Sydney Rare Book Auctions: Christmas 2025! - Decorative Arts And Design, Books, Fine Bindings And Geology , A168, Ultimo

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
December 14, 2025 - December 14, 2025
Page Size: 410 items in 17 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
334 Stanley Lane-Poole

Saladin and The Fall of The Kingdom of Jerusalem

1903 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 63.50
335 Hon. Robert Dundas Murray

A Summer At Port Phillip

1843 AUD 100.00 - 150.00 AUD 139.70
336

Australian Agriculturist and Guide For Land Occupation

1897 AUD 250.00 - 350.00 AUD 152.40
337 Gerald R. Baldwin

Grey Town - An Australian Story

1922 AUD 300.00 - 400.00 AUD 190.50
338 Albert Broadbent Foxcroft

The Study of Fifteenth Century Books

Melbourne 1937-38 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
339 Capt. James Lyng

Island Films - Reminiscences of " German New Guinea"

1925 AUD 120.00 - 200.00 AUD 101.60
340 Norman Warburton

Warburton - The Village and the Family

1970 AUD 600.00 - 700.00 Not Sold
341 Otto Ule

Die neuesten Entdeckungen in Afrika, Australien und der arktischen Polarwelt mit besonderer Rucksicht auf die Natur- und Kulturverhaltnisse der entdeckten Lander

1861 AUD 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
342

Night and Day by Virginia Woolf

reprinted 1920 AUD 300.00 - 400.00 AUD 317.50
343

The Wrestler magazine from 1961-1972

AUD 400.00 - 500.00 AUD 165.10
344 Charles Darwin

Journal of Researches into the Geology and Natural History of the Various Countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle, Under the Command of Captain Fitzroy, R.N. From 1832 to 1836

London 1839 AUD 30,000.00 - 40,000.00 Not Sold
345

Hardy's Anglers Guides x3...

AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 152.40
346 Reuben R Cross

Tying American Trout Lures

1936 AUD 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
347 Gary H Schwartz

Skiing Literature: A Bibliographical Catalogue

AUD 120.00 - 180.00 AUD 76.20
348 Justin Corfield

The Ned Kelly Encyclopaedia

South Melbourne 2003 AUD 80.00 - 120.00 AUD 101.60
349

A bundle of Mountaineering books...

AUD 400.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
350 Terence King

Gallantry Awards of the South African Police 1913-1994: Including a Complete Roll of Honour

South Africa 2000 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
351 WP Reeves

State Experiments In Australia and New Zealand

1902 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 285.75
352

Un oncle d'Australie par Emile Pech

circa 1895 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
353 Charles Robert Drysdale

Syphilis: Its Nature and Treatment with a chapter on Gonorrhoea

1872 AUD 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
354

Old Man River...

AUD 150.00 - 250.00 AUD 88.90
355

Mercedes-Benz Type 220 b 10057

AUD 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
356 [Gertrud Stein]

