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
76	John Mason, A.M	Self-knowledge: a treatise, shewing the nature and benefit of that important science, and the way to attain it	London	1753	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	AUD 177.80
77		The Complaint	London	1743	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 127.00
78		The essays, or Councils, Civil and Moral of Sir. Francis Bacon, Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban		1863	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	AUD 254.00
79	[Jonathan Swift]	Tale of a Tub. Written for the Universal Improvement of Mankind, to which is added, An Account of a Battle between the Antient and Modern Books in St James's Library by [Jonathan Swift]	London	1747	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 139.70
80	John Milton	Paradise Lost. A Poem in Twelve Books by John Milton	London	1738	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	AUD 889.00
81		A very impressive scrapbook illustrating Britain's Royal family history		1910-05-01	AUD 800.00 - 1,000.00	Not Sold
82	SN [Samuel Newman]	A Concordance to the Holy Scriptures ; together with the books of the Apocrypha by SN [Samuel Newman]	Cambridge and London	1698	AUD 700.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
83	[Thomas Bray]	Papal usurpation and persecution, as it has been exercis'd in ancient and modern times with respect both to princes & people		1698	AUD 600.00 - 700.00	AUD 190.50
84		Journal of a Quaker George Fox	London	1765	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
85	William Jardine	The Naturalist Library		1835	AUD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	AUD 2,413.00
86	Richard Glover	Leonidas: A Poem by Richard Glover	London	1798	AUD 700.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
87	C.J. Dennis	Roundabout	Sydney	1935	AUD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	AUD 635.00
88		Letters Written by the Late Right Honourable Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, to his Son, Philip Stanhope, Esq.	London	1777	AUD 800.00 - 1,000.00	AUD 254.00
89	E J Trait	1. I'm Telling You! by E J Trait 1950		1950	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
90		Bell's New Pantheon	London	1790	AUD 600.00 - 700.00	AUD 381.00
91	William Hayley Esq.	The Triumphs of Temper: a Poem in Six Cantos	London	1781	AUD 250.00 - 350.00	Not Sold
92	Matthew Prior	Poems on Several Occasions by Matthew Prior	Dublin	1728	AUD 700.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
93	Par M. Le Sage, Alain-Rene Lesage	Histoire de Gil Blas de saint by Par M. Le Sage, Alain-Rene Lesage	London	1777	AUD 250.00 - 350.00	Not Sold
94	Zimmerman	Solitude	London	1799	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 190.50
95		The Spectator		1753	AUD 400.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
96		Les lettres et epitres amoureuses d'Heloise et d'Abeilard, traduites librement en vers et en prose	Paris	1780	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
97	James Hervey	Meditations and Contemplations	London	1779	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	AUD 412.75
98	George Ernest Morrison	An Australian in China: Being the Narrative of a Quiet Journey Across China to Burma by George Ernest Morrison	Sydney	1902	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	AUD 190.50
99	John Lydgate	A Lytell Treatyse of the Horse, the Sheep, and the Ghoos	Cambridge	1906	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
100	Anthony Bradley	The Art of Justin O'Brien by Anthony Bradley		N/A	AUD 500.00 - 600.00	AUD 254.00

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.