Sydney Rare Book Auctions: Science, Mining, Natural History, Exploration, Art books and First editions, A182, Ultimo

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
May 01, 2026 - May 01, 2026
Page Size: 333 items in 14 pages
Auction Lot Books
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
76 Peter Mitchell; ND; Alan McNairn; Didier Bodart; Lorne Campbell; ND; Ronni Baer; Arthur Wheelock

8 Books on Dutch Master Painters

1968; 1978; 1980; 1990; 1998; 1998; 2000; 2009 AUD 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
77 Marianne Roland Michel; ND; Jacques Thuillier

3 Books on Antoine Watteau and Simon Vouet

New York; Paris; Paris 1984; 1985; 1990 AUD 250.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
78 Bernard Berenson

Italian Pictures of the Renaissance. A list of the principal artists and their works with an index of places

Oxford 1957; 1963; 1968 AUD 500.00 - 750.00 AUD 127.00
79 F. J. B. Watson

The Wrightsman Collection

New York 1966 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 127.00
80 Luigi Malle

Museo Civico di Torino. Catologo del Museo d’Arte Antica

Torino 1963-1972 AUD 250.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
81 Diane Russell; Pierre Rosenberg; Marcel Roethlisberger

Claude Gelle edit Claude Lorrain; Im Licht von Claude Lorraine

Paris; Munchen 1983 AUD 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
82 Heinrich Kreisel

Die Kunst des deutschen Mobels. Band II: Spatbarock und Rokoko

Munchen 1970 AUD 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
83 Federico Zeri; ND; ND; ND; ND; ND; David Ekserdijian; Francis Haskell; ND; ND

11 Books on Renaissance Old Masters and Baroque Painters

Roma; ND; Liverpool; Liverpool; ND; Paris; ND; ND; London; ND 1955; 1963; 1977; 1977; 1985; 1994; 2010; 2013; 2016; ND AUD 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
84

A Catalogue of the Margrave Pallavicini Collection and Other Properties

1927 AUD 250.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
85 Hugo Morley-Fletcher

Early European Porcelain & Faience as Collected by Kiyi and Edward Pflueger

London 1993 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
86 Andrew Garran; ND

Medley Australiana lot

Melbourne; ND; ND 1880; 1898; ND AUD 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
87 Karl Friedrich August Gutzlaff; H. H. Lindsay

A Voyage to the Northern Ports of China, in the ship Lord Amherst

London 1833; 1834 AUD 300.00 - 400.00 AUD 190.50
88 Rodolfo Pallucchini; ND; ND; Francesco Frangi; Alessandro Morandotti; Rosella Vodret; Vincent Delieuvin

12 Books on Italian Renaissance and Baroque Art

ND; Cento; ND; ND; ND; ND; ND 1961; 1987; 1988; 2002; 2011; 2012; ND AUD 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
89 John Pope-Hennesy; Kenneth Clark; Eve Borsook; Carolyn Wilson; ND; Giovanni Agosti; Dominique Thiebaut; Helen Langdon

12 Art Monographs on the Italian Renaissance and Baroque

London; ND; ND; Houston; ND; ND; ND; ND 1950; 1951; 1960; 1996; 2001; 2008; 2010; ND AUD 400.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
90 Reinis Zusters

Spiral Vision

Sydney 1981 AUD 600.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
91 Howard Willoughby

Australian Pictures Drawn with Pen and Pencil

London 1886 AUD 300.00 - 400.00 AUD 190.50
92 Ernest Giles

The Journal of a Forgotten Expedition

Adelaide 1979 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 127.00
93 William Henry Traill

A Queenly Colony - Pen Sketches and Camera Glimpses

Brisbane 1901 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 190.50
94 Bernard Smith & Alwyne Wheeler

The Art of the First Fleet & other early Australian drawings

Melbourne 1988 AUD 100.00 - 150.00 AUD 38.10
95 John Stackhouse

From The Dawn Of Aviation. The Qantas Story 1920 - 1995

ND AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
96 William Bickford

Vathek

London 1815 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 88.90
97 A.C. Michael

An Artist in Spain

London c. 1914 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
98 Kenneth Macqueen

Adventure in Watercolour. An artist's story

Sydney n.d. 1938 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 152.40
99 George Barnard

The Theory and Practice of Landscape Painting in Water Colours

London 1855 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 215.90
100 Edward Gibbon

Mr. Gibbon's History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire Abridged

London 1790 AUD 500.00 - 600.00 AUD 228.60
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    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
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    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
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