Sydney Rare Book Auctions: Science, Mining, Natural History, Exploration, Art books and First editions, A182, Ultimo
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- May 01, 2026 - May 01, 2026
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A. A. Milne | Winnie the Pooh |
London | 1926 | AUD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 2 | Francis Grose | Land grant to Peter Bond |
1789 | AUD 10,000.00 - 12,000.00 | Not Sold | |
| 3 | Edward Fitzgerald | Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam |
London | 1909 | AUD 600.00 - 800.00 | AUD 508.00 |
| 4 | WE Henley | London Types |
London | 1898 | AUD 750.00 - 1,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 5 | Claude Drigon de Magny | Nouveau traite historique et archeologique de la vraie et parfaite science des armoiries |
Paris | 1856 | AUD 800.00 - 1,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 6 | JB Waring | Examples of Metal-Work & Jewellery: Selected from the Royal and other Collections |
London | N/A | AUD 300.00 - 400.00 | AUD 190.50 |
| 7 | Edward Lushington Blackburne Architecture | Sketches, Graphic and Descriptive for a History of the Decorative Painting Applied to English Architecture During the Middle Ages |
1847 | AUD 300.00 - 400.00 | AUD 190.50 | |
| 8 | John Carter | Specimens of the Ancient Sculpture and Painting Now Remaining in England, from the Earliest Period to the Reign of Henry VIII |
London | 1838 | AUD 1,800.00 - 2,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 9 | E. LAMI & H. MONNIER | Voyage en Angleterre |
Zurich | c. 1920 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold |
| 10 | Proceedings of the Zoological and Acclimatisation Society of Victoria. Volume 1 |
Melbourne | 1872 | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | AUD 285.75 | |
| 11 | George Combe | The Constitution of Man Considered in Relation to External Objects |
Edinburgh | 1836 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold |
| 12 | George Keate | An Account of the Pelew Islands, Situated in the Western Part of the Pacific Ocean |
London | 1789 | AUD 800.00 - 1,000.00 | AUD 889.00 |
| 13 | E.H. Nolan | The Illustrated History of the British Empire in India and the East |
London | 1860 | AUD 500.00 - 750.00 | AUD 412.75 |
| 14 | James Edge-Partington | Ethnographical Album of the Pacific Islands |
Bangkok | 1996 | AUD 400.00 - 500.00 | AUD 127.00 |
| 15 | Reverend Charles Bradley | Sermons, Preached in the Parish Church of High Wycombe |
London | 1830 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | AUD 127.00 |
| 16 | Nat Fleischer | Jack Dempsey The Idol of Fistiana an Intimate Narrative |
New York | 1936 | AUD 500.00 - 600.00 | AUD 317.50 |
| 17 | Nat Gould | A Gentleman Rider: A Tale of the Grand National |
London | 1898 | AUD 220.00 - 300.00 | AUD 63.50 |
| 18 | The Erotic Review |
UK | 2000-2003 | AUD 400.00 - 500.00 | Not Sold | |
| 19 | Ernest Hemingway | Across the River and into the Trees |
London | 1950 | AUD 300.00 - 400.00 | AUD 114.30 |
| 20 | J.F.K. Johnstone & A.W. Robertson | Bibliographia Aberdonensis : Being an account of books relating to or printed in the Shires of Aberdeen, Banff, Kincardine or written by natives or residents or by officers, graduates or alumni of the Universities of Aberdeen 1472-1700 |
Aberdeen | 1929-1930 | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | AUD 63.50 |
| 21 | George Offor | The Works of John Bunyan |
Glasgow | 1868 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold |
| 22 | E.J. Banfield | The Confessions of a Beachcomber - Scenes and Incidents in the Career of an Unprofessional Beachcomber in Tropical Queensland |
1933 | AUD 75.00 - 100.00 | AUD 50.80 | |
| 23 | Nicholas Fox Weber | The Art of Babar. The Work of Jean and Laurent de Brunhoff |
New York | 1989 | AUD 80.00 - 100.00 | AUD 25.40 |
| 24 | Peg Maltby | Peg's Fairy Book |
Melbourne | 1946 | AUD 250.00 - 300.00 | AUD 152.40 |
| 25 | David Howarth; Peter Barber & Tom Harper; Dava Sobel; Richard Aitken | Four books on history, navigation and cartography |
1994-2010 | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | AUD 88.90 |
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28th May 2026Forum, May 28: Book of Hours.- Heures de nostre dame a l'usaige de Romme, Paris, Antoine Chappiel pour Germain Hardouin, [1504]. £6,000-8,000Forum, May 28: Colonna (Francesco). La Hypnerotomachia di Poliphilo, second edition, Venice, Sons of Aldus Manutius, 1545. £15,000-20,000Forum, May 28: The Christ Child holding a crystal orb and surrounded by banderoles with devotional exhortations, on a leaf most probably from a Book of Hours, [Southern Netherlands, last decades of the fifteenth century]. £2,000-3,000Forum Auctions
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28th May 2026Forum, May 28: Jackson (Shirley). The Haunting of Hill House, first English edition, signed presentation inscription from the author to Claude Fredericks, 1960. £2,000-3,000Forum, May 28: Lennon (John). In His Own Write, first edition, first impression, signed by the author, 1964. £3,000-4,000Forum, May 28: Doves Press.- Keats (John). [Poems], one of 200 copies on paper, Doves Press, 1914. £5,000-7,000Forum Auctions
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28th May 2026Forum, May 28: Rodrigues (João Barbosa). Sertum Palmarum Brasiliensium, 2 vol., first and only edition, Brussels, 1903. £8,000-12,000Forum, May 28: Newton (Sir Isaac). Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica…editio ultima, auctior et emendatior, Amsterdam, Sumptibus Societatis, 1714. £8,000-12,000Forum, May 28: Kepler (Johannes). Ad Vitellionem paralipomena, wuibus astronomiae pars optica traditur, first edition, Frankfurt am Main, 1604. £5,000-7,000Forum Auctions
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28th May 2026Forum, May 28: Tagliacozzi (Gaspare). De Curtorum Chirurgia per insitionem, libri duo, first edition, Venice, Gasparo Bindoni, 1597. £7,000-10,000Forum, May 28: Lootsman (Jacobsz). The Lightning Colomne, or Sea-Mirrour, containing the Sea-Coasts of the Northern, Eastern and Western Navigation..., 1670. £8,000-12,000Forum, May 28: Ribelles y Helip (José), Attributed to. An album comprising 33 finely executed watercolours of Spanish costume, bull-fighting scenes, and other genre subjects, [circa 1830]. £10,000-15,000 -
