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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 128 | Kingsford Smith Charles | The Old Bus |
Melbourne | 1932 | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | AUD 88.90 |
| 129 | Spencer Sydney | Mountaineering |
London | 1950 | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold |
| 130 | Ross Malcolm | A Climber in New Zealand |
London | 1914 | AUD 300.00 - 400.00 | AUD 381.00 |
| 131 | Millingen JG | Curiosities of Medical Experience |
London | 1837 | AUD 200.00 - 250.00 | AUD 152.40 |
| 132 | Smith James | Genealogies of an Aberdeen Family 1540-1913 |
Aberdeen | 1913 | AUD 120.00 - 180.00 | AUD 76.20 |
| 133 | Miller Edith; Benham Edith | Records of The Lumley's of Lumley Castle |
London | 1904 | AUD 350.00 - 450.00 | Not Sold |
| 134 | Smyth R Brough | The Gold Fields and Mineral Districts of Victoria |
1980 | AUD 120.00 - 200.00 | AUD 76.20 | |
| 135 | Elliott W | Coles Australasian Gardening and Domestic Floriculture |
Melbourne | 1903 | AUD 150.00 - 250.00 | AUD 114.30 |
| 136 | Kerner A; Dendy Arthur; Lucas AHS | 7 Books, including: Flowers and Their Unbidden Guests |
London; Melbourne | 1878; 1892 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | AUD 127.00 |
| 137 | Downing AJ; Downing Charles | The Fruits and Fruit-trees of America |
New York | 1893 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold |
| 138 | Edge-Partington James | Ethnographical Album of the Pacific Islands |
Bangkok | 1996 | AUD 350.00 - 450.00 | Not Sold |
| 139 | 7 Books, including: Missionary Album |
1969; 1974; 1987; 1992; 1958 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | AUD 127.00 | ||
| 140 | Sillitoe Paul | Made in Niugini: Technology in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea |
1988 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | AUD 127.00 | |
| 141 | Beran Harry | Mutuaga: A nineteenth-century New Guinea master carver |
Wollongong | 199 | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | AUD 63.50 |
| 142 | Lamont EH | Matagi Tokelau; Wild Life Among the Pacific Islanders |
1867 | AUD 150.00 - 200.00 | AUD 88.90 | |
| 143 | The Furnishing Problem Solved |
Adelaide | circa 1939 | AUD 60.00 - 80.00 | AUD 50.80 | |
| 144 | Gifts for All Ages and Occasions |
Melbourne | circa 1925-1935 | AUD 100.00 - 150.00 | AUD 127.00 | |
| 145 | Catalogue No 48 |
Adelaide | 1937 | AUD 100.00 - 150.00 | AUD 63.50 | |
| 146 | Saddlery and Harness |
Sydney | circa 1922 | AUD 80.00 - 120.00 | AUD 63.50 | |
| 147 | The Store for Men Annual Winter Sale Preselection List 1941 |
Melbourne | 1941 | AUD 150.00 - 200.00 | AUD 139.70 | |
| 148 | Guide to Autumn-Winter Fashions 1941 |
1941 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | AUD 152.40 | ||
| 149 | Forstars Shoe Trade Catalogue |
Sydney | c1947 | AUD 150.00 - 200.00 | AUD 88.90 | |
| 150 | Fur Fashion |
c1920s | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | AUD 88.90 | ||
| 151 | Robertson Mail Order Service; June Millinery Spring & Summer Catalogue |
Melbourne | c1940s; 1954-55 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold | |
| 152 | 3 Books, including: Catalogue of Complete Home Furnishings |
Richmond | circa 1930s or early 1940s | AUD 120.00 - 180.00 | AUD 127.00 |
-
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. -
Forum Auctions
The 10th Anniversary Sale
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
The 10th Anniversary Sale
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
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
The 10th Anniversary Sale
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
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
The 10th Anniversary Sale
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