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
277		1. Nightwatchmen of Bush and Plain. Australian Owls by Fleay 1968 2. Australische Sittiche by H. D. Groen 1963 3. ...		N/A	AUD 250.00 - 300.00	Unknown
278	by Richard T Baker and Henry G .Smith	A Research on the Eucalypts Especially in Regard to their Essential Oils	Sydney	1920	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Unknown
279	by Lord Medway and David R Wells	1) The Birds of the Malay Peninsula: A General Account of the Birds Inhabiting the Region from the Isthmus of Kra to Singapore with the Adjacent Islands (Volume V: Conclusion, and Survey of Every Species)	London, UK	1976	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Unknown
280		An Artist in Egypt by Walter Tyndale		1912	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	Unknown
281	by Reginald Francis Hallward.	Flowers of Paradise. Music, verse, design & illustration		N/A	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	Unknown
282	by Robert Louis Stevenson,	A Footnote to History. Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa	London	1892	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	Unknown
283	by Christel Mouchard.	Women Travellers; A Century Of Trailblazing Adventures 1850-1950		2007	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Unknown
284		about 10 copies of The Territorian from the 1960s and a Souvenir Programme of 1953 Foundry Exhibition and a few other intersting items		N/A	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Unknown
285		Four issues of The (Melbourne) Argus from September 1858.		N/A	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Unknown
286		1) The Commandants: The Tyrants who ruled Norfolk Island by MG Brits. 2) Maconochie's Experiment: How One man's Extraordinary vision saved transported convicts from Degradation and despair. …		N/A	AUD 150.00 - 200.00	Unknown
287	Langellier, Cox and Pohanka.	Myles Keogh: The life and legend of an "Irish Dragoon" in the Seventh cavalry		1991	AUD 150.00 - 200.00	Unknown
288	by William Audley, George Ashdown Audsley and Charles Rolt	The Sermon on the Mount by illustrated with lithographs		[1861]	AUD 800.00 - 1,000.00	Unknown
289		1) Celebrated Criminal Cases of America. 2) Classic Murders by Robin Squire.. 3) Handsome Brute: The story of a Ladykiller by Sean O'Connor. …		N/A	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Unknown
290		The Holmes-Pitezel Case. A History of the Greatest Crime of the Century.	Philadelphia	1896	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Unknown
291		The Holmes-Pitezel Case. A History of the Greatest Crime of the Century.	Philadelphia	1896	AUD 250.00 - 300.00	Unknown
292		Ten books about HH Holmes the First American Serial Killer.		N/A	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Unknown
293		The White Witch by Jack McLaren	Melbourne	No date but 1919.	AUD 60.00 - 100.00	Unknown
294	by Thomas Mccombie.	The History of the Colony of Victoria: From Its Settlement to the Death of Sir Charles Hotham		1858	AUD 100.00 - 150.00	Unknown
295	SOBIESKI, Colonel John.	The Life-Story and Personal Reminiscences of Col. John Sobieski (A Lineal Descendant of King John III, of Poland).	Shelbyville, Illinois	1900	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Unknown
296	[PARLIAMENT OF VICTORIA].	Second Report from the Select Committee upon the National Defences.	Melbourne	July 1865	AUD 250.00 - 300.00	Unknown
297	Třeti Soubor 10 Exlibris.	Vydal Spolek sbĕratelu a přatel Exlibris v Praze. Na titulnim listĕ dřevoryt Vojtĕchna Cinybulka.		N/A	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Unknown
298		With Seaplane and Sledge in the Arctic by George Binney. Leader Oxford University Artic Expedition.		no date c1925	AUD 150.00 - 200.00	Unknown
299		The British Colonies and Their Resources Including The British Possessions in America, Australasia, Asia, Africa, and Europe by James Bonwick.		1886	AUD 100.00 - 150.00	Unknown
300		The Trial of Ronald Geeves Griggs by A.J. Buchanan.		1930	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Unknown
301	by Francis Wey.	Rome ''Containing three hundred and forty- five engravings on wood''		c.1880s	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.