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
252		A Lytell Treatyse of the Horse, the Sheep, and the Ghoos by John Lydgate.		1906	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Unknown
253		Royal Family Portraits 1) Queen Victoria - 2) Likely Queen Victoria 3) Queen Victoria and Albert 1840 4) The Royal Family - Includes all the children.		N/A	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Unknown
254		Nine books on Al Capone. 1) Capone: The Life and World of Al Capone by Kobler. 1971		N/A	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Unknown
255		Chicago Mafia. 1) The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Larson.		N/A	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Unknown
256		American Mafia. 1) Close to Shore by Capuzzo 2) The Gangs of San Francisco Asbury 3) Off Colour: The Violent History of Detroit's Notorious Purple Gang Waugh 4) The Mafia File by Sifakis.		N/A	AUD 80.00 - 120.00	Unknown
257	Edgar Penzig.	1) Ben Hall: The Definitive Illustrated History 2) The Sandy Creek Bushranger: A Definitive History of Ben Hall, His Gang and Associates 3) Heroes and Villains: An Illustrated History our Bushranging Days.		1996. 1992	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Unknown
258	Pamela Dawn Oxley; edited by David Anthony Oxley.	Not "just ordinary people" : the Keyte family of Major's Creek and Moruya, New South Wales.		N/A	AUD 150.00 - 200.00	Unknown
259	Compiled by Annette Condon & Jenny King.	Orange & District Pioneer Register to 1888.	Orange, N.S.W.	1999	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Unknown
260		Canowindra Pioneer Register: Pre-1901 compiled by Canowindra Historical Society and Museum Inc.		2007	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Unknown
261		1) The Bloodiest Bushrangers by O'Sullivan Rigby 2) Frank Gardiner: Bushranger to Businessman by Morrison. 3) Hanged by Jim Main 4) Captain Bully Hayes by Frank Clune 5) Notorious Australian by Creswell.		N/A	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Unknown
262		Pearling in Australia x9. 1) Pearls if Broome and Northern Australia by Edwards 2) The Pearl-Shellers of Torres Strait by Ganter 3) The Pearling Lugger: A Pearl Diver's Story by Dodd		N/A	AUD 150.00 - 200.00	Unknown
263		Australian Shipwrecks x7. 1) Shipwrecks: Australia's Greatest Maritime Disasters McHugh 2) SS Yongala: Townsville Titanic Gleeson		N/A	AUD 150.00 - 200.00	Unknown
264		Treasure and Shipwrecks x7. 1) Fatal Treasure : Greed And Death, Emeralds And Gold, And The Obsessive Search For The Legendary Ghost Galleon Atocha by Jedwin Smith.		N/A	AUD 150.00 - 200.00	Unknown
265		Mutinies, Buccaneers and Pirates x7 . 1) Scourge of the Seas: Buccaneers, Pirates and Privateers by Angus Konstam.		N/A	AUD 150.00 - 200.00	Unknown
266		Pirates x9. 1) Blackbeard: The Real Pirate of the Caribbean by Parry 2) Real Pirates: The Untold Story of the Whydah from Slave Ship to Pirate Ship...		N/A	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Unknown
267		Lost Ghosts at Sea x7. 1) Ghost Colonies. Lost and Found in History - Failed Utopias, Forgotten Exiles and Abandoned Outposts of Empire by Wright.		N/A	AUD 150.00 - 200.00	Unknown
268		A small box of Australian ephemera mostly New South Wales local histories.		N/A	AUD 150.00 - 200.00	Unknown
269		Battles of the Roses x5 . 1) The Red Rose and the White: The Wars of the Roses, 1453-1487 by Sadler.		N/A	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Unknown
270		Fancy Dresses Described; or, What to Wear at Fancy Balls by Adern Holt.		N/A	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	Unknown
271	by Janda Gooding, & Ron Banks	Unseen Works from the North Wing of the Widjimorphup Shire Art Gallery A Collection of Art Works by Leon Pericles	Western Australia	1990	AUD 100.00 - 150.00	Unknown
272		1) The Ned Kelly Encyclopaedia by Justin Corfield	Melbourne	2003	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Unknown
273		1. Erotica The Fine Art of Sex by Lucie-Smith New York 2003 2. Erotic Antiques. Love is an Antique Thing by Burland Scotland 1974 3. …		N/A	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	Unknown
274		1. Reptiles of Australia by Barrett D/W 1950 2. Reptiles of Australia by Eric Worrell D/W 1963 3. Reptiles & Amphibians of Australia by Cogger D/W 1975 …		N/A	AUD 600.00 - 800.00	Unknown
275		1.Spiders by Main Hardback D/W 1976 2. Butterflies of Australia & New Guinea by Barrett 1966 . 3.A Guide To The Australian Penaeid Prawns by Grey 1970s …		N/A	AUD 100.00 - 150.00	Unknown
276		The Pastoral Review : a journal and a record of all matters affecting the pastoral and agricultural interests throughout Australasia. Volume 7		January to December 1927.	AUD 150.00 - 200.00	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.