Sydney Rare Book Auctions: Finely bound books, Maps, Posters, and Ephemera, 61426, Ultimo
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- June 14, 2026 - June 14, 2026
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 278 | Reasons Suggestive of Mining on Physical Principles for Gold and Coal |
Melbourne | 1875 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | AUD 127.00 | |
| 279 | McLaren Ian F | Whitcombe's Story Books |
N/A | AUD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | Not Sold | |
| 280 | Heckmann Walter | Lithograph |
1965 | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold | |
| 281 | Baxter George | The Landing of Her Majesty in Ireland; Evening in Verona |
c. 1850; c.1908 | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold | |
| 282 | Etchings and Prints |
N/A | AUD 300.00 - 400.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 283 | Rowbotham T.L; Houghton A.B. | N Books, including: Gems of Home Scenery |
London | 1875; 1890-1; 1863 | AUD 150.00 - 200.00 | AUD 88.90 |
| 284 | Conrad Joseph | An Outcast of the Islands |
London | 1896 | AUD 700.00 - 800.00 | Not Sold |
| 285 | Conrad Joseph | Nostromo: A tale of the seaboard |
London; New York | 1904 | AUD 500.00 - 600.00 | AUD 317.50 |
| 286 | Conrad Joseph | N Books, including: Twixt Land & Sea |
London | 1912; 1915; 1919; 1908; 1923 | AUD 600.00 - 800.00 | Not Sold |
| 287 | Haggard H. Rider | N Books, including: Ayesha; The Return of She |
1905; 1926; 1922; 1923 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold | |
| 288 | Buchan John | N Books, including: Huntingtower |
1922; 1933; 1932; 1920; 1908 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold | |
| 289 | Galsworthy John | The Silver Spoon; Over The River; The Silver Box Joy Strife; Flowering Wilderness |
1929; 1933; 1909; 1932 | AUD 150.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold | |
| 290 | Gibbings Robert | N Books, including: Blue Angels and Whales |
1946; 1955; 1948; 1957; 1947; 1932; 1943; 1951; 1934; 1945 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold | |
| 291 | France Anatole; Chapman Frederic; Cabell James Branch | N Books, including: The Gods are Athirst |
1927; 1928; 1929 | AUD 200.00 - 250.00 | Not Sold | |
| 292 | Hiatt Charles | Ellen Terry |
London | 1899; 1898 | AUD 150.00 - 250.00 | Not Sold |
| 293 | N Books, including: King Alberts Book |
1914; 1939; ND | AUD 100.00 - 150.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 294 | Parker Eric; Thomson Hugh; Conybeare Edward; Hutton W. H.; New Edmund H.; Cook E. T. | Surrey; Cambridge and Ely; Shakespeare's Country; London |
1909; 1910; 1914; 1911 | AUD 100.00 - 150.00 | Not Sold | |
| 295 | Dobson Austin | Corridor's Song and other verses; The Story of Rosina and other Verses; Proverbs in Porcelain Au Revoir |
1894; 1895; 1893 | AUD 150.00 - 200.00 | AUD 88.90 | |
| 296 | Du Maurier George | Peter Ibbetson; Trilby |
London | 1895 | AUD 250.00 - 350.00 | Not Sold |
| 297 | Bloomfield Robert; Carleton Will | The Farmer's Boy; Farm Ballads |
1800; 1879 | AUD 150.00 - 250.00 | Not Sold | |
| 298 | Landon Letitia Elizabeth; Strickland Jane | Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap-book; Fisher's Juvenile Scrap-book |
1835; 1836 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | AUD 127.00 | |
| 299 | Hudson William Henry | 10 Books, including: British Birds |
London | 1895; 1923; 1951; 1901; 1928; 1927; 1929; 1925 | AUD 250.00 - 350.00 | Not Sold |
| 300 | Hinton Alan | Sea Shells of New Zealand; Guide to Shells of Papua New Guinea; Goldfish In Australia |
Sydney | 1933 | AUD 75.00 - 150.00 | AUD 50.80 |
| 301 | Reiner Musterbuch aus codex Vindobonensis 507 |
1979 | AUD 250.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 302 | Kempwelch Alice | The Chatelaine of Vergi |
1907 | AUD 60.00 - 100.00 | AUD 38.10 |
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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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