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
477		1) Air and Diet in Chronic Chest Diseases by Duncan Turner.		1896	AUD 150.00 - 250.00	Unknown
478		Five Medical Books. 1) Piles or Haemorrhoids: What They are, How They Come, and How They Should be Treated by George Lade.		no date.	AUD 150.00 - 250.00	Unknown
479	by Richard Wagner.	Tannhauser: A Dramatic Poem. Freely Translated in Poetic Narrative Form by T.W. Rolleston.		no date. c1911.	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Unknown
480		Hop of The "Bulletin" by Dorothy June Hopkins.		1929	AUD 100.00 - 150.00	Unknown
481		The Funny Side of Golf with illustrations by Phil May and all the other regular Punch magazine illustrations .	England	1909	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Unknown
482	WELCH, Charles.	London at the Opening of the Twentieth Century. Contemporary Biographies, edited by W. T. Pike (Pike’s New Century Series, No. 15).	Brighton	1905	AUD 150.00 - 250.00	Unknown
483	Compiled by L.L. Politzer	1) Bibliography of Dutch Literature on Australia.		1953	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Unknown
484		AUSTRALASIAN BIBLIOGRAPHY (IN THREE PARTS). Catalogue of Books in the Free Public Library, Sydney.		N/A	AUD 100.00 - 150.00	Unknown
485		Annale Rioghachta Eireaan Annals of the kingdom of Ireland, by the Four masters, from the earlies period to the year 1616.	Dublin	with a translation	AUD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Unknown
486		A Pearling Master's Journey in the wake of the schooner Mist by J.E. deB.		2008	AUD 60.00 - 100.00	Unknown
487		The P & O. Pocket Book (Third Issue).		1908	AUD 100.00 - 150.00	Unknown
488		Six books about Australian and New Zealand Ports.		N/A	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Unknown
489		Four Australian Military History books.		N/A	AUD 150.00 - 200.00	Unknown
490		Four books about traveling and exploration to Australia.		N/A	AUD 150.00 - 250.00	Unknown
491		Five Australian Biographies.		N/A	AUD 150.00 - 250.00	Unknown
492		Six books about Early Australian History.		N/A	AUD 150.00 - 200.00	Unknown
493		1) Convicts and The Colonies - A Study of Penal Transportation from Great Britain and Ireland to Australia and other parts of the British Empire by A.G.		N/A	AUD 100.00 - 150.00	Unknown
494		Oceana or England and Her Colonies by James Anthony Froude.	London	1886	AUD 150.00 - 250.00	Unknown
495		Out-Letters of the Continental Marine Committee and Board of Admiralty, August, 1776-September, 1780 edited by Charles Oscar Paullin.	New York	1914	AUD 150.00 - 250.00	Unknown
496	Written and illustrated by W. Heath Robinson.	Bill The Minder.	London	no date 1920.	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Unknown
497	Sir Walter Scott edited by JG Lockhart..	Memoirs of Sir Walter Scott	London	1900	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Unknown
498	C Day Lewis.	1) An Italian Visit 2) Collected Poems 1954		1953	AUD 150.00 - 250.00	Unknown
499	Peg Maltby.	Four books by Peg Maltby. 1) Pip and Pepita in Goblinland Published by Murfett.		N/A	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Unknown
500	Evelyn Waugh.	Five books written by Evelyn Waugh.		N/A	AUD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	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.