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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 202 | A Souvenir of the Mackay Outer Harbour |
1939 | AUD 150.00 - 200.00 | AUD 152.40 | ||
| 203 | Wilson Hardy | The Cow Pasture Road |
1920 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | AUD 317.50 | |
| 204 | Henning Rachel; Croll R H; Lindsay Norman | The Letters of Rachel Henning; The Etched Work Of John Shirlow; Norman Lindsay Water Colour Book |
1852; c.1920; 1939 | AUD 300.00 - 400.00 | AUD 203.20 | |
| 205 | Lindsay Lionel | Conrad Martens : The Man and his Art |
1920 | AUD 200.00 - 250.00 | Not Sold | |
| 206 | Barnard Eldershaw M | The Life and Times of Captain John Piper |
Sydney | 1939 | AUD 350.00 - 400.00 | AUD 228.60 |
| 207 | Daly | Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia |
London | 1887 | AUD 400.00 - 500.00 | Not Sold |
| 208 | Tench Watkin | A Narrative of the Expedition to Botany-Bay |
1789; 1938 | AUD 150.00 - 200.00 | AUD 101.60 | |
| 209 | Clark Ralph; King Philip Gidley | The Journal and Letters of Lt. Ralph Clark; The Journal of Philip Gidley King |
; Sydney | 1981; 1980 | AUD 150.00 - 180.00 | Not Sold |
| 210 | Birch Alan; Macleod A R; Fitzpatrick J C | 4 Books, including: The Sydney Scene 1788-1960 |
; ; | 1962; 1949; 1923 | AUD 100.00 - 150.00 | Not Sold |
| 211 | Home Andrew | Exiled From School, or For The Sake of a Chum |
1897 | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold | |
| 212 | Peters David | French Porcelain Society Reference for Sevres Marks |
2003; 2005; 2007; 2011; 2015; 2016; 2018; 2020 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | AUD 76.20 | |
| 213 | Getty Museum Journal |
1978-1990 | AUD 150.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 214 | Hunt F Knight | The Fourth Estate |
London | 1850 | AUD 100.00 - 150.00 | AUD 203.20 |
| 215 | Alderson John J | The Clanalder Sennachie |
Havelock, Victoria | 1963-1971 | AUD 100.00 - 150.00 | Not Sold |
| 216 | May Phil | The Funny Side of Golf |
England | 1909 | AUD 50.00 - 100.00 | AUD 50.80 |
| 217 | Caemmerer; Ardenne | In Wehr und Waffen |
Berlin | 1911 | AUD 100.00 - 150.00 | Not Sold |
| 218 | McRae Ewing Steven | Ballet |
N/A | AUD 100.00 - 150.00 | Not Sold | |
| 219 | Wildey William Brackley | Australasia and the Oceanic Region |
Melbourne; Sydney; Adelaide | N/A | AUD 100.00 - 150.00 | AUD 254.00 |
| 220 | Record of War Service of Bank and Staff 1914-1919 |
Melbourne | 1921 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | AUD 317.50 | |
| 221 | The Life and Explorations of David Livingstone |
London | c. 1880s | AUD 100.00 - 150.00 | Not Sold | |
| 222 | Byron | Byron's Works |
1853 | AUD 150.00 - 200.00 | AUD 101.60 | |
| 223 | Timans | Antiques, Porcelain, Furniture and Portraits |
N/A | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | AUD 38.10 | |
| 224 | Marr David; Flood Josephine | 4 Books, including: Killing for Country |
N/A | AUD 150.00 - 200.00 | AUD 101.60 | |
| 225 | Kant; Kipling | Old Books |
N/A | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold | |
| 226 | Opera |
N/A | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | 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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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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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