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
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 228 | Denise Greig; Allan Moult; Leo Meier | Four Books on Australian Flora |
Australia | 1998 | AUD 100.00 - 130.00 | Not Sold |
| 229 | Steve Appleford; Tony Russell | The Rolling Stones It's only Rock 'n' Roll; The Bules from Robert Johnston to Robert Cray |
1997 | AUD 50.00 - 80.00 | Not Sold | |
| 230 | John Bisset; L.H. Bailey; Gordon C. Morrison; Mary Nobel | Approx. 22 books on the studies of Orchids |
Australia; New Zealand | 1998; 1988; 1986 | AUD 200.00 - 250.00 | Not Sold |
| 231 | Colonel M. H. Grant | Rachel Ruysch 1664–1750 |
1956 | AUD 400.00 - 600.00 | Not Sold | |
| 232 | Delannoy; Marsh; Farrar; Williamson | Five fine cloth bindings |
1901; c1900s; 1902; 1891; 1905 | AUD 120.00 - 180.00 | Not Sold | |
| 233 | Colin Eisler | Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection European Paintings excluding Italian and Italian Paintings XVI-XVIII Century |
1977 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold | |
| 234 | Nicholas Penny | The Sixteenth Century Italian Paintings Volume 1 |
London | 2004 | AUD 150.00 - 250.00 | Not Sold |
| 235 | D.Redig De Campos; Howard Hibbard; John Masson; Daisy Lion-Goldschmidt | Five books on History Art and Archaeology |
1986; 2011; 1978 | AUD 200.00 - 250.00 | Not Sold | |
| 236 | Harry Clarke; Thomas Bodkin | The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault |
London | 1922 | AUD 500.00 - 600.00 | AUD 228.60 |
| 237 | Two selves of Australian Military books including some Anzac titles |
Australia | N/A | AUD 300.00 - 400.00 | AUD 76.20 | |
| 238 | Lord Byron | The Poetical works o Lord Byron with Notes and Memoirs of the author |
London | c1890 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | AUD 88.90 |
| 239 | Arthur Andrews | Australasian tokens and coins : a handbook |
Sydney | 1921 | AUD 150.00 - 200.00 | AUD 101.60 |
| 240 | Who's Who of South Australia Centenary, 1936 |
Adelaide | 1936 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold | |
| 241 | Victoria the garden state of Australia : a handbook for rural home seekers |
Melbourne | 1909 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | AUD 203.20 | |
| 242 | Melbourne. Photographic view book |
England | c1910s | AUD 120.00 - 180.00 | AUD 76.20 | |
| 243 | Samuel Mossman | Our Australian Colonies: Their Discovery, History, Resources & Prospects |
London | 1866 | AUD 180.00 - 220.00 | AUD 698.50 |
| 244 | Alfred McFarland | Mutiny in the Bounty and Story of the Pitcairn Islanders |
Sydney | 1884 | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | AUD 76.20 |
| 245 | John Sherer | The Gold-Finder of Australia; How He Went, How He Fared, and How He Made His Fortune |
[1853] | AUD 500.00 - 600.00 | Not Sold | |
| 246 | George Cathcart Craig | The Federal Defence of Australasia |
Sydney | 1897 | AUD 150.00 - 250.00 | Not Sold |
| 247 | John Carne | Recollections of Travels in the East: Forming a Continuation of the Letters from the East |
1830 | AUD 400.00 - 500.00 | Not Sold | |
| 248 | L'Artiste: Nouvelle Serie Tome Troisieme |
Paris | 1858 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold | |
| 249 | Victor Majzner; Andrew Majzner | Australian Haggadah |
Melbourne | 1992 | AUD 800.00 - 900.00 | Not Sold |
| 250 | A.R. MACNEIL | The Story of the Twenty-First. Being the Official History of the 21st Battalion, A.I.F. |
Melbourne | 1920 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | AUD 228.60 |
| 251 | Ian Mudie; Robert Crossland; Charles Harpur; Cyril Goode; Hugh McCrae | Mixed lot of Australian poetry pamphlets |
1940s; 1950s | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | AUD 63.50 | |
| 252 | Lillian PYKE | Australian Etiquette |
Melbourne | circa 1920 | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold |
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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.