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Sydney Rare Book Auctions: Science and Art : books and original works
Auction Reports
| Auction Name | Science and Art : books and original works | Total Sales (AUD) | 42,125.90 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Auction Date | May 17, 2026 - May 17, 2026 | Low Estimate of Lots Sold (AUD) | 54,345.00 |
| Sale Number | #51726 | High Estimate of Lots Sold (AUD) | 76,040.00 |
| Total Lots | 552 | ||
| Sold Lots | 213.0 | Low Estimate of All Lots (AUD) | 180,370.00 |
| % of Lots Sold | 38.59% | High Estimate of All Lots (AUD) | 247,440.00 |
| Unsold Lots | 339 | Total Sales as a % of High Est. | 17.03% |
Top twenty-five by sale price
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Robert Louis Stevenson | TREASURE ISLAND BY ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON FIRST EDITION |
1883 | AUD 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 | AUD 3,175.00 |
| 402 | John Wyndham | 1951 JOHN WYNDHAM - DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS. |
1951 | AUD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 | AUD 2,286.00 |
| 15 | Richard John Griffith (1784-1878); Joseph Ellison Portlock (1794-1864); Joseph Beete Jukes (1811-1869) | GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF DUBLIN 1833-1860 - FINE BINDINGS |
1838-1860 | AUD 1,600.00 - 2,000.00 | AUD 1,397.00 |
| 21 | ASTRONOMICAL REGISTER 1864-1886 |
1863-1886 | AUD 1,700.00 - 2,200.00 | AUD 1,143.00 | |
| 369 | Jorg Schmeisser | Diary 1988 |
1988 | AUD 500.00 - 600.00 | AUD 1,143.00 |
| 114 | Wodehouse, P.G. | 20 Books, including: Laughing Gas |
1936; 1962; 1961; 1933; 1953; 1958; 1947; 1929; 1967; 1848; 1973; 1947; 1946; 1949 | AUD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | AUD 762.00 |
| 544 | A. A. Milne | 1926 WINNIE THE POOH FIRST EDITION |
1926 | AUD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 | AUD 762.00 |
| 19 | Winston Churchill | WINSTON CHURCHILL FIRST EDITIONS WW2 |
1948-1954 | AUD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 | AUD 635.00 |
| 270 | David Blair | The History of Australasia |
1878 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | AUD 539.75 |
| 35 | Darwin Charles | The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals |
1872 | AUD 750.00 - 1,000.00 | AUD 476.25 |
| 272 | John Hayter; Owen Jones | An introduction to perspective : practical geometry, drawing and painting |
1845 | AUD 300.00 - 400.00 | AUD 476.25 |
| 315 | A. A. Milne | When I Was Very Young |
1930 | AUD 400.00 - 500.00 | AUD 476.25 |
| 49 | Smith W. Ramsay | Myths & Legends of the Australian Aboriginals |
1930 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | AUD 444.50 |
| 155 | J F Nagle; R R Andrew | Russell Drysdale |
1979 | AUD 350.00 - 450.00 | AUD 444.50 |
| 490 | Eric Harding | Uniform Railway Gauge |
1958 | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | AUD 444.50 |
| 405 | Eric Frank Russell | 1948 ERIC FRANK RUSSELL - FOUR FIRST EDITION NOVELS |
1948; 1962; 1951; 1954 | AUD 650.00 - 900.00 | AUD 412.75 |
| 407 | Robert A. Heinlein | 1947 ROBERT A. HEINLEIN - ROCKET SHIP GALILEO |
1947 | AUD 650.00 - 1,000.00 | AUD 412.75 |
| 13 | W. Ernest Cooke; H. C. Russell | 1892 SYDNEY OBSERVATORY STAR CAMERA |
1921; 1892 | AUD 600.00 - 800.00 | AUD 381.00 |
| 253 | Nolhac Pierre de (1859-1936) | Francois Boucher : premier peintre du roi, 1703-1770 |
1907 | AUD 600.00 - 800.00 | AUD 381.00 |
| 318 | Norman Lindsay | Micomicana |
1979 | AUD 500.00 - 600.00 | AUD 381.00 |
| 575 | Ion Idriess | 12 Books, including: Lasseter's Last Ride |
N/A | AUD 600.00 - 800.00 | AUD 381.00 |
| 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 |
| 229 | Report Of The Third Interstate Conference on Artesian Water |
1922 | AUD 500.00 - 600.00 | AUD 317.50 | |
| 279 | W. & G. Audsley | Polychromatic Decoration as Applied to Buildings in the Medieval Styles |
1882 | AUD 500.00 - 700.00 | AUD 317.50 |
| 368 | John Milton; Gustave Dore; Robert Vaughan | Milton's Paradise Lost |
N/A | AUD 500.00 - 600.00 | AUD 317.50 |
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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
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
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
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
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
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
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 -
