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
277		1. Nightwatchmen of Bush and Plain. Australian Owls by Fleay 1968 2. Australische Sittiche by H. D. Groen 1963 3. ...		N/A	AUD 250.00 - 300.00	AUD 165.10
278	by Richard T Baker and Henry G .Smith	A Research on the Eucalypts Especially in Regard to their Essential Oils	Sydney	1920	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 127.00
279	by Lord Medway and David R Wells	1) The Birds of the Malay Peninsula: A General Account of the Birds Inhabiting the Region from the Isthmus of Kra to Singapore with the Adjacent Islands (Volume V: Conclusion, and Survey of Every Species)	London, UK	1976	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
280		An Artist in Egypt by Walter Tyndale		1912	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	AUD 571.50
281	by Reginald Francis Hallward.	Flowers of Paradise. Music, verse, design & illustration		N/A	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
282	by Robert Louis Stevenson,	A Footnote to History. Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa	London	1892	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	AUD 190.50
283	by Christel Mouchard.	Women Travellers; A Century Of Trailblazing Adventures 1850-1950		2007	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 63.50
284		about 10 copies of The Territorian from the 1960s and a Souvenir Programme of 1953 Foundry Exhibition and a few other intersting items		N/A	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 76.20
285		Four issues of The (Melbourne) Argus from September 1858.		N/A	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
286		1) The Commandants: The Tyrants who ruled Norfolk Island by MG Brits. 2) Maconochie's Experiment: How One man's Extraordinary vision saved transported convicts from Degradation and despair. …		N/A	AUD 150.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
287	Langellier, Cox and Pohanka.	Myles Keogh: The life and legend of an "Irish Dragoon" in the Seventh cavalry		1991	AUD 150.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
288	by William Audley, George Ashdown Audsley and Charles Rolt	The Sermon on the Mount by illustrated with lithographs		[1861]	AUD 800.00 - 1,000.00	AUD 762.00
289		1) Celebrated Criminal Cases of America. 2) Classic Murders by Robin Squire.. 3) Handsome Brute: The story of a Ladykiller by Sean O'Connor. …		N/A	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
290		The Holmes-Pitezel Case. A History of the Greatest Crime of the Century.	Philadelphia	1896	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
291		The Holmes-Pitezel Case. A History of the Greatest Crime of the Century.	Philadelphia	1896	AUD 250.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
292		Ten books about HH Holmes the First American Serial Killer.		N/A	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
293		The White Witch by Jack McLaren	Melbourne	No date but 1919.	AUD 60.00 - 100.00	AUD 38.10
294	by Thomas Mccombie.	The History of the Colony of Victoria: From Its Settlement to the Death of Sir Charles Hotham		1858	AUD 100.00 - 150.00	AUD 63.50
295	SOBIESKI, Colonel John.	The Life-Story and Personal Reminiscences of Col. John Sobieski (A Lineal Descendant of King John III, of Poland).	Shelbyville, Illinois	1900	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
296	[PARLIAMENT OF VICTORIA].	Second Report from the Select Committee upon the National Defences.	Melbourne	July 1865	AUD 250.00 - 300.00	AUD 152.40
297	Třeti Soubor 10 Exlibris.	Vydal Spolek sbĕratelu a přatel Exlibris v Praze. Na titulnim listĕ dřevoryt Vojtĕchna Cinybulka.		N/A	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
298		With Seaplane and Sledge in the Arctic by George Binney. Leader Oxford University Artic Expedition.		no date c1925	AUD 150.00 - 200.00	AUD 88.90
299		The British Colonies and Their Resources Including The British Possessions in America, Australasia, Asia, Africa, and Europe by James Bonwick.		1886	AUD 100.00 - 150.00	AUD 152.40
300		The Trial of Ronald Geeves Griggs by A.J. Buchanan.		1930	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
301	by Francis Wey.	Rome ''Containing three hundred and forty- five engravings on wood''		c.1880s	AUD 150.00 - 200.00	AUD 215.90

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