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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 76 | Peter Mitchell; ND; Alan McNairn; Didier Bodart; Lorne Campbell; ND; Ronni Baer; Arthur Wheelock | 8 Books on Dutch Master Painters |
1968; 1978; 1980; 1990; 1998; 1998; 2000; 2009 | AUD 300.00 - 400.00 | Not Sold | |
| 77 | Marianne Roland Michel; ND; Jacques Thuillier | 3 Books on Antoine Watteau and Simon Vouet |
New York; Paris; Paris | 1984; 1985; 1990 | AUD 250.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold |
| 78 | Bernard Berenson | Italian Pictures of the Renaissance. A list of the principal artists and their works with an index of places |
Oxford | 1957; 1963; 1968 | AUD 500.00 - 750.00 | AUD 127.00 |
| 79 | F. J. B. Watson | The Wrightsman Collection |
New York | 1966 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | AUD 127.00 |
| 80 | Luigi Malle | Museo Civico di Torino. Catologo del Museo d’Arte Antica |
Torino | 1963-1972 | AUD 250.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold |
| 81 | Diane Russell; Pierre Rosenberg; Marcel Roethlisberger | Claude Gelle edit Claude Lorrain; Im Licht von Claude Lorraine |
Paris; Munchen | 1983 | AUD 150.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold |
| 82 | Heinrich Kreisel | Die Kunst des deutschen Mobels. Band II: Spatbarock und Rokoko |
Munchen | 1970 | AUD 300.00 - 400.00 | Not Sold |
| 83 | Federico Zeri; ND; ND; ND; ND; ND; David Ekserdijian; Francis Haskell; ND; ND | 11 Books on Renaissance Old Masters and Baroque Painters |
Roma; ND; Liverpool; Liverpool; ND; Paris; ND; ND; London; ND | 1955; 1963; 1977; 1977; 1985; 1994; 2010; 2013; 2016; ND | AUD 300.00 - 400.00 | Not Sold |
| 84 | A Catalogue of the Margrave Pallavicini Collection and Other Properties |
1927 | AUD 250.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 85 | Hugo Morley-Fletcher | Early European Porcelain & Faience as Collected by Kiyi and Edward Pflueger |
London | 1993 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold |
| 86 | Andrew Garran; ND | Medley Australiana lot |
Melbourne; ND; ND | 1880; 1898; ND | AUD 150.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold |
| 87 | Karl Friedrich August Gutzlaff; H. H. Lindsay | A Voyage to the Northern Ports of China, in the ship Lord Amherst |
London | 1833; 1834 | AUD 300.00 - 400.00 | AUD 190.50 |
| 88 | Rodolfo Pallucchini; ND; ND; Francesco Frangi; Alessandro Morandotti; Rosella Vodret; Vincent Delieuvin | 12 Books on Italian Renaissance and Baroque Art |
ND; Cento; ND; ND; ND; ND; ND | 1961; 1987; 1988; 2002; 2011; 2012; ND | AUD 300.00 - 400.00 | Not Sold |
| 89 | John Pope-Hennesy; Kenneth Clark; Eve Borsook; Carolyn Wilson; ND; Giovanni Agosti; Dominique Thiebaut; Helen Langdon | 12 Art Monographs on the Italian Renaissance and Baroque |
London; ND; ND; Houston; ND; ND; ND; ND | 1950; 1951; 1960; 1996; 2001; 2008; 2010; ND | AUD 400.00 - 500.00 | Not Sold |
| 90 | Reinis Zusters | Spiral Vision |
Sydney | 1981 | AUD 600.00 - 800.00 | Not Sold |
| 91 | Howard Willoughby | Australian Pictures Drawn with Pen and Pencil |
London | 1886 | AUD 300.00 - 400.00 | AUD 190.50 |
| 92 | Ernest Giles | The Journal of a Forgotten Expedition |
Adelaide | 1979 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | AUD 127.00 |
| 93 | William Henry Traill | A Queenly Colony - Pen Sketches and Camera Glimpses |
Brisbane | 1901 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | AUD 190.50 |
| 94 | Bernard Smith & Alwyne Wheeler | The Art of the First Fleet & other early Australian drawings |
Melbourne | 1988 | AUD 100.00 - 150.00 | AUD 38.10 |
| 95 | John Stackhouse | From The Dawn Of Aviation. The Qantas Story 1920 - 1995 |
ND | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold | |
| 96 | William Bickford | Vathek |
London | 1815 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | AUD 88.90 |
| 97 | A.C. Michael | An Artist in Spain |
London | c. 1914 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold |
| 98 | Kenneth Macqueen | Adventure in Watercolour. An artist's story |
Sydney | n.d. 1938 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | AUD 152.40 |
| 99 | George Barnard | The Theory and Practice of Landscape Painting in Water Colours |
London | 1855 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | AUD 215.90 |
| 100 | Edward Gibbon | Mr. Gibbon's History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire Abridged |
London | 1790 | AUD 500.00 - 600.00 | AUD 228.60 |
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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.