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
477		1) Air and Diet in Chronic Chest Diseases by Duncan Turner.		1896	AUD 150.00 - 250.00	Not Sold
478		Five Medical Books. 1) Piles or Haemorrhoids: What They are, How They Come, and How They Should be Treated by George Lade.		no date.	AUD 150.00 - 250.00	Not Sold
479	by Richard Wagner.	Tannhauser: A Dramatic Poem. Freely Translated in Poetic Narrative Form by T.W. Rolleston.		no date. c1911.	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
480		Hop of The "Bulletin" by Dorothy June Hopkins.		1929	AUD 100.00 - 150.00	AUD 63.50
481		The Funny Side of Golf with illustrations by Phil May and all the other regular Punch magazine illustrations .	England	1909	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
482	WELCH, Charles.	London at the Opening of the Twentieth Century. Contemporary Biographies, edited by W. T. Pike (Pike’s New Century Series, No. 15).	Brighton	1905	AUD 150.00 - 250.00	Not Sold
483	Compiled by L.L. Politzer	1) Bibliography of Dutch Literature on Australia.		1953	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 203.20
484		AUSTRALASIAN BIBLIOGRAPHY (IN THREE PARTS). Catalogue of Books in the Free Public Library, Sydney.		N/A	AUD 100.00 - 150.00	AUD 63.50
485		Annale Rioghachta Eireaan Annals of the kingdom of Ireland, by the Four masters, from the earlies period to the year 1616.	Dublin	with a translation	AUD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Not Sold
486		A Pearling Master's Journey in the wake of the schooner Mist by J.E. deB.		2008	AUD 60.00 - 100.00	AUD 101.60
487		The P & O. Pocket Book (Third Issue).		1908	AUD 100.00 - 150.00	AUD 114.30
488		Six books about Australian and New Zealand Ports.		N/A	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
489		Four Australian Military History books.		N/A	AUD 150.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
490		Four books about traveling and exploration to Australia.		N/A	AUD 150.00 - 250.00	AUD 88.90
491		Five Australian Biographies.		N/A	AUD 150.00 - 250.00	AUD 88.90
492		Six books about Early Australian History.		N/A	AUD 150.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
493		1) Convicts and The Colonies - A Study of Penal Transportation from Great Britain and Ireland to Australia and other parts of the British Empire by A.G.		N/A	AUD 100.00 - 150.00	AUD 63.50
494		Oceana or England and Her Colonies by James Anthony Froude.	London	1886	AUD 150.00 - 250.00	AUD 88.90
495		Out-Letters of the Continental Marine Committee and Board of Admiralty, August, 1776-September, 1780 edited by Charles Oscar Paullin.	New York	1914	AUD 150.00 - 250.00	Not Sold
496	Written and illustrated by W. Heath Robinson.	Bill The Minder.	London	no date 1920.	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
497	Sir Walter Scott edited by JG Lockhart..	Memoirs of Sir Walter Scott	London	1900	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 63.50
498	C Day Lewis.	1) An Italian Visit 2) Collected Poems 1954		1953	AUD 150.00 - 250.00	Not Sold
499	Peg Maltby.	Four books by Peg Maltby. 1) Pip and Pepita in Goblinland Published by Murfett.		N/A	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 114.30
500	Evelyn Waugh.	Five books written by Evelyn Waugh.		N/A	AUD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	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