Sydney Rare Book Auctions: End of Year Sale: Books, Ephemera, Maps, A169, Ultimo

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
December 28, 2025 - December 28, 2025
Page Size: 440 items in 18 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1 The Rev. William Norris.

Annals of the Diocese of Adelaide

 1852 AUD 300.00 - 400.00 AUD 203.20
2 Dr. Sir Charles Bell

The Hand Its Mechanism and Its Vital Endowments. An Evincing Design

 London 1837 AUD 300.00 - 400.00 AUD 190.50
3 Simpson Newland,

The Far North Country

 1887 AUD 250.00 - 350.00 Not Sold
4 RENNELL, James.

The Geographical System of Herodotus, examined, and explained,

 London, 1800 AUD 500.00 - 600.00 AUD 317.50
5 DELAMOTTE, Philip H.

The Practice of Photography. A manual for students and amateurs.

London 1855 AUD 250.00 - 350.00 AUD 539.75
6

The Colonial Intelligencer, or, Aborigines Friend 1848-1854

London 1848-1854 AUD 250.00 - 350.00 AUD 412.75
7

Two plates of classical vases,

circa 1800 AUD 450.00 - 600.00 AUD 285.75
8 Elijah H Burritt.

A Plan of the Solar System exhibiting its relative Magnitudes and Distances. Map pasted onto the front cover of the Atlas designed to Illustrate the Geography and Heavens

 1835 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 139.70
9 Giovanni Maria Cassini

Five coloured copper engravings. Includes: 4 double zodiac spreads (Ring, sheets 1-4) with centre crease. One single page with arcs and angles. Pages tanned.

1792-1801. AUD 500.00 - 800.00 AUD 317.50
10 George Frederick Cruchley

Western Hemisphere. Top cartouche reads: Cruchley's Improved Atlas for Schools and Families. Bottom cartouche reads July 1st 1841.

AUD 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
11 Ferdinand Maria

An Original Bavarian Document implemented by Ferdinand Maria, Elector of Bavaria

 1675 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
12

Map of the Islands in the Pacific Ocean.

1817 AUD 120.00 - 180.00 Not Sold
13 Louis LeBreton. Engraved Lemercier.

Village de Dobo (Iles Arrow) drawn

AUD 50.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
14

Four official programmes from the 1956 Melbourne Olympic Games.

1956 AUD 50.00 - 100.00 AUD 25.40
15

Verse - Issued every two. Narrow publication.

 1930-1932 AUD 150.00 - 200.00 AUD 88.90
16

The Horn Book Magazine.

1985 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 127.00
17 Fowles.

The Sydney Drawing book; The elementary free-hand drawing book

 AUD 150.00 - 250.00 AUD 88.90
18 Norman Lindsay

Five Norman Lindsay Bookplates for the following people 1. Hugh D McIntosh 2. Janet Linday 3. Helen Linday 4. Keith Wingrove 5. Mary Wingrove

AUD 400.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
19

Government Notice. Colonial Secretary's Office, Sydney. 22nd April 1829. Alexander Mcleay.

1829 AUD 400.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
20 Philip-Stephan

7 large colour photolithographs

 c1880s AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
21

2 Maps depicting Brazil, both containing colour. 1) South America East Coast. Pernambuco to Maceio. 2) South America. Brazil. Abrolhos Rocks with adjacent coast from San Mateo to Itacolomis Reef.

 AUD 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
22 H Warren and engraved J Rogers.

Victoria or Port Philip Vignette of people, animals and scenes illustrated

 London c1851 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 127.00
23 D. S. L. Clift

Gold Dredging in New South Wales

 Sydney 1975 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 165.10
24

One of Australia's Daughters. An autobiography of Mrs. Harrison Lee.

 London, 1906 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
25

The Memoirs of Captain Liddell Hart.

