Sydney Rare Book Auctions: The Enchanting World of Books: illustrated books, gift books, publisher bindings, art and history, A181, Ultimo

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
April 19, 2026 - April 19, 2026
Page Size: 509 items in 21 pages
Auction Lot Books
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
306 A.T. Yarwood; S. M. Onslow; C. H. Currey; Elena Grainger

EARLY AUSTRALIAN SETTLERS X 4

N/A AUD 100.00 - 120.00 Not Sold
307 Freda MacDonnell; Cedrick Emanuel; Geoffrey Scott; Melbourne University Press; Isadore Brodsky; Cyril Pearl

SYDNEY HISTORY

N/A AUD 100.00 - 150.00 AUD 88.90
308 Gordon Sheldon; Robert Ingpen; Robert Murray; Kate White; Paul McGuire

TRADES IN AUSTRALIA X 5

N/A AUD 100.00 - 150.00 AUD 63.50
309 C. E. W. Bean; Philippa Poole; Paul Hamlyn; Patsy Adam-Smith; Lyn Macdonald; Tim Lycett; bill Gammage; Steven L. Carruthers

AUSTRALIAN MILITARY

N/A AUD 100.00 - 150.00 AUD 76.20
310 Keith Dunstan; Beryl Henderson; Peter Taylor; Raffaello Carboni; James Backhouse Walker; Manning Clark; Carmel Bird; Geoffrey Blainey

AUSTRALIAN HISTORY

N/A AUD 150.00 - 200.00 AUD 88.90
311 Mrs HR Haweis

1877 CHAUCER FOR CHILDREN HAWEIS

1877 AUD 100.00 - 150.00 AUD 63.50
312 Paul Lacroix

ART OF MIDDLE ARTS & RENAISSANCE - ADHB 19TH C BINDING

London c.1891 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 165.10
313 Charles Dickens; Frank Reynolds

DICKEN'S PICKWICK PAPERS ILLUS. REYNOLDS 1910

c.1910 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 127.00
314 John Leighton

FEMALE ARISTOCRACY 1863 - JOHN LEIGHTON 19TH C BINDING

London 1863 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 63.50
315 Lord Brougham; John Leighton

PORTRAITS OF EMINENT PEOPLE - JOHN LEIGHTON 19TH C BINDING

London c.1880 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 127.00
316 Charles Knight; John Leighton

OLD ENGLAND JOHN LEIGHTON 19TH C BINDING

London c.1860-70 AUD 350.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
317 Richard Wagner; Margaret Armour; Arthur Rackham

1911 WAGNER'S SIEGFRIED & THE TWILIGHT GODS ILLUS RACKHAM

London; New York 1911 AUD 500.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
318 Oliver Goldsmith; W. Lee Hankey

GOLDSMITH'S DESERTED VILLAGE ILLUS. W LEE HANKEY

London 1909 AUD 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
319 Catherine Winkworth; John Leighton (1822 - 1912); E Armitage; Ford Madox Brown(1821-1893)

1868 LYRA GERMANICA: THE CHRISTIAN LIFE

London 1868 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 127.00
320 Catherine Winkworth; John Leighton (1822 - 1912); E Armitage; Ford Madox Brown(1821-1893)

1868 LYRA GERMANICA: THE CHRISTIAN LIFE - JOHN LEIGHTON 19TH C BINDING.

London 1868 AUD 250.00 - 350.00 AUD 152.40
321 Jules Sandeau; Emile Bayard; Antoine Lenegre (1819?-1867)

MADELEINE HETZEL COLLECTION ANTOINE LENEGRE 19THC FRENCH BINDING

c.1880 AUD 120.00 - 180.00 Not Sold
322 J Lermont; Paul Deste; Jean Engel (1800-1892)

LERMONT HETZEL COLLECTION JEAN ENGEL 19THC FRENCH BINDING

c.1887 AUD 120.00 - 180.00 AUD 88.90
323 Jules Verne

JULES VERNE HETZEL 19TH C FRENCH BINDING.

Paris mid 1870s AUD 300.00 - 400.00 AUD 190.50
324 Henry Noel Humphries

1845 ILLUMINATED CALENDAR - HENRY NOEL HUMPHRIES

1845 AUD 400.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
325 AF Lydon; Alexander Francis Lydon (1837? -1917)

ENGLISH LAKES LYDON 19TH C BINDING.

London 1880 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
326 Birket Foster; Harrison Weir; L.E. Barker; T. Creswick; E.V.B.; J. Wolf; David Cox; Scott; Burns; Izaak Walton

1860S POETRY ANTHOLOGY - CHARLES GRIFFIN

London c.1867 AUD 250.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
327 Thomas A Croal; AF Lydon; Alexander Francis Lydon (1837? -1917)

1882 SCOTTISH LOCH SCENERY LYDON

London 1882 AUD 250.00 - 350.00 Not Sold
328 Henry Vizetelly; Myles Birket Foster(1825-1899)

1899 CHRISTMAS WITH POETS - 19TH C GIFT BOOK

London 1869 AUD 150.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
329 Harrison Weir(1824-1906)

POETRY OF NATURE BY HARRISON WEIR 1872

1861 AUD 100.00 - 150.00 AUD 63.50
330 Mary Kirby; Elizabeth Kirby (1823–1873); Mary Kirby (1817–1893)

1872 KIRBY'S BEAUTIFUL BIRDS

London 1872 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 476.25
  • 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
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    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
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    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