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

Auction Details

Auction Report
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