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
158	J.H. Pollitt	VICTORIAN LOCAL HISTORY X 10: 1) An Historical Record of Melton...		N/A	AUD 200.00 - 250.00	AUD 88.90
159		3 various portraits 1) A coloured lithograph in a metal gilt frame...		N/A	AUD 200.00 - 250.00	AUD 381.00
160	A. Despeissis	The Handbook of Horticulture and Viticulture of Western Australia		1921	AUD 150.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
161		1859 Report of the Royal Commission, Appointed To Enquire Into The Best Method of Removing The Sludge From The Gold Fields		N/A	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
162	Taylor, F. H.	Malaria Mosquito Survey of Irrigation Areas in the Murray River District	Melbourne	dated 1917	AUD 50.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
163	Baron Ferd Von Mueller	Select extra-tropical plants readily eligible for industrial culture or naturalisation, with indications of their native countries and some of their uses	Melbourne	1888	AUD 600.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
164	Sarah Bradford	BIOGRAPHIES: A collection of Biographies mostly hardbacks in great condition Lucrezia Borgia		N/A	AUD 100.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
165		BRITISH BIOGRAPHIES: A collection of Biographies..		N/A	AUD 100.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
166	Baron Fred Von Mueller	Select extra-tropical plants readily eligible for industrial culture or naturalisation in Victoria, with indications of their native countries and some of their uses	Melbourne	1876	AUD 600.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
167		Liebig Company -- "L'Australie" Trade Card Set		(ca. 1900)	AUD 250.00 - 300.00	AUD 152.40
168	Baron Ferd Von Mueller	Key To The Description Of Victorian Plants	Melbourne	1885	AUD 350.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
169	J.B. Castieau	History of the Ship ''Melville Island'' Case		1906	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
170		The Upper Burnett and Callide Valley districts, Queensland : large areas of agricultural, dairying, and grazing land available for selection		c.1925	AUD 250.00 - 350.00	Not Sold
171	Dorothy Mellor	Mickles and Muckles Gift Book of the Commonwealth Savings Bank of Australia		No date but 1925	AUD 80.00 - 120.00	AUD 88.90
172		Melbourne The City of Beauty Souvenir Photo Book		c.1940	AUD 150.00 - 250.00	AUD 127.00
173		Views of the Northern Territory of Australia		1913	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
174	R.S. Sampson	THROUGHOUT CENTRAL AUSTRALIA	Perth	1933	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
175		A Trip to Portland the Watering Place of the West	Melbourne	1880	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
176		Eve in Ebony ... the Story of 'Jedda' Charles Chauvel Australian Cinema	Sydney	1954	AUD 80.00 - 120.00	AUD 101.60
177	D. Tennant	In the Track of the Native		1938	AUD 100.00 - 150.00	AUD 50.80
178	B. J. Ferguson	Nine books on NSW local history - A Short history of Merimbula...		N/A	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
179	Lord Cockburn	Life of Lord Jeffrey with a selection from his correspondence	Edinburgh	1852	AUD 150.00 - 250.00	Not Sold
180	VERNER, Colonel Willoughby	History and Campaigns of the Rifle Brigade	London	1912	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 63.50
181	PELLEW, George	The Life and Correspondence of the Right Hon. Henry Addington	London	1847	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
182	Sir CF Wraxall	Life and Times of Her Majesty Caroline Matilda, Queen of Denmark and Norway, and Sister of H.M. George III of England, from Family Documents and Private State Archives	London	1864	AUD 130.00 - 170.00	AUD 88.90

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