Sydney Rare Book Auctions: Easter Sale: History, Art, Illustrated books, Fine Bindings, Firsts, Signed books, Bookplates, 177, Ultimo

Auction Details

Auction Date: April 06, 2026 - April 06, 2026

Page Size: 499 items in 20 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1	JONES, Owen.	One Thousand and One Initial Letters.	London	1864	AUD 750.00 - 1,000.00	Unknown
2	JONES, Owen.	The Grammar of Ornament.	London	1856	AUD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	Unknown
3		Banks’ Florilegium Supplement.		N/A	AUD 600.00 - 800.00	Unknown
4	VACHER, Sydney.	Fifteenth Century Italian Ornament. Chiefly taken from brocades and stuffs found in pictures in the National Gallery.	London	1886	AUD 500.00 - 600.00	Unknown
5	MORRIS, William.	The Defence of Guenevere by William Morris. Illustrated by Jessie M. King.	London	1904	AUD 600.00 - 800.00	Unknown
6		Royal Souvenir of the wedding of Albert Edward, Prince of Wales to Princess Alexandra of Denmark, at Windsor in 1863.		1863	AUD 250.00 - 300.00	Unknown
7	PROCTER, Adelaide A.	The Victoria Regia: A Volume of Original Contributions in Poetry and Prose.	London	1861	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Unknown
8	CONRAD, Joseph.	Chance.	London	1914	AUD 800.00 - 1,000.00	Unknown
9	BOCCACCIO, Giovanni.	The Decameron of Boccaccio. Faithfully translated by J.M. Rigg, with illustrations by Louis Chalon.	London	1903	AUD 250.00 - 300.00	Unknown
10	GOLDSMITH, Oliver.	The Vicar of Wakefield. Illustrated by George Thomas.	London	1858	AUD 250.00 - 300.00	Unknown
11		An album of chromolithographic views of Edinburgh and surrounds,	Edinburgh	no date but circa 1860.	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Unknown
12	HENTY, G.A.	With Buller in Natal. With ten illustrations by W. Rainey.	London	no date but circa 1901.	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Unknown
13		Three beautifully bound Victorian editions of the poetry of Thomas Moore.	London	1856	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	Unknown
14		The Treasury of Ornamental Art. Illustrations of objects of Art and Vertu.	London	1856	AUD 800.00 - 1,000.00	Unknown
15		The Garden of Kama and Other Love Lyrics, Stars of the Desert, & Indian Love by Laurence Hope [Violet Nicolson]		1919	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	Unknown
16		The Story of Picture Printing in England During the Nineteenth Century Or Forty Years of Wood and Stone by CT Courtney Lewis.	London	1928	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Unknown
17		A Series of Picturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland with Descriptive And Facsimile of Autographs of Subscribers to the County Seats of Great Britain and Ireland by The Rev. F. O. Morris.	London	1880	AUD 500.00 - 600.00	Unknown
18		Chambers Encyclopaedia A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge For The People Illustrated with Maps and Numerous Wood Engravings Revised Edition.	London	1881	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Unknown
19	WARHOL, Andy.	Andy Warhol's Children's Book.	Zurich	1983	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Unknown
20	DESAI, Davangana.	Erotic Sculpture of India. A Socio-Cultural Study.	New Delhi	1975	AUD 100.00 - 150.00	Unknown
21		British Pamphleteers.	London	1948 and 1951.	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Unknown
22	McCormack, John.	The Guernsey House. With illustrations by Carel Toms, George Bramall and Robert Hardwick.	Sussex	1987	AUD 150.00 - 200.00	Unknown
23	FITZGERALD, Penelope.	A House of Air.	London	2003	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Unknown
24		Two Agatha Christie novels, both are hardcover octavo books with dust-jackets: 4.50 From Paddington.	Sydney	1957	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Unknown
25		Five Ginger Meggs books by Jim Bancks, each measures 19.5 x 27 cm.		N/A	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Unknown

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.