Science & Art

books and original works

May 17, 2026 12:00 PM AEST

This Sunday we have a huge auction with over 500 items filled with ground-breaking science publications and original artworks and first editions.

Lot 1 TREASURE ISLAND BY ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
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Highlights

The Science and Art Journal from 1817 (lot 20) which has articles from Faraday and Babbage

The first edition of Charles Darwin’s The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (Lot 35)

Stuart Little by E.B. White – Stuart Little with correspondence from the illustrator Garth Williams to Elizabeth Martin (Lot 2)

Catalogue https://connect.invaluable.com/sydneybook/

12 Noon – Sunday 17th May 2026

Timed auction
online bidding and absentee bidding only.

Science Mining, Natural History, Exploration, Art books and First editions A182

***LIVE AUCTION*** Friday 1st of May at 12 noon

This auction has something for everyone from science to art and first editions.
The auction will be a LIVE AUCTION in the room and broadcast online starting at 12 NOON on Friday 1st of May and we have goodies for everyone.

• Lot 1 - Winnie the Pooh First Editon
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Highlights included
• Lot 2 – 1789 Francis Grose Land Grant
• Lot 104 – Kingfishers and other related birds
• Lot 103 – Handbook of Australian, New Zealand and Antarctic Birds Full Set
• Lot 1 – Winnie the Pooh First Editon
• Lot 182 – Western Australia Survey Maps and Sections 1916 – Ore & Gold

Science books
1) Mining books from geological surveys to chemical analysis. Gold, Coal, Ore, Diamonds, Potash, Copper, Opals Lot 178 Mining of Gold, Silver, Opals & Diamonds NSW 1901
2) Expeditions and Surveys – Hakluyt society, Ludwig Leichhardt 1789
Account of Pelew Islands Lot 12
3) Natural history from microorganism and insects to birds.
4) Lot 146 Eucalypts

Other items of note
• Lot 19 First Hemmingway
• Lot 163 Gottlieb Tobias Wilhelm
• Lot 24 – Fairies and gnomes Peg Maltby

Renaissance, Baroque, Special private collections and Catalogue Raisonne including: Lot 72 – 1984 Guido Reni Catalogue Raisonné

Catalogue https://connect.invaluable.com/sydneybook/

Friday 1st May

LIVE auction 12 midday

In person, phone binding, online bidding on Invaluable or our website, and Absentee bids