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
208	BILL O'REILLY	Six Books: 1) Killing the Rising Sun - How America Vanquished World War II Japan...		2016	AUD 100.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
209	Trevor Patrick, James Symes and Andrew Tink	In Search of The Pennant Hills - A History of the Settlements known as Pennant Hills on the Pennant Hills Range 1788 to 1906		2007	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 63.50
210	Njb Plomley	Friendly Mission. The Tasmanian Journals and Papers of George Augustus Robinson 1829-1834		2008	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	AUD 285.75
211	Charles Gibson	A Complete 2 Volumes of Life Among Convicts		1863	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
212	CE Lyne	The Life of Sir Henry Parkes: Australian Statesman		1896	AUD 60.00 - 80.00	AUD 38.10
213	Becke, Louis and Walter Jeffery	A First Fleet Family A Hitherto Unpublished Narrative of Certain Remarkable Adventures Compiled from the Papers of Sergeant William Dew of the Marines	London	1896	AUD 60.00 - 80.00	Not Sold
214	David Kennedy	Kennedy's Colonial Travel : a Narrative of a Four Years' Tour Through Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Etc.		1876	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
215	Arthur Kitson	Captain James Cook R.N., F.R.S. "The Circumnavigator"		1907	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 165.10
216	David Collins and edited by James Collier	AUSTRALIAN HISTORY: Two books 1) An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales...	Christchurch	c1901	AUD 150.00 - 250.00	Not Sold
217	HENDERSON, George C.	Sir George Grey. Pioneer of Empire in Southern Lands	London	1907	AUD 100.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
218	George Grey	Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North West and Western Australia during the years 1837,38 and 39 under the Authority of Her Majesty's Government. Describing many newly discovered, important and fertile districts...		1841	AUD 100.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
219	GRIMM, George	The Australian Explorers. Their labours, perils, and achievements	Melbourne	1888	AUD 100.00 - 150.00	AUD 50.80
220	Elinor Barley	WARNER, Sylvia Townsend	London	1930	AUD 120.00 - 180.00	Not Sold
221	MOORE, George	The Brook Kerith - A Syrian Story	London	1929	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 101.60
222		Classical Medical Library Includes: Harvey Cushing...		N/A	AUD 250.00 - 350.00	Not Sold
223	John Howard	The Menzies Era		2014	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
224		The Introduction of Parliamentary Government in New South Wales Dinner of the Surviving Members of the First Legislative Assembly at Parliament House May 23, 1887		1887	AUD 150.00 - 180.00	AUD 63.50
225		Two shelves of more than 50 volumes from the Australia's Greatest Books series		N/A	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 139.70
226	Richard T Baker and Henry G Smith	Wood Fibres of Some Australian Timbers: Investigated in reference to their prospective value for Paper-pulp Production		1924	AUD 160.00 - 200.00	AUD 203.20
227	Powys Mathers	The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night translated into English by Dr JC Mardrus		1949	AUD 150.00 - 200.00	AUD 63.50
228	Renee Free and John Henshaw with Frank Hinder	The Art Of Frank Hinder	Australia	2011	AUD 150.00 - 200.00	AUD 254.00
229	Frank Hinder	Frank Hinder Lithographs	Sydney	1978	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 241.30
230	Elizabeth Summons	The Eric Thake Picture Book	Victoria	1978	AUD 150.00 - 250.00	AUD 139.70
231	Maurice Gieure	G. Braue	Paris	[1956]	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 127.00
232		Important Snuff Bottles including a private European collection		N/A	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 38.10

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