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Sydney Rare Book Auctions: Easter Sale: History, Art, Illustrated books, Fine Bindings, Firsts, Signed books, Bookplates

Auction Reports

Auction Name	Easter Sale: History, Art, Illustrated books, Fine Bindings, Firsts, Signed books, Bookplates	Total Sales (AUD)	50,425.35
Auction Date	April 12, 2026 - April 12, 2026	Low Estimate of Lots Sold (AUD)	58,695.00
Sale Number	#177	High Estimate of Lots Sold (AUD)	84,305.00
Total Lots	499
Sold Lots	287.0	Low Estimate of All Lots (AUD)	109,785.00
% of Lots Sold	57.52%	High Estimate of All Lots (AUD)	157,795.00
Unsold Lots	212	Total Sales as a % of High Est.	31.96%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Top Sale Price Lots
Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
2	JONES, Owen.	The Grammar of Ornament.	1856	AUD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	AUD 2,540.00
3		Banks’ Florilegium Supplement.	N/A	AUD 600.00 - 800.00	AUD 1,524.00
74		Collection of Voyages Undertaken by the Dutch East-India Company, for the Improvement of trade and navigation.	1703	AUD 250.00 - 300.00	AUD 825.50
288	by William Audley, George Ashdown Audsley and Charles Rolt	The Sermon on the Mount by illustrated with lithographs	[1861]	AUD 800.00 - 1,000.00	AUD 762.00
102		Round Kangchenjunga: A narrative of Mountain Travel and Exploration by Douglas W. Freshfield.	1903	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	AUD 698.50
280		An Artist in Egypt by Walter Tyndale	1912	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	AUD 571.50
5	MORRIS, William.	The Defence of Guenevere by William Morris. Illustrated by Jessie M. King.	1904	AUD 600.00 - 800.00	AUD 539.75
219	by Gavin Greenlees with introduction by Nevill Drury	The Art of Rosaleen Norton	1982	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	AUD 539.75
393	AINSWORTH, W. Harrison.	Jack Sheppard. A Romance.	1839	AUD 800.00 - 1,000.00	AUD 508.00
26	SHIEL, Matthew.	Prince Zaleski by M. P. Shiel.	1895	AUD 750.00 - 1,000.00	AUD 476.25
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
165		Report of the Committee on Homosexual Offences and Prostitution.	September 1957 (reprinted in 1962).	AUD 80.00 - 100.00	AUD 444.50
216		Sydney Cricket Ground 1963 Panorama of the 5th Test Match between England and Australian on the 16th February 1963.	1963	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 444.50
182		Leonidas: A Poem by Richard Glover.	1798	AUD 700.00 - 800.00	AUD 412.75
201		A Voyage Through the Islands of the Pacific Ocean: Compiled from the most authentic and recent authorities.	1831	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	AUD 412.75
4	VACHER, Sydney.	Fifteenth Century Italian Ornament. Chiefly taken from brocades and stuffs found in pictures in the National Gallery.	1886	AUD 500.00 - 600.00	AUD 381.00
107	GERSON, Horst.	Rembrandt Paintings. An Artabas Book.	1968	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 381.00
126		Letts's Popular Atlas. Being A Series of Maps Delineating the Whole Surface of the Globe with Many Special and Original Features and a Copious Index of 23,000 names.	1883	AUD 500.00 - 750.00	AUD 381.00
215	Graham Reed	Graham Reed Cricket Collection. Three small boxes and an A3 folder. Folder Trinity Boys Sporting group photographs	N/A	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 381.00
383	MACAULAY, Thomas Babington.	Lays of Ancient Rome.	1867	AUD 250.00 - 300.00	AUD 381.00
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
335	Editor; Bernard Kerr.	The Australians in England Test Cricket 1948 A.B.C Broadcast Cricket Book,	N/A	AUD 150.00 - 250.00	AUD 349.25
392	by Charles P. Mountford	Nomads of the Australian Desert	1976	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	AUD 349.25
17		A Series of Picturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland with Descriptive And Facsimile of Autographs of Subscribers to the County Seats of Great Britain and Ireland by The Rev. F. O. Morris.	1880	AUD 500.00 - 600.00	AUD 317.50
36		A large collection of the Penrose Pictorial Annual.	1891-1976.	AUD 250.00 - 300.00	AUD 317.50

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