Sydney Rare Book Auctions: ART Renaissance to Modernism: Monographs, Raisonne; Illustrated books & Scientific Explorations, 31526, Ultimo

Auction Details

Auction Date: March 15, 2026 - March 15, 2026

Page Size: 515 items in 21 pages

Auction Lot Books
Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
334		New South Wales Department of Mines		N/A	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
335		Geological Sketch map of Queensland 1902		1902	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
336		QUEENSLAND GEOLOGICAL SURVEY		1904	AUD 250.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
337	J. R. H. Johns	Metropolitan Government in Western Australia		N/A	AUD 100.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
338		Australian Aborigines The A.F.A Annual Review		1937 and 1938	AUD 150.00 - 250.00	Not Sold
339		ABORIGINAL HISTORY - Why YOU should join the council for Aboriginal Rights, Victoria		N/A	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 88.90
340		QUEENSLAND - The Wonderland of North Queensland The Intelligence and Tourist Bureau		1922	AUD 150.00 - 250.00	Not Sold
341		BALLARAT ILLUSTRATED	Grenville street	1872	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 88.90
342		A good collection of books on Churches and England 1) Parish Churches: Their Architectural Development in England by Hugh Braun...		N/A	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
343		Eight books on Adelaide Local History - Quorn A Living History...		N/A	AUD 150.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
344		1) Memorandum and Articles of Association of The Bank of Adelaide...		21st day of December, 1928	AUD 150.00 - 200.00	AUD 63.50
345	Frank Hurley	1) South Australia in Natural Colour...		N/A	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
346		Eight books on Western Australia History - Stories of Scots Church Fremantle W.A...		N/A	AUD 150.00 - 250.00	Not Sold
347		Souvenir of Western Australia, 36 views with Panorama fold out on back page which some water damage..	Sydney	c1900s	AUD 150.00 - 250.00	Not Sold
348		AUSTRALIAN DICTIONARY OF BIOGRAPHY		N/A	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
349	Manning Clark	A collection of books about or by Manning Clark. Includes 1) A History of Australia In Six volumes...		N/A	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 127.00
350		The Sydney Gazette	Australia	from 1803 to 1810	AUD 100.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
351	Charles Bateson	First Fleet Convicts 1) The Convict Ships 1788-1868...		1959	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
352		Two journals from people on board the HMS Sirius to Australia. 1) A Voyage to New South Wales The Journal of Lieutenant William Bradley of HMS Sirius 1786-1792...	Sydney	1969	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 127.00
353	Ellis	Australian History - Colonial to Federation 1) John MacArthur...		1955	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
354	Captain Watkin Tench	A very good collection of books on the history of the New South Wales Colony. 1) Sydney's First Four Years, being a reprint of a Narrative of an Expedition to Botany Bay, and a Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson...		1962	AUD 250.00 - 350.00	Not Sold
355	Governor Phillip	Two publications on and about Governor Phillip. A) History of New South Wales From the Records...		1889	AUD 150.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
356	edited by Paul Fidlon and R.J. Ryan	1) The Journal of Philip Gidley King: Lieutenant, R.N. 1787-90		1980	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
357		Two books on Lachlan Macquarie with Richard Gavin Casey associations		N/A	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
358	John Richie	Lachlan Macquarie & the Bigge Report 1) Lachlan Macquarie: A Biography..		1986	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 127.00

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