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
376		Two bound volumes from the Entomology Magazine Volume II 1835 and III 1836		N/A	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 127.00
377	Cleland	A volume from the Royal Society of NSW with articles including one on Eucalyptus by Maiden and another on Australian Fungi by Cleland 1917		1917	AUD 120.00 - 160.00	Not Sold
378	FGA Barnard, editor	Two volumes of the Victorian Naturalist edited by FGA Barnard	Melbourne	1905-7	AUD 250.00 - 350.00	Not Sold
379	LINDSAY, Norman	Micomicana		1979	AUD 600.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
380	Ian Fleming	You Only Live Twice by Ian Fleming	London	1964	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 571.50
381		Parliamentary Paper 1899 Queensland : Geology of the West Moreton or Ipswich Coal Field Also Queensland Coal : Its Economic Value As A Steam Coal		1899	AUD 600.00 - 700.00	Not Sold
382		A bundle of 18th and 19th Century Enmology books		18th and 19th Century	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 88.90
383		Monographie des Buprestides	Bruxelles	1908-1909	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
384		Brunnichii Zoologiae fundamenta praelectionibus academicis accommodata	Hafniae et Lipsiae	1772	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
385	JO Westwood	Arcana Entomologica; or Illustrations of New, Rare, and Interesting Insects	London	1845	AUD 500.00 - 600.00	AUD 317.50
386	Lacordaire	Introduction a l'entomologie, comprenant les principes generaux de l'anatomie et de la physiologie des insectes, des details sur leurs murs et un resume des principaux systemes de classification proposes jusqu'a ce jour	Paris	1834	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
387	Charles De Geer and Johann August Ephraim Goeze	Abhandlungen zur Geschichte der Insekter by Charles De Geer and Johann August Ephraim Goeze	Leipzig	1775	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
388		Entomologist's Annual 1850-70	London	N/A	AUD 500.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
389		Physikalisch-Oconomische Abhandlung von den Schadlichen Raupen der Obstbaume, und bewahrten Hulfmitteln, solche Raupen von den Obstbaumen abzuhalten und zu vertreiben	Leipzig	1780	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
390		The Bird World		1880	AUD 150.00 - 200.00	AUD 88.90
391		1899 Queensland Parliamentary Paper		N/A	AUD 250.00 - 300.00	AUD 165.10
392		Queensland Government Parliamentary Papers concerning Queensland gold fields		N/A	AUD 600.00 - 800.00	AUD 508.00
393	Joanne Goedartio [Johannes Goedaert]	Metamorphosis Et Historia Naturalis Insectorum by Joanne Goedartio [Johannes Goedaert]	Medioburgi [Middelburg]	1662	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	AUD 190.50
394		1. Margot Neville Murder Before Marriage Doubleday Crime club 1951		1951	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
395	Tibbetts	Erte		1995	AUD 50.00 - 100.00	Not Sold
396		4 volumes consisting of works of drama all performed in London and performed there in the early eighteenth century, all are published in 1806 and 1807		1806 and 1807	AUD 50.00 - 100.00	Not Sold
397		[CHURCH OF ENGLAND]. The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments and Other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church... together with the Psalter or Psalms of David	London	circa 1940	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
398	W[illiam] B[innington] Boyce	Six lectures on the higher criticism upon the Old Testament	Sydney	1878	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
399		Paper and Print The Quarterly Issues of The British & Colonial Printer Volume 4 No. 16 December 1931	London	1931-12-16	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
400	'Eugah'	A Student of Women And Other Stories	Melbourne	1899	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold

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.