Sydney Rare Book Auctions: Victorianism and beyond: Fine bindings and illustrated books, A189, Ultimo
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- July 05, 2026 - July 05, 2026
| 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 |
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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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