Sydney Rare Book Auctions: Science and Art : books and original works, 51726, Ultimo

Auction Details

Auction Date: May 17, 2026 - May 17, 2026

Page Size: 552 items in 23 pages

Auction Lot Books
Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
81	DJ Mulvaney; JH Calaby; Mulvaney; Morphy; Petch	So Much That is New; My Dear Spencer: The Letters of FJ Gillen to Baldwin Spencer	Melbourne	1985; 1997	AUD 180.00 - 220.00	Not Sold
82	Dixon; Geytenbeek	Grammatical Categories in Australia Languages; Gidabal Grammar and dictionary		1976; 1971	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
83	Barry Hill; RHW Reece; Philip Jones; Ramsland; Mooney; Read; Meyers; Reece; Rollason	7 Books, including: Broken Song: T.G.H. Strehlow and Aboriginal Possession	Kent Town; Milsons Point	1961; 2002; 2007	AUD 250.00 - 300.00	AUD 165.10
84	John Harris; Rev ER Gribble	One Blood: 200 Years of Aboriginal Encounter with Christianity - A Story of Hope; Forty Years with the Aborigines	Sutherland	1994; 1930	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
85	David Davies; Robert Pulleine; Vivienne Rae-Ellis	The Last of The Tasmanians; On The discovery of supposed Aboriginal remains near Cornwall Tasmania; Black Robinson; Protector of Aborigines	London	1973; 1924; 1988	AUD 150.00 - 200.00	AUD 88.90
86	Johannes Falkenberg; Ronald Berndt; Catherine H. Berndt	Kin and Totem; Group Relations of Australian Aborigines in the Port Keats District; Arnhem Land; It's History and It's People; DADIRRI; The Spiritual Art of the Aboriginal People from Australia's Daly River Region		1962; 1954	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 63.50
87	Fred R. Myers; Maisie McKenzie; Sam D. Gill; Charles P. Mountford	4 Books, including: Pintupi Country, Pintupi Self, Sentiment, Place, and Politics among Western Desert Aborigines		1986; 1969; 1998; 1968	AUD 150.00 - 200.00	AUD 317.50
88	Peter Rimas Kabaila	Belconnen's Aboriginal past: A glimpse into the archaeology of the Australian Capital Territory		1997	AUD 80.00 - 120.00	AUD 50.80
89	Bessie Threadgill; B. C. Cotton	South Australian Land Exploration 1856- 1880; Aboriginal Man in South and Central Australia Part 1		1922; 1966	AUD 150.00 - 200.00	AUD 88.90
90	P.J.F. Coutts; J. Las Gourgues; P. Henderson; R. L. K. Fullagar	Readings in Victorian Prehistory. Volume 1; Archaeological Theory and Practice; Records of the Victorian Archaeological Survey Number 9 August, 1979		1978; 1979	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
91	Bryan Horrigan; Simon Young; Ros Fraser	Commercial Implications of Native Title; Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People in Commonwealth Records A Guide to Records in the Australian Archives ACT Regional office		1997	AUD 100.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
92	John Foster Fraser; W.J. Sollas	Quaint Subjects of the King; Ancient Hunters and their Modern Representatives	London	1909; 1911	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
93	Robert Louis Stevenson	Catriona - A Sequel to "Kidnapped" being Memoirs of the Further Adventures of David Balfour at Home and Abroad	London	1893	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
94	Robert Louis Stevenson	In the South Seas: Being an account of experiences and observations in the Marquesas, Paumotus and Gilbert Islands in the course of two cruises, on	London	1900	AUD 600.00 - 700.00	Not Sold
95	Robert Louis Stevenson	Memories & Portraits	London	1887	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
96	Robert Louis Stevenson; Lloyd Osbourne	The Wrecker	London; Paris; Melbourne	1892	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
97	Captain Frederick Marryat	Masterman Ready; or, the Wreck of the Pacific		1841-1842	AUD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00	Not Sold
98	Frank C Pape	The Book Of Psalms with Twenty -Four Coloured Plates	London	circa 1920	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 127.00
99		A Book to Commemorate A Common Victory	Sydney	1945	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
100	Bundey W. H.	Reminiscences of Twenty-Five Years’ Yachting in Australia. An essay on Manly sports… notes of a voyage to China and Japan.	Adelaide	1888	AUD 250.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
101	Lawry Walter; Hoole Elijah	Friendly and Feejee Islands. A Missionary Visit to Various Stations in the South Seas, in the year MDCCCXLVII.	London	1850	AUD 250.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
102	Goodridge Charles Medyett	Narrative of a Voyage to the South Seas, and the shipwreck of the Princess of Wales cutter, with an account of two years residence on an uninhabited	Exeter	1847	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
103		The Presbyterian Monthly and Messenger of the Churches of Australia and Tasmania		1887	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
104	T E Lawrence	Seven Pillars of Wisdom. A Triumph	London	1935	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
105	John Davis; William Westgarth	John McKinlay’s Northern Territory Explorations 1866; Tracks of McKinlay Across Australia		1999; 1996	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	AUD 190.50

Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
28th May 2026

Forum, May 28: Book of Hours.- Heures de nostre dame a l'usaige de Romme, Paris, Antoine Chappiel pour Germain Hardouin, [1504]. £6,000-8,000

Forum, May 28: Colonna (Francesco). La Hypnerotomachia di Poliphilo, second edition, Venice, Sons of Aldus Manutius, 1545. £15,000-20,000

Forum, 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]. £2,000-3,000

Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
28th May 2026

Forum, May 28: Jackson (Shirley). The Haunting of Hill House, first English edition, signed presentation inscription from the author to Claude Fredericks, 1960. £2,000-3,000

Forum, May 28: Lennon (John). In His Own Write, first edition, first impression, signed by the author, 1964. £3,000-4,000

Forum, May 28: Doves Press.- Keats (John). [Poems], one of 200 copies on paper, Doves Press, 1914. £5,000-7,000

Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
28th May 2026

Forum, May 28: Rodrigues (João Barbosa). Sertum Palmarum Brasiliensium, 2 vol., first and only edition, Brussels, 1903. £8,000-12,000

Forum, May 28: Newton (Sir Isaac). Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica…editio ultima, auctior et emendatior, Amsterdam, Sumptibus Societatis, 1714. £8,000-12,000

Forum, May 28: Kepler (Johannes). Ad Vitellionem paralipomena, wuibus astronomiae pars optica traditur, first edition, Frankfurt am Main, 1604. £5,000-7,000

Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
28th May 2026

Forum, May 28: Tagliacozzi (Gaspare). De Curtorum Chirurgia per insitionem, libri duo, first edition, Venice, Gasparo Bindoni, 1597. £7,000-10,000

Forum, May 28: Lootsman (Jacobsz). The Lightning Colomne, or Sea-Mirrour, containing the Sea-Coasts of the Northern, Eastern and Western Navigation..., 1670. £8,000-12,000

Forum, 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