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
377		Beautiful Heidelberg, The City of Streams.		c. 1930	AUD 150.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
378		Egeson's weather system of sun-spot causality : being original researches in solar and terrestrial meteorology by Charles Egeson.		1889	AUD 300.00 - 350.00	Not Sold
379		Three Books by Tom Iredale - Birds of New Guinea Volume 1 and 2 - Birds of Paradise and Bower Birds		N/A	AUD 300.00 - 350.00	AUD 190.50
380	by harry Burrell	The Platypus	Sydney	1927..	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 127.00
381		John Gould’s Contribution To British Art by Allan McEvey,- John Gould, The Birdman by Gordon Sauer		1973, 1982	AUD 250.00 - 300.00	AUD 152.40
382		Something about Australia - A Pictorial Record of the Wealth and Progress of the Commonwealth..		N/A	AUD 150.00 - 250.00	Not Sold
383	MACAULAY, Thomas Babington.	Lays of Ancient Rome.	London	1867	AUD 250.00 - 300.00	AUD 381.00
384	SHERWOOD, Mary Martha.	The De Cliffords: an Historical Tale by Mrs. Sherwood.	London	N/A	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 177.80
385		Death Lights a Candle by Phoebe Atwood Taylor	Indianapolis	1932	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
386		A lovely collection of seven Victorian books in splendid gilt decorated publisher’s cloth bindings.		N/A	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
387	HIBBERD, Shirley.	Rustic Adornments for Homes of Taste, and Recreations for Town Folk, in the Study and imitation of Nature.	London	1857	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 127.00
388	WARREN, Albert H.	Arms of the Episcopates of Great Britain and Ireland.	London	1868	AUD 250.00 - 300.00	AUD 152.40
389	by W W Jacobs.	Many Cargoes. With Sixteen Illustrations in Colour by Maurice Greifenhagen .	London	1912	AUD 100.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
390		Meanjin Papers Numbers 1 to 16 (Lacking number 2) Christmas 1940 to Volume 2 Number 4 Summer 1943.		1940-1943.	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 165.10
391		The Comic Art of Norman Lindsay Selected by Keith Wingrove 1987.	Sydney	1987	AUD 50.00 - 60.00	Not Sold
392	by Charles P. Mountford	Nomads of the Australian Desert	Adelaide	1976	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	AUD 349.25
393	AINSWORTH, W. Harrison.	Jack Sheppard. A Romance.	London	1839	AUD 800.00 - 1,000.00	AUD 508.00
394	DAVIES, E.W.L.	Memoir of the Rev. John Russell and His Out-of-Door Life. A new edition with illustrations by N.H.J. Baird.	Exeter	1902	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
395	by William Harrison Ainsworth	Old Saint Paul's : A Tale of the Plague and the Fire	London	1841	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
396		Five Victorian books of romantic poetry in attractive gilt decorated cloth bindings.	London or Edinburgh.	N/A	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
397		“Illuminated Crest Book or Repertorium for Monograms, Crests”		circa 1870.	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 127.00
398		A box of 15 Biographies books. Including Alfred Deakin, Ben Chifley, john Curtin, Lawrence James Wackett, James Hardy Vaux etc.		N/A	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 63.50
399		The Sydney Drawing book,		N/A	AUD 150.00 - 250.00	Not Sold
400		The Story of H..M.S. Success (1823-1849) The Ship in which Captain Stirling explored the Swan River in 1827 by Cygnet.		1956	AUD 150.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
401		The Land ACT, 1898, with Amendment Acts and Regulations. The Agricultural Lands Purchase Act, 1909, and Regulations.		N/A	AUD 150.00 - 250.00	AUD 88.90

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