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

Auction Details

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
33	Ion Idriess	Three Titles			AUD 300.00 - 400.00	AUD 241.30
34		1. The Great Trek...		1958	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
35	Ion Idriess	Five signed book by Ion Idriess			AUD 400.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
36		1. Our Stone Age Mystery...		1964	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
37	Idriess	Six books concerning Mining all by Idriess			AUD 400.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
38		Historical Sketches of Savage Life in Polynesia	Wellington	1880	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
39	George Bentham	Flora Hongkongensis: A Description of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of the Island of Hongkong	London	1861	AUD 600.00 - 700.00	AUD 1,016.00
40	R. Brough Smyth	The Gold Fields and Mineral Districts of Victoria with Notes on the Modes of Occurence of Gold and Other metals and Minerals	Melbourne	1980	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
41	Arthur P. Harper	Pioneer work in the Alps of New Zealand: a record of the first exploration of the chief glaciers and ranges of the Southern Alps	London	1896	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
42		Gillen's Diary: The Camp Jottings Of F.J. Gillen on the Spencer and Gillen Expedition across Australia 1901-1902	Adelaide	1968	AUD 150.00 - 200.00	AUD 88.90
43	John Humphreys	The Papers of Thomas Bowrey 1669 - 1713 discovered in 1913	London	1927	AUD 150.00 - 200.00	AUD 88.90
44		Victoria Legislative Council	Melbourne	1868	AUD 120.00 - 180.00	Not Sold
45		Report of the Intercolonial Conference held in Pitt Street Church	Sydney	May 15th to 23rd, 1883	AUD 150.00 - 250.00	Not Sold
46		A bound volume of the Junior Argus	Melbourne	1935	AUD 150.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
47		Voyaging to Australia			AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
48		Colonial Australia - Collins and Mills			AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 127.00
49	Lewis Spence	Legends and Romances of Brittany	London	1917	AUD 280.00 - 360.00	Not Sold
50	Lady Hooker	Life and Letters and Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker: Based on Materials Collected and Arranged	London	1918	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 127.00
51	Ludwig Bruck	The Australasian Medical Directory and Hand-book	Sydney	1892	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 127.00
52	Ludwig Bruck	The Australasian Medical Directory and Hand-book	Sydney	1883	AUD 260.00 - 360.00	AUD 165.10
53		1. Pasture Improvement in Astralia		1926	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 177.80
54	TAKASHIMA, S.	Illustrations of Japanese Life	Tokyo	1918	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
55	LONGUS	Daphnis & Chloe	London	1925	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 139.70
56	LONGUS	Les amours pastorales de Daphnis et Chloe	Paris	1919	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	AUD 241.30
57	LONGUS	Daphnis et Chloe	Monte-Carlo	1946	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold

Forum Auctions
Natural History: The remaining stock of Antiquariaat Junk, 1899-2026
25 March 2026

Forum, Mar. 25: Botany.- Andrews (H.C.) Coloured Engravings of Heaths, 4 vol. in 2, first edition, [1710,--94]-1802-1809-[1830]. £10,000 - £15,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Butterflies.- Cramer (Pierre) and Caspar Stoll. De Uitlandsche Kapellen voorkomende in de drie Waereld-Deelen…,, 5 vol., Amsterdam & Utrecht, 1779-91. £8,000 - £12,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Voyages.- Darwin (Charles) and others. Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle, 3 vol. in 4, including Appendix to vol.2, first edition, 1839. £8,000 - £12,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Butterflies.- de Graaf (Willem Diederik Vincent). [Inlandsche Kapellen in beeld], 170 fine original watercolours, [Enkhuizen], [1800-40]. £8,000 - £12,000.

Forum Auctions
Natural History: The remaining stock of Antiquariaat Junk, 1899-2026
25 March 2026

Forum, Mar. 25: Birds.- Dresser (Henry Eeles). A History of the Birds of Europe, 9 vol., including supplement, first edition, by the author, 1871-96. £6,000 - £8,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Zoology.- Felines.- Elliot (Daniel Giraud). A Monograph of the Felidæ or Family of the Cats, first edition, for the Subscribers, by the Author, [1878]-1883. £25,000 - £30,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Birds.- Frisch (Johann Leonard). Vorstellung der Vögel Deutschlandes, 2 vol., first edition, Berlin, Friedr. Wilhelm Birnsteil, [1736]-1763. £40,000 - £60,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Birds.- Gould (John). The Birds of Great Britain, 5 vol., first edition, by the author, 1862-1873. £30,000 - £40,000.

