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
51		The Australian Almanac for the Year 1870.	Sydney	1870	AUD 150.00 - 200.00	AUD 285.75
52		Eight high quality academic reference books, all hardcovers with dust-jackets (except for Oxford Companion to the English Language).		N/A	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
53		“From Blacksmith's Apprentice to World's Greatest Middleweight. The life story of Les Darcy, Late Middleweight Champion of World by F. J. Ferry.”	Sydney	undated but circa 1937.	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 139.70
54		Six good Australian Interest titles 1) Bound For Botany Bay by Frank Clune 2. Flying Matilda Early Days in Australian Aviation by Norman Ellison 3. …		N/A	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 63.50
55		Pamphlet titled New Zealand Book-Plates. Illustrated History and bibliography by Shibli Bagrag.	Wellington	1958	AUD 80.00 - 100.00	AUD 50.80
56		Antwerpse Exlibris Kring. Acht Duitse Exlibriskunstenaars Erste Map 1958.	Antwerp	1958	AUD 250.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
57		Folding map of Italy, including the Tyrolese Alps and Adriatic coastline.	Edinburgh	1814	AUD 100.00 - 150.00	AUD 139.70
58		A shelf lot of quality art history books and monographs, principally European modernism but some more recent themes included.		N/A	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
59		A large and diverse lot of vintage books on motoring.		N/A	AUD 150.00 - 200.00	AUD 101.60
60		Twelve issues of Automobile Year annual, from the seventies and eighties.	Lausanne	N/A	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	AUD 254.00
61		Kylie Minogue.	London	1999	AUD 150.00 - 200.00	AUD 139.70
62	MAVOR, William.	Historical Account of the Most Celebrated Voyages, Travels and Discoveries...	London	1796	AUD 250.00 - 300.00	AUD 177.80
63	[DRYSDALE, Russell.] NAGLE, J.F. and ANDREW R.R.	Russell Drysdale.	Melbourne	1979	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	AUD 190.50
64		Six books on Antarctic exploration, a mixture of medium and large sized books, with both softcover and hardcover titles.		N/A	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 127.00
65		Four books by and about Norman Lindsay.		N/A	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
66		A nice lot of books published by the Folio Society.		N/A	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 127.00
67	BONYHARDY, Tim.	Burke and Wills. From Melbourne to Myth.	Balmain	1991	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 63.50
68		A lot of high-quality military books.		N/A	AUD 250.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
69	GRAEME-EVANS, Alex.	Of Storms and Rainbows. The Story of the 2/12th Battalion A.I.F. Volume One: October 1939 - March 1942.	Hobart	1989	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 127.00
70	Ryle, Gilbert, and Meyer, Rene (editor).	Aspects of Mind.	Oxford	1993	AUD 150.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
71		Five books about Ludwig Wittgenstein.		N/A	AUD 250.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
72		Speeches on the Peake to Angle Pole Railway Bill by E.W. Hawker and R. Caldwell and by F. Basedow on the report of the Transcontinental Railway Commission.	Adelaide	1887	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
73		An excellent selection of fourteen books on philosophy.		N/A	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
74		Collection of Voyages Undertaken by the Dutch East-India Company, for the Improvement of trade and navigation.	London	1703	AUD 250.00 - 300.00	AUD 825.50
75	FLEURIEU, C.P. Claret.	A Voyage Round the World performed during the Years 1790, 1791, and 1792… London, 1801.	Amsterdam	1969	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