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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 227 | Wilson Gavin | Harbourlights: The Art and Times of Peter Kingston |
2004 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | Unknown | |
| 228 | Elliot Jenny; Blair Ron | N Books, including: Maryborough Central State School ANZACs |
Brandy Creek | 2002; 2000 | AUD 250.00 - 300.00 | Unknown |
| 229 | Nemecek Vaclav; McKee Alexander; McCue Paul; Bond Steve; Foreman John; Downes Colin; Delaforce Patrick | N Books, including: The history of Soviet aircraft from 1918 |
1986; 1962; 1992; 2011; 2005; 2014 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | Unknown | |
| 230 | Goldbery R | Geology of the Western Blue Mountains |
1969 | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | Unknown | |
| 231 | Wyatt Ransome T | The History of Goulburn, N.S.W.; The History of the Diocese of Goulburn |
Sydney | 1941; 1937 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | Unknown |
| 232 | Herman Morton; Dodd Andrew | The Blackets; JJ Clark: Architect Of The Australian Renaissance |
Australia | 1963; 2012 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | Unknown |
| 233 | Dakin W J | Whalemen Adventurers |
Sydney | 1938 | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | Unknown |
| 234 | Grey Zane; Haig-Brown Roderick L | Tales of Southern Rivers; The Western Angler |
Lyon, Mississippi | 1991 | AUD 150.00 - 200.00 | Unknown |
| 235 | Tooley R V; Hapgood Charles H | Collectors' Guide To Maps of The African Continent and Southern Africa; Maps Of The Ancient Sea Kings |
NY | 1969; 1979 | AUD 120.00 - 180.00 | Unknown |
| 236 | Smyth Arthur Bowes; Fidlon Paul G; Ryan R J | The Journal of Arthur Bowes Smyth; The Narrative of a Voyage of Discovery |
Melbourne | 1979; 1971 | AUD 150.00 - 250.00 | Unknown |
| 237 | Sallis Roger | Pinjarra-Narrogin Railway |
2009 | AUD 80.00 - 120.00 | Unknown | |
| 238 | Maddock John | The People Movers: A History of Victoria's Private Bus Industry 1910-1992 |
Kenthurst, NSW | 1992 | AUD 80.00 - 120.00 | Unknown |
| 239 | Jubilee of the Box Hill Methodist Church |
c.1934 | AUD 120.00 - 180.00 | Unknown | ||
| 240 | Smith Anne; Weissenborn Hellmuth | An Anthology of Love |
London | 1985 | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | Unknown |
| 241 | Hoare Benjamin | The Melbourne Harbor Trust Commissioners Jubilee Report 1877-1927 |
Melbourne | 1927 | AUD 400.00 - 500.00 | Unknown |
| 242 | Walker Mary Howitt; Chessell Gwen; Perry Frances; Vine Hall Nick | N Books, including: Come Wind, Come Weather |
Melbourne; Sydney | 1971; 2005; 1984; 1983 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | Unknown |
| 243 | Cannon Michael; de Serville Paul | Old Melbourne Town, Before the Gold Rush; Pounds and Pedigrees |
Main Ridge; Melbourne | 1991 | AUD 100.00 - 120.00 | Unknown |
| 244 | Fyans Foster; Brown P L; Croll Robert Henderson; Wettenhall Roland R | Memoirs recorded at Geelong, Victoria Australia; Dr. Alexander Thomson : a pioneer of Melbourne and founder of Geelong |
1986; 1937 | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | Unknown | |
| 245 | Barrie Douglas M; Pring Peter; Cavanough Maurice; Kirkwood Rhett; Meldrum Brian | Australia's Thoroughbred Idols; The Melbourne Cup 1861-2000 |
1973; 2001 | AUD 100.00 - 150.00 | Unknown | |
| 246 | Beaumont Ralph | Heckman's Canadian Pacific: A Photographic Journey |
2015 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | Unknown | |
| 247 | Reps John W | Canberra 1912: Plans and Planners of the Australian Capital Competition |
Melbourne | 1997 | AUD 60.00 - 80.00 | Unknown |
| 248 | Illustrations of Northern Antiquities, from the Earlier Teutonic and Scandinavian Romances |
Edinburgh | 1814 | AUD 150.00 - 200.00 | Unknown | |
| 249 | N Books, including: Type E Jaguar |
N/A | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | Unknown | ||
| 250 | Carroll Lewis; Lofting Hugh; Kastner Erich; Bannerman Helen; Ahm; Yee; Stevenson Louis; Hill; Lefevre; Spurling; Belloc Hilaire; Andersen Hans Christian | N Books, including: Alice in Wonderland |
1898; 1951; 1949; 1899; 1947; 1944; ND; 1899 | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | Unknown | |
| 251 | Darwin Charles | The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life |
London | 1875 | 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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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