; 1897 | AUD 100.00 - 150.00 | Not Sold |
| 93 | John Robert Godley | 1868 CANTERBURY NEW ZEALAND |
Christchurch | 1868 | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | AUD 63.50 |
| 94 | Edith F. Carey; H. B. Wimbush | 1904 CHANNEL ISLANDS FINE BINDING |
London | 1904 | AUD 150.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold |
| 95 | James Clark | 1908 BLACK WATCH ROYAL HIGHLANDERS |
Edinburgh | 1885; 1908 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold |
| 96 | Sarah E. L. Taylor; W.G. Langworthy Taylor | 1936 SEANCE OCCULT SPIRITUALISM |
Boston | 1936 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | AUD 127.00 |
| 97 | Reverend John Quine | 1899 MORECAMBE & LAKE DISTRICT |
Bournemouth | 1899 | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold |
| 98 | 1858 COLONIAL SYDNEY UNIVERSITY |
1858; 1859 | AUD 150.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 99 | N.V. Modak; Albert Mayer | 1949 BOMBAY TOWN PLANNING |
Bombay | 1949; ND (c. 1970) | AUD 250.00 - 300.00 | AUD 203.20 |
| 100 | S. Hormusjee; S. Deisher | HISTORICAL PHOTOGRAPHS FROM INDIA. |
late nineteenth-century; c. 1950-1960; c. 1930 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | AUD 203.20 | |
| 101 | Colonel James P. Robertson; Robert James Mackintosh; Captain G.J. Younghusband; Frederick Sleigh Roberts; Lord Birdwood | 1836 INDIAN ARMY BIOGRAPHIES |
London | 1906; 1836; 1895; 1901; 1942 | AUD 350.00 - 400.00 | AUD 215.90 |
| 102 | Dinshah Ardeshir Taleyarkhan | 1874 BOMBAY RELIGIOUS RIOTS |
Bombay | 1874 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | AUD 762.00 |
| 103 | J. G. Bartholomew | 1907 THACKER’S SURVEY MAP OF INDIA |
Calcutta | 1907 | AUD 150.00 - 200.00 | AUD 165.10 |
| 104 | J.G.A. Baird; Sir Evelyn Wood; Sir George Trevelyan; General Sir Peter Lumsden; Sir William Foster; Sir Charles Fawcett; L.E. Ruutz Rees | 1858 EAST INDIA COMPANY |
London; Oxford | 1910; 1908; 1886; 1900; 1925; 1858 | AUD 300.00 - 400.00 | AUD 190.50 |
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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 -
Freeman’s, June 30. Thomas Jefferson’s “Birth of the New Nation” letter, carried to Paris with the Treaty of Peace, by a Jewish patriot. $100,000-200,000.Freeman’s, June 30. “The rockets’ red glare.” A British midshipman’s log recording the bombardment of Fort McHenry. $60,000-80,000.Freeman’s, June 30. The Critical Promotion of a Naval Hero, Oliver Hazard Perry Commission signed by James Madison, 1812. $40,000-60,000.Freeman’s, June 30. Born in the USA: First Day of Printing in the United States, July 4, 1776. $15,000-25,000.Freeman’s, June 30. One of the Earliest Printed Announcements of American Independence, in the Exceedingly Rare Original Wrappers, 1776. $10,000-15,000.Freeman’s, June 30. "The Two Big Guns of the N.Y. Yanks": A Striking Type 1 Press Photograph of Lou Gehrig's Hands. $8,000-12,000.Freeman’s, June 30. A Unique Contemporary Manuscript Account of Joseph Smith's Final Words to His Followers, the Day Before his Violent Death. $8,000-12,000.Freeman’s, June 30. The State of Minnesota Officially Certifies the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution Of the United States. $8,000-12,000.Freeman’s, June 30. Extraordinarily Large Manuscript Petition Signed by a Who's Who of Colonial New York to Queen Anne from the Colony of New York. $8,000-12,000.Freeman’s, June 30. Mickey Mantle's First Cover: The Earliest Front-Page Newspaper Image of Mickey Mantle, "Something Good from Joplin". $8,000-12,000.Freeman’s, June 30. A Call to Arms in the Months Following the Declaration of Independence: An Early Continental Army Recruitment Poster. $6,000-9,000.Freeman’s, June 30. Samuel Jones, the Statesman Behind the Newly Discovered "Jones Declaration": His Annotated Set Used in His Working Law Library. $6,000-9,000.