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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 178 | Geological Survey of New South Wales, The Mineral Resources of New South Wales |
New South Wales | 1901 | AUD 400.00 - 500.00 | AUD 63.50 | |
| 179 | Tasmania Report of the Secretary for Mines |
Tasmania | 1908 | AUD 600.00 - 700.00 | AUD 63.50 | |
| 180 | Department of Mines Bulletins of the Geological Survey of Victoria, with plans and sections |
Victoria | 1922 | AUD 800.00 - 1,000.00 | AUD 63.50 | |
| 181 | Western Australia Geological Survey Bulletin No. 71, Maps and Sections to Accompany Report on The Geology and Mineral Resources of Yilgarn Goldfield, Part III, Plates I - XIX |
1917 | AUD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 182 | Western Australia Geological Survey Bulletin 68, Maps and Sections to Accompany Report on The Geology and Ore-Deposits of Meekatharra, Murchison Goldfield, plates I - XXV |
1916 | AUD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 183 | The Royal Society of Western Australia Vol. IX, Part II |
1923 | AUD 600.00 - 700.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 184 | The Popular Science Review |
1862-1868 | AUD 150.00 - 250.00 | AUD 228.60 | ||
| 185 | Memorial of Alexander Lyman Holley, C.E. LL.D. |
N/A | AUD 50.00 - 100.00 | AUD 25.40 | ||
| 186 | John Tyndall | Sound; The Forms of Water; Light |
1880's | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | AUD 88.90 | |
| 187 | Alexander von Humboldt | Cosmos: A Physical Description of the Universe |
1847; 1848; 1851; 1858 | AUD 150.00 - 250.00 | AUD 285.75 | |
| 188 | NAPIER TERCENTENARY MEMORIAL VOLUME |
1915 | AUD 50.00 - 100.00 | AUD 25.40 | ||
| 189 | Seven Sydney Local History Books |
1959; 1996; 1987; 1960; 1937; 1997; 1948 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 190 | Six Hakluyt Society publishing |
N/A | AUD 150.00 - 250.00 | AUD 101.60 | ||
| 191 | Catherine Drummond Cotton; William Beard; E.M. Webster; Max Soling and Peter Reynolds | Ludwig Leichhardt and The Great South Land; Journey Triumphant - The Story of Leichhardt's Famous Expedition from the Darling Downs to Port Essington; An Explorer at Rest - Ludwig Leichhardt at Port Essington and on the homeward voyage 1845-1846; Leichhar |
1938; 1955; 1986; 1997 | AUD 120.00 - 200.00 | AUD 76.20 | |
| 192 | Jean Taylor; Pip Wilson | Brazen Hussies - A Herstory of Radical Activism in the Women's Liberation Movement in Victoria 1970-1979; Faces in the Street - Luisa and Henry Lawson and the Castlereagh Street Push |
2009; 2007 | AUD 100.00 - 150.00 | Not Sold | |
| 193 | John Lynch; James T. Ryan; Charles Ramsay; Richard Charles Mills; Bertha Mac Smith; John Kirwan; k. Forrest | Seven Books about Australian Pioneers and Settlers |
N/A | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | AUD 25.40 | |
| 194 | Sreten Bozic; Cyril havecker; Diana Eades; null; null; Sarah Colley; Juliette Blevins | Seven Australian Aboriginal History Books |
1972; 1996; 2013; 1978; 2010; 2002; null | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | AUD 25.40 | |
| 195 | Five books about Australian Aboriginal Art |
1973; null; 1989; 1992-1994; 2010 | AUD 120.00 - 200.00 | AUD 38.10 | ||
| 196 | James Cowan; Ainsline Roberts; Charles E. Hulley | Four Aboriginal Dreaming Books |
1993; 2002; 1975; 1988 | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | AUD 38.10 | |
| 197 | Margaret Kemarre Turner; K M MacAulay; Colin Tatz & Paul Tatz | Iwenhe Tyerrtye: What It Means to Be an Aboriginal Person; Black Anna; Black Pearls - The Aboriginal and Islander Sports Hall of Fame |
2009; 1976; 2018 | AUD 150.00 - 200.00 | AUD 38.10 | |
| 198 | Terence Lane; Nadine Amadio; David Boyd; Geoffrey Dutton; Lou Klepac | Six Australian Impressionism books |
2007; 1923; 2004; 1985; 2013; 1998 | AUD 150.00 - 250.00 | AUD 25.40 | |
| 199 | Andrew Tink; Arthur Hoyle | Thirty books on early Australian settlement and colonial history |
2009; 2001 | AUD 300.00 - 400.00 | AUD 127.00 | |
| 200 | Bede Maxwell; William Westgarth; Elyne Mitchell | Approximately 100-120 books on Australia |
1948; 1864; 1945 | AUD 250.00 - 300.00 | AUD 63.50 | |
| 201 | Picturesque Mackay |
ND 1950s | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | AUD 190.50 | ||
| 202 | Tasmania. The Isle Of Scenic Beauty |
ND 1950s | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | 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.