Auction Reports
Sydney Rare Book Auctions
Auction Info
- Auction Name
- Views, Maps, Firsts and Limited editions
- Auction Date
- 07/12/2026 - 07/12/2026
- Sale Number
- #191
- Total Lots
- 306
- Sold Lots
- 171.0
- Lots Sold
- 55.88%
- Unsold Lots
- 135
- Total Sales (AUD)
- 36,023.60
- Low Estimate of Lots Sold (AUD)
- 36,555.00
- High Estimate of Lots Sold (AUD)
- 52,660.00
- Low Estimate of All Lots (AUD)
- 97,705.00
- High Estimate of All Lots (AUD)
- 137,980.00
- Total Sales as a % of High Est.
- 26.11%
Top twenty five by sale price
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 99 | Stevenson Robert Louis | Treasure Island |
1883 | AUD 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 | AUD 3,683.00 |
| 153 | Victorian Naturalist |
1884-1932 | AUD 500.00 - 600.00 | AUD 1,524.00 | |
| 21 | Leichhardt Ludwig | Journal Of An Overland Expedition in Australia |
1847 | AUD 2,200.00 - 2,600.00 | AUD 1,397.00 |
| 8 | Pugh's Queensland Almanac |
1897 | AUD 300.00 - 400.00 | AUD 1,270.00 | |
| 65 | Tolkien J. R. R. | Farmer Giles of Ham |
1949 | AUD 800.00 - 1,000.00 | AUD 1,143.00 |
| 7 | Adams Tate | Tropical Wood-Engravings |
1997 | AUD 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 | AUD 889.00 |
| 88 | Christie Agatha | Murder in Mesopotamia |
1936 | AUD 400.00 - 500.00 | AUD 889.00 |
| 86 | Lower L.W. | Here's Luck |
1930 | AUD 180.00 - 220.00 | AUD 698.50 |
| 17 | Arnold J | Souvenir de Macau |
1921 | AUD 100.00 - 150.00 | AUD 603.25 |
| 38 | Boyajian Zabelle C.; Raffi Aram | Armenian Legends and Poems |
1916 | AUD 300.00 - 400.00 | AUD 539.75 |
| 209 | 35 Posters, including: 007 James Bond - On Her Majesty's Service |
N/A | AUD 250.00 - 350.00 | AUD 508.00 | |
| 180 | Bower Hamilton | Diary of a Journey Across Tibet |
1894 | AUD 250.00 - 350.00 | AUD 476.25 |
| 98 | Nunn Frank | Broom In The Sky |
1944 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | AUD 476.25 |
| 167 | Flinders Matthew; Morgan Kenneth | Australia Circumnavigated: The Voyage of Matthew Flinders in HMS Investigator |
2015 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | AUD 412.75 |
| 119 | Kelly R Talbot | Burma: Painted and Described |
1933 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | AUD 412.75 |
| 77 | Ellery Robert L.J. | First Melbourne General Catalogue of 1227 Stars for the Epoch 1870 |
1874 | AUD 300.00 - 400.00 | AUD 412.75 |
| 5 | Colonial Sydney Newspapers |
1834-1855 | AUD 600.00 - 800.00 | AUD 381.00 | |
| 210 | 12 Posters, including: Elvis on Tour |
1969 | AUD 150.00 - 200.00 | AUD 381.00 | |
| 80 | Bowden Keith Macrae | Samuel Thomas Gill, Artist |
1971 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | AUD 349.25 |
| 73 | Russell H. C. | Results of Astronomical Observations Made at the Sydney Observatory |
1881 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | AUD 349.25 |
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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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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
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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