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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 152 | Ludolf Hiof | Banana Plant |
1684 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | Unknown | |
| 153 | Victorian Naturalist |
1884-1932 | AUD 500.00 - 600.00 | Unknown | ||
| 154 | Audas James Wales | One of Nature's Wonderlands - The Victorian Grampians; The Australian timber buyer's guide |
1925; 1997 | AUD 100.00 - 150.00 | Unknown | |
| 155 | Barrett Charles | 4 Pamphlets, including: Assimilation of Our Aborigines |
1957; 1958; 1962 | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | Unknown | |
| 156 | Richardson J | 10 Pamphlets, including: Queensland Railways 1865 - 1965 |
1958-1959; 1961; 1965; 1967; 1970; 1977; 1987; 1993; 2011 | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | Unknown | |
| 157 | Ireland A | Geography and History of Oceania |
1865 | AUD 150.00 - 250.00 | Unknown | |
| 158 | Franklyn H Mortimer | A Glance At Australia in 1880 |
1881 | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | Unknown | |
| 159 | Gill W B | The Comic History of Victoria |
ND (c1867) | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | Unknown | |
| 160 | Nicholson John H; Walsh J M | Halek; Overdue |
1896; 1925 | AUD 150.00 - 200.00 | Unknown | |
| 161 | Griffiths Samuel | A Rolling Stone on The Turf |
1933 | AUD 150.00 - 250.00 | Unknown | |
| 162 | Stonehewer Cooper H; Fox Frank | The Islands of The Pacific; Peeps at Many Lands - Oceania |
1888; 1912 | AUD 150.00 - 250.00 | Unknown | |
| 163 | Darwin Charles; Fitzroy Robert; King Philip Parker | Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty's ships Adventure and Beagle |
London | 1839 | AUD 30,000.00 - 40,000.00 | Unknown |
| 164 | Allan Alex J; Holloway David; Penrose Helen; Bate Weston | 4 Books, including: The Old model school |
Melbourne | 1934; 2000; 2007; 2002 | AUD 150.00 - 250.00 | Unknown |
| 165 | Grogan Robert; Sutton Ray W; Shaw Mervyn J C; O'Dowd Kevin; Hudson Don | 5 Books, including: Our proud heritage |
Melbourne | 2003; 1978; 2009; 1999; 2006 | AUD 150.00 - 200.00 | Unknown |
| 166 | Shaw A G L | A History of the Port Phillip District; Immigration: Index to Assisted Immigrants Arriving Port Phillip |
Melbourne; Sydney | 1996; 1976 | AUD 150.00 - 250.00 | Unknown |
| 167 | Flinders Matthew; Morgan Kenneth | Australia Circumnavigated: The Voyage of Matthew Flinders in HMS Investigator |
2015 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | Unknown | |
| 168 | Gibson James R; Istomin Alexei A | Russian California, 1806-1860 |
2014 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | Unknown | |
| 169 | Malaspina Alejandro | The Malaspina Expedition 1789-1794 |
2015 | AUD 250.00 - 350.00 | Unknown | |
| 170 | Historical Records of Victoria |
Melbourne | 1981-1992 | AUD 250.00 - 350.00 | Unknown | |
| 171 | Mackenzie William | Four hand-coloured lithographs of flowers |
c.1870s | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | Unknown | |
| 172 | Vintage Flower and Seed Posters |
Norwich | c1885-1920s | AUD 300.00 - 400.00 | Unknown | |
| 173 | Vegetable Seed Posters |
c1900-1920s | AUD 250.00 - 350.00 | Unknown | ||
| 174 | Strutt Joseph (1749-1802) | Four hand coloured lithographs |
c.1780s-1790s | AUD 300.00 - 400.00 | Unknown | |
| 175 | A photo album of cars |
N/A | AUD 100.00 - 150.00 | Unknown | ||
| 176 | Automobiles in the Thirties Magazines |
1930s-70s | AUD 100.00 - 150.00 | 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. -
Forum Auctions
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