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
329

1) Encyclopedia of Australian Fishing.

Sydney between 1979 and 1981 AUD 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
330

Letts's Popular Atlas Being A Series of Maps Delineating The Whole Surface Of The Globe With Many Special and Original Features and a Copious Index of 23,000 names. Complete Edition

London AUD 10,000.00 - 12,000.00 Not Sold
331 F E Wickham

N.S.W. Rys. Moss Vale to Port Kembla Books 1 and 2. Working Plan and Section. Compiled by F E Wickham Chief Engineer September, 1927 and November 1927.

AUD 250.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
332

1. Tourist Guide and Street Directory From Helensburfg to Bega South Coasr.

Sydney AUD 120.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
333

Crown Lands Auction Sale Balgowlah Heights On The Ground Saturday 18th June 1960 at 10AM. See photo.

AUD 200.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
334

Geological Map Bendigo Gold Field. Attractive Colour map of the Bendigo Gold Fields.

Circa 1940 AUD 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
335 edited by Professor F W Hutton.

Handbook Of Christchurch For The Use of the Members of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science .

Christchurch AUD 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
336

Crown Lands Auction Sale Balgowlah Heights On The Ground Saturday 13th June 1961 at 10AM.

AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
337 Compiled A. N. Baranov

The World Atlas.

Moscow 1967 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
338 Alexander Keith Johnson

The Physical Atlas A Series of Maps & Illustrations of the Geographical Distribution of Natural Phenomena Embracing 1. Geology. 11. Hydrography. 111. Meterology. IV Natural History

Edinburgh 1850 AUD 500.00 - 1,000.00 Not Sold
339

1. A March On London G A Henty 2. Under Wellington's Command G A Henty 3 From Pole To Pole Gordon Stables 4. The Empire Annual For Austraalian Boys

AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 63.50
340

A Handbook for Travellers in India and Pakistan, Burma and Ceylon. Including The Portuguese and French Possessions and The Indian States. Sixteenth edition. With Numerous Maps and Plans

London 19493 AUD 150.00 - 200.00 AUD 152.40
341 Arthur Gray

1) The Town of Cambridge A History

Cambridge 1925 AUD 150.00 - 200.00 AUD 228.60
342

a) Freemasonry in Parramatta 1836 1936 by R G Hay. b) Lodge edgwick No. 125 United Grand Lodge of New South Waes The First Fifty Years 1884 `934.

Newcastle NSW 1934 AUD 250.00 - 300.00 AUD 152.40
343 (George Ogilvy Preshaw, George Ogilvy]

Banking Under Difficulties or Life on the Goldfields of Victoria, New South Wales & New Zealand. by a Bank Official

Melbourne 1888 AUD 400.00 - 500.00 AUD 254.00
344

Rare and special. A wonderfully bound collection of the annual reports of the English Jane Austen Society.

AUD 150.00 - 250.00 AUD 88.90
345

Department of Mines Annual Reports for 1878 to 1899. 11 Annual reports

1878 to 1899 AUD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
346 Richard Whately , D.D. Archbishop of Dublin.

Thoughts on Secondary Punishments in a Letter to Earl Grey.

in London 1832 AUD 400.00 - 500.00 AUD 254.00
347 William Ridley

Kamilaroi. And Other Australian Languages

in Sydney 1875 AUD 250.00 - 350.00 Not Sold
348

United States International Centennial Exhibition of 1876. Catalogue Of The Articles and Objects Exhibited by the United States Navy Department in the United States Government Building. Fairmont Park, Philadelphia, Pa.

1876 AUD 300.00 - 400.00 AUD 190.50
349

The Cyclopedia pf N.S.W. Illustrated Undr The Patronage of Vice-Royality. The Government oof New South Wales and The Lord Mayor of Sydney.

Sydney 1907 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 63.50
350 J E Carne and L J Jones.

The Limestone Deposits of New South Wales.

Sydney 1919 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
351 Robert A Dallen.

1. Three copies of TheUniversity of Sydney. Its History aand Progress Illustrated

Sydney 1914 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
352 Meader, Cashman & Carolan

1. Australian Complete Book Of Flower 2. Marrickville People and Places.

AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 63.50
353 edited by The Royal Commission on the Historic Monuments

An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the City of Cambridge. Part I & 2 plus Maps & Plans.

1959 AUD 250.00 - 350.00 Not Sold
  • Forum Auctions
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    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
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    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
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    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
  • 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
  • Sotheby's Fine Books & Manuscripts
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    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.