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
26	SHIEL, Matthew.	Prince Zaleski by M. P. Shiel.	London and Boston	1895	AUD 750.00 - 1,000.00	Unknown
27	ELLIS, Brett Easton.	The Informers.	New York	1994	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Unknown
28		Three books by Herbert Ernest Bates, all are first editions with their dust-jackets.	London	N/A	AUD 200.00 - 250.00	Unknown
29	WILLIAMSON, Henry.	Three books from the author of ‘Tarka the Otter’, detailing nature life in Britain amongst autobiographical themes.	London	1948	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Unknown
30	Salman Rushdie.	The Jaguar Smile. >Haroun and the Sea of Stories.	New York, London	1987. 1990.	AUD 125.00 - 150.00	Unknown
31	PRING, Peter.	The Star Kingdom Story.	Sydney	1983	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Unknown
32	JENKINSON, Hilary.	Palaeography and the Practical Study of Court Hand.		1915	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Unknown
33		Mirror of the Australian Navigation by Le Maire. A facsimile of the Spigel der Australische Navigatie... being a voyage of Jacob le Mare and Willen Schouten 1615-1616 published in Amsterdam 1622.	Sydney	1999	AUD 100.00 - 120.00	Unknown
34	COLLINS, David. Edited by Brian Fletcher.	An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales.	Sydney	1975	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Unknown
35	DAWSON, Warren.	The Banks Letters. A calendar of the manuscript correspondence of Sir Joseph Banks preserved in the British Museum…	London	1958	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Unknown
36		A large collection of the Penrose Pictorial Annual.	in London	1891-1976.	AUD 250.00 - 300.00	Unknown
37	by Ernest Scott.	The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders, R.N.	Sydney	1914	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Unknown
38	SINCLAIR, Upton.	Mammonart. An Essay in Economic Interpretation.	Pasadena	1925	AUD 250.00 - 300.00	Unknown
39	HORDERN, Marsden.	Mariners are Warned! John Lort Stokes and H. M. S. Beagle in Australia 1837-1843.	Melbourne	1989	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Unknown
40	MAUGHAM, W. Somerset.	The Constant Wife. A Comedy in Three Acts.	London	1927	AUD 250.00 - 300.00	Unknown
41	HILDER, Brett.	El Viaje de Torres de Veracruz a Manila. Descubrimiento de la costa meridional de Nueva Guinea y del estrecho de su nombre.	Madrid	1992	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Unknown
42	SEGHERS, Anna.	The Revolt of the Fishermen.	London	1929	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Unknown
43	HENEY, Thomas.	In Middle Harbour and Other Verse Chiefly Australian.	London	1890	AUD 150.00 - 200.00	Unknown
44	WYATT, Ransome T.	The History of Goulburn N.S.W.		1941	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Unknown
45	NEBEWSKY-WOJKOWITZ, Rene De.	Tibetan Religious Dances. Tibetan Text and Annotated Translation of the Chams Yig.	New Delhi	1997	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Unknown
46		How Wars End: The United Nations and the Termination of Armed Conflict 1946-1964 by Sydney D. Bailey.		1982	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Unknown
47		Five volumes from the Frontier Edition of the collected works of Ion Idriess.	Sydney	in the fifties	AUD 250.00 - 300.00	Unknown
48		Warragamba Dam. Official opening by the Honourable R.J. Heffron, M.L.A., premier of New South Wales, Friday, 14th October, 1960.	Sydney	1960	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Unknown
49	PERUCCHI-PETRI, Ursula.	Cucchi. Drawings 1975-1989.	New York	1990	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Unknown
50	McGILL, Ormond.	The New Encyclopedia of Stage Hypnotism.	Wales	1996	AUD 120.00 - 150.00	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.