Auction Reports
Sydney Rare Book Auctions
Auction Info
- Auction Name
- Christmas 2025! - Decorative Arts And Design, Books, Fine Bindings And Geology
- Auction Date
- 12/14/2025 - 12/14/2025
- Sale Number
- #A168
- Total Lots
- 410
- Sold Lots
- 225.0
- Lots Sold
- 54.88%
- Unsold Lots
- 185
- Total Sales (AUD)
- 66,236.90
- Low Estimate of Lots Sold (AUD)
- 66,860.00
- High Estimate of Lots Sold (AUD)
- 93,370.00
- Low Estimate of All Lots (AUD)
- 185,898.00
- High Estimate of All Lots (AUD)
- 255,080.00
- Total Sales as a % of High Est.
- 25.97%
Top twenty five by sale price
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | George Barbier et Jeans-Louis Vaudoyer | Album Dedie a Tamar Karsavina |
1914 | AUD 4,000.00 - 4,500.00 | AUD 6,350.00 |
| 389 | Richard Owen | Memoirs on the extinct wingless birds of New Zealand : with an appendix on those of England, Australia, Newfoundland, Mauritius, and Rodriguez |
1879 | AUD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 | AUD 3,302.00 |
| 247 | JK Rowling | Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone |
1997 | AUD 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 | AUD 2,540.00 |
| 8 | Romeo et Juliette |
1926 | AUD 1,300.00 - 1,500.00 | AUD 2,286.00 | |
| 390 | Edited by G. J. Symons | The Eruption of Krakatoa, and Subsequent Phenomena |
1888 | AUD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | AUD 1,905.00 |
| 60 | BROINOWSKI, Gracius | The Birds of Australia |
1887-1891 | AUD 250.00 - 300.00 | AUD 1,778.00 |
| 449 | Walter E. Roth | Ethnological Studies among the North-West-Central Queensland Abordigines |
1897 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | AUD 1,270.00 |
| 172 | Charles Darwin | The Effects of Cross and Self Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom |
1876 | AUD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 | AUD 1,270.00 |
| 111 | A bound collection of academic scientific papers |
N/A | AUD 500.00 - 600.00 | AUD 1,143.00 | |
| 39 | George Bentham | Flora Hongkongensis: A Description of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of the Island of Hongkong |
1861 | AUD 600.00 - 700.00 | AUD 1,016.00 |
| 3 | Choix des plus celebres maisons de plaisance de Rome et de ses environs, mesurees et dessinees par Charles Percier et P.F.L. Fontaine |
1809 | AUD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 | AUD 952.50 | |
| 15 | Sketches in and about the Brisbane High School for Girls |
1915 | AUD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | AUD 889.00 | |
| 257 | Charles Darwin | The Different Forms of Flowers on Plants of the Same Species |
1880 | AUD 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 | AUD 762.00 |
| 190 | Charles Darwin | The Expression Of The Emotions In Man And Animals |
1872 | AUD 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 | AUD 762.00 |
| 170 | Charles Darwin | The Power of Movement in Plants |
1882 | AUD 800.00 - 1,000.00 | AUD 762.00 |
| 22 | Barnett Canto VIII 1964 |
N/A | AUD 200.00 - 400.00 | AUD 698.50 | |
| 31 | Marc Chagall |
N/A | AUD 300.00 - 500.00 | AUD 698.50 | |
| 13 | H W Newman May | Extracts & Reports on the Lucknow, or Wentworth Gold-field, Near Orange, New South Wales |
1888 | AUD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | AUD 635.00 |
| 464 | Robert Logan Jack | Seven Queensland Reports |
1896s -1898s | AUD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 | AUD 635.00 |
| 438 | Two shelves of 33 literature books |
N/A | AUD 300.00 - 400.00 | AUD 539.75 |
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ALDE, Apr. 8: GUEVARA (ANTONIO DE). Histoire de Marc-Aurèle, Empereur Romain, vray miroir et horloge des Princes. Paris, Pierre et Galliot du Pré, frères, 1565. €3,000 to €4,000.ALDE, Apr. 8: HEURES DE LA VIERGE. Horæ in laudem beatissimæ virginis Mariæ ad usum Romanum. Paris, Charles L'Angelier, 1556. €4,000 to €5,000.ALDE, Apr. 8: MONTAIGNE (MICHEL DE). Les Essais. Édition nouvelle, trouvée après le deceds de l'autheur… Paris, Abel L'Angelier, 1595. €6,000 to €8,000.ALDE, Apr. 8: [ROJAS (FERNANDO DE)]. Celestina, tragicomedia di Calisto et Melibea, tradotta de lingua castigliana in italiano idioma… Venise, 1531. €2,000 to €3,000.ALDE, Apr. 8: CAMÕES (LUÍS DE). Os Lusiadas. Lisbonne, Pedro Crasbeeck, 1613. €2,000 to €3,000.ALDE, Apr. 8: CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE). El Ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Bruxelles, Roger Velpius & Huberto Antonio, 1611. €6,000 to €8,000.ALDE, Apr. 8: LA FONTAINE (JEAN DE). Fables choisies, mises en vers. Paris, Denys Thierry et Claude Barbin, 1678-1694. €6,000 to €8,000.ALDE, Apr. 8: CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE). El Ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Madrid, Joaquin Ibarra, 1780. €3,000 to €4,000.ALDE, Apr. 8: DIDEROT (DENIS) ET JEAN LE ROND D'ALEMBERT. Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers. Paris, 1751-1765. €15,000 to €20,000.ALDE, Apr. 8: [LIVRE TISSÉ]. LAMARTINE (Alphonse de). Les Laboureurs. Poème tiré de Jocelyn… Lyon, J. A. Henry, 1883. €8,000 to €10,000.ALDE, Apr. 8: [LIVRE TISSÉ]. Livre de prières tissé d'après les enluminures des manuscrits du XIVe au XVIe siècle. Lyon, [A. Roux], 1886. €5,000 to €6,000. -
Sotheby’s
Books, Manuscripts & Objects from Three Important Collections
Open for Bidding 2-17 AprilSotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: [Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun]. Le Roman de la Rose, [Geneva or Lyons, c.1481], first printed edition of the most important medieval French vernacular poem. £200,000 to £300,000.Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Castiglione. Il libro del cortegiano. [Venice], April 1528, first edition, in a magnificent binding by Jean Picard for Jean Grolier. £100,000 to £150,000.Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Jacobus de Cessolis. Schachzabelbuch, Strasbourg, 1483, von der Lasa copy. £50,000 to £70,000.Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: World Championship, 1972. A collection of 84 press photographs of the famed match between Spassky and Fischer. £2,000 to £3,000.Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Ben Franklin. Autograph letter signed, to Lord Shelburne, British Prime Minister, during peace negotiations, November 1782. £15,000 to £20,000.