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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 126 | Hogg Jabez | The Microscope |
1871 | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold | |
| 127 | Jewsbury Geraldine E. | Angelo; Or, The Pine Forest In The Alps |
1864 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold | |
| 128 | Russell William Howard | A Diary In The East During The Tour of The Prince and Princess of Wales |
1869 | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | AUD 63.50 | |
| 129 | Forrest A.S.; Bensusan S.L. | Morocco |
1904 | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | AUD 152.40 | |
| 130 | Cane Ella Due; Bagot Richard | The Italian Lakes |
Soho Square | 1912 | AUD 150.00 - 250.00 | AUD 114.30 |
| 131 | Dobson Austin | The Story of Rosina and other Verses |
London | 1895 | AUD 300.00 - 400.00 | AUD 190.50 |
| 132 | 10 Books, including: Whittier |
N/A | AUD 300.00 - 400.00 | AUD 190.50 | ||
| 133 | Ballantyne R. M. | Gascoyne, the Sandal-Wood Trader : a Tale of the Pacific |
1869 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold | |
| 134 | Gray Thomas | Poems and Letters |
London | 1867 | AUD 400.00 - 500.00 | AUD 254.00 |
| 135 | Conrad Joseph | Victory. An Island Tale. |
London | 1915 | AUD 600.00 - 700.00 | Not Sold |
| 136 | Browning Robert | Poems of Robert Browning |
London | 1907 | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | AUD 63.50 |
| 137 | Cowper William; Yeats W.B.; Longfellow Henry W. | 4 Books, including: William Cowper |
N/A | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | AUD 127.00 | |
| 138 | Conrad Joseph | The Nigger of the Narcissus |
London | 1898 | AUD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 139 | Fielding Henry | The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon |
London | 1755 | AUD 600.00 - 800.00 | AUD 381.00 |
| 140 | Ruskin John | The Seven Lamps of Architecture |
1880 | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | AUD 317.50 | |
| 141 | Sadi Muslihu'd-din | The Gulistan; Or, Rose-Garden of Shekh Muslihu'd-din Sadi of Shiraz |
1852 | AUD 150.00 - 250.00 | AUD 203.20 | |
| 142 | Bennion Elisabeth | Antique Medical Instruments |
1979 | AUD 50.00 - 100.00 | AUD 152.40 | |
| 143 | The Vision |
Cambridge | N/A | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | AUD 139.70 | |
| 144 | Archer; Godman; Clancey | The Birds of British Somaliland and the Gulf of Aden; The Birds of Natal and Zululand |
Edinburgh; London | 1961; 1964 | AUD 250.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold |
| 145 | Higgins P.J.; Peter J.M.; Cowling S.J. | Handbook of Australian, New Zealand & Antarctic Bird |
1990 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | AUD 114.30 | |
| 146 | 100 Books |
N/A | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | AUD 50.80 | ||
| 147 | Sibley; Ahlquist | 15 Books, including: Phylogeny and Classification of Birds |
N/A | AUD 250.00 - 350.00 | AUD 139.70 | |
| 148 | Brooker H.; Kleinig D.A.; Cayley Neville W.; Barrett Charles; Troughton Ellis; Foreshaw; Cooper; Marshall; Black; French C.; Mayer Wolf; Dell John; Johnstone Ron | 11 Books, including: Field Guide to Eucalypts |
Sydney | 1933; 1959; 1957; 1929 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | AUD 76.20 |
| 149 | Australiana |
N/A | AUD 250.00 - 350.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 151 | Phillips Blue Mountain Annual |
Katoomba | 1912-1913 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | AUD 152.40 |
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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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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
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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