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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 278 | Canberra National Capital. A prophecy is fulfilled |
Sydney | N/A | AUD 100.00 - 150.00 | AUD 38.10 | |
| 279 | Lady Charlotte Schreiber | Lady Charlotte Schreiber's Journals. Confidences of a Collector of Ceramics and Antiques Throughout Britain, France, Holland, Belgium, Spain, Portugal, Turkey, Austria & Germany from the Year 1869 to 1885 |
1911 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | AUD 127.00 | |
| 280 | Malcolm Baker; Brenda Richardson | A Grand Design: Art of the Victoria and Albert Museum |
1997 | AUD 100.00 - 150.00 | AUD 38.10 | |
| 281 | J.M. Barrie; Richard Brinsley Sheridan | Peter Pan In Kensington Gardens; The School for Scandal |
London | 1911 | AUD 200.00 - 250.00 | AUD 127.00 |
| 282 | Cyril Tourneur | The Works Of Cyril Tourneur |
London | 1929 | AUD 250.00 - 350.00 | AUD 101.60 |
| 283 | John Skelton | The Tunning Of Elynour Rumming |
London | 1928 | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | AUD 114.30 |
| 284 | C J Smee; Anthony Trollope | Liber Melburniensis; The State Savings Bank Of Victoria: Its Place In The History Of Victoria; Second Fleet Families of Australia; Tasmania; Australia and New Zealand |
Victoria; Australia | 1914; 1934; 1990; 1874 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold |
| 285 | A musical photograph album |
N/A | AUD 600.00 - 800.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 286 | Alice Kempwelch | The Chatelaine of Vergi: A romance of the 13th century |
1907 | AUD 150.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold | |
| 287 | Thomas Leybourn | The mathematical questions proposed in the Ladies' Diary |
London | 1817 | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | AUD 38.10 |
| 288 | Wyf Of Bathe |
London | 1929 | AUD 200.00 - 250.00 | AUD 63.50 | |
| 289 | William Shakespeare | The Tempest |
Paris | 1946 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | AUD 203.20 |
| 290 | Sacheverell Sitwell | To Henry Woodward |
London | 1972 | AUD 100.00 - 150.00 | Not Sold |
| 291 | Twenty. Sherman Galleries, 1986-2006 |
Sydney | 2006 | AUD 100.00 - 150.00 | Not Sold | |
| 292 | Agustin Velazquez Chavez | Isbel: Three Poems and Three Etchings |
Mexico | 1983 | AUD 100.00 - 120.00 | Not Sold |
| 293 | Lafcadio Hearn | Fantastic |
Boston | c1914 | AUD 100.00 - 150.00 | AUD 114.30 |
| 294 | Henry W Nevinson | The Plea of Pan |
1901 | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | AUD 38.10 | |
| 295 | Edmund Wilson | Discordant Encounters. Plays and Dialogues |
New York | 1926 | AUD 400.00 - 600.00 | AUD 127.00 |
| 296 | Victor Crittenden | Three Early Australian History References |
Canberra; Adelaide | 1982; 1970; 1978 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold |
| 297 | Raymond Howgego | The Encyclopedia Of Exploration to 1800 |
Sydney | 2003 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | AUD 101.60 |
| 298 | Charles Harper | English Pen Artists Of Today. Examples of their work with some criticisms and appreciations |
New York | 1892 | AUD 300.00 - 400.00 | AUD 127.00 |
| 299 | Wilhelm Bode | The Complete Work of Rembrandt |
1897 | AUD 2,500.00 - 3,000.00 | Not Sold | |
| 300 | Euripides | The Plays of Euripides |
Newtown | 1931 | AUD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 301 | John Ruskin | Praeterita: Outlines of Scenes and Thoughts Perhaps Worthy of Memory in My Past Life |
Sunnyside | 1885-1888 | AUD 500.00 - 700.00 | Not Sold |
| 302 | Wilfrid Blunt; McClean | Private Press and Speciality Press Bibliographies |
Hamilton; Pinner | 1980; 1964; 1962; 1976; 1947-1996 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | AUD 203.20 |
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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.