Sydney Rare Book Auctions: Science, early printing, signed firsts, comics and more, A186, Ultimo

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
June 07, 2026 - June 07, 2026
Page Size: 354 items in 15 pages
Auction Lot Books
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
  • Sotheby’s Geek Week
    14-15 July
    Sotheby’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, 2026
    Forum, 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. £12,000-18,000
    Forum, 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]. £30,000-50,000
    Forum, July 16: Qu'ran, Arabic manuscript on burnished, stencilled, and gold-flecked paper, 447ff., Sultanate Gujarat, Ahmadabad, [after 1411 but no later than 1442]. £15,000-20,000
    Forum Auctions
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    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    July 16, 2026
    Forum, 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-£30,000
    Forum, July 16: Spenser (Edmund). The Faerie Queene. first edition, Printed [by John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, 1590. £30,000-40,000
    Forum, July 16: Shakespeare (William). The Comedie of Errors, extracted from the first folio, Isaac Jaggard and Edward Blount, 1623. £15,000-20,000
    Forum Auctions
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    Forum, July 16: Fleming (Ian). Casino Royale, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author, 1953. £40,000-60,000
    Forum, July 16: d'Agoty (Jacques-Fabien Gautier). Anatomie de la Tête, first edition, Paris, chez le Sieur Gautier, 1748. £10,000-15,000
    Forum, 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. £50,000-70,000
    Forum Auctions
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    Forum, July 16: Warre (Capt. Henry James). Sketches in North America and the Oregon Territory, first edition, rare hand-coloured issue, 1848. £30,000-40,000
    Forum, July 16: Norie (John William). The Marine Atlas, or Seaman's Complete Pilot for all the principal places in the known world..., 1826. £30,000-50,000
    Forum, 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