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
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

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.
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.