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
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
  • 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.
  • Forum Auctions
    The 10th Anniversary Sale
    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
    The 10th Anniversary Sale
    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
    The 10th Anniversary Sale
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    July 16, 2026
    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