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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 153 | Geoffrey Barraclough; John Harthan; Elie Kedourie | The Christian World; Books of Hours; The Jewish World |
ND | AUD 150.00 - 200.00 | AUD 25.40 | |
| 154 | Roloff Beny; Gore Vidal; Anthony Thwaite; Peter Porter; Brian de Breffny; Seyyed Hossein Nasr; Mitchell Crites | In Italy; Persia |
Italy; Persia | ND | AUD 100.00 - 150.00 | AUD 127.00 |
| 155 | Brunnichii; P. Rambur; Kerremans; Aug Lameere | Brunnichii Zoologiae fundamenta praelectionibus academicis accommodata; Histoire Naturelle des Insectes. Nevropteres; Monographie des Buprestides. Volume 3 & 4 only; Manuel De La Faune De Belgique: Insects Inferieurs |
Hafniae; Lipsiae; Paris; Bruxelles | 1772; 1842; 1908-1909; 1900 | AUD 300.00 - 400.00 | AUD 25.40 |
| 156 | Lacordaire | US Department of Agricultural Entomology Bulletins; Introduction a l'entomologie |
ND; Paris | 1885-1900; 1834 | AUD 450.00 - 550.00 | AUD 63.50 |
| 157 | Walter E. Roth; Raymond Haynes; Roslynn Haynes; David Malin; Richard McGee | Fighting Weapons; Explorers of the Southern Sky: A History of Australian Astronomy |
Queensland; Australia | 1909; 1996 | AUD 150.00 - 250.00 | AUD 25.40 |
| 158 | Entomologist's Annual |
London | 1855; 1856; 1857; 1858; 1859; 1860; 1861; 1862; 1863; 1864; 1867; 1868; 1869; 1870; 1871; 1872 | AUD 350.00 - 450.00 | AUD 63.50 | |
| 159 | Carl Johan Schoenherr | Curculionidum dispositio methodica, cum generum characteribus, descriptionibus atque observationibus variis, seu Prodromus ad Synonymiae, insectorum partem IV |
Lipsiae | 1826 | AUD 350.00 - 450.00 | Not Sold |
| 160 | Noel Antoine Pluch | Spectacle de la Nature, or Nature Delineated |
London | 1744 | AUD 150.00 - 250.00 | AUD 63.50 |
| 161 | FGA Barnard | The Victorian Naturalist |
Melbourne | 1905-7 | AUD 150.00 - 250.00 | Not Sold |
| 162 | Charles De Geer; Johann August Ephraim Goeze | Abhandlungen zur Geschichte der Insekter |
Leipzig | 1775 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | AUD 152.40 |
| 163 | Gottlieb Tobias Wilhelm | Insectem volume Unterhaltungen aus der Naturgeschichte |
ND | AUD 350.00 - 450.00 | AUD 139.70 | |
| 164 | Johann Friedrich Glaser | Physikalisch-Oconomische Abhandlung von den Schadlichen Raupen der Obstbaume, und bewahrten Hulfmitteln, solche Raupen von den Obstbaumen abzuhalten und zu vertreiben |
Leipzig | 1780 | AUD 250.00 - 350.00 | AUD 63.50 |
| 165 | Friedrich Christian Lesser | Insecto-theologia |
Franckfurt | 1738 | AUD 250.00 - 350.00 | AUD 63.50 |
| 166 | Frank Cridland; Jas. Steele; James S. Hassall; Isadore Brodsky | Port Hacking and Sutherland Shire; Early days of Windsor; In Old Australia; Heart of the Rocks of Old Sydney |
NSW | ND | AUD 50.00 - 100.00 | AUD 25.40 |
| 167 | Earnest Hunter | "Vicarious Dreaming with Jack Idriess on Madman's Island" |
2019 | AUD 50.00 - 100.00 | AUD 25.40 | |
| 168 | Cutten History Committee of The Fitzroy History Society | Fitzroy - Melbourne's First Suburb |
1989 | AUD 150.00 - 250.00 | AUD 101.60 | |
| 169 | David A. Weston; Arthur Victor Palmer; Michael Jones | Armidale and District Historical Society Journal No.24-27; The Sleeping City - The story of Rookwood Necropolis; The Gold Mines of Bendigo; Frankston - Resort To City |
Victoria | 1980-84; ND; ND; 1989 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | AUD 25.40 |
| 170 | Alfred Deakin; Allan Sierp; J.M. Freeland; Robert P. Whitworth; G Scurfield; W.K. Birrell | The Crisis in Victorian Politics, 1879-1881; Colonial Life in Victoria; Melbourne Churches 1836-1851 - An Architectural Record; Bailliere's Victorian Gazetteer and Road Guide, containing The most recent and accurate information as to every place in the co |
Victoria | 1957; 1972; ND; 1879; ND; ND | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | AUD 25.40 |
| 171 | Eric R. Guiler | Thylacine: The Tragedy of the Tasmanian Tiger |
1985 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | AUD 139.70 | |
| 172 | James Boyce; Capt. h. Butler Stoney; Sam Everingham; Mrs. Arthur H.Garnsey | Pockets & Corners - Furry Facts and Thylacine Fiction in the Hartland of Tasmania; Van Diemen's Land; A Residence in Tasmania: with A descriptive Tour Through the Island From Macquarie Harbour To Circular Head; Madam Lash - Gretel Pinniger's scandalous li |
Tasmania | ND; 2008; 1856; 2010; ND | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | AUD 127.00 |
| 173 | Betty Osborn; C.P. Harris; J. W. Collinson | Maryborough - A Social History 1854-1904; Local Government and Regionalism in Queensland 1859 to 1977; More about Cairns: 3. Recollections of a Varied Life; 100 Years of Progress - The Story to Toowoomba |
Queensland | 1854-1904; 1859 to 1977; 1946; ND | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | AUD 25.40 |
| 174 | Department of Mines Bulletins of the Geological Survey of Victoria |
Victoria | 1920 | AUD 150.00 - 250.00 | AUD 101.60 | |
| 175 | Department of Mines Bulletins of the Geological Survey of Victoria |
Victoria | 1925 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | AUD 127.00 | |
| 176 | Department of Mines Bulletins of the Geological Survey of Victoria |
Victoria | 1926 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | AUD 127.00 | |
| 177 | Department of Mines Bulletins of the Geological Survey of Victoria |
Victoria | 1923 | 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.