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Sydney Rare Book Auctions: ART Renaissance to Modernism: Monographs, Raisonne; Illustrated books & Scientific Explorations

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Auction Name	ART Renaissance to Modernism: Monographs, Raisonne; Illustrated books & Scientific Explorations	Total Sales (AUD)	63,157.10
Auction Date	March 15, 2026 - March 15, 2026	Low Estimate of Lots Sold (AUD)	68,030.00
Sale Number	#31526	High Estimate of Lots Sold (AUD)	93,220.00
Total Lots	515
Sold Lots	217.0	Low Estimate of All Lots (AUD)	146,100.00
% of Lots Sold	42.14%	High Estimate of All Lots (AUD)	202,840.00
Unsold Lots	298	Total Sales as a % of High Est.	31.14%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Top Sale Price Lots
Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
4		COMPLETE VOYAGES OF CAPTAIN JAMES COOK 1773-1784	1773-1784	AUD 20,000.00 - 25,000.00	AUD 20,320.00
17		Sydney International Exhibition 1879 Certificate of Award to A Wannel from Newton Public School for Needlework Sydney	1879	AUD 800.00 - 1,200.00	AUD 2,159.00
10		Broadside titled "The Lizard Island Tragedy"	Circa 1882	AUD 1,200.00 - 1,500.00	AUD 1,905.00
94		CAROLINE CHISHOLM SIGNED IN 1853 EMIGRANT'S GUIDE TO AUSTRALIA	[1853]	AUD 800.00 - 1,000.00	AUD 1,524.00
3	KIPPIS, Andrew	The Life of Captain James Cook	1788	AUD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	AUD 1,397.00
24	Max Dupain	1991 MAX DUPAIN SIGNED LIMITED EDITION	1991	AUD 750.00 - 1,000.00	AUD 1,206.50
79	JAMES GLEESON	Beyond the screen of sight by Lou Klepac With contributions by Geoffrey Smith, Ken Wach, Renee Free and Bruce James	2004	AUD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	AUD 952.50
20	IAN RANKIN	SEVEN SIGNED FIRST EDITIONS	1997	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	AUD 889.00
93	Patrick Just	Australia: or notes taken during a residence in the Colonies from the Gold Discovery in 1851 till 1857	N/A	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	AUD 762.00
19		William Beach of New South Wales Winning the Championship of the World from Edward Hanlan of Canada on the Parramatta River, August 16th 1884...	August 16th 1884	AUD 800.00 - 1,000.00	AUD 698.50
2		The Charts and Coastal Views of Captain Cook's Voyages	1988	AUD 600.00 - 800.00	AUD 635.00
154		Anderson's Contemporary Furniture, 1954-55 fold out catalogue	N/A	AUD 200.00 - 250.00	AUD 635.00
367		The International Exhibition, from Lady Macquarie's Chair	N/A	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	AUD 603.25
249	May Gibbs	Tales of Snugglepot and Cuddlepie	No date but 1918	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	AUD 571.50
482		The report of the Aborigines' Committee of the Meeting for Sufferings, read at the yearly meeting 1840 : with the address to Lord John Russell, on his becoming Secretary for the Colonies	1840	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	AUD 571.50
1	Rudiger Joppien and Bernard Smith	The Art of Captain Cook's Voyages	1985 to 1987	AUD 600.00 - 800.00	AUD 508.00
80	William Nicholson with Rudyard Kipling	An Almanac of Twelve Sports	1898	AUD 800.00 - 1,000.00	AUD 508.00
90		The Riverine Question Speeches in the Legislative Assembly of New South Wales	1864	AUD 800.00 - 1,200.00	AUD 508.00
250		Bib and Bub: Their Adventures	-1925	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 508.00
78	Alan Davies	An Eye For Photography: The Camera In Australia	2004	AUD 750.00 - 900.00	AUD 476.25
359	John Dunmore Lang	An Historical and Statistical Account of New South Wales: Both as a Penal Settlement and as a British Colony	1834	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	AUD 476.25
366		Under the Dome - The Promenade Sydney Exhibition	N/A	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	AUD 476.25
511		South Australia Handbook of Mining with Maps Issued	1901	AUD 700.00 - 800.00	AUD 444.50
389	Joseph M Forshaw	Australian Parrots	1969	AUD 500.00 - 600.00	AUD 412.75
463		THE POSTER : AN ILLUSTRATED MONTHLY CHRONICLE	1899	AUD 250.00 - 350.00	AUD 412.75

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