Sydney Rare Book Auctions: Easter Sale: History, Art, Illustrated books, Fine Bindings, Firsts, Signed books, Bookplates, 177, Ultimo

Auction Details

Auction Date: April 12, 2026 - April 12, 2026

Page Size: 499 items in 20 pages

Auction Lot Books
Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1	JONES, Owen.	One Thousand and One Initial Letters.	London	1864	AUD 750.00 - 1,000.00	Not Sold
2	JONES, Owen.	The Grammar of Ornament.	London	1856	AUD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	AUD 2,540.00
3		Banks’ Florilegium Supplement.		N/A	AUD 600.00 - 800.00	AUD 1,524.00
4	VACHER, Sydney.	Fifteenth Century Italian Ornament. Chiefly taken from brocades and stuffs found in pictures in the National Gallery.	London	1886	AUD 500.00 - 600.00	AUD 381.00
5	MORRIS, William.	The Defence of Guenevere by William Morris. Illustrated by Jessie M. King.	London	1904	AUD 600.00 - 800.00	AUD 539.75
6		Royal Souvenir of the wedding of Albert Edward, Prince of Wales to Princess Alexandra of Denmark, at Windsor in 1863.		1863	AUD 250.00 - 300.00	AUD 152.40
7	PROCTER, Adelaide A.	The Victoria Regia: A Volume of Original Contributions in Poetry and Prose.	London	1861	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 127.00
8	CONRAD, Joseph.	Chance.	London	1914	AUD 800.00 - 1,000.00	Not Sold
9	BOCCACCIO, Giovanni.	The Decameron of Boccaccio. Faithfully translated by J.M. Rigg, with illustrations by Louis Chalon.	London	1903	AUD 250.00 - 300.00	AUD 152.40
10	GOLDSMITH, Oliver.	The Vicar of Wakefield. Illustrated by George Thomas.	London	1858	AUD 250.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
11		An album of chromolithographic views of Edinburgh and surrounds,	Edinburgh	no date but circa 1860.	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
12	HENTY, G.A.	With Buller in Natal. With ten illustrations by W. Rainey.	London	no date but circa 1901.	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
13		Three beautifully bound Victorian editions of the poetry of Thomas Moore.	London	1856	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
14		The Treasury of Ornamental Art. Illustrations of objects of Art and Vertu.	London	1856	AUD 800.00 - 1,000.00	Not Sold
15		The Garden of Kama and Other Love Lyrics, Stars of the Desert, & Indian Love by Laurence Hope [Violet Nicolson]		1919	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
16		The Story of Picture Printing in England During the Nineteenth Century Or Forty Years of Wood and Stone by CT Courtney Lewis.	London	1928	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 285.75
17		A Series of Picturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland with Descriptive And Facsimile of Autographs of Subscribers to the County Seats of Great Britain and Ireland by The Rev. F. O. Morris.	London	1880	AUD 500.00 - 600.00	AUD 317.50
18		Chambers Encyclopaedia A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge For The People Illustrated with Maps and Numerous Wood Engravings Revised Edition.	London	1881	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 127.00
19	WARHOL, Andy.	Andy Warhol's Children's Book.	Zurich	1983	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 285.75
20	DESAI, Davangana.	Erotic Sculpture of India. A Socio-Cultural Study.	New Delhi	1975	AUD 100.00 - 150.00	AUD 241.30
21		British Pamphleteers.	London	1948 and 1951.	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 285.75
22	McCormack, John.	The Guernsey House. With illustrations by Carel Toms, George Bramall and Robert Hardwick.	Sussex	1987	AUD 150.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
23	FITZGERALD, Penelope.	A House of Air.	London	2003	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 63.50
24		Two Agatha Christie novels, both are hardcover octavo books with dust-jackets: 4.50 From Paddington.	Sydney	1957	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 101.60
25		Five Ginger Meggs books by Jim Bancks, each measures 19.5 x 27 cm.		N/A	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 127.00

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