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
252		A Lytell Treatyse of the Horse, the Sheep, and the Ghoos by John Lydgate.		1906	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 127.00
253		Royal Family Portraits 1) Queen Victoria - 2) Likely Queen Victoria 3) Queen Victoria and Albert 1840 4) The Royal Family - Includes all the children.		N/A	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 127.00
254		Nine books on Al Capone. 1) Capone: The Life and World of Al Capone by Kobler. 1971		N/A	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
255		Chicago Mafia. 1) The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Larson.		N/A	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
256		American Mafia. 1) Close to Shore by Capuzzo 2) The Gangs of San Francisco Asbury 3) Off Colour: The Violent History of Detroit's Notorious Purple Gang Waugh 4) The Mafia File by Sifakis.		N/A	AUD 80.00 - 120.00	Not Sold
257	Edgar Penzig.	1) Ben Hall: The Definitive Illustrated History 2) The Sandy Creek Bushranger: A Definitive History of Ben Hall, His Gang and Associates 3) Heroes and Villains: An Illustrated History our Bushranging Days.		1996. 1992	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 139.70
258	Pamela Dawn Oxley; edited by David Anthony Oxley.	Not "just ordinary people" : the Keyte family of Major's Creek and Moruya, New South Wales.		N/A	AUD 150.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
259	Compiled by Annette Condon & Jenny King.	Orange & District Pioneer Register to 1888.	Orange, N.S.W.	1999	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
260		Canowindra Pioneer Register: Pre-1901 compiled by Canowindra Historical Society and Museum Inc.		2007	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
261		1) The Bloodiest Bushrangers by O'Sullivan Rigby 2) Frank Gardiner: Bushranger to Businessman by Morrison. 3) Hanged by Jim Main 4) Captain Bully Hayes by Frank Clune 5) Notorious Australian by Creswell.		N/A	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 76.20
262		Pearling in Australia x9. 1) Pearls if Broome and Northern Australia by Edwards 2) The Pearl-Shellers of Torres Strait by Ganter 3) The Pearling Lugger: A Pearl Diver's Story by Dodd		N/A	AUD 150.00 - 200.00	AUD 88.90
263		Australian Shipwrecks x7. 1) Shipwrecks: Australia's Greatest Maritime Disasters McHugh 2) SS Yongala: Townsville Titanic Gleeson		N/A	AUD 150.00 - 200.00	AUD 101.60
264		Treasure and Shipwrecks x7. 1) Fatal Treasure : Greed And Death, Emeralds And Gold, And The Obsessive Search For The Legendary Ghost Galleon Atocha by Jedwin Smith.		N/A	AUD 150.00 - 200.00	AUD 88.90
265		Mutinies, Buccaneers and Pirates x7 . 1) Scourge of the Seas: Buccaneers, Pirates and Privateers by Angus Konstam.		N/A	AUD 150.00 - 200.00	AUD 152.40
266		Pirates x9. 1) Blackbeard: The Real Pirate of the Caribbean by Parry 2) Real Pirates: The Untold Story of the Whydah from Slave Ship to Pirate Ship...		N/A	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 127.00
267		Lost Ghosts at Sea x7. 1) Ghost Colonies. Lost and Found in History - Failed Utopias, Forgotten Exiles and Abandoned Outposts of Empire by Wright.		N/A	AUD 150.00 - 200.00	AUD 88.90
268		A small box of Australian ephemera mostly New South Wales local histories.		N/A	AUD 150.00 - 200.00	AUD 114.30
269		Battles of the Roses x5 . 1) The Red Rose and the White: The Wars of the Roses, 1453-1487 by Sadler.		N/A	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
270		Fancy Dresses Described; or, What to Wear at Fancy Balls by Adern Holt.		N/A	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
271	by Janda Gooding, & Ron Banks	Unseen Works from the North Wing of the Widjimorphup Shire Art Gallery A Collection of Art Works by Leon Pericles	Western Australia	1990	AUD 100.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
272		1) The Ned Kelly Encyclopaedia by Justin Corfield	Melbourne	2003	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
273		1. Erotica The Fine Art of Sex by Lucie-Smith New York 2003 2. Erotic Antiques. Love is an Antique Thing by Burland Scotland 1974 3. …		N/A	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
274		1. Reptiles of Australia by Barrett D/W 1950 2. Reptiles of Australia by Eric Worrell D/W 1963 3. Reptiles & Amphibians of Australia by Cogger D/W 1975 …		N/A	AUD 600.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
275		1.Spiders by Main Hardback D/W 1976 2. Butterflies of Australia & New Guinea by Barrett 1966 . 3.A Guide To The Australian Penaeid Prawns by Grey 1970s …		N/A	AUD 100.00 - 150.00	AUD 76.20
276		The Pastoral Review : a journal and a record of all matters affecting the pastoral and agricultural interests throughout Australasia. Volume 7		January to December 1927.	AUD 150.00 - 200.00	AUD 203.20

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