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
384 Dr. E.A. Wilson and the Surviving Members of the Expedition

Scott's Last Expedition - Two Volumes

London 1913 AUD 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
385 Dickson Gregory

Australian Steamships Past and Present

1928 AUD 300.00 - 400.00 AUD 190.50
386

Twelve books on Victorian Angling Fishing

AUD 150.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
387 Dick Wolf

Eleven books on Fishing tackle and Rigging

AUD 150.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
388

Twelve Angling Catalogues, old books on fish and fishing

AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 38.10
389 Richard Owen

Memoirs on the extinct wingless birds of New Zealand : with an appendix on those of England, Australia, Newfoundland, Mauritius, and Rodriguez

London 1879 AUD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 AUD 3,302.00
390 Edited by G. J. Symons

The Eruption of Krakatoa, and Subsequent Phenomena

London 1888 AUD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 AUD 1,905.00
391

Report of the Interstate Conference on Artesian Water, Perth 1924

Sydney 1925 AUD 500.00 - 700.00 Not Sold
392

The Butterflies and Moths of New Zealand Together with Supplement

Wellington 1928 AUD 600.00 - 700.00 AUD 412.75
393

Harry Seidler Four Decades of Architecture

1992 AUD 250.00 - 350.00 AUD 228.60
394

1) Norman Lindsay Pen Drawings...

1974 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 139.70
395 Palani Mohan

Hunting with Eagles: In the Realm of the Mongolian Kazakhs

2015 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 50.80
396

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

London c.1920s AUD 150.00 - 250.00 AUD 381.00
397 Lord Armstrong C.B., F.RS.

Electric Movement in Air and Water with Theoretical Inferences

1897 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
398 F. Manson Bailey

Comprehensive catalogue of Queensland plants

Brisbane 1909 AUD 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
399 George Robert Waterhouse

Two Volumes of A Natural History of the Mammalia

London between 1846 and 1848 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 476.25
400

Facsimile of the three volume Bigge Reports in very good condition...

AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 127.00
401

Les Darcy with letter from the author...

Sydney [1937] AUD 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
402

A Pioneering Parson in the Riverina

Sydney 1933 AUD 120.00 - 180.00 AUD 76.20
403 William Stones

What road, Australia?

Sydney circa 1949 AUD 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
404 Ion L. Idriess

Fortunes in Minerals: Simple Tests and How to Make Them

1941 AUD 300.00 - 400.00 AUD 190.50
405 Ion Idriess

The Scout The Australian Guerrilla Book VI

Sydney 1943 AUD 400.00 - 500.00 AUD 381.00
406

A Complete System of Geography Being A Desription of All the Countries, Islands, Cities, Chief Tows, Harbours, Lakes, and Rivers, Mountais, Mines, &c. Of The Known World

London 1747 AUD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 Not Sold
407

NSW Cyclists Touring Union Guide to the Roads of NSW Founded in 1896: Showing intermediate and total mileages between each important town

Sydney AUD 400.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
408

Royal Easter Show Sydney 8th to 19th April 1960

AUD 120.00 - 180.00 AUD 152.40
  • 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