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
LOT2: STUART LITTLE 1946 + CORRESPONDENCE G WILLIAMS ARTIST
LOT 5: SAVILLE-KENT NATURALIST 1897
14: THE ZOOLOGIST: JOURNAL OF NATURAL HISTORY
18: JOHN GOULD FINE BINDING
20: JOURNAL OF SCIENCE & ARTS: 19TH C. NOVEL SCIENTIFIC PAPERS
21: ASTRONOMICAL REGISTER 1864-1886
34: 1888 LIFE AND LETTERS OF CHARLES DARWIN
122 FERNS OF BRITAIN PRATT C1858
Lot 124 1866-67 NATURE AND ART
Lot 172 CHINESE CHARACTERISTICS BY SMITH 1894
Lot 285 GARDENING BY SHIRLEY HIBBERD X 2
Lot 288 VICTORIAN FLOWERS AND GARDENING
Lot 293 MISCELLANEA GRAPHICA, 1857.
Lot 350 OLIVE BODDINGTON WILD POTATOES ABORIGINAL ART
Lot 352 UNTITLED BY OLIVE BODDINGTON ABORIGINAL ART
Lot 354 WILD GOOSEBERRIES BY OLIVE BODDINGTON ABORIGINAL ART354
Lot 361 JEFFREY BREN FLOWER STUDY 1987
Lot 371 POPPY 2007 BY SW FORBES
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.
