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Sydney Rare Book Auctions: The Enchanting World of Books: illustrated books, gift books, publisher bindings, art and history
Auction Reports
| Auction Name | The Enchanting World of Books: illustrated books, gift books, publisher bindings, art and history | Total Sales (AUD) | 51,079.40 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Auction Date | April 19, 2026 - April 19, 2026 | Low Estimate of Lots Sold (AUD) | 55,000.00 |
| Sale Number | #A181 | High Estimate of Lots Sold (AUD) | 78,400.00 |
| Total Lots | 509 | ||
| Sold Lots | 280.0 | Low Estimate of All Lots (AUD) | 99,570.00 |
| % of Lots Sold | 55.01% | High Estimate of All Lots (AUD) | 142,230.00 |
| Unsold Lots | 229 | Total Sales as a % of High Est. | 35.91% |
Top twenty-five by sale price
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 491 | Edgar Allan Poe; James Hannay; E. H. Wehnert; James Godwin; Harrison Weir; F.W. Hulme; Anelay | C1860 EDGAR ALLAN POE |
c. 1860 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | AUD 2,667.00 |
| 118 | William Whitelock Lloyd | 1890 LLOYD'S SKETCHES OF INDIAN LIFE. |
1890 | AUD 500.00 - 750.00 | AUD 2,413.00 |
| 85 | Plutarch | 1699 PLUTARCH'S GREEK AND ROMAN LIVES |
1699-1700 | AUD 400.00 - 500.00 | AUD 1,524.00 |
| 232 | H. Herman | BENDIGO GOLD-FIELD X 11 MAPS |
1923 | AUD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 | AUD 1,270.00 |
| 3 | Peter Crayford | CRESSIDA CAMPBELL SIGNED FIRST |
2008 | AUD 1,800.00 - 2,000.00 | AUD 1,206.50 |
| 108 | R.E. Enthoven; A.M.T. Jackson | 1914 GUJARAT & KONKAN FOLKLORE |
1914-1915 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | AUD 1,206.50 |
| 153 | G(eorge).Baxter | BAXTER PAINTINGS |
1837 | AUD 1,800.00 - 2,000.00 | AUD 1,143.00 |
| 1 | AB Waring (1823 – 1875) | 1862 INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION BY WARING |
1862-3 | AUD 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 | AUD 1,079.50 |
| 123 | Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch; Kay Nielsen | 1913 FAIRYTALES QUILLER-COUCH. K NIELSEN MACKELLAR / FEINT BOOKPLATE |
1913 | AUD 800.00 - 1,000.00 | AUD 825.50 |
| 102 | Dinshah Ardeshir Taleyarkhan | 1874 BOMBAY RELIGIOUS RIOTS |
1874 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | AUD 762.00 |
| 106 | 1837 BOMBAY GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY. |
1837-1840 | AUD 400.00 - 500.00 | AUD 762.00 | |
| 4 | Donald Friend | 1977 DONALD FRIEND ORIGINAL DRAWING |
1977 | AUD 500.00 - 750.00 | AUD 698.50 |
| 112 | R. Montgomery Martin | 1858 INDIAN EMPIRE ENGRAVED VIEWS |
1858-1860 | AUD 500.00 - 750.00 | AUD 635.00 |
| 116 | Louis Rousselet; Lieutenant-Colonel Buckle | 1878 INDIA AND ITS NATIVE PRINCES |
1878 | AUD 500.00 - 750.00 | AUD 635.00 |
| 330 | Mary Kirby; Elizabeth Kirby (1823–1873); Mary Kirby (1817–1893) | 1872 KIRBY'S BEAUTIFUL BIRDS |
1872 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | AUD 476.25 |
| 128 | Henry Shaw | 1842 - SHAW'S ORNAMENT ENCYCLOPAEDIA |
1842 | AUD 400.00 - 500.00 | AUD 412.75 |
| 113 | J.H. Gense; P.M. Joshi; Lambert Mascarenhas; Clifford Manshardt | BOMBAY & MAHARASHTRA |
c. 1935; 1962; 1926; 1948; 1930; 1934; c. 1970 | AUD 250.00 - 300.00 | AUD 381.00 |
| 155 | Norman Lindsay; Jane Lindsay | MICOMICANA NORMAN LINDSAY |
1979 | AUD 600.00 - 700.00 | AUD 381.00 |
| 443 | Sandra McGrath; John Olsen | 1981 SIGNED JOHN OLSEN DESERT ART |
1981 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | AUD 381.00 |
| 467 | Robert Fulton; Lewis Wright; J W Ludlow | FULTON'S PIGEONS ILLUIS LUDLOW |
c. 1890 | AUD 350.00 - 450.00 | AUD 381.00 |
| 6 | A. Trevor Crispin | 1873 ILLUMINATED CHRISTMAS ALBUM |
1873 | AUD 500.00 - 750.00 | AUD 349.25 |
| 45 | John Fitzherbert Bateman; Robert Coombes | 1852 ROWING AT CAMBRIDGE |
1852 | AUD 400.00 - 500.00 | AUD 349.25 |
| 160 | VOYAGES AROUND THE WORLD 1843 |
1843 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | AUD 349.25 | |
| 394 | AUSTRALASIAN ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION REPORTS |
N/A | AUD 500.00 - 600.00 | AUD 349.25 | |
| 261 | John Cobley; C.J Smee; Michael Flynn; Mollie Gillen | SECOND AND FOURTH FLEET X 5 |
N/A | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | AUD 317.50 |
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Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
28th May 2026Forum, May 28: Book of Hours.- Heures de nostre dame a l'usaige de Romme, Paris, Antoine Chappiel pour Germain Hardouin, [1504]. £6,000-8,000Forum, May 28: Colonna (Francesco). La Hypnerotomachia di Poliphilo, second edition, Venice, Sons of Aldus Manutius, 1545. £15,000-20,000Forum, 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]. £2,000-3,000Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
28th May 2026Forum, May 28: Jackson (Shirley). The Haunting of Hill House, first English edition, signed presentation inscription from the author to Claude Fredericks, 1960. £2,000-3,000Forum, May 28: Lennon (John). In His Own Write, first edition, first impression, signed by the author, 1964. £3,000-4,000Forum, May 28: Doves Press.- Keats (John). [Poems], one of 200 copies on paper, Doves Press, 1914. £5,000-7,000Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
28th May 2026Forum, May 28: Rodrigues (João Barbosa). Sertum Palmarum Brasiliensium, 2 vol., first and only edition, Brussels, 1903. £8,000-12,000Forum, May 28: Newton (Sir Isaac). Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica…editio ultima, auctior et emendatior, Amsterdam, Sumptibus Societatis, 1714. £8,000-12,000Forum, May 28: Kepler (Johannes). Ad Vitellionem paralipomena, wuibus astronomiae pars optica traditur, first edition, Frankfurt am Main, 1604. £5,000-7,000Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
28th May 2026Forum, May 28: Tagliacozzi (Gaspare). De Curtorum Chirurgia per insitionem, libri duo, first edition, Venice, Gasparo Bindoni, 1597. £7,000-10,000Forum, May 28: Lootsman (Jacobsz). The Lightning Colomne, or Sea-Mirrour, containing the Sea-Coasts of the Northern, Eastern and Western Navigation..., 1670. £8,000-12,000Forum, 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 -