 London, 1965 AUD 150.00 - 250.00 AUD 101.60
  • Sotheby's Fine Books & ManuscriptsAvailable for Immediate Purchase Sotheby’s: Balthus, Emily Brontë. Wuthering Heights, New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1993. 6,600 USD. Sotheby’s: Charles Dickens. Complete Works, Philadelphia & London: J.B. Lippincott Company & Chapman & Hall, LD, 1850. Limited Edition set of 30 volumes. 7,500 USD. Sotheby’s: John Lennon, Yoko Ono. Handwritten Letter from John Lennon and Yoko Ono to their Chauffer. 1971. 32,500 USD. Sotheby’s: Winston Churchill. First edition of War Speeches, Cassell and Company, Ltd., 1941. Set of 7 volumes. 5,500 USD. Sotheby’s: Andy Warhol, Julia Warhola. Holy Cats First Edition, Signed by Andy Warhol. 1954. 30,000 USD.
    Sotheby's Fine Books & Manuscripts
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s: Balthus, Emily Brontë. Wuthering Heights, New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1993. 6,600 USD.
    Sotheby’s: Charles Dickens. Complete Works, Philadelphia & London: J.B. Lippincott Company & Chapman & Hall, LD, 1850. Limited Edition set of 30 volumes. 7,500 USD.
    Sotheby’s: John Lennon, Yoko Ono. Handwritten Letter from John Lennon and Yoko Ono to their Chauffer. 1971. 32,500 USD.
    Sotheby’s: Winston Churchill. First edition of War Speeches, Cassell and Company, Ltd., 1941. Set of 7 volumes. 5,500 USD.
    Sotheby’s: Andy Warhol, Julia Warhola. Holy Cats First Edition, Signed by Andy Warhol. 1954. 30,000 USD.
  • Forum AuctionsOnline: IndiaEnds 19th February 2026 Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 40Ramasvami (Kavali Venkata). A Digest of the Different Castes of India, 83 charming hand-coloured lithographed plates, Madras, 1837. £5,000-7,000 Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 50Watson (John Forbes) & John William Kaye. The People of India: A Series of Photographic Illustrations...of the Races and Tribes of Hindustan, 8 vol., 480 mounted albumen prints, 1868-75. £4,000-6,000 Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 53Afghanistan.- Elphinstone (Hon. Mountstuart). An Account of the Kingdom of Caubul, first edition, hand-coloured aquatint plates, a fine copy, 1815. £2,000-3,000 Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 57[Album and Treatise on Hinduism], manuscript treatise on Hinduism in French, 31 watercolours of Hindu deities, Pondicherry, 1865. £3,000-4,000 Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 62 Allan (Capt. Alexander). Views in the Mysore Country, [1794]. £2,000-3,000 Forum AuctionsOnline: IndiaEnds 19th February 2026 Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 76Bird (James). Historical Researches on the Origin and Principles of the Bauddha and Jaina Religions..., first edition, lithographed plates, Bombay, American Mission Press, 1847. £3,000-4,000 Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 100Ceylon.- Daniell (Samuel). A Picturesque Illustration of the scenery, animals, and native inhabitants, of the Island of Ceylon: in twelve plates, 1808. £5,000-7,000 Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 123D'Oyly (Charles). Behar Amateur Lithographic Scrap Book, lithographed throughout with title and 55 plates mounted on 43 paper leaves, [Patna], [1828]. £3,000-5,000 Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 139Gandhi (known as Mahatma Gandhi,) Fine Autograph Letter signed to Jawaharlal Nehru, Sevagram, Wardha, 1942, emphasising the importance of education in rural communities. £10,000-15,000 Forum AuctionsOnline: IndiaEnds 19th February 2026 Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 140Gantz (John). Indian Microcosm, first edition, Madras, John Gantz & Son, 1827. £10,000-15,000 Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 146Grierson (Sir George Abraham). Linguistic Survey of India, 11 vol. in 20, folding maps, original cloth, Calcutta, Superintendent Government Printing, 1903-28. £2,000-3,000 Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 195Madras.- Fort St. George Gazette (The), No.276-331, pp.493-936 and Index to all of 1834 at end, modern half calf, Madras, 2nd July - 31st December 1834. £2,000-3,000 Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 205Marshall (Sir John) and Alfred Foucher. The Monuments of Sanchi, 3 vol., first edition, 141 plates, most photogravure, [Calcutta], [1940]. £3,000-4,000
