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
302		A small photo album with pasted photos of N.SW, Tasmania and Victoria..		N/A	AUD 150.00 - 200.00	AUD 139.70
303		Four old newspapers from Victoria - The Geelong Advertiser, October 3rd 1864 - The Williamstown Advertiser, June 13th 1885 - The Age Melbourne, April 3rd 1875 - The Footscray Advertiser, June 26th 1885		N/A	AUD 200.00 - 250.00	Not Sold
304		Sixteen folding maps on linen mostly of France and Belgium..		N/A	AUD 150.00 - 250.00	AUD 88.90
305		Art Nouveau Hardcover by Gabrielle Fahr-Becker, -American Art Deco Modernistic Architecture and Regionalism by Carla Breeze. -Art Nouveau by Klaus Jurgen Sembach - Tiffany Color and Light by The Montreal Museum of fine Arts		N/A	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 127.00
306		The Colour Bondi by Rex Dupain - Dupain's Sydney by Jill White - Max Dupain's Australia, State Library of NSW Exhibition Gallery Guide July 2003- Feb 2004.		N/A	AUD 150.00 - 250.00	AUD 114.30
307		The Art of Ken Done by Janet McKenzie - The Comic Art of Norman Lindsay by Keith Wingrove - Arthur Boyd Houghton by Paul Hogarth - Shay Docking, the Landscape as Metaphor - Ian Fairweather by Murray Bail …		N/A	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
308		In Vogue 75 years of Style by Georgina Howell - FASHION 100 Years by Charlotte Seeling - Fashion in Film by Regine and Peter W. Engelmeier - MUSES Women who Inspire by Farid Abdelouahab, …		N/A	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 127.00
309		Maiolica. A descriptive catalogue of the Maiolica Hispano-Moresco, Persian, Damascus, and Rhodian Wares in the South Kensington Museum.	London	1873	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	AUD 254.00
310		1) Craft treasures of Okinawa by Michiaki KAWAKITA, 2) The Japanese Print : Its Evolution and Essence by C. Mitchell and Muneshige Narazaki.	Tokyo	1978; 1966	AUD 350.00 - 450.00	AUD 215.90
311	Nicola Spinosa.	1) Pittura napoletana del Settecento: Dal barocco al rococo (Eighteenth-Century Neapolitan Painting: From Baroque to Rococo) 2) Eighteenth-Century Neapolitan Painting: From Rococo to Classicism		1986	AUD 200.00 - 250.00	Not Sold
312	by Helen Topliss,	1) Modernism and Feminism Australian Women Artists 1900-1940. 2) Grace Cossington Smith by Deborah Hart	Sydney	1996, 2005	AUD 150.00 - 250.00	AUD 228.60
313		1) Pop Art by Tilman Osterwold Published by TASCHEN 2) JEFF KOONS3) Contemporary Art by Klaus Honnef 4) The Steins Collection; Matisse, Picasso and Parisian Avant-Garde…		N/A	AUD 250.00 - 350.00	Not Sold
314	WATT, Francis and CARTER, Reverend Andrew.	Picturesque Scotland: its Romantic Scenes and Historical Associations described in Lay and Legend, Song and Story.	London	no date but circa 1860.	AUD 250.00 - 300.00	AUD 152.40
315	by Valentina N. Berezina,	The Hermitage. Catalogue of Western European Painting. French Painting. Early and Mid-Nineteenth Century	Florence	1983	AUD 120.00 - 150.00	AUD 76.20
316		Two Christies Catalogues 1) Christies Catalogue for The Robert Strauss Collection of Renaissance and Other Bronzes Tuesday May 3rd 1977 in good condition, some pen marks to pages 2) Christie's Catalogue: The Exceptional sale 2011	London	Thursday 7 July 2011.	AUD 80.00 - 100.00	Not Sold
317		Three old Christies catalogues from the 1920s 1) Catalogue of the well-known collection of pictures by old masters : of Sir Joseph B. Robinson, Bart. of South Africa which will be sold by auction by Messrs. Christie, Manson & Woods .		N/A	AUD 150.00 - 250.00	Not Sold
318	by Giles Robertson	Giovanni Bellini	Oxford	1968	AUD 150.00 - 250.00	AUD 88.90
319	R. Ward Bissell	Artemisia Gentileschi and the Authority of Art. Critical Reading and Catalogue Raisonne.	University Park	1999	AUD 500.00 - 600.00	AUD 317.50
320		1) Caravaggio e i Giustiniani, Toccar con mano una collezione del seicento / Caravaggio and the Giustiniani, Touching a 17th-century collection first-hand - text in italian		N/A	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 127.00
321		Four books on Florentine Renaissance Artists 1) Biagio d'Antonio. 2) IL QUATTROCENTO A CAMERINO, Luce e prospettiva nel cuore della Marca. …		N/A	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
322		1) Poussin - The Early Years in Rome : The Origins of French Classicism by Konrad Oberhuber. 2) Bernardino Mei e la Pittura Barocca a Siena …		1987	AUD 300.00 - 350.00	AUD 190.50
323	Thiery Yvonne	Les peintres Flamands de Paysage au XVIIe Siecle. Des precurseurs a Rubens Thiery Yvonne / Flemish Landscape Painters in the 17th Century: From Precursors to Rubens		1988	AUD 80.00 - 120.00	Not Sold
324		Three books from the Moretti Gallery in Florence. 1) Seicento fiorentino. Sacred and profane allegories		N/A	AUD 150.00 - 250.00	Not Sold
325	Lorne Campbell,	Sixteenth Century Netherlandish Paintings, With French Paintings Before 1600	New Haven	2014	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 127.00
326		Three Books on Mannerism Artists.. 1) El Greco: Domenikos Theotokopoulos 1900, 2) Hans von Aachen.		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