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
227		My Father, and My Father's Friends by Hugh McCrae.		1935	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 88.90
228		Beginning With Esther - Jewish Women in New South Wales From 1788 by Lysbeth Cohen.		1987	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 254.00
229		Australian Tales and Verses by P. Stewart.		1908	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
230	Edited by P.L. Brown.	The Narrative of George Russell of Gold Hill with Russellania and Selected papers.		1935	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	AUD 190.50
231		Six Sydney Local History Books.		N/A	AUD 150.00 - 250.00	AUD 88.90
232		New Homes: The Rise, Progress, Present Position, and Future Prospects of Each of the Australian Colonies and New Zealand, regarded as Homes for All Classes of Emigrants by Thomas Henry Braim.		N/A	AUD 100.00 - 150.00	AUD 127.00
233		Proposals To Divert The Snowy River. Report by Commonwealth and State Officers 1948.		1948	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 152.40
234		Northing Is Forever - The History of 2/3 Commandos by Colonel Ron Garland.		1997	AUD 150.00 - 200.00	AUD 101.60
235	by Augustin m. Prentiss.	Chemicals in War - A Treatise on Chemical Warfare		1937	AUD 100.00 - 150.00	AUD 63.50
236		Whaleships of New Bedford. Sixty Plates. From Drawings by Clifford W. Ashley.		1929	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
237		To The Warrior His Arms - A History of The Ordnance Services In The Australian Army by Major John D. Tilbrook.		1989	AUD 100.00 - 150.00	AUD 76.20
238	by James Holman.	Travels in Madeira, Sierra Leone, Teneriffe, St. Jago, Cape Coast, Fernando Po, Princes Island, etc.		1840	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 127.00
239		Anzac Memorial.		1916	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
240		The factors influencing Gold Deposition in the Bendigo Goldfield.		N/A	AUD 150.00 - 250.00	AUD 190.50
241		Lost Adelaide - A Photographic Record by Michael Burden.		1983	AUD 150.00 - 250.00	Not Sold
242		Her Majesty's Colonies - A Series of Original Papers Issued Under The Authority of the Royal Commission.		1886	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 127.00
243		Two Newcastle History Facsimile books		1978	AUD 100.00 - 150.00	AUD 63.50
244	by Rev. Edwin F. Hatfield.	St. Helena and The Cape of Good Hope: Or, Incidents in the Missionary Life of the Rev. James M'Gregor Bertram.		N/A	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 215.90
245		Flotsam and Jetsam - Floating Fragments of Life in England and Tasmania. An Autobiographical Sketch.		N/A	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
246		A Million Wild Acres - 200 Years of Man and an Australian Forest by Eric Rolls.		1981	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 215.90
247		1) Ballarat A Brief History by A. W. Strange 1971 2) Gold At Ballarat - The Ballarat East Goldfield Its Discovery and Development by H.J. Stacpoole 1971 3) The Golden City and its Tramways - Ballarat's tramway era by Alan Bradley		N/A	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 76.20
248		Once A Month - A Magazine for Australasia by Peter Mercer. Including Aug 15th, Oct 15th 1884; July 15, Aug 15 1885; May 1 1886.		1884-1886.	AUD 500.00 - 600.00	AUD 317.50
249	by Wellins Calcott	Thoughts moral and divine Collected and intended for the better instruction and conduct of life.	Birmingham	1758	AUD 360.00 - 460.00	AUD 177.80
250		Journal of a Quaker George Fox A Journal Or Historical Account Of The Life, Travels, Sufferings, Christian Experiences, And Labour Of Love, In The Work Of The Ministry, Of That Ancient, Eminent, And Faithful Servant Of Jesus Christ, George Fox.	London	1765	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	AUD 241.30
251		The Triumphs of Temper: a Poem in Six Cantos by William Hayley Esq.		1781	AUD 250.00 - 350.00	AUD 152.40

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