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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 303 | Roscoe and Brimmel | James Lumsden & Son of Glasgow: Their Juvenile Books and Chapbooks |
Pinner | 1981 | AUD 50.00 - 80.00 | Not Sold |
| 304 | Cecil Beaton | The Face Of The World: An international scrapbook of people and places |
London | 1957 | AUD 150.00 - 200.00 | AUD 127.00 |
| 305 | JS Prout | Sydney Illustrated 1842-3 |
Sydney | [1947] | AUD 120.00 - 180.00 | Not Sold |
| 306 | Reiner Musterbuch aus codex Vindobonensis 507 |
1979 | AUD 500.00 - 600.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 307 | Joseph Conrad | Nostromo: A tale of the seaboard |
London; New York | 1904 | AUD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 308 | Joseph Conrad | 'Twixt Land & Sea . A smile of Fortune, The Secret Sharer, Freya of the Seven Isles; Within the Tides Tales; The Arrow of Gold; A Set of Six |
London | 1912; 1915; 1919; 1908 | AUD 800.00 - 1,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 309 | Joseph Conrad | An Outcast of the Islands |
London | 1896 | AUD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 310 | G. J. Whyte-Melville; J. E. Taylor; H. Rider Haggard; E. P. Roe | Objects of the Sea Shore; Songs and Verses; Fifty Celebrated Men. Their Lives and Trials, and the Deeds that Made them Famous; Our Island Continent: A naturalist's holiday in Australia; She. A History of Adventure; Found Yet Lost and Other Stories |
London | c. 1889; ND; 19th c.; 1886; 1887; c. 1900 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | AUD 63.50 |
| 311 | David Liddle; Nicholas Draffin | Erotica. Aspects of the erotic in Australian Art; Australian Artists At War; The Art of M. Napier Waller |
Melbourne | 1977; 1977; 1977 | AUD 100.00 - 150.00 | Not Sold |
| 312 | E.H. Shepard; Fred Gettings; Colin White | The Works of E.H. Shepard; Arthur Rackham, Fred Gettings; Edmund Dulac |
New York | 1980; 1975; 1976 | AUD 100.00 - 150.00 | AUD 63.50 |
| 313 | Sir Paul Harvey; Alberto Manguel; David Nichol Smith; Aldren Watson; Jonathan Swift; Stephen Potter; John Donne | The Oxford Companion To Classical Literature; A Reading Diary; The Oxford Book Of Eighteenth Century Verse; Washington. Rip Van Winkle and The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow; Gulliver's Travels And Selected Writings In Prose & Verse; Select Poetry & Prose; John |
Oxford; New York; London | 1946; 2005; 1936; ND; 1934; 1933; 1932 | AUD 150.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold |
| 314 | Atkyns; Anne Chambers; Charles Ramsden | A Pair on Printing; The Practical Guide to Marbling Paper; Book Binders of the United Kingdom (outside London) 1780-1840; London Books Binders 1780-1840 |
1982; 1986; ND; ND | AUD 150.00 - 180.00 | AUD 50.80 | |
| 315 | James Plimpton; Phillip Cox; Julian Symons; John Fowles; Mary F. Thwaite | Decorative Printed Maps of the 15th to 18th centuries; The art of the bookplate; The Printed Book In America; Take a Cold Tub, Sir! The Story of the Boy's Own Paper; Tom Adams' Agatha Christie Cover Story; John Harris's Books for Youth 1801-1843; From Pri |
London; New York; Limpsfield; Cambridge; Boston | 1967; 2003; 1977; 1982; 1981; 1976; 1972 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold |
| 316 | Alison Adburgham | Great Victorian Engravings; The Story of Picture Printing in England during the Nineteenth Century or Forty Years of Wood and Stone; Illustrators of the Eighteen Sixties. An illustrated survey of the work of 58 British artists; Victorian Book Illustration |
London; New York; Boulogne | 1980; 1928; 1975; 1973; 1974; ND; 1961 | AUD 150.00 - 250.00 | AUD 25.40 |
| 317 | Rossana Bossaglia, Enzo Carli and Franco Russoli | 1200 Years Of Italian Sculpture |
New York | 1968 | AUD 100.00 - 150.00 | AUD 25.40 |
| 318 | Poetry of Architecture: or, the architecture of the nations of Europe considered in its association of natural scenery and national character on Gallipoli, in 1915 |
Melbourne | [1964] | AUD 100.00 - 150.00 | AUD 25.40 | |
| 319 | E. Morris Miller; Robert Darlington; Caroline Fairfax Simpson; Egon and Elise Kunz; Ron Edwards | Australian Literature from its beginnings to 1935; Sudan to Vietnam; Ascham Remembered 1886-1986; Sydney Opera House in its Harbour Setting; To Sail Beyond The Sunset. Natural History in Australia 1699-1829; A Continent Takes Shape; Historic Towns Of Aust |
Melbourne; Sydney; Adelaide | 1940; 1987; 1986; 1996; 1984; 1971; 1973; 1913; 1976; 1971 | AUD 400.00 - 500.00 | AUD 63.50 |
| 320 | Robertson; Pearson | Australian Architecture and more |
Barcelona | ND | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | AUD 25.40 |
| 321 | Ian R Munro | The Fishes Of New Guinea |
Port Moresby | 1967 | AUD 300.00 - 400.00 | AUD 190.50 |
| 322 | R. E. Teusner; Ronald Parsons; Tony Lucas; Tony Parkinson | Four books on South Australia Local History |
1968; 1998; 1972; ND | AUD 100.00 - 150.00 | AUD 114.30 | |
| 323 | A box of ephemera with Anzac memorabilia, a blank book and pamphlets |
ND | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | AUD 76.20 | ||
| 324 | Oceania |
London | 1886 | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | AUD 152.40 | |
| 325 | John Shirlow; R. H. Croll | The Etched Work of John Shirlow |
Melbourne | [1920] | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | AUD 25.40 |
| 326 | Simon Montefiore; William Dalrymple; Sean McMeekin; Dan Jones; Roy Porter; Simon Sebag Montefiore; Antonia Fraser; Jared Diamond | N Books, including: The Romanovs |
2016; 2019; 2015; 2017; 1987; 2011; 2001; 2012 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | AUD 127.00 | |
| 327 | Diarmid McCulloch; Miri Rubin; Sankara Saranam; Lynn Picknett; Simon Schama; John Allen | N Books, including: History of Christianity |
2009; 2009; 2008; 2006; 2013; 2005 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | AUD 25.40 |
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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.