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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 303 | Roscoe and Brimmel | James Lumsden & Son of Glasgow: Their Juvenile Books and Chapbooks |
Pinner | 1981 | AUD 50.00 - 80.00 | Not Sold |
| 304 | Cecil Beaton | The Face Of The World: An international scrapbook of people and places |
London | 1957 | AUD 150.00 - 200.00 | AUD 127.00 |
| 305 | JS Prout | Sydney Illustrated 1842-3 |
Sydney | [1947] | AUD 120.00 - 180.00 | Not Sold |
| 306 | Reiner Musterbuch aus codex Vindobonensis 507 |
1979 | AUD 500.00 - 600.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 307 | Joseph Conrad | Nostromo: A tale of the seaboard |
London; New York | 1904 | AUD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 308 | Joseph Conrad | 'Twixt Land & Sea . A smile of Fortune, The Secret Sharer, Freya of the Seven Isles; Within the Tides Tales; The Arrow of Gold; A Set of Six |
London | 1912; 1915; 1919; 1908 | AUD 800.00 - 1,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 309 | Joseph Conrad | An Outcast of the Islands |
London | 1896 | AUD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 310 | G. J. Whyte-Melville; J. E. Taylor; H. Rider Haggard; E. P. Roe | Objects of the Sea Shore; Songs and Verses; Fifty Celebrated Men. Their Lives and Trials, and the Deeds that Made them Famous; Our Island Continent: A naturalist's holiday in Australia; She. A History of Adventure; Found Yet Lost and Other Stories |
London | c. 1889; ND; 19th c.; 1886; 1887; c. 1900 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | AUD 63.50 |
| 311 | David Liddle; Nicholas Draffin | Erotica. Aspects of the erotic in Australian Art; Australian Artists At War; The Art of M. Napier Waller |
Melbourne | 1977; 1977; 1977 | AUD 100.00 - 150.00 | Not Sold |
| 312 | E.H. Shepard; Fred Gettings; Colin White | The Works of E.H. Shepard; Arthur Rackham, Fred Gettings; Edmund Dulac |
New York | 1980; 1975; 1976 | AUD 100.00 - 150.00 | AUD 63.50 |
| 313 | Sir Paul Harvey; Alberto Manguel; David Nichol Smith; Aldren Watson; Jonathan Swift; Stephen Potter; John Donne | The Oxford Companion To Classical Literature; A Reading Diary; The Oxford Book Of Eighteenth Century Verse; Washington. Rip Van Winkle and The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow; Gulliver's Travels And Selected Writings In Prose & Verse; Select Poetry & Prose; John |
Oxford; New York; London | 1946; 2005; 1936; ND; 1934; 1933; 1932 | AUD 150.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold |
| 314 | Atkyns; Anne Chambers; Charles Ramsden | A Pair on Printing; The Practical Guide to Marbling Paper; Book Binders of the United Kingdom (outside London) 1780-1840; London Books Binders 1780-1840 |
1982; 1986; ND; ND | AUD 150.00 - 180.00 | AUD 50.80 | |
| 315 | James Plimpton; Phillip Cox; Julian Symons; John Fowles; Mary F. Thwaite | Decorative Printed Maps of the 15th to 18th centuries; The art of the bookplate; The Printed Book In America; Take a Cold Tub, Sir! The Story of the Boy's Own Paper; Tom Adams' Agatha Christie Cover Story; John Harris's Books for Youth 1801-1843; From Pri |
London; New York; Limpsfield; Cambridge; Boston | 1967; 2003; 1977; 1982; 1981; 1976; 1972 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold |
| 316 | Alison Adburgham | Great Victorian Engravings; The Story of Picture Printing in England during the Nineteenth Century or Forty Years of Wood and Stone; Illustrators of the Eighteen Sixties. An illustrated survey of the work of 58 British artists; Victorian Book Illustration |
London; New York; Boulogne | 1980; 1928; 1975; 1973; 1974; ND; 1961 | AUD 150.00 - 250.00 | AUD 25.40 |
| 317 | Rossana Bossaglia, Enzo Carli and Franco Russoli | 1200 Years Of Italian Sculpture |
New York | 1968 | AUD 100.00 - 150.00 | AUD 25.40 |
| 318 | Poetry of Architecture: or, the architecture of the nations of Europe considered in its association of natural scenery and national character on Gallipoli, in 1915 |
Melbourne | [1964] | AUD 100.00 - 150.00 | AUD 25.40 | |
| 319 | E. Morris Miller; Robert Darlington; Caroline Fairfax Simpson; Egon and Elise Kunz; Ron Edwards | Australian Literature from its beginnings to 1935; Sudan to Vietnam; Ascham Remembered 1886-1986; Sydney Opera House in its Harbour Setting; To Sail Beyond The Sunset. Natural History in Australia 1699-1829; A Continent Takes Shape; Historic Towns Of Aust |
Melbourne; Sydney; Adelaide | 1940; 1987; 1986; 1996; 1984; 1971; 1973; 1913; 1976; 1971 | AUD 400.00 - 500.00 | AUD 63.50 |
| 320 | Robertson; Pearson | Australian Architecture and more |
Barcelona | ND | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | AUD 25.40 |
| 321 | Ian R Munro | The Fishes Of New Guinea |
Port Moresby | 1967 | AUD 300.00 - 400.00 | AUD 190.50 |
| 322 | R. E. Teusner; Ronald Parsons; Tony Lucas; Tony Parkinson | Four books on South Australia Local History |
1968; 1998; 1972; ND | AUD 100.00 - 150.00 | AUD 114.30 | |
| 323 | A box of ephemera with Anzac memorabilia, a blank book and pamphlets |
ND | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | AUD 76.20 | ||
| 324 | Oceania |
London | 1886 | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | AUD 152.40 | |
| 325 | John Shirlow; R. H. Croll | The Etched Work of John Shirlow |
Melbourne | [1920] | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | AUD 25.40 |
| 326 | Simon Montefiore; William Dalrymple; Sean McMeekin; Dan Jones; Roy Porter; Simon Sebag Montefiore; Antonia Fraser; Jared Diamond | N Books, including: The Romanovs |
2016; 2019; 2015; 2017; 1987; 2011; 2001; 2012 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | AUD 127.00 | |
| 327 | Diarmid McCulloch; Miri Rubin; Sankara Saranam; Lynn Picknett; Simon Schama; John Allen | N Books, including: History of Christianity |
2009; 2009; 2008; 2006; 2013; 2005 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | AUD 25.40 |
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Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
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 -
