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

Auction Details

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
76	Ule Otto	Die neuesten Entdeckungen in Afrika, Australien und der arktischen Polarwelt	Halle	1861	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 254.00
77	Spence Lewis	Legends and Romances of Brittany	London	1917	AUD 150.00 - 250.00	AUD 101.60
78	Folleville Charles	Les Tragedies de la Mer	Limoges	circa 1880	AUD 150.00 - 250.00	Not Sold
79	Lodge Samuel	Scrivelsby: The Home of the Champions	London	1894	AUD 250.00 - 350.00	Not Sold
80	Blosseville Marquis de	Histoire de la colonisation penale et des etablissements de l'Angleterre en Australie	Evereux	1859	AUD 180.00 - 220.00	AUD 114.30
81		Wreck of the London	London	1866	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 412.75
82	Graham William	Socialism New And Old	London	1890	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 127.00
83		A Bridal Gift	London	c1850s	AUD 120.00 - 180.00	AUD 101.60
84		The Basket of Flowers	London	circa 1867	AUD 180.00 - 220.00	AUD 165.10
85		The Child	London	N/A	AUD 150.00 - 250.00	AUD 139.70
86	Falconer William	Shipwreck	Edinburgh	1858	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 127.00
87	Elliott James William	National Nursery Rhymes and Nursery Songs	London	circa 1870	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 215.90
88	Forman Justus Miles	The Island of Enchantment	New York	1905	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
89	Holmes Oliver Wendell	Dorothy Q	London	1892	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
90	Byron Lord	The Poetical Works of Lord Byron	London	1857	AUD 250.00 - 350.00	AUD 177.80
91	Gill W W	Historical Sketches of Savage Life in Polynesia	Wellington	1880	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 139.70
92		Latest Information with regard to Australia Felix	Melbourne	1988	AUD 150.00 - 200.00	AUD 88.90
93	Smith Edward	Foods	London	1874	AUD 250.00 - 350.00	Not Sold
94	Petty John	The History of the Primitive Methodist Connexion	London	1864	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 228.60
95	Martin R. Montgomery	The Indian Empire	London	circa 1850s	AUD 600.00 - 800.00	AUD 381.00
96	Sefton	150 Years of the Faculty of Medicine		2006	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
97	Moore Thomas	3 Books, including: Irish Melodies	London; Edinburgh	1856; circa 1860; circa 1870	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 177.80
98	Bedford F.; Robinson I.C.	The Treasury of Ornamental Art	London	1856	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 508.00
99	Abbott Brian Douglas	A Most Admirable Australian	Armidale	2012	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 127.00
100	Humphries Noel; Watson JD; Selos CH; Du Maurier	Our Life Illustrated by Pen Pencil	London	circa 1865	AUD 150.00 - 250.00	AUD 165.10

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
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
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
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
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