Sydney Rare Book Auctions: Science, early printing, signed firsts, comics and more, A186, Ultimo
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- June 07, 2026 - June 07, 2026
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 278 | Patrick White | Kvinden der ikke matte holdee katte of andre noveller |
N/A | AUD 1,500.00 - 0.00 | Not Sold | |
| 279 | Thomas Moore | The Gardener's Assistant |
1878 | AUD 150.00 - 250.00 | AUD 101.60 | |
| 280 | W W Jacobs | 7 Books, including: Sea Urchins |
1898; 1902; 1914; 1901; 1909 | AUD 150.00 - 200.00 | AUD 101.60 | |
| 281 | Edward Burne-Jones | The Beginning of the World |
1902 | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | AUD 63.50 | |
| 282 | M H Spielmann; G S Layard; Jean Marsh | 4 Books, including: Kate Greenaway |
1905 | AUD 80.00 - 150.00 | AUD 63.50 | |
| 283 | Douglas Jerrold | Mrs. Caudle's Curtain Lecture |
1866 | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | AUD 63.50 | |
| 284 | John Tillotson | Beauties of English Scenery; The New Waverley Album |
c1880 | AUD 150.00 - 250.00 | Not Sold | |
| 285 | F W N Bayley | The New Tale of A Tub |
1845 | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold | |
| 286 | E V Lucas | The Open Road |
1913 | AUD 150.00 - 250.00 | Not Sold | |
| 287 | Charles Dickens | The Personal History of David Copperfield |
ND | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold | |
| 288 | Golden Thoughts from Golden Fountains |
c1868 | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | AUD 76.20 | ||
| 289 | Charles Peters | A Crown of Flowers |
c1890 | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | AUD 76.20 | |
| 290 | A E Johnson | Frank Reynolds |
1907 | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold | |
| 291 | Hans Christian Andersen | Danish Fairy Tales and Legends |
1897 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold | |
| 292 | Rudyard Kipling | A Song of The English |
c1909 | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | AUD 114.30 | |
| 293 | William Makepeace Thackeray | Vanity Fair |
c1910 | AUD 120.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold | |
| 294 | Algernon Charles Swinburne | The Springtide of Life |
1918 | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | AUD 76.20 | |
| 295 | Richard Doyle | A Journal Kept By Richard Doyle in the Year 1840 |
1885 | AUD 150.00 - 250.00 | Not Sold | |
| 296 | Norman Waddleton | Waddleton Chronology of Books with Colour Printed Illustrations or Decorations |
1993 | AUD 150.00 - 250.00 | Not Sold | |
| 297 | Beaton's Illustrated Dictionary of the Physical Sciences |
c1885 | AUD 150.00 - 250.00 | AUD 101.60 | ||
| 298 | The Personal Bicentennial Diary 1988 |
1987 | AUD 60.00 - 100.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 299 | Feldtmann F.R.; Stillwell F.L.; McMath J.C. | Western Australia Geological Survey Bulletin |
Western Australia | 1919; 1929; 1953 | AUD 400.00 - 500.00 | AUD 152.40 |
| 300 | Books of Magic |
N/A | AUD 150.00 - 200.00 | AUD 63.50 | ||
| 301 | Johns W. E. | 4 Books, including: Biggles Presses on |
1958; 1957; 1956 | AUD 300.00 - 400.00 | AUD 190.50 | |
| 302 | Blyton Enid | Secret Seven |
1963 | AUD 300.00 - 400.00 | Not Sold |
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Sotheby’s Geek Week
14-15 JulySotheby’s, July 14: Henry De La Beche. "Awful Changes," 1830. $6,000 to $9,000.Sotheby’s, July 15: [Apollo 11]. Flight Plan, Complete Original Printing Signed by Buzz Aldrin. $5,000 to $8,000.Sotheby’s, July 15: Thomas Alva Edison. Documents Establishing and Ending the Edison Electric Railway Company. $20,000 to $30,000.Sotheby’s, July 15: Richard P. Feynman. Feynman's Lectures on Gravitation 1-16, Including the Original Transcriptions of Lectures 12-16 by Morinigo and Wagner, With Richard Feynman's Manuscript Notations, 1971. $12,000 to $18,000.Sotheby’s, July 15: [Apollo 9]. A Group of Manuals and Mission Documents used by Stuart Roosa as a member of the Astronaut Support Crew. $5,000 to $8,000.Sotheby’s, July 15: [BYTE: The Small Systems Journal]. A collection of early foundational issues of Byte: The Small Systems Journal, with rare hardcover editions. $5,000 to $8,000. -
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Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
July 16, 2026Forum, July 16: Inundation papyrus. P.Michael 4, the ‘Inundation papyrus’, a geographical account of the Nile near Canopus, in Greek, remains of two columns from a manuscript scroll on papyrus, Egypt, second century CE. £12,000-18,000Forum, July 16: Book of Hours, use of Sarum, manuscript on vellum, 6 full-page miniatures, with famous Middle English inscriptions, Southern Netherlands for the English market, [c.1430]. £30,000-50,000Forum, July 16: Qu'ran, Arabic manuscript on burnished, stencilled, and gold-flecked paper, 447ff., Sultanate Gujarat, Ahmadabad, [after 1411 but no later than 1442]. £15,000-20,000Forum Auctions
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July 16, 2026Forum, July 16: Turner (William). A New boke of the natures and properties of all wines that are commonly vsed here in England, rare first edition of the first English book on wine, By William Seres, 1568. £20,000-£30,000Forum, July 16: Spenser (Edmund). The Faerie Queene. first edition, Printed [by John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, 1590. £30,000-40,000Forum, July 16: Shakespeare (William). The Comedie of Errors, extracted from the first folio, Isaac Jaggard and Edward Blount, 1623. £15,000-20,000Forum Auctions
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Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
July 16, 2026Forum, July 16: Fleming (Ian). Casino Royale, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author, 1953. £40,000-60,000Forum, July 16: d'Agoty (Jacques-Fabien Gautier). Anatomie de la Tête, first edition, Paris, chez le Sieur Gautier, 1748. £10,000-15,000Forum, July 16: Martial Arts.- Lee (Bruce). 'Praying Mantis style' Kung Fu book, containing numerous annotations, diagrams and graphs in Bruce Lee's hand, c. 1960. £50,000-70,000Forum Auctions
The 10th Anniversary Sale
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
July 16, 2026Forum, July 16: Warre (Capt. Henry James). Sketches in North America and the Oregon Territory, first edition, rare hand-coloured issue, 1848. £30,000-40,000Forum, July 16: Norie (John William). The Marine Atlas, or Seaman's Complete Pilot for all the principal places in the known world..., 1826. £30,000-50,000Forum, July 16: Mao Tse-tung.- Kim Il-sung.-[Note book for visitors from China to Korea], signed by Mao and Kim, [Beijing, 1954]. £10,000-15,000