Sydney Rare Book Auctions: Victorianism and beyond: Fine bindings and illustrated books, A189, Ultimo

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
July 05, 2026 - July 05, 2026
Page Size: 400 items in 16 pages
Auction Lot Books
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
326

Official Illustrated Guide to Adelaide & Environs

Adelaide 1906 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
327

English Scenery

1889 AUD 150.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
328 De La Mare Walter

Down-Adown-Derry

London 1922 AUD 120.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
329 Cuyler Emily

The Church's Floral Kalendar

London 1862 AUD 150.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
330 Manning Samuel

Spanish Pictures Drawn with Pen and Pencil

London circa 1880 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
331 Fisher Harrison; Tennyson Alfred Lord

A Dream of Fair Women; A Dream Of Fair Women & Other Poems

London 1907; 1900 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
332 Grahame Kenneth

The Golden Age

1915 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
333 Boccaccio Giovanni

The Decameron of Boccaccio

London 1954 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
334 Pennell Joseph

Pen Drawing and Pen Draughtsmen; Etchers and Etching

London; New York 1921; 1936 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
335 Robinson W Heath; Lamb Charles

Twelfth Night; Tales From Shakespeare

Edinburgh c1908; c1902 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
336 Lydon Alexander Francis (1837-1917); Croal Thomas A

Scottish Loch Scenery

London 1882 AUD 150.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
337 Titmarsh M.A.

The Kickleburys on the Rhine

c.1850 AUD 150.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
338 Winkworth Catherine; M’Cheyne R.M.

Lyra Germanica; Basket of Fragments

London; Aberdeen 1869; c1860 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
339 Machen Arthur

The Hill of Dreams

London 1907 AUD 150.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
340 Caldecott Randolph; Ewing Juliana Horatia; Blackburn Henry

9 Books, including: Dernieres Scenes Humoristiques

London 1887; c1884; 1880s; 1880; c1885; 1883 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
341 Porter Noah; Harris William Torrey

Webster's International Dictionary of the English language

1901 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
342

Touches of Nature

1867 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
343 Hawthorne Nathaniel

The Scarlet Letter

1920 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
344 Eliot George

Adam Bede

London c1920 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
345 Manning Samuel

Italian Pictures, Drawn With Pen and Pencil

London 1890 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
346

Illustrated London Almanack

1878-1879 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
347 Ingoldsby Thomas

The Ingoldsby Legends Or Mirth and Marvels

London 1864 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
348 James Henry

Italian Hours

London 1909 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
349 Anstey F.

A Bayard from Bengal

London 1902 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
350 Thackeray; Smith Albert; Beckett Gilbert A; Mayhew Brothers

The Comic Almanack

London c1878 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 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
    The 10th Anniversary Sale
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    July 16, 2026
    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