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
176		Five volumes of Charles Bean’s Official History of Australia in the War of 1914-18.	Sydney.	1938	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	Unknown
177		Uniform edition of the works of Sir Walter Scott,	Edinburgh	1854	AUD 500.00 - 750.00	Unknown
178	ADDISON, Joseph.	The Spectator.	London	1753	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	Unknown
179		Histoire de Gil Blas de saint by Par M. Le Sage, Alain-Rene Lesage.	London	1777	AUD 250.00 - 350.00	Unknown
180		Les lettres et epitres amoureuses d'Heloise et d'Abeilard, traduites librement en vers et en prose.	Paris	1780	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	Unknown
181	[Christopher Anstey]	The New Bath guide or, memoirs of the B-N-R-D family. In a series of poetical epistles.	London	1779	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Unknown
182		Leonidas: A Poem by Richard Glover.	London:	1798	AUD 700.00 - 800.00	Unknown
183	Matthew Prior	Poems on Several Occasions with a supplement of several poems of the author's never before collected and others taken from his original manuscript.	Dublin.	1728	AUD 700.00 - 800.00	Unknown
184	Stephani Guazzi.	De Civili Conversatione Dissertationes Politicae [Political Dissertations of Stephan Guazzi on Civil Conversation]	Leiden	1650	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	Unknown
185		Almanach parisien, en faveur des étrangers et des personnes curieuses : …	Paris	1764	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	Unknown
186	[NEWMAN, Samuel]. by S.N. Cambridge	A Concordance to the Holy Scriptures; Together with the books of the Apocrypha…	London	1698	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	Unknown
187	J. B. Hawkins	Nineteenth Century Australian Silver.		1990	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Unknown
188		The abbaye of the holy ghost. Printed at Westminster by Wynkyn de Worde about the year 1496.		1907	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Unknown
189	edited by Walter Sidney Scott, and print the letters of the celebrated poet Shelley and his circle.	The Athenians. ; Harriet & Mary,	London.	1943 and 1944	AUD 250.00 - 300.00	Unknown
190	THIERY, Yvonne & DE MEERENDRE, Michel Kervyn.	Les peintres flamands au XVII siecle. Le Baroque anversois et l'ecole bruxelloise.	Bruxelle	1987	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Unknown
191	WAHL, Arnold Spencer.	Wahl Handybook of the American Brewing Industry. Volume II Brewing Materials.	Chicago	1944	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Unknown
192		Joseph Hayden Piano Pieces and Sonatas.	Budapest	1997	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Unknown
193		The Complete Work of Raphael. ; Raphael. His Life and works by Jean-Pierre Cuzin.	New York. London	1969, 1985.	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	Unknown
194	including A.A. Milne and Lewis Carroll.	Classic children’s stories: Paddington by Michael Bond. A Classic Collection with Drawings by Peggy Fortnum. Barrie by Daniel O’Connor.		N/A	AUD 150.00 - 200.00	Unknown
195		John Llewelyn Jones Australia’s Forgotten Painter by Giles Auty and Patrick Corbally Stourton (Sydney 1999); Colin Lanceley by Robert Hughes and William Wright (Seaforth 1988); …		N/A	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	Unknown
196	by Ruth Rendell.	Hearthstones	London	1987	AUD 100.00 - 150.00	Unknown
197		Landmarks of Mapmaking by R.V. Tooley and Charles Bricker; Country Life Book of Antique Maps by Jonathan Potter; Cities of the World A History in Maps by Peter Whitfield,	London	1989, 1988, 2005	AUD 150.00 - 200.00	Unknown
198	Jude Rushbrooke, La Morgan, Christopher Klein, R.J. Deeble, John Tranter and others.	Australian poetry lot, including some scarce and unusual pamphlets.		N/A	AUD 100.00 - 150.00	Unknown
199		The Heart Of The Rose A Quarterly Magazine. Volume 1 number 1 to volume 1 number 4.	Melbourne	1907 to 1908.	AUD 250.00 - 300.00	Unknown
200	DEGARIS, L.G.	The Deathless Bomber.	Geelong	1946	AUD 100.00 - 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.