Sydney Rare Book Auctions: Views, Maps, Firsts and Limited editions, 191, Ultimo
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- July 12, 2026 - July 12, 2026
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | HMS Galatea Arriving in Sydney Harbour |
1968 | AUD 400.00 - 500.00 | Unknown | ||
| 2 | GWT | Sydney Harbour Panorama |
1897 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | Unknown | |
| 3 | King Henry | Sydney Harbour |
c.1890s | AUD 400.00 - 500.00 | Unknown | |
| 4 | Spurling Stephen | Victoria Albumen Photographs |
N/A | AUD 250.00 - 300.00 | Unknown | |
| 5 | Colonial Sydney Newspapers |
Sydney | 1834-1855 | AUD 600.00 - 800.00 | Unknown | |
| 6 | Balbis Giovanni Battista (1765-1831) | Balbis Botanical Engravings |
Turin | circa 1803-04 | AUD 1,700.00 - 2,200.00 | Unknown |
| 7 | Adams Tate | Tropical Wood-Engravings |
Melbourne | 1997 | AUD 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 | Unknown |
| 8 | Pugh's Queensland Almanac |
1897 | AUD 300.00 - 400.00 | Unknown | ||
| 9 | Creswicke Louis | South Africa and The Transvaal War |
Edinburgh | 1900 | AUD 400.00 - 500.00 | Unknown |
| 10 | Parkinson Sydney; Banks Joseph; Nodder FP; Miller JF | Australian Flora Botanical Plates |
1773-1777 | AUD 250.00 - 350.00 | Unknown | |
| 11 | Sydney Maps |
Sydney | 1908 | AUD 150.00 - 250.00 | Unknown | |
| 12 | Hunter John | Views of Early Sydney |
1788; 1861; 1863 | AUD 300.00 - 400.00 | Unknown | |
| 13 | The International Exhibition Building, Sydney |
1879 | AUD 80.00 - 120.00 | Unknown | ||
| 14 | Centenary of the Settlement of NSW |
1888 | AUD 80.00 - 120.00 | Unknown | ||
| 15 | Mitchell Thomas | Views of NSW |
1839 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | Unknown | |
| 16 | Catholic Pamphlets |
Dublin | 1920s-1930s | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | Unknown | |
| 17 | Arnold J | Souvenir de Macau |
London | 1921 | AUD 100.00 - 150.00 | Unknown |
| 18 | Stephensen PR | Norman Lindsay Doesn't Care |
N/A | AUD 250.00 - 350.00 | Unknown | |
| 19 | Wentworth Hotel Sydney Postcards |
Germany | N/A | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | Unknown | |
| 21 | Leichhardt Ludwig | Journal Of An Overland Expedition in Australia |
London | 1847 | AUD 2,200.00 - 2,600.00 | Unknown |
| 22 | Johnson Samuel | A Diary of a Journey into North Wales |
1816 | AUD 400.00 - 500.00 | Unknown | |
| 23 | Brownrig Ralph | Fourty sermons |
1661 | AUD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | Unknown | |
| 24 | Fleetwood John | Life of Jesus Christ; The Evidences of the Christian Religion; and Lives of the Evangelists, Apostles, and Chief Disciples |
circa 1860 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | Unknown | |
| 25 | Bates William | The Four Last Things |
London | 1691 | AUD 300.00 - 400.00 | Unknown |
| 26 | Coote Walter | The Western Pacific |
London | 1883 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | Unknown |
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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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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
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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
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