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
176		Five volumes of Charles Bean’s Official History of Australia in the War of 1914-18.	Sydney.	1938	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	AUD 254.00
177		Uniform edition of the works of Sir Walter Scott,	Edinburgh	1854	AUD 500.00 - 750.00	AUD 317.50
178	ADDISON, Joseph.	The Spectator.	London	1753	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	AUD 254.00
179		Histoire de Gil Blas de saint by Par M. Le Sage, Alain-Rene Lesage.	London	1777	AUD 250.00 - 350.00	Not Sold
180		Les lettres et epitres amoureuses d'Heloise et d'Abeilard, traduites librement en vers et en prose.	Paris	1780	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
181	[Christopher Anstey]	The New Bath guide or, memoirs of the B-N-R-D family. In a series of poetical epistles.	London	1779	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 127.00
182		Leonidas: A Poem by Richard Glover.	London:	1798	AUD 700.00 - 800.00	AUD 412.75
183	Matthew Prior	Poems on Several Occasions with a supplement of several poems of the author's never before collected and others taken from his original manuscript.	Dublin.	1728	AUD 700.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
184	Stephani Guazzi.	De Civili Conversatione Dissertationes Politicae [Political Dissertations of Stephan Guazzi on Civil Conversation]	Leiden	1650	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	AUD 203.20
185		Almanach parisien, en faveur des étrangers et des personnes curieuses : …	Paris	1764	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
186	[NEWMAN, Samuel]. by S.N. Cambridge	A Concordance to the Holy Scriptures; Together with the books of the Apocrypha…	London	1698	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	AUD 317.50
187	J. B. Hawkins	Nineteenth Century Australian Silver.		1990	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 101.60
188		The abbaye of the holy ghost. Printed at Westminster by Wynkyn de Worde about the year 1496.		1907	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 203.20
189	edited by Walter Sidney Scott, and print the letters of the celebrated poet Shelley and his circle.	The Athenians. ; Harriet & Mary,	London.	1943 and 1944	AUD 250.00 - 300.00	AUD 317.50
190	THIERY, Yvonne & DE MEERENDRE, Michel Kervyn.	Les peintres flamands au XVII siecle. Le Baroque anversois et l'ecole bruxelloise.	Bruxelle	1987	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
191	WAHL, Arnold Spencer.	Wahl Handybook of the American Brewing Industry. Volume II Brewing Materials.	Chicago	1944	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
192		Joseph Hayden Piano Pieces and Sonatas.	Budapest	1997	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
193		The Complete Work of Raphael. ; Raphael. His Life and works by Jean-Pierre Cuzin.	New York. London	1969, 1985.	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	AUD 190.50
194	including A.A. Milne and Lewis Carroll.	Classic children’s stories: Paddington by Michael Bond. A Classic Collection with Drawings by Peggy Fortnum. Barrie by Daniel O’Connor.		N/A	AUD 150.00 - 200.00	AUD 88.90
195		John Llewelyn Jones Australia’s Forgotten Painter by Giles Auty and Patrick Corbally Stourton (Sydney 1999); Colin Lanceley by Robert Hughes and William Wright (Seaforth 1988); …		N/A	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	AUD 190.50
196	by Ruth Rendell.	Hearthstones	London	1987	AUD 100.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
197		Landmarks of Mapmaking by R.V. Tooley and Charles Bricker; Country Life Book of Antique Maps by Jonathan Potter; Cities of the World A History in Maps by Peter Whitfield,	London	1989, 1988, 2005	AUD 150.00 - 200.00	AUD 139.70
198	Jude Rushbrooke, La Morgan, Christopher Klein, R.J. Deeble, John Tranter and others.	Australian poetry lot, including some scarce and unusual pamphlets.		N/A	AUD 100.00 - 150.00	AUD 88.90
199		The Heart Of The Rose A Quarterly Magazine. Volume 1 number 1 to volume 1 number 4.	Melbourne	1907 to 1908.	AUD 250.00 - 300.00	AUD 152.40
200	DEGARIS, L.G.	The Deathless Bomber.	Geelong	1946	AUD 100.00 - 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