Sydney Rare Book Auctions: Science, Mining, Natural History, Exploration, Art books and First editions, A182, Ultimo

Auction Details

Auction Date: May 01, 2026 - May 01, 2026

Page Size: 333 items in 14 pages

Auction Lot Books
Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1	A. A. Milne	Winnie the Pooh	London	1926	AUD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	Not Sold
2	Francis Grose	Land grant to Peter Bond		1789	AUD 10,000.00 - 12,000.00	Not Sold
3	Edward Fitzgerald	Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam	London	1909	AUD 600.00 - 800.00	AUD 508.00
4	WE Henley	London Types	London	1898	AUD 750.00 - 1,000.00	Not Sold
5	Claude Drigon de Magny	Nouveau traite historique et archeologique de la vraie et parfaite science des armoiries	Paris	1856	AUD 800.00 - 1,000.00	Not Sold
6	JB Waring	Examples of Metal-Work & Jewellery: Selected from the Royal and other Collections	London	N/A	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	AUD 190.50
7	Edward Lushington Blackburne Architecture	Sketches, Graphic and Descriptive for a History of the Decorative Painting Applied to English Architecture During the Middle Ages		1847	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	AUD 190.50
8	John Carter	Specimens of the Ancient Sculpture and Painting Now Remaining in England, from the Earliest Period to the Reign of Henry VIII	London	1838	AUD 1,800.00 - 2,000.00	Not Sold
9	E. LAMI & H. MONNIER	Voyage en Angleterre	Zurich	c. 1920	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
10		Proceedings of the Zoological and Acclimatisation Society of Victoria. Volume 1	Melbourne	1872	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 285.75
11	George Combe	The Constitution of Man Considered in Relation to External Objects	Edinburgh	1836	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
12	George Keate	An Account of the Pelew Islands, Situated in the Western Part of the Pacific Ocean	London	1789	AUD 800.00 - 1,000.00	AUD 889.00
13	E.H. Nolan	The Illustrated History of the British Empire in India and the East	London	1860	AUD 500.00 - 750.00	AUD 412.75
14	James Edge-Partington	Ethnographical Album of the Pacific Islands	Bangkok	1996	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	AUD 127.00
15	Reverend Charles Bradley	Sermons, Preached in the Parish Church of High Wycombe	London	1830	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 127.00
16	Nat Fleischer	Jack Dempsey The Idol of Fistiana an Intimate Narrative	New York	1936	AUD 500.00 - 600.00	AUD 317.50
17	Nat Gould	A Gentleman Rider: A Tale of the Grand National	London	1898	AUD 220.00 - 300.00	AUD 63.50
18		The Erotic Review	UK	2000-2003	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
19	Ernest Hemingway	Across the River and into the Trees	London	1950	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	AUD 114.30
20	J.F.K. Johnstone & A.W. Robertson	Bibliographia Aberdonensis : Being an account of books relating to or printed in the Shires of Aberdeen, Banff, Kincardine or written by natives or residents or by officers, graduates or alumni of the Universities of Aberdeen 1472-1700	Aberdeen	1929-1930	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 63.50
21	George Offor	The Works of John Bunyan	Glasgow	1868	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
22	E.J. Banfield	The Confessions of a Beachcomber - Scenes and Incidents in the Career of an Unprofessional Beachcomber in Tropical Queensland		1933	AUD 75.00 - 100.00	AUD 50.80
23	Nicholas Fox Weber	The Art of Babar. The Work of Jean and Laurent de Brunhoff	New York	1989	AUD 80.00 - 100.00	AUD 25.40
24	Peg Maltby	Peg's Fairy Book	Melbourne	1946	AUD 250.00 - 300.00	AUD 152.40
25	David Howarth; Peter Barber & Tom Harper; Dava Sobel; Richard Aitken	Four books on history, navigation and cartography		1994-2010	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 88.90

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.