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

Auction Details

Auction Report

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
510	Lex McAulay	VIETNAM WAR: 1) Blue Lanyard, Red Banner: The Capture of the Vietcong Headquarters...		2005	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
511		South Australia Handbook of Mining with Maps Issued	Adelaide	1901	AUD 700.00 - 800.00	AUD 444.50
512	Martin Haverty	The History of Ireland : from the earliest period to the present time / derived from native annals, and from the researches of Dr. O'Donovan, Professor Eugene O'Curry, Rev. C. P. Meehan, Dr. R. R. Madden, and other eminent scholars, and from all the resou	New York	1867	AUD 600.00 - 700.00	AUD 381.00
513	J. Stirling Coyne & N. P Willis	The Scenery and Antiquities of Ireland	London	No date Inscription dated 1893	AUD 600.00 - 700.00	Not Sold
514	Wendy Nelson-Cave	Broadway Theatre Posters	New York	1993	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
515	Frances E. Newton	Song Stories Of Australia For Little People	Sydney	No date but inscription dated 1915	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
516	Fred. W.M. Simpson	Handbook of Information Relative to The Port of Fremantle Western Australia 1935		N/A	AUD 150.00 - 250.00	Not Sold
517	Edward S. Simpson and Chas. G. Gibson	The Distribution and Occurrence of the Baser Metals in Western Australia		N/A	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
518		2 SHELVES OF GOOD HISTORY BOOKS		N/A	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
519		MILITARY HISTORY: A shelf of Military History		N/A	AUD 120.00 - 180.00	Not Sold
520		ABORIGINAL HISTORY		N/A	AUD 150.00 - 200.00	AUD 63.50
522	CHH Jones	Pastel of the Outback		N/A	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 63.50
523		A small collection of Melba Ephemera		1931-03-01	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 127.00
524		AUSTRALIAN HISTORY, BIOGRAPHY AND CULTURE		N/A	AUD 250.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
525		AUSTRALIAN SETTLEMENT & COLONIAL HISTORY: A shelf lot of good quality scholarly books on early Australian settlement and colonial history		N/A	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	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