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
83

Five titles

London AUD 250.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
84 Paul et Virginie

Half title reads: Paul et Virginie et la Chaumiere Indienne

Paris 1838 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
85 GL Delloye, editor

Chants et chansons populaires de la France

Paris 1843 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
86 Lord Cockburn

Life of Lord Jeffrey with a selection from his correspondence

Edinburgh 1852 AUD 350.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
87 William Yarrell

A History of British Fishes

London 1836 AUD 500.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
88 Edited by Martin Duncan

Cassell's Natural History Volume One Only

circa 1880-1890 AUD 150.00 - 200.00 AUD 88.90
89 Edmund Bartell

Hints for Picturesque Improvements in Ornamented Cottages, and their Scenery: Including Some Observations on the Labourer and His Cottage in Three Essays

1804 AUD 700.00 - 800.00 AUD 508.00
90

The Unlocked Book: A Memoir of John Wilkes Booth by his sister Asia Booth Clarke

London 1938 AUD 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
91

Storia della Guerra Dell' Independenza degli Stati Uniti D'America

Milan AUD 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
92 Sir CF Wraxall

Life and Times of Her Majesty Caroline Matilda, Queen of Denmark and Norway, and Sister of H.M. George III of England, from Family Documents and Private State Archives

London 1864 AUD 300.00 - 350.00 Not Sold
93 Leonard Horner Esq.

Memoirs of and Correspondence of Francis Horner MP

London 1843 AUD 180.00 - 220.00 Not Sold
94

Passages from my life: together with Memoirs of the Campaign of 1813 and 1814

London 1853 AUD 550.00 - 800.00 AUD 349.25
95 T. F. Cheeseman

Manual of the New Zealand Flora

Wellington 1906 AUD 299.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
96

The Works of Shakespeare

London not date circa 1870s AUD 3,000.00 - 3,500.00 Not Sold
97

Memorials of the English affairs, or, An historical account of what passed from the beginning of the reign of King Charles the First, to King Charles the Second his happy restauration

1682 AUD 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
98 Ryokichi Otani

Tadataka Ino: The Japanese Land-Surveyor

1932 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
99

The Garden in Illustrated Weekly Journal of Horticulture in all its Branches 1876-1879

1879 AUD 450.00 - 550.00 Not Sold
100 Roald Dahl

Kiss Kiss

1960 AUD 500.00 - 600.00 AUD 349.25
101

Annie Leibovitz at Work

London 2009 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 76.20
102

1. Gaol In Conflict 1966 Endpapers foxed

AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
103 Edited by Malcolm Sainty and Keith A. Johnson

Census of New South Wales

Sydney 1980 AUD 150.00 - 200.00 AUD 139.70
104 James Broadbent

The Australian Colonial House Architecture and Society in New South Wales 1788 - 1842

AUD 150.00 - 200.00 AUD 139.70
105

Voyage in search of La Perouse

London reprinted by Amsterdam and New York 1800; 1971 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 63.50
106 Dr G C Wittstein

The Organic Constituents of Plants and Vegetable Substances and Their Chemical Analysis

Melbourne 1878 AUD 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
107 Edited by E Walter Maunder

British Astronomical Association. The Indian Eclipse 1898

London 1899 AUD 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
  • 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