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
410	S.P. Ramage	Six books about Kokoda Military History: 1) Kokoda Secret. Ian Hutchison: Australian Hero		N/A	AUD 100.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
411		A shelf of approximately 35 books about Australian Colonial Convict History		N/A	AUD 250.00 - 350.00	AUD 152.40
412		10 books about Australian Aboriginal History: 1) Up From The Mission Selected Writings Noel Pearson		2009	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 127.00
413	Edited by Eustace Fitzsymonds	Connoisseurs in Paintings: George Frankland and The Aborigines of Van Diemen's Land		2001	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
414	W. E. Smith	Australian Gas-Light Company Sydney, New South Wales - An Historical Sketch issued on Completion of its Diamond Jubilee 1837-1897		1897	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
415	C.C. Faulkner	The Commonwealth Bank of Australia. A Brief History of its Establishment, Development and Service to the People of Australia and the British Empire Under Sir Denison Miller		June 1st 1912 to June 6th 1923	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 127.00
416		Our Home, Our Pets and Our Friends		1888	AUD 100.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
417		A whole book case of Paperback books		N/A	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
418		About 90 Australiana books		N/A	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
419		A collection of titles concerning Jewish histories including Israel and immigrants in Australia		N/A	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
420	Katharine Susannah Prichard	Eight books published by Angus and Robertson: 1) The Wild Oats of Han		1928	AUD 180.00 - 250.00	Not Sold
421	Marcus Clarke	For The Term of His Natural Life		N/A	AUD 150.00 - 250.00	Not Sold
422		Twenty books about Captain William Bligh and Mutiny on Bounty's: 1) Bligh of the 'Bounty'...		1930	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
423		Two shelves of old books		late 19th century and early 20th century	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
424	Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall	Two books: 1) Pitcairn's Island...		1935	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 63.50
425		Facsimile Edition of A Voyage to New South Wales: The Journal of Lieutenant William Bradley of HMS Sirius 1786 to 1792		1969	AUD 150.00 - 250.00	Not Sold
426	James Sinclair	Four books about New Guinea History: 1) Golden Gateway - Lae 7 the Province of Morobe		1998	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 127.00
427	Alan Frost	Nine books about Voyages. Mostly for the South Pacific: 1) Arthur Phillip 1738-1814 - His Voyaging...		N/A	AUD 150.00 - 250.00	Not Sold
428		Three Australian historical Narrative by Marnie Bassett. 1) The Governor's Lady -Mrs. Philip Gidley King - An Australian historical Narrative		1940	AUD 100.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
429		Eight books/items about Captain James Cook: 1) Captain Cook and the South Pacific...		N/A	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 63.50
430		16 books and booklets about Gardening: 1) The Practical Australian Gardener...		N/A	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
431	E. FitzSymonds	Mortmain Van Diemen's Land	Hobart	1977	AUD 100.00 - 150.00	AUD 88.90
432		PICTURE-SQUE BRISBANE, Australia		N/A	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
433	Percy Taylor	CRICKET X 4- Richmond's 100 years of Cricket		1954	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 38.10
434		Beautiful Series No. 1 Melbourne Australia		N/A	AUD 150.00 - 250.00	AUD 63.50

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