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
51		Sydney Harbour Trust, Port of Sydney, New South Wales 1913	New South Wales	1913	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	AUD 571.50
52	William Bemrose	Manual Of Wood Carving With Practical Instructions For Learners Of The Art	London	[c1890]	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 127.00
53	Jameson	Sacred and Legendary Art		1891	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
54	Daniel Heinsius, editor	Titi Livii historiarum libri	Lugduni Batavorum	1634	AUD 500.00 - 600.00	AUD 317.50
55		Extracts from the letters and journal of Daniel Wheeler, while engaged in a religious visit to the inhabitants of some of the islands of the Pacific ocean, Van Diemen's Land, New South Wales, and New Zealand, accompanied by his son, Charles Wheeler	Philadelphia	1840	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 127.00
56		The New Bath guide or, memoirs of the B-N-R-D family	London	1779	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
57		A New dictionary of Heraldry	London	1747	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 139.70
58		A Help to a National Reformation		1706	AUD 800.00 - 1,000.00	AUD 381.00
59		Maxims and Moral Reflections by The Duke De La Rochefoucault	London	1791	AUD 150.00 - 250.00	AUD 88.90
60		Life of Buonaparte, to which the atrocities of the first consul are faithfully recorded, and warning to Britons against threatened invasion	London	1803	AUD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00	AUD 349.25
61		Almanac of Paris 1764	Paris	1764	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
62	Joseph Addison	Remarks on Several Parts of Italy in the years 1701, 1702, 1703	London	1736	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 139.70
63	[A.-J. Dezallier d'Argenville]	Voyage Pittoresque de Paris, ou, Description de tout ce qu'il y a de plus beau dans cette Grande Ville, en Peinture, Sculpture & Architecture	Paris	1770	AUD 340.00 - 500.00	AUD 203.20
64		The Court Kalendar for the year 1744	London	1744	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	AUD 190.50
65	Mark Akinside	The Pleasures of imagination: A poem in three books	London	1744	AUD 800.00 - 1,000.00	AUD 254.00
66	[George Ellis], editor	Specimens of the Early English Poets		1790	AUD 300.00 - 500.00	AUD 190.50
67		Polygraphice, or, The arts of drawing, engraving, etching, limning, painting, washing, varnishing, gilding, colouring, dying, beautifying and perfuming : in four books	London	1675	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	AUD 254.00
68		Delightful Stories for Good Children		1804	AUD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00	AUD 508.00
69		Quinti Horatii Flacci Poemata cum commentariis Johannis Min-Ellii	Rotterdam	1700	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 127.00
70	Stephani Guazzi	De Civili Conversatione Dissertationes Politicae by Stephani Guazzi	Lugduni Batavorum	1650	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
71		The Sydney Mail Wednesday October 21, 1936		Wednesday October 21, 1936	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
72		Essays on Physiognomy for the Promotion of the Knowledge and the Love of Mankind	London	1806	AUD 260.00 - 340.00	AUD 127.00
73		An Essay upon Prints: containing remarks upon the principles of Picturesque Beauty, the different kinds of prints, and the characters of the most noted masters	London	1768	AUD 700.00 - 800.00	AUD 254.00
74	Henry Wotton	Reliquiae Wottonianae: or, a collection of lives, letters, poems; with characters of sundry personages and other incomparable pieces of language and art by Henry Wotton	London	1654	AUD 280.00 - 360.00	AUD 177.80
75	Wellins Calcott	Thoughts moral and divine	Birmingham	1758	AUD 360.00 - 460.00	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.