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
101		My Army, O, My Army And Other Songs by Henry Lawson.	Sydney	1915	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	AUD 254.00
102		Round Kangchenjunga: A narrative of Mountain Travel and Exploration by Douglas W. Freshfield.		1903	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	AUD 698.50
103		The Assault on Mount Everest 1922 by Brigadier-General Hon. C.G. Bruce. with Maps and Illustrations.		1923	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	AUD 444.50
104	DEUTSCHLAND ERWACHT: Werden, Kampf und Sieg der NSDAP.	GERMANY AWAKENS: The Rise, Struggle and Victory of the NSDAP.		1933	AUD 150.00 - 250.00	AUD 349.25
105		The Original Water Colour Paintings by John James Audubon for the Birds of America. Reproduced from the collection at the New York Historical Society.	NY	1966	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	AUD 285.75
106	RAWSON, Jessica.	The Chinese Bronzes of Yunnan.	London	1983	AUD 250.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
107	GERSON, Horst.	Rembrandt Paintings. An Artabas Book.	New York	1968	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 381.00
108	Hardy Wilson.	Two beautiful plates by the eccentric Australian architect and innovator Hardy Wilson.		1924	AUD 150.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
109		Norman Lindsay's Trio.		1978	AUD 250.00 - 300.00	AUD 152.40
110		Mounted lithograph of Captain James Cook, Discoverer of New South Wales.		Circa 1878	AUD 80.00 - 100.00	Not Sold
111	Kurt Hilscher (1904-1980).	Two signed historical fashion prints	Both	undated but circa 1930	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
112		Two fine engraved scenic views of European Landscapes. The first captioned “Val St. Nicola.”		N/A	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
113		Six books from the Classics of Medicine Library, published in Birmingham and New York during the eighties and nineties.		N/A	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
114	PAVLOV, Ivan Petrovich.	Lectures on Conditioned Reflexes. Translated from the Russian by W. Horsley Gantt.	New York	1928	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
115		Eleven books from the Classics of Medicine Library,	Birmingham and New York	during the eighties and nineties.	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	AUD 190.50
116	HELDMANN, Richard Bernard, pseudonym Richard Marsh.	Marvels and Mysteries.	London	1900	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	AUD 228.60
117	DELANNOY, Burford.	Between the Lines.	London	1901	AUD 100.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
118	ROWCROFT, Charles.	The Perils and adventures of Mr. William Thornley. One of the pioneer settlers of Van Diemen’s Land 1817-1830.	Tasmania	circa 1910.	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 63.50
119	BLEVINS, Juliette.	Nhanda. An Aboriginal Language of Western Australia.		2001	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
120	BECKER, C.J.	Guide to the Transvaal.	Dublin	1878	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 127.00
121		Four vintage motoring and cycling items: Twelve Photographic Postcards in Colour Illustrating the motor Trip Around Table Mountain.		N/A	AUD 150.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
122		Two Photography books with the bookplate of Lewis Morley 1.	Photo .	N/A	AUD 80.00 - 100.00	Not Sold
123	MILLER, C.	Blackburn. Bally-Hoo. The Log of a Landlubber.	New York	1929	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 127.00
124	WINTON, Tim.	Dirt Music.	Sydney	2001 reprint.	AUD 150.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
125		Large engraved portrait of Sir Francis Drake, the legendary English privateer and confidant of Queen Elizabeth the First.		circa 1750.	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	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