The Alice B. Toklas cook book

1954 AUD 500.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
357 Ion Idriess

Fortunes and Minerals: Including Uranium - Simple Tests and How to Make Them

Sydney 1959 AUD 80.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
358

Dramatic Works of Shakespeare collated from Steevens Malone Johnson

London 1838 AUD 50.00 - 100.00 AUD 25.40
  • Dominic Winter
    Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
    Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
    28th January 2026
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 26. Company School. An album of 85 Indian mica paintings, Madras, c. 1852. £700-1,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 28. Ross & Hooker. Notes on the Botany of the Antarctic Voyage, 1st edition, 1843. £4,000-6,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 44. Gould (John). The Birds of Great Britain, 5 volumes, 1st edition, 1862-73. £30,000-40,000
    Dominic Winter
    Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
    Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
    28th January 2026
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 72. Edwards (George). A Natural History of Uncommon Birds… [and] Gleanings of Natural History, 7 volumes, 1st edition, 1743-64. £7,000-10,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 87. Walcott (Charles D. et al.). Geologic Atlas of the United States, 227-volume set, U.S. Geological Survey, 1894-1945. £500-800
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 236. A New Dictionary of the Terms Ancient and Modern of the Canting Crew…, By B. E. Gent., 1st edition, [1699]. £3,000-4,000
    Dominic Winter
    Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
    Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
    28th January 2026
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 245. Frost Fair Broadside. Upon the Frost in the Year 1739-40, Printed on the Ice upon the Thames at Queen-Hithe, 1739/40. £1,500-2,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 270. Micheli (Antonino di). La Nuova Chitarra di Regole…, 1st edition, Palermo, 1680. £10,000-15,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 280. Elgar (Edward). Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, [1910], signed presentation copy. £500-800
    Dominic Winter
    Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
    Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
    28th January 2026
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 282 - Griffes (Charles). Autograph Manuscript Score for Overture to Hänsel und Gretel, c. 1910. £2,000-3,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 304. Churchill (Winston). A terracotta maquette of Churchill by Oscar Nemon, c. 1955. £1,500-2,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 364 - Russian Imperial Archaeological Commission. Mecheti Samarkanda..., Fascicule I Gour-Emir, St. Petersburg, 1905. £2,000-3,000
  • Sotheby’s
    Fine Manuscript and Printed Americana
    27 January 2026
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: An extraordinary pair of books from George Washington’s field library, marking the conjunction of Robert Rogers, George Washington, and Henry Knox. $1,200,000 to $1,800,000.
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: An extraordinary letter marking the conjunction of George Washington, the Marquis de Lafayette, and Benjamin Franklin. $1,000,000 to $1,500,000.
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: Virginia House of Delegates. The genesis of the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights. $350,000 to $500,000.
    Sotheby’s
    Fine Manuscript and Printed Americana
    27 January 2026
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: (Gettysburg). “Genl. Doubleday has taken charge of the battle”: Autograph witness to the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg, illustrated by fourteen maps and plans. $200,000 to $300,000.
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: President Lincoln thanks a schoolboy on behalf of "all the children of the nation for his efforts to ensure "that this war shall be successful, and the Union be maintained and perpetuated." $200,000 to $300,000.
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: [World War II]. An archive of maps and files documenting the allied campaign in Europe, from the early stages of planning for D-Day and Operation Overlord, to Germany’s surrender. $200,000 to $300,000.
  • Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Plato. [Apanta ta tou Platonos. Omnia Platonis opera], 2 parts in 2 vol., editio princeps of Plato's works in the original Greek, Venice, House of Aldus, 1513. £8,000-12,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Book of Hours, Use of Rome, In Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum, [Southern Netherlands (probably Bruges), c.1460]. £6,000-8,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Correspondence and documents by or addressed to the first four Viscounts Molesworth and members of their families, letters and manuscripts, 1690-1783. £10,000-15,000
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Shakespeare (William). The Dramatic Works, 9 vol., John and Josiah Boydell, 1802. £5,000-7,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Joyce (James). Ulysses, first edition, one of 750 copies on handmade paper, Paris, Shakespeare and Company, 1922 £8,000-12,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Powell (Anthony). [A Dance to the Music of Time], 12 vol., first editions, each with a signed presentation inscription from the author to Osbert Lancaster, 1951-75. £6,000-8,000
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Chaucer (Geoffrey). Troilus and Criseyde, one of 225 copies on handmade paper, wood-engravings by Eric Gill, Waltham St.Lawrence, 1927. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Borges (Jorge Luis). Luna de Enfrente, first edition, one of 300 copies, presentation copy signed by the author to Leopoldo Marechal, Buenos Aires, Editorial Proa, 1925. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Nolli (Giovanni Battista). Nuova Pianta di Roma, Rome, 1748. £6,000-8,000
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Roberts (David). The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, & Nubia, 3 vol., first edition, 1842-49. £15,000-20,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Blacker (William). Catechism of Fly Making, Angling and Dyeing, Published by the author, 1843. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Herschel (Sir John F. W.) Collection of 69 offprints, extracts and separate publications by Herschel, bound for his son, William James Herschel, 3 vol., [1813-50]. £15,000-20,000