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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 277 | Buchanan John | The Indigenous Grasses of New Zealand; Australia Biophysical Regions |
Wellington | 1878-1879; 1975 | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | Unknown |
| 278 | Allan Alexander; Dyson Will; Coxhead; Smith Sydney Ure | 6 Books, including: The Old Model School |
Melbourne; Sydney; London | 1916; 1917; 1918; 1920; 1926; 1929; 1934 | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | Unknown |
| 279 | Swift Jonathan; Irving Washington | Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Nations of the World; Rip Van Winkle |
London; NY USA | 1909; 1919 | AUD 400.00 - 500.00 | Unknown |
| 280 | Conrad Joseph | Almayers Folly; The Inheritors; Nostromo |
London | 1923 | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | Unknown |
| 281 | Bunyan John | The Works of John Bunyan |
Glasgow | 1868 | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | Unknown |
| 282 | Henderson George C.; Grey George | Sir George Grey; Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North West and Western Australia |
London | 1907; 1969 | AUD 100.00 - 150.00 | Unknown |
| 283 | Warner Sylvia Townsend; Zweig Paul | Elinor Barley; Images & Footsteps |
1930; 1971 | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | Unknown | |
| 284 | Acta Cartographica |
1967-1971 | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | Unknown | ||
| 285 | Kannenberg B.; Hurley Frank | 10 Books, including: Mount Gambier Illustrated Coloured Supplement of Blue Lake |
Mount Gambier; Adelaide | c.1920s | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | Unknown |
| 286 | Mahony Will | The Bradman Book |
Melbourne | 1948 | AUD 120.00 - 200.00 | Unknown |
| 287 | Rabone Harold R. | A Detailed Map of Phillip Island; Picturesque New South Wales; Lord Howe Island - Its Discovery and Early Associations 1788-1888 |
1959 | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | Unknown | |
| 288 | Johns J. R. H. | 10 Books, including: Souvenir of Western Australia |
Sydney | c.1900s | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | Unknown |
| 289 | Martin A. E. | 5 Books, including: The Wonderland of North Queensland |
Melbourne | 1922; 1937-1938 | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | Unknown |
| 290 | Ferguson B. J.; Mann Allyn; Henry L.; Campbell; Simon J.; O'Connor Morgan | 9 Books, including: A Short history of Merimbula |
1929-1988 | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | Unknown | |
| 291 | Sanders John | 4 Books, including: A.I.F Stories and Tales to make you laugh |
Melbourne; London | c.1900; 1915; 1941 | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | Unknown |
| 292 | Schoenherr Carl Johan (1772-1848) | Curculionidum dispositio methodica |
Lipsiae | 1826 | AUD 170.00 - 300.00 | Unknown |
| 293 | Caskoden Edwin;Ward Humphrey;Moore Frankfort;Lytton Bulmer;Cockton Henry;Hugo Victor | 6 Books, including: When Knighthood Was in Flower |
Melbourne | 1900;circa 1900-1910 | AUD 40.00 - 100.00 | Unknown |
| 294 | Campbell Archibald James | Golden Wattle |
Melbourne | 1921 | AUD 120.00 - 200.00 | Unknown |
| 295 | Parker Mary Ann;Cornell Christine;Milius Pierre Bernard;Dumont D’Urville Jules S.C. | 4 Books, including: A Voyage Round the World |
Sydney;Adelaide;Du Havre;Melbourne | 1991;1965;circa 1990;1987 | AUD 150.00 - 250.00 | Unknown |
| 296 | Phillip Arthur | The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay |
Melbourne | 1789 | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | Unknown |
| 297 | Census Of Victoria 1857 |
Melbourne | 1859 | AUD 300.00 - 400.00 | Unknown | |
| 298 | The Book of the Martyrs of Tolpuddle 1834-1934 |
London | 1934 | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | Unknown | |
| 299 | The Sydney Herald |
1834 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | Unknown | ||
| 300 | Smith E. Hilmer | The History of the Legacy Club of Sydney |
Sydney | 1944;1950 | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | Unknown |
| 301 | Sutherland Joan | Dame Joan Sutherland & Richard Bonynge Ephemera |
N/A | AUD 400.00 - 500.00 | 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
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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
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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