Auction Report: Sydney Rare Book Auctions End of Year Sale: Books, Ephemera, Maps


Auction Name	End of Year Sale: Books, Ephemera, Maps	Total Sales (AUD)	31,838.90
Auction Date	December 28, 2025 - December 28, 2025	Low Estimate of Lots Sold (AUD)	40,440.00
Sale Number	#A169	High Estimate of Lots Sold (AUD)	62,460.00
Total Lots	440
Sold Lots	223.0	Low Estimate of All Lots (AUD)	102,870.00
% of Lots Sold	50.68%	High Estimate of All Lots (AUD)	153,310.00
Unsold Lots	217	Total Sales as a % of High Est.	20.77%

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
46	Peter Lombard	49 leaves printed both sides (so 98 pages) written	1487	AUD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	AUD 1,905.00
293	SYDNEY LONG AND SQUIRE MORGAN	SYDNEY LONG AND SQUIRE MORGAN CORRESPONDENCE AND DOCUMENTATION		AUD 1,800.00 - 2,200.00	AUD 1,143.00
426	Lionel Lindsay.	The Art of Sir Lionel Lindsay.	1982-7	AUD 700.00 - 900.00	AUD 1,079.50
51	NANSEN, Fridtjof (series editor).	The Norwegian North Polar Expedition 1893-1896. Scientific Results.	1900	AUD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	AUD 952.50
50		A set of six Agatha Christie books. Bound in full leather and with all edges gilt.. A special limited edition set Number 22 of 350 copies with The Mysterious Affair at Styles (The Author's first book) bearing the number and the signature of Rosalind Hicks	1990	AUD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00	AUD 635.00
75		7 Volumes in 8 Parts of Historical records of New South Wales		AUD 500.00 - 700.00	AUD 571.50
5	DELAMOTTE, Philip H.	The Practice of Photography. A manual for students and amateurs.	1855	AUD 250.00 - 350.00	AUD 539.75
415		Norman Lindsay's Ship Models.	1966	AUD 350.00 - 450.00	AUD 539.75
6		The Colonial Intelligencer, or, Aborigines Friend 1848-1854	1848-1854	AUD 250.00 - 350.00	AUD 412.75
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
111	Meredith J. Smith.	Marsupials of Australia. Volume 1: Possums, the Koala Wombats. Text	1980	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 381.00
190		Boswell's Life Of Johnson Illustrated .		AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 381.00
4	RENNELL, James.	The Geographical System of Herodotus, examined, and explained,	1800	AUD 500.00 - 600.00	AUD 317.50
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
44		A bundle of fine bindings. Mostly half leather with gilt details on spine. One Sangoorski and Sutcliffe. In good to excellent condition.		AUD 400.00 - 500.00	AUD 317.50
78	Nakamura Baisen, Yokoyama Kei and Inoue Seiji	Japanese Manga Travel Maps.		AUD 500.00 - 700.00	AUD 317.50
110	Robert David Fitzgerald.	1) Australian Orchids Volume 1 only.		AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 317.50
310		Four books relating to Waddesdon Manor & the Rothschild Collections.		AUD 400.00 - 700.00	AUD 317.50
7		Two plates of classical vases,	circa 1800	AUD 450.00 - 600.00	AUD 285.75
149		Victoria and Riverina. With which is incorporated Victoria 1930, Victoria and Riverina 1931 and Victoria and Riverina 1931 - 1932.	1933	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 285.75
204		Four books about Australian Army in Vietnam.		AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 285.75
49	Mr Michael Sawtell (Chairman of the Committee for Aboriginal Citizenship)...	Two ephemeral pieces 1. A flyer 14 x 21 from Workers' Educational Association Announcing: Series of Threee Popular Lectures on The Australian Aborigine to be given		AUD 400.00 - 500.00	AUD 254.00
128		Large map of western France, with some detail of Spain and lower England. Titled "Accuratissima Galliae Tabula vulgo Royaume de France".	circa 1670	AUD 400.00 - 600.00	AUD 254.00
156		A lot of fourteen books. 1) Winter Range by Claire Davis 2000 2) To Cut a Long Story Short by Jeffrey Archer 2000 3) Shelter by Jayne Anne Phillips 1994 ...		AUD 400.00 - 500.00	AUD 254.00
179	Ian Fleming.	Octopussy and The Living Daylights	1966	AUD 400.00 - 600.00	AUD 254.00

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
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
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.

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