Forum Auctions
Natural History: The remaining stock of Antiquariaat Junk, 1899-2026
25 March 2026

Forum, Mar. 25: Pomology.- France.- Poiteau (A.) Pomologie Française. Recueil des Plus Beaux Fruits cultivés en France, 4 vol., Paris, 1846. £30,000 - £40,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Botany.- [Robin (Jean)]. Histoire des Plantes, nouvellement trouvées en l'Isle Virgine…,, 1620; with Geoffrey Linocier L'Histoire des plantes, second edition, 1619-20. £3,000 - £4,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Asia.- Japan.- Siebold (P.F. von). Nippon. Archiv zur Beschreibung von Japan, 7 parts in 6 vol., first edition, Leyden, [1832]-1852. £35,000 - £45,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Asia.- Valentijn (Francois). Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indiën..., 5 vol. in 8, first edition, Dordrecht [&] Amsterdam, 1724-26. £8,000 - £12,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Botany.- Australia.- Redouté (P.J.).- Ventenat (Étienne Pierre). Jardin de la Malmaison, 2 vol.,, Paris, 1803-04[-05]. £30,000 - £40,000.
ALDE, Mar. 11: AUGUSTIN (Saint). De civitate Dei. Rome, Konrad Sweynheym et Arnold Pannartz, 1470. €20,000 - €30,000.

ALDE, Mar. 11: [REGNART (LE LIVRE DE)]. [Le] Docteur en malice, maistre Regnard, demonstrant les ruzes et cautelles qu'il use envers les personnes… Rouen, 1550. €20,000 - €30,000.

ALDE, Mar. 11: TRITHÈME (JEAN). Polygraphie et universelle escriture cabalistique. Paris, [Benoît Prévost pour] Jacques Kerver, 1561. €8,000 - €10,000.

ALDE, Mar. 11: CAUS (SALOMON DE). La Perspective, avec la raison des ombres et des miroirs. Londres, John Norton, 1612.

ALDE, Mar. 11: NICERON (JEAN-FRANÇOIS). La Perspective curieuse ou magie artificielle des effets merveilleux de l'optique. Paris, Pierre Billaine, 1638. €6,000 - €8,000.

ALDE, Mar. 11: VONTET (JACQUES). L’Art de trancher la viande et toute sorte de fruits… S.l.n.d. [probablement Lyon, vers 1647]. €20,000 - €30,000.

ALDE, Mar. 11: HUGO (VICTOR). [Paysage spectral avec une église], [vers 1837]. €20,000 - €30,000.

ALDE, Mar. 11: [HERVEY DE SAINT-DENYS (LÉON D')]. Les Rêves et les Moyens de les diriger. Observations pratiques. Paris, Amyot, 1867. €3,000 - €4,000.

ALDE, Mar. 11: GACHET (PAUL-FERDINAND). Les Chats de Gachet (Manuscrit). S.d. [avant mai 1873]. €6,000 - €8,000.

ALDE, Mar. 11: [REDON (ODILON)]. PICARD (EDMOND). Le Juré. Monodrame en cinq actes… Bruxelles, Mme veuve Monnom, 1887. €7,000 - €9,000.

ALDE, Mar. 11: [TOULOUSE-LAUTREC (HENRI DE) ET HENRI-GABRIEL IBELS]. MONTORGUEIL (GEORGES). Le Café-concert. Paris, [1893]. €4,000 - €5,000.

ALDE, Mar. 11: [TERRY (EMILIO)]. Projet de fontaine. Dessin original au stylo et à l'encre noire. 1938. €2,000 - €3,000.
Chiswick Auctions
Books & Works on Paper
12th March 2026

Chiswick, Mar. 12: Churchill: The World in Crisis. Inscribed in 4 vols. 1923-31. £18,000 - £22,000.

Chiswick, Mar. 12: Rowling. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Inscribed. £6,000 to £8,000.

Chiswick, Mar. 12: Ponting. Polar Photographs (2) 1910-11. £3,000 - £4,000.

Chiswick, Mar. 12: Gray [Artist.] India. Album 40 original drawings. 1858 - 1862. £2,000 - £3,000.

Chiswick, Mar. 12: Lane’s Celestial Globe, 1811. £600 - £800.