    Forum Auctions
    Online: India
    Ends 19th February 2026
    Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 40
    Ramasvami (Kavali Venkata). A Digest of the Different Castes of India, 83 charming hand-coloured lithographed plates, Madras, 1837. £5,000-7,000
    Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 50
    Watson (John Forbes) & John William Kaye. The People of India: A Series of Photographic Illustrations...of the Races and Tribes of Hindustan, 8 vol., 480 mounted albumen prints, 1868-75. £4,000-6,000
    Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 53
    Afghanistan.- Elphinstone (Hon. Mountstuart). An Account of the Kingdom of Caubul, first edition, hand-coloured aquatint plates, a fine copy, 1815. £2,000-3,000
    Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 57
    [Album and Treatise on Hinduism], manuscript treatise on Hinduism in French, 31 watercolours of Hindu deities, Pondicherry, 1865. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 62 Allan (Capt. Alexander). Views in the Mysore Country, [1794]. £2,000-3,000
    Forum Auctions
    Online: India
    Ends 19th February 2026
    Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 76
    Bird (James). Historical Researches on the Origin and Principles of the Bauddha and Jaina Religions..., first edition, lithographed plates, Bombay, American Mission Press, 1847. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 100
    Ceylon.- Daniell (Samuel). A Picturesque Illustration of the scenery, animals, and native inhabitants, of the Island of Ceylon: in twelve plates, 1808. £5,000-7,000
    Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 123
    D'Oyly (Charles). Behar Amateur Lithographic Scrap Book, lithographed throughout with title and 55 plates mounted on 43 paper leaves, [Patna], [1828]. £3,000-5,000
    Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 139
    Gandhi (known as Mahatma Gandhi,) Fine Autograph Letter signed to Jawaharlal Nehru, Sevagram, Wardha, 1942, emphasising the importance of education in rural communities. £10,000-15,000
    Forum Auctions
    Online: India
    Ends 19th February 2026
    Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 140
    Gantz (John). Indian Microcosm, first edition, Madras, John Gantz & Son, 1827. £10,000-15,000
    Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 146
    Grierson (Sir George Abraham). Linguistic Survey of India, 11 vol. in 20, folding maps, original cloth, Calcutta, Superintendent Government Printing, 1903-28. £2,000-3,000
    Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 195
    Madras.- Fort St. George Gazette (The), No.276-331, pp.493-936 and Index to all of 1834 at end, modern half calf, Madras, 2nd July - 31st December 1834. £2,000-3,000
    Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 205
    Marshall (Sir John) and Alfred Foucher. The Monuments of Sanchi, 3 vol., first edition, 141 plates, most photogravure, [Calcutta], [1940]. £3,000-4,000
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    Il Ponte, Feb. 25-26: HAMILTON, Sir William (1730-1803) - Campi Phlegraei. Napoli: [Pietro Fabris], 1776, 1779. € 30.000 - 50.000
    Il Ponte, Feb. 25-26: [MORTIER] - BLAEU, Joannes (1596-1673) - Het Nieuw Stede Boek van Italie. Amsterdam: Pieter Mortier, 1704-1705. € 15.000 - 25.000
    Il Ponte, Feb. 25-26: TULLIO D'ALBISOLA (1899-1971) - Bruno MUNARI (1907-1998) - L'Anguria lirica (lungo poema passionale). Roma e Savona: Edizioni Futuriste di Poesia, senza data [ma 1933?]. € 20.000 - 30.000
    Il Ponte, Feb. 25-26: IL MANOSCRITTO RITROVATO DI IPPOLITA MARIA SFORZA. TITO LIVIO - Ab Urbe Condita. Prima Decade. Manoscritto miniato su pergamena, metà XV secolo. € 280.000 - 350.000