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
51		The Australian Almanac for the Year 1870.	Sydney	1870	AUD 150.00 - 200.00	Unknown
52		Eight high quality academic reference books, all hardcovers with dust-jackets (except for Oxford Companion to the English Language).		N/A	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	Unknown
53		“From Blacksmith's Apprentice to World's Greatest Middleweight. The life story of Les Darcy, Late Middleweight Champion of World by F. J. Ferry.”	Sydney	undated but circa 1937.	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Unknown
54		Six good Australian Interest titles 1) Bound For Botany Bay by Frank Clune 2. Flying Matilda Early Days in Australian Aviation by Norman Ellison 3. …		N/A	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Unknown
55		Pamphlet titled New Zealand Book-Plates. Illustrated History and bibliography by Shibli Bagrag.	Wellington	1958	AUD 80.00 - 100.00	Unknown
56		Antwerpse Exlibris Kring. Acht Duitse Exlibriskunstenaars Erste Map 1958.	Antwerp	1958	AUD 250.00 - 300.00	Unknown
57		Folding map of Italy, including the Tyrolese Alps and Adriatic coastline.	Edinburgh	1814	AUD 100.00 - 150.00	Unknown
58		A shelf lot of quality art history books and monographs, principally European modernism but some more recent themes included.		N/A	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	Unknown
59		A large and diverse lot of vintage books on motoring.		N/A	AUD 150.00 - 200.00	Unknown
60		Twelve issues of Automobile Year annual, from the seventies and eighties.	Lausanne	N/A	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	Unknown
61		Kylie Minogue.	London	1999	AUD 150.00 - 200.00	Unknown
62	MAVOR, William.	Historical Account of the Most Celebrated Voyages, Travels and Discoveries...	London	1796	AUD 250.00 - 300.00	Unknown
63	[DRYSDALE, Russell.] NAGLE, J.F. and ANDREW R.R.	Russell Drysdale.	Melbourne	1979	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	Unknown
64		Six books on Antarctic exploration, a mixture of medium and large sized books, with both softcover and hardcover titles.		N/A	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Unknown
65		Four books by and about Norman Lindsay.		N/A	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Unknown
66		A nice lot of books published by the Folio Society.		N/A	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Unknown
67	BONYHARDY, Tim.	Burke and Wills. From Melbourne to Myth.	Balmain	1991	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Unknown
68		A lot of high-quality military books.		N/A	AUD 250.00 - 300.00	Unknown
69	GRAEME-EVANS, Alex.	Of Storms and Rainbows. The Story of the 2/12th Battalion A.I.F. Volume One: October 1939 - March 1942.	Hobart	1989	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Unknown
70	Ryle, Gilbert, and Meyer, Rene (editor).	Aspects of Mind.	Oxford	1993	AUD 150.00 - 200.00	Unknown
71		Five books about Ludwig Wittgenstein.		N/A	AUD 250.00 - 300.00	Unknown
72		Speeches on the Peake to Angle Pole Railway Bill by E.W. Hawker and R. Caldwell and by F. Basedow on the report of the Transcontinental Railway Commission.	Adelaide	1887	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Unknown
73		An excellent selection of fourteen books on philosophy.		N/A	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	Unknown
74		Collection of Voyages Undertaken by the Dutch East-India Company, for the Improvement of trade and navigation.	London	1703	AUD 250.00 - 300.00	Unknown
75	FLEURIEU, C.P. Claret.	A Voyage Round the World performed during the Years 1790, 1791, and 1792… London, 1801.	Amsterdam	1969	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.