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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 52 | Pratt | Gleanings Through Wales, Holland and Westphalia |
1802 | AUD 150.00 - 250.00 | Unknown | |
| 53 | Bradley Charles; Smith Adam | 4 Books, including: Parochial Sermons |
1828; 1846; 1774; 1812 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | Unknown | |
| 54 | Weiss Emil Rudolf | The Four Gospels |
1932 | AUD 150.00 - 200.00 | Unknown | |
| 55 | Southworth May E.; Oakeshott Walter; Rudland Peter | 5 Books, including: A Certain Young Man of Assisi |
1934; 1964; 1955; 1954 | AUD 150.00 - 200.00 | Unknown | |
| 56 | Fulleylove John; Kelman John; Butler Elizabeth | The Holy Land; Letters Form The Holy Land |
1902; 1903 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | Unknown | |
| 57 | Watt Agnes C.P. | Twenty-Five Years' Mission Life on Tanna, New Hebrides |
Paisley | 1896 | AUD 300.00 - 400.00 | Unknown |
| 58 | Maskell W. M. | An Account of the Insects Noxious to Agriculture and Plants in New Zealand |
New Zealand | 1887 | AUD 250.00 - 350.00 | Unknown |
| 59 | Baden-Powell George S | New Homes for the Old Country |
1872 | AUD 150.00 - 250.00 | Unknown | |
| 60 | Gribble E. R. | Forty Years with the Aborigines |
Sydney | 1930 | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | Unknown |
| 61 | Chignell Arthur Kent; Robson William; King Joseph | 3 Books, including: Twenty-One Years in Papua |
1913; c.1900s; 1909 | AUD 150.00 - 250.00 | Unknown | |
| 62 | Hardy Norman H.; Elkington E. Way | The Savage South Seas |
London | 1907 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | Unknown |
| 63 | Armstrong E. S. | The History of the Melanesian Mission |
1900 | AUD 150.00 - 250.00 | Unknown | |
| 64 | Jones David | The Engravings of David Jones |
London | 1981 | AUD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | Unknown |
| 65 | Tolkien J. R. R. | Farmer Giles of Ham |
1949 | AUD 800.00 - 1,000.00 | Unknown | |
| 66 | Murray Les A. | The Idyll Wheel |
Canberra | 1989 | AUD 300.00 - 400.00 | Unknown |
| 67 | Lawson Henry; Lindsay Lionel | The Romance of the Swag |
Sydney | 1939 | AUD 400.00 - 500.00 | Unknown |
| 68 | Deamer Dulcie; Lindsay Norman | As It Was In The Beginning |
London | 1929 | AUD 400.00 - 500.00 | Unknown |
| 69 | Lawrence D H | Love Among the Haystacks |
London | 1930 | AUD 250.00 - 350.00 | Unknown |
| 70 | Harrison F. | Treasures of Illumination: English Manuscripts of the Fourteenth Century |
1937 | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | Unknown | |
| 71 | Henry Joseph | The Scientific Writings of Joseph Henry |
1886 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | Unknown | |
| 72 | Trueman Henry | The Story Of The Royal Society of Arts |
1935 | AUD 150.00 - 250.00 | Unknown | |
| 73 | Russell H. C. | Results of Astronomical Observations Made at the Sydney Observatory |
1881 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | Unknown | |
| 74 | Onchocerca Gibsoni: The Cause of Worm Nodules in Australian Cattle |
Sydney | 1911 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | Unknown | |
| 75 | Desplagnes Augustin Marie Louis | Le Plateau Central Nigerien |
Paris | 1907 | AUD 150.00 - 250.00 | Unknown |
| 76 | 5 Books, including: Gold-fields of Victoria |
1884-1888 | AUD 500.00 - 600.00 | 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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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
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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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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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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