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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 203 | G H Teed; V Fremlin; Robert Murray; Gilbert Chester; Gwyn Evans; E S Brooks; Rex Hardinge | Fourteen Union Jack Magazines |
London | 1920s; 1930s | AUD 400.00 - 500.00 | AUD 63.50 |
| 204 | Marc Brody | Illustrated Stories Hot Off The Press |
Sydney | ND 1950s | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | AUD 25.40 |
| 205 | Thirteen random copies of The Phantom comic |
Sydney | 1950s | AUD 500.00 - 600.00 | AUD 63.50 | |
| 206 | Michael Papantonio; null; null; null; null; null; Frank Broomhead; Tom Conroy; Hpward M; Meiric K. Dutton; Sydney Morris Cockerell & Joan Rix Tebbutt; Meiric K. Dutton; John P Harthan; Andrea Krupp; Anne Chambers | 15 Bookbinding Bibliographies |
New York; Wisconsin; San Francisco; Australia; Dallas; New York; Ravelston; USA; London; Norwood; null; Norwood; London; Newcastle; London | 1972; 1983; 1978; 1984; 1993; 1988; 1986; 2002; 1965; 1926; 1980; 1926; 1985; 2008; 1986 | AUD 500.00 - 600.00 | AUD 63.50 |
| 207 | Walter W. Stone; null; null; Holbrook Jackson; Anthony Rota; James Bettley; Dilys Winn; William H. Bond | Eight books on books |
null; 1947; 1988; 1950; 2002; null; null; null | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | AUD 38.10 | |
| 208 | Walter Burkert; Compton Reeves; Robert Fossier; Hugh Kennedy; Carole Rawcliffe; null; J. V. S. Megaw | Seven Ancient History Books |
1994; 1995; 1997; 2002; 1995; 2005; 1970 | AUD 150.00 - 250.00 | AUD 101.60 | |
| 209 | Peter Yule | The Forgotten Giant of Australian Aviation |
2001 | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold | |
| 210 | Peter C. Smith; Henri Hegener | Fairchild-Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II; Fokker-The Man and The Aircraft |
2000; 1961 | AUD 120.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold | |
| 211 | Michael Cannon | Old Melbourne Town - Before The Gold Rush |
N/A | AUD 150.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold | |
| 212 | A "Donald Times" Jubilee Souvenirs Past & Present; Past & Present - The "Donald Times" Jubilee Souvenir; Past and Present. The Donald Times Jubilee Souvenir |
1989 | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | AUD 63.50 | ||
| 213 | William Noonan | Lost Legion - Mission 204 and the Reluctant Dragon |
1987 | AUD 100.00 - 150.00 | Not Sold | |
| 214 | Elsie Ritchie | Crusaders of the Southern Cross - The Australian Light Horse in the Middle East from the letters of Colonel Jack Davies M.C., V.D. |
1998 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | AUD 127.00 | |
| 215 | Tom Roberts | Om Roberts' War Diaries ... Will We Be Disappointed - After? |
1995 | AUD 100.00 - 150.00 | AUD 25.40 | |
| 216 | N.K. Sligo; James Balzano | 3 Books about Australian Goldfields and Goldrushes |
1989; 1993; 1980 | AUD 100.00 - 150.00 | Not Sold | |
| 217 | Report of the National Rifle Association of New South Wales For 1910 and 1913 |
1911; 1914 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 218 | Robert Ampt; Gwen James; Andrew Tink; Helena Hall; Bill Tyrrell; Geoffrey Moorhouse; Gary Deirmendjian; May Munro | 11 books about Sydney |
1955; 1893-1913; 1961 | AUD 200.00 - 250.00 | AUD 127.00 | |
| 219 | Jean Demoor; Jean Massart; Emile Vandervelde | Evolution by Atrophy In Biology And Sociology |
London | 1899 | AUD 400.00 - 500.00 | Not Sold |
| 220 | Mark Evans; Stefan Weppelmann; Martin Davies; Friedbert Ficker; Ludwig Baldass; Marianne Roland Michel; Max J. Friedlander; Luisa Morton; Tom Henry; Paul Joannides | The Renaissance: A collection of very good art books, Dutch, German, Italian |
2016; 1958; 1953; 1987; 1978; 2012 | AUD 300.00 - 400.00 | Not Sold | |
| 221 | ME Mulsant | Lettres a Julie sur l'entomologie, suivies d'une description methodique de la plus grande partie des insectes de France |
1830 | AUD 300.00 - 400.00 | AUD 101.60 | |
| 222 | William Cooper; Frederic Jones | A collection of 8 books on Australian Animals |
1923; 1924; 1925 | AUD 150.00 - 250.00 | Not Sold | |
| 223 | Millard Meiss | "French Painting in the Time of Jean de Berry: The Limbourgs and Their Contemporaries" |
1974 | AUD 150.00 - 250.00 | Not Sold | |
| 224 | E. Gans-Ruedin; P. R. J. Ford; Paul Durrieu; Henry-Pierre Fourest | A collection of 4 books depicting art and design in the past |
N/A | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold | |
| 225 | J. P. Dowling; W. Fleichmann | A collection of 4 books on the dairy industry of the late-19th and 20th Century, focusing on Australia |
Australia | 1961; 1893; 1896; 1937 | AUD 150.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold |
| 226 | Wendy Franks; S.B. Andrews; Calder H. Chaffey; D.L. Jones; S.C. Clemecia | Seven books on Australian Ferns |
N/A | AUD 100.00 - 150.00 | Not Sold | |
| 227 | Joseph M. Forshaw; William T. Cooper; Mark Shephard | Australian Parrots; Parrots of the World; Aviculture in Australia, Keeping and Breeding Aviary Birds |
Australia | 2002; 1981; 1989 | AUD 150.00 - 250.00 | AUD 127.00 |
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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.