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
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 259 | edited by Charles XI Marquis of Huntly | Records of Aboyne MCCXXX-MDCLXXXI. (1230-1681) |
1894 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold | |
| 260 | Three bound volumes of the Penzance Almanack from 1913-1937 |
AUD 300.00 - 400.00 | Not Sold | |||
| 261 | Four Railway Signalling books... |
AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold | |||
| 262 | Three volume from the Nonconformist Chapels and Meeting Houses series |
AUD 400.00 - 600.00 | Not Sold | |||
| 263 | Augustin KRamer | Die Samoa-Inseln: Entwurf einer Monographie unter besonderer Berucksichtigung Deutsch-Samoas |
Stuttgart | 1902 | AUD 500.00 - 600.00 | AUD 349.25 |
| 264 | Anthony JP Meyer | Oceanic Art |
1995 | AUD 100.00 - 150.00 | Not Sold | |
| 265 | Bruce Gordon Seton and JEan Gordon Arnot | The Prisoners of the '45. Edited from the State Papers |
Edinburgh | 1928 | AUD 300.00 - 400.00 | Not Sold |
| 266 | Michael Holroyd | Four Volumes of Bernard Shaw |
1988 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold | |
| 267 | edited by Margot Neale | Utopia. The Genius of Emily Kame Kngwarreye |
Canberra | 2008 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold |
| 268 | Murray Waldren | The Mind and Times of Reg Mombassa |
2009 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | AUD 139.70 | |
| 269 | Andrew Bolton | Alexander McQueen Savage Beauty |
2011 | AUD 500.00 - 600.00 | Not Sold | |
| 270 | Richard Gordon | A collection of 5 Doctor books |
1952-1952 | AUD 150.00 - 250.00 | AUD 88.90 | |
| 271 | Two Australian Juvenile books... |
AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold | |||
| 272 | Brooke Nicholls | Jacko: The Broadcasting Kookaburra: His Life and Adventures |
Sydney | 1933 | AUD 150.00 - 250.00 | Not Sold |
| 273 | Blinky Bill: The Quaint Little Australian |
Sydney | 1933 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | AUD 381.00 | |
| 274 | W. Heath Robinson | Bill The Minder |
London | no date 1920 | AUD 300.00 - 400.00 | Not Sold |
| 275 | The Life of John Falstaff |
London | 1858 | AUD 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 | Not Sold | |
| 276 | Michael Bond | Paddington Bear... |
AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | AUD 285.75 | ||
| 277 | Peg Maltby | Four books |
AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 278 | The World of Peter Rabbit Beatrix Potter |
2002 | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | AUD 114.30 | ||
| 279 | Noddy Classic Collection Enid Blyton in box |
2013 | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | AUD 76.20 | ||
| 280 | edited by Charles Oscar Paullin | Out-Letters of the Continental Marine Committee and Board of Admiralty, August, 1776-September, 1780 |
New York | 1914 | AUD 250.00 - 350.00 | Not Sold |
| 281 | Herman Merivale | Lectures on Colonization and Colonies: Before the University of Oxford in 1839, 1840, and 1841 |
London | 1842 | AUD 300.00 - 400.00 | Not Sold |
| 282 | William Taplin | The Sporting Dictionary, and rural Repository of general Information upon every Subject appertaining to the Sports of the Field |
London | 1803 | AUD 300.00 - 400.00 | AUD 190.50 |
| 283 | Voyages Round the World from the Death of Captain Cook to the Present Time |
Edinburgh and London | 1843 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | AUD 349.25 |
![<b>Dominic Winter, Jan. 28:</b> Lot 72. Edwards (George). <i>A Natural History of Uncommon Birds…</i> [and] <i>Gleanings of Natural History,</i> 7 volumes, 1st edition, 1743-64. £7,000-10,000](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/7f9e9df2-b83a-40aa-a1b7-a535a02705d5.jpg "<b>Dominic Winter, Jan. 28:</b> Lot 72. Edwards (George). <i>A Natural History of Uncommon Birds…</i> [and] <i>Gleanings of Natural History,</i> 7 volumes, 1st edition, 1743-64. £7,000-10,000")
![<b>Dominic Winter, Jan. 28:</b> Lot 236. <i>A New Dictionary of the Terms Ancient and Modern of the Canting Crew…,</i> By B. E. Gent., 1st edition, [1699]. £3,000-4,000](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/1832c377-f148-4e66-ba22-33bef01d81a7.jpg "<b>Dominic Winter, Jan. 28:</b> Lot 236. <i>A New Dictionary of the Terms Ancient and Modern of the Canting Crew…,</i> By B. E. Gent., 1st edition, [1699]. £3,000-4,000")
![<b>Dominic Winter, Jan. 28:</b> Lot 280. Elgar (Edward). <i>Concerto for Violin and Orchestra,</i> [1910], signed presentation copy. £500-800](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/df958814-0689-4876-8b73-cfe5c0c6ad24.jpg "<b>Dominic Winter, Jan. 28:</b> Lot 280. Elgar (Edward). <i>Concerto for Violin and Orchestra,</i> [1910], signed presentation copy. £500-800")
![<b>Sotheby’s, Jan. 27:</b> [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.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/9d2762bc-9f26-47ef-96de-1c28070e19f6.png "<b>Sotheby’s, Jan. 27:</b> [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.")
![<b>Forum, Jan. 29:</b> Plato. [<i>Apanta ta tou Platonos. Omnia Platonis opera</i>], 2 parts in 2 vol., editio princeps of Plato's works in the original Greek, Venice, House of Aldus, 1513. £8,000-12,000](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/df7dd9ac-f0d0-4cb3-a44d-2731758530e4.png "<b>Forum, Jan. 29:</b> Plato. [<i>Apanta ta tou Platonos. Omnia Platonis opera</i>], 2 parts in 2 vol., editio princeps of Plato's works in the original Greek, Venice, House of Aldus, 1513. £8,000-12,000")
![<b>Forum, Jan. 29:</b> Book of Hours, Use of Rome, In Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum, [Southern Netherlands (probably Bruges), c.1460]. £6,000-8,000](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/c40bad29-8cb5-4347-a0fd-5361d39e84a5.png "<b>Forum, Jan. 29:</b> Book of Hours, Use of Rome, In Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum, [Southern Netherlands (probably Bruges), c.1460]. £6,000-8,000")
![<b>Forum, Jan. 29:</b> Powell (Anthony). [<i>A Dance to the Music of Time</i>], 12 vol., first editions, each with a signed presentation inscription from the author to Osbert Lancaster, 1951-75. £6,000-8,000](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/b7fdee12-4803-4d32-9330-a5729091cb92.png "<b>Forum, Jan. 29:</b> Powell (Anthony). [<i>A Dance to the Music of Time</i>], 12 vol., first editions, each with a signed presentation inscription from the author to Osbert Lancaster, 1951-75. £6,000-8,000")
![<b>Forum, Jan. 29:</b> 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](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/a06cc0dd-7619-45e9-b155-5ad75ed7b2e5.png "<b>Forum, Jan. 29:</b> 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")