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
51 NANSEN, Fridtjof (series editor).

The Norwegian North Polar Expedition 1893-1896. Scientific Results.

Christiania, 1900 AUD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 AUD 952.50
52

Fourteen volumes of finely bound poetry books. All in half leather with lots of gilt decoration and marbling. Poets here are: Lamb Keats Byron Heman Pope Hood Tennyson Eliza Cook Moore Cowper Burns Scott Shelley Longfellow

AUD 600.00 - 700.00 AUD 381.00
53 C.E.W. Bean.

Official History of Australia in the War of 1914-18.

Sydney: AUD 800.00 - 1,000.00 Not Sold
54

1) Tooley's Dictionary of Mapmakers A-D. Brand new. 2) Facsimile of Hulsius, Levinus. Kurtze, wahrhafftige Relation und Beschreibung... Schiffahrten 3) The Great South Land. Hordern House Catalouge 4) Kaarten in Bijbels (16e-18e eeuw) 1995

AUD 80.00 - 120.00 Not Sold
55

Bartholomew's New Reduced Survey Sheet 19 -- Isle of Skye.

Edinburgh 1920 AUD 80.00 - 120.00 Not Sold
56 Rodney Davidson and Jonathan Wantrup.

The Davidson Collection Australian and Pacific voyages from the library of Mr Rodney D. Davidson (deluxe limited edition), signed

AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 114.30
57 Compiled Ann-Mari Mickwitz, Leena Miekkavaara and Tuula Rantanen.

The A.E. Nordenskiold Collection in the Helsinki University Library - Annotated Catalogue of Maps made up to 1800. Vol.1 to 3.

1981 AUD 80.00 - 120.00 Not Sold
58

In Search of the Primitive: An Independent Explorer's Life with the Last of the Exotic Peoples of Africa, the Arctic, New Guinea and the Upper Amazon. Octavo hardcover in dustwrapper. In very good condition.

AUD 50.00 - 100.00 AUD 25.40
59 Gunter Schilder.

Volumes VI and VII of the Monumenta Cartographica Neerlandica

AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
60 H Herman

Brown Coals Of Victoria with Plans and Sketches 1922 Department of Mines. Bulletin Of The Geological Srvey Of Victoria (W. Baragwanath, Director))

AUD 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
61

Celsus de Medicina

1971 AUD 80.00 - 120.00 AUD 50.80
62 Massimo Vignetti and text Peter Lloyd and Mark Ovenden.

Two Transport and Art Vignelli Transit Maps with maps

2012 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 63.50
63 Harold Nicholson.

Diaries and Letters of Harold Nicholson. Three volumes. I) 1930-1939; II)1939-1945; III) 1945-1962

1968 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 63.50
64

A History of Chinese Art Vol. 1 and 2

2016 AUD 250.00 - 350.00 AUD 152.40
65 M. Rollin

The Ancient History of The Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Grecians, and Macedonians 8 Volumes

London 1823 AUD 350.00 - 450.00 AUD 215.90
66 T.S. Eliot

Four volumes of T.S. Eliot Critical Assessments

1990 AUD 50.00 - 100.00 AUD 38.10
67

YUKIO, Yashiro. Art Treasures of Japan.

Tokyo, 1960 AUD 80.00 - 120.00 Not Sold
68

Keylock's Dams of Winners of all Flat Races in Great Britain and Ireland 1915-1947

AUD 50.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
69 Julian Stockwin.

Kydd

2001 AUD 50.00 - 100.00 AUD 25.40
70

English Furniture with some furniture of other countries in the Irwin Untermyer Collection. Introduction by John Gloag. Notes and comments by Yvonne Hackenbroch.

1958 AUD 50.00 - 100.00 AUD 63.50
71 Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens 25 volume set.

AUD 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
72 Grolier,

25 volumes of The Worlds Great Classics, including The Works of Shakespeare, The Divine Comedy, The Odyssey, Plutarch, Huckleberry Finn, Vanity Fair, Ivanhoe & many more.

AUD 100.00 - 150.00 AUD 76.20
73 William Frost. c.1920s

Three Volumes of The Modern Bricklayer; A Practical Work on Bricklaying In All Its Branches,

AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 76.20
74 James Branch Cabell.

The Works of James Branch Cabell.

New York: 1927 AUD 350.00 - 450.00 Not Sold
75

7 Volumes in 8 Parts of Historical records of New South Wales

AUD 500.00 - 700.00 AUD 571.50
  • 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 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
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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
    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
  • 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