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
26	SHIEL, Matthew.	Prince Zaleski by M. P. Shiel.	London and Boston	1895	AUD 750.00 - 1,000.00	AUD 476.25
27	ELLIS, Brett Easton.	The Informers.	New York	1994	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
28		Three books by Herbert Ernest Bates, all are first editions with their dust-jackets.	London	N/A	AUD 200.00 - 250.00	Not Sold
29	WILLIAMSON, Henry.	Three books from the author of ‘Tarka the Otter’, detailing nature life in Britain amongst autobiographical themes.	London	1948	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 63.50
30	Salman Rushdie.	The Jaguar Smile. >Haroun and the Sea of Stories.	New York, London	1987. 1990.	AUD 125.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
31	PRING, Peter.	The Star Kingdom Story.	Sydney	1983	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 76.20
32	JENKINSON, Hilary.	Palaeography and the Practical Study of Court Hand.		1915	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 127.00
33		Mirror of the Australian Navigation by Le Maire. A facsimile of the Spigel der Australische Navigatie... being a voyage of Jacob le Mare and Willen Schouten 1615-1616 published in Amsterdam 1622.	Sydney	1999	AUD 100.00 - 120.00	Not Sold
34	COLLINS, David. Edited by Brian Fletcher.	An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales.	Sydney	1975	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 203.20
35	DAWSON, Warren.	The Banks Letters. A calendar of the manuscript correspondence of Sir Joseph Banks preserved in the British Museum…	London	1958	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 127.00
36		A large collection of the Penrose Pictorial Annual.	in London	1891-1976.	AUD 250.00 - 300.00	AUD 317.50
37	by Ernest Scott.	The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders, R.N.	Sydney	1914	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 63.50
38	SINCLAIR, Upton.	Mammonart. An Essay in Economic Interpretation.	Pasadena	1925	AUD 250.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
39	HORDERN, Marsden.	Mariners are Warned! John Lort Stokes and H. M. S. Beagle in Australia 1837-1843.	Melbourne	1989	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 165.10
40	MAUGHAM, W. Somerset.	The Constant Wife. A Comedy in Three Acts.	London	1927	AUD 250.00 - 300.00	AUD 165.10
41	HILDER, Brett.	El Viaje de Torres de Veracruz a Manila. Descubrimiento de la costa meridional de Nueva Guinea y del estrecho de su nombre.	Madrid	1992	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
42	SEGHERS, Anna.	The Revolt of the Fishermen.	London	1929	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
43	HENEY, Thomas.	In Middle Harbour and Other Verse Chiefly Australian.	London	1890	AUD 150.00 - 200.00	AUD 88.90
44	WYATT, Ransome T.	The History of Goulburn N.S.W.		1941	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 88.90
45	NEBEWSKY-WOJKOWITZ, Rene De.	Tibetan Religious Dances. Tibetan Text and Annotated Translation of the Chams Yig.	New Delhi	1997	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
46		How Wars End: The United Nations and the Termination of Armed Conflict 1946-1964 by Sydney D. Bailey.		1982	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
47		Five volumes from the Frontier Edition of the collected works of Ion Idriess.	Sydney	in the fifties	AUD 250.00 - 300.00	AUD 317.50
48		Warragamba Dam. Official opening by the Honourable R.J. Heffron, M.L.A., premier of New South Wales, Friday, 14th October, 1960.	Sydney	1960	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 152.40
49	PERUCCHI-PETRI, Ursula.	Cucchi. Drawings 1975-1989.	New York	1990	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
50	McGILL, Ormond.	The New Encyclopedia of Stage Hypnotism.	Wales	1996	AUD 120.00 - 150.00	AUD 139.70

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