Sydney Rare Book Auctions: The Enchanting World of Books: illustrated books, gift books, publisher bindings, art and history, A181, Ultimo

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Auction Report
Auction Date
April 19, 2026 - April 19, 2026
Page Size: 509 items in 21 pages
Auction Lot Books
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
  • 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
  • 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.