Sydney Rare Book Auctions: Philosophy, Religion, The Arts Modern Firsts, Entomology and more, A175, Ultimo

Auction Details

Auction Date: February 22, 2026 - February 22, 2026

Page Size: 401 items in 17 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
251		One Hundred Photographic Pictures of Places of Interest in New South Wales including Visitors Resorts, Buildings, Shipping & c. Turner & Henderson Publishers		c1890	AUD 100.00 - 150.00	AUD 88.90
252		Four books about Tasmanian History		N/A	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
253		Four books about Australian Schools		1920-2020	AUD 100.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
254		Four books about Tasmanian Houses		N/A	AUD 120.00 - 200.00	AUD 152.40
255		A handwritten Pharmaceutical Ledger Book	St Sydney	1870	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 76.20
256	George O'Neill	Life of the Reverend Julian Edmund Tenison Woods (1832-1889)	Sydney	1929	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	AUD 190.50
257		Seven books about Norman Lindsay and The Lindsay Family		1918-05-01	AUD 150.00 - 250.00	AUD 88.90
258		Three books of Gothic Architecture		2015	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
259	Thomas Jayne	Three books about American Architecture		1990	AUD 100.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
260	Kevin Fahy	Four books about Furniture and Furnishing		N/A	AUD 120.00 - 200.00	AUD 165.10
261		Six books about Interiors and Decorations. Hardback and Paperback		2000	AUD 150.00 - 250.00	Not Sold
262		1) Australia's Historic Stained Glass		1991	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
263		1) The Decorated Wall - Eighty Years of Wallpaper in Australia		1870-1940	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 63.50
264	Michael Burden	Lost Adelaide - A Photographic Record by Michael Burden		1983	AUD 150.00 - 250.00	AUD 190.50
265		Three books about Adelaide History		1836-1886	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 63.50
266	Joan Kerr	1) Heritage - The National Women's Art book - 500 works by 500 Australian Women Artists from Colonial Times to 1955		1995	AUD 350.00 - 450.00	AUD 215.90
267		7 books about Australian Colonial History		1825	AUD 150.00 - 250.00	Not Sold
268		1) The poems of Ern Malley - Comprising the complete poems and commentaries by Max Harris and Joanna Murray-Smith		1988	AUD 60.00 - 100.00	AUD 215.90
269	Marie H. Neil	1) Trial Bay Goal, Public Works Prison and Wartime		N/A	AUD 50.00 - 100.00	Not Sold
270		Transport, Geology, Institutional.. etc		1872- 1972	AUD 250.00 - 350.00	Not Sold
271		1) Mudgee Centenary Show 1883-1983, Souvenir Copy		N/A	AUD 50.00 - 80.00	Not Sold
272	Charles Robinson	1) One of These Days. Springview Remembered		1927	AUD 150.00 - 250.00	AUD 88.90
273		1) Katoomba Methodist Church and Circuit 1888-1963		1888-1963	AUD 200.00 - 250.00	Not Sold
274		1) Bourke 1878-1978 A Centenary of Local Government, 1978		1978	AUD 200.00 - 250.00	AUD 127.00
275		1) Hillview, Berrima District Historical Society, 1986		1986	AUD 150.00 - 250.00	AUD 88.90

ALDE, Apr. 8: GUEVARA (ANTONIO DE). Histoire de Marc-Aurèle, Empereur Romain, vray miroir et horloge des Princes. Paris, Pierre et Galliot du Pré, frères, 1565. €3,000 to €4,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: HEURES DE LA VIERGE. Horæ in laudem beatissimæ virginis Mariæ ad usum Romanum. Paris, Charles L'Angelier, 1556. €4,000 to €5,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: MONTAIGNE (MICHEL DE). Les Essais. Édition nouvelle, trouvée après le deceds de l'autheur… Paris, Abel L'Angelier, 1595. €6,000 to €8,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: [ROJAS (FERNANDO DE)]. Celestina, tragicomedia di Calisto et Melibea, tradotta de lingua castigliana in italiano idioma… Venise, 1531. €2,000 to €3,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: CAMÕES (LUÍS DE). Os Lusiadas. Lisbonne, Pedro Crasbeeck, 1613. €2,000 to €3,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE). El Ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Bruxelles, Roger Velpius & Huberto Antonio, 1611. €6,000 to €8,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: LA FONTAINE (JEAN DE). Fables choisies, mises en vers. Paris, Denys Thierry et Claude Barbin, 1678-1694. €6,000 to €8,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE). El Ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Madrid, Joaquin Ibarra, 1780. €3,000 to €4,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: DIDEROT (DENIS) ET JEAN LE ROND D'ALEMBERT. Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers. Paris, 1751-1765. €15,000 to €20,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: [LIVRE TISSÉ]. LAMARTINE (Alphonse de). Les Laboureurs. Poème tiré de Jocelyn… Lyon, J. A. Henry, 1883. €8,000 to €10,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: [LIVRE TISSÉ]. Livre de prières tissé d'après les enluminures des manuscrits du XIVe au XVIe siècle. Lyon, [A. Roux], 1886. €5,000 to €6,000.
Sotheby’s
Books, Manuscripts & Objects from Three Important Collections
Open for Bidding 2-17 April

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: [Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun]. Le Roman de la Rose, [Geneva or Lyons, c.1481], first printed edition of the most important medieval French vernacular poem. £200,000 to £300,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Castiglione. Il libro del cortegiano. [Venice], April 1528, first edition, in a magnificent binding by Jean Picard for Jean Grolier. £100,000 to £150,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Jacobus de Cessolis. Schachzabelbuch, Strasbourg, 1483, von der Lasa copy. £50,000 to £70,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: World Championship, 1972. A collection of 84 press photographs of the famed match between Spassky and Fischer. £2,000 to £3,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Ben Franklin. Autograph letter signed, to Lord Shelburne, British Prime Minister, during peace negotiations, November 1782. £15,000 to £20,000.