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
209		Geology of the Mineral Deposits of Australia and Papua New Guinea		1996	AUD 350.00 - 450.00	Not Sold
210	Francis W. Galpin	1) Old English Instruments of Music, Their History and Character	London	1932	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
211		Official Year Book of the Commonwealth of Australia			AUD 400.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
212		The Poems of Master Francois Villon of Paris Now First Done Into English Verse, in the Original Forms, With a Biographical and Critical Introduction	London	1892	AUD 250.00 - 350.00	AUD 152.40
213		The Diary of Samuel Sewall, 1674-1729		1973	AUD 250.00 - 350.00	Not Sold
214	Ian Hamilton	1. The Man With The Brown Paper Face	London	1967	AUD 600.00 - 700.00	AUD 412.75
215	Rev E.R. Gribble	Forty Years With The Aborigines		1930	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 139.70
216		The History of All Saints' College, Bathurst 1873-1934	Sydney	1936	AUD 50.00 - 80.00	AUD 25.40
217	Sandra McGrath and John Olsen	The Artist and the Rover	Sydney	1982	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	AUD 285.75
218	George Deas Brown	Haughton Forrest 1826-1925	Melbourne	1982	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	AUD 412.75
219	Anthony Bradley	The Art of Justin O'Brien			AUD 500.00 - 600.00	AUD 476.25
220		Two bound volumes of Life Magazine			AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 127.00
221		1864 Illustrated News of the World			AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 127.00
222	John Milton	Paradise lost		circa 1880-1890	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 412.75
223		A little bundle of Australia Art			AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
224	edited by Lou Klepac	Signals from the Perimeter: James Gleeson Drawings and Texts	Roseville	1993	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 88.90
225	Charmian Clift and George Johnson	The Sponge Divers		c1956	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 254.00
226		A little archive on Chairman Clift			AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 215.90
227	Neville W Cayley	Our Birds			AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 114.30
228		Communism in Australia A collection of booklets all published in Australia...			AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 63.50
229		A little collection of pamphlets on the Jewish people in World War Two...			AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 76.20
230	Daisy Bates	Passing of the Aborigines	London	1944	AUD 150.00 - 200.00	AUD 63.50
231		A bundle of books on Aboriginal people of Australia...			AUD 250.00 - 350.00	AUD 228.60
232		A Collection of member cards and old tickets of English Jazz Clubs...			AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
233		Four shelves of Fine Binding books			AUD 400.00 - 500.00	AUD 476.25

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.