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
452		Two Folio books. 1) A Majmuni Kodex. 2) Israel: Ancient Mosaics.		1980, 1960.	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 63.50
453		A bundle of different Simpsons Comics.		N/A	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
454		Simpsons Comics and Stories.		N/A	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
455	by Simon Schama	A History Of Britain (Three-Volume Set)	London	2001	AUD 150.00 - 250.00	AUD 88.90
456	by Eiji Yoshikawa. by Charles S Terry.	Musashi: An Epic Novel of Samurai Era. Translated from the Japanese		1981	AUD 80.00 - 150.00	AUD 50.80
457		Twelve books published by Classics of Medicine Library.		N/A	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
458		Three books published by the Franklin Library.		N/A	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 127.00
459		Five first editions by Alison Lurie, and all have been signed by the author.	London	1984	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
460	LYELL, Sir Charles.	Principles of Geology or the Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants…	London	1868	AUD 150.00 - 250.00	Not Sold
461		Brother Surgeons - A Novel by Garet Rogers.		1957	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 76.20
462	Edited by Grant Mossop and Irina Shetsen.	Geological Atlas of the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin.		1994	AUD 150.00 - 250.00	AUD 88.90
463		Historical Aspects of The Neurosciences - A Festschrift for Macdonald Critchley by F. Clifford Rose and W.F. Bynum.		1982	AUD 150.00 - 250.00	Not Sold
464		Topography of the Thorax and Abdomen by Peter Potter.		1905	AUD 150.00 - 250.00	AUD 88.90
465		Antique Medical Instruments by Elisabeth Bennion.		1979	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 241.30
466		Treatise on Midwifery and The Diseases of Women and Children by A.I. Coffin.		1854	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
467		Advance Australia! An Account of Eight Years' Work, Wandering, and Amusement, In Queensland, New South Wales, and Victoria by The Hon. Harold Finch-Hatton.		N/A	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 63.50
468		The Mutiny on board H.M.S. Bounty "And the Subsequent Voyage of a Part of the Crew in the Ship's Boat, from Tofoa, one of the Friendly Islands, .... to Timor, a Dutch Settlement in the East Indies" Narrative and Charts by Lieutenant William Bligh.		No date. 1900s.	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 127.00
469		The Guardsman and Cupid's Daughter and Other Poems by Villiers David. The Decorations by John Austen.		1903	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
470		The Chaurapanchasika An Indian Love Lament.		1896	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 127.00
471		The Story of the Australian People by J.N. Rawling.		N/A	AUD 100.00 - 150.00	AUD 63.50
472		The Enemies of Books by William Blades. Revised and Enlarged by the Author.		1888	AUD 150.00 - 250.00	AUD 88.90
473	by R.A. McKay.	History of Printing in New Zealand 1830 to 1940.		c1940.	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 127.00
474		Five books about the History of Medicine.		N/A	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
475		Two books about Medical Physics.		N/A	AUD 150.00 - 250.00	Not Sold
476		1) The History of the Sydney Hospital from 1811 to 1911 by J. Frederick Watson.		N/A	AUD 120.00 - 200.00	Not Sold

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