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
359	John Dunmore Lang	An Historical and Statistical Account of New South Wales: Both as a Penal Settlement and as a British Colony	London	1834	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	AUD 476.25
360		Three old Australian Documents 1) 1907 Newtown Birth Certificate...		N/A	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
361		Collection of Ephemera, Carte Visite & Postcards		1969	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
362		1950 LOYAL ORANGE LODGE CERTIFICATE PRINTED IN SYDNEY	Sydney	N/A	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
363		A collection of religious pamphlets from the 1940s	London	1940s	AUD 150.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
364		Keriki Sailing Club Boxing Day Picnic from 1907 in Sandringham		1907	AUD 120.00 - 180.00	Not Sold
365		1907 MUMBULLA AUCKLAND & DAMPIER NEW ZEALAND MAP		N/A	AUD 100.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
366		Under the Dome - The Promenade Sydney Exhibition		N/A	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	AUD 476.25
367		The International Exhibition, from Lady Macquarie's Chair		N/A	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	AUD 603.25
368		The Attempted Assassination of Alfred Duke of Edinburgh when he was in Sydney in 1868		N/A	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
369		Three publication relating to Architectural Details 1920s -1940s. 1) Frididaire electric refrigeration: Information for Architects Delco Light Company subsidiary of General Motors with in an with Sydney distributors Warburton, Franki, Ltd..		N/A	AUD 150.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
370		Unusual vintage QANTAS metal flag		N/A	AUD 150.00 - 200.00	AUD 127.00
371	Edgar Penzig	Heroes and Villains - An Illustrated History of our Bushranging Days		1992	AUD 120.00 - 180.00	AUD 38.10
372		A bundle of good Classic Children's books		2011	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
373		Babes in the Bush and other verses		[1927]	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
374		The Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Company Limited: Brief Description of Mines and Works at Mount Lyell Tasmania		1934-08-01	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 177.80
375	C E Kingsford-Smith and C T P Ulm	Story of "Southern Cross" Trans Pacific Flight 1928	Charleville	1928	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
376	Ion	Fortunes and Minerals: Including Uranium - Simple Tests and How to Make Them	Sydney	1959	AUD 80.00 - 100.00	AUD 50.80
377		Mercedes-Benz Type 220 b 10057		1963	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
378		The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book		1954	AUD 500.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
379	Richard T Baker and Henry G Smith	A Research on the Pines in Australia	Sydney	1910	AUD 120.00 - 200.00	AUD 76.20
380	Washington Irving	Rip Van Winkle	London / NY USA	1919	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
381	Jonathan Swift	Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Nations of the World		1909	AUD 750.00 - 1,000.00	Not Sold
382	DUMONT D'URVILLE	Jules S.C. An Account of Two Voyages to the South Seas		1987	AUD 120.00 - 180.00	AUD 88.90
383	Walter B. Paton	Handbooks on Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, with maps, 1912		N/A	AUD 400.00 - 600.00	Not Sold

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