Sydney Rare Book Auctions: Christmas 2025! - Decorative Arts And Design, Books, Fine Bindings And Geology , A168, Ultimo

Auction Details

Auction Date: December 14, 2025 - December 14, 2025

Page Size: 410 items in 17 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
184	Edited by Arthur H Smout	Queensland Centenary: The First 100 Years 1859-1959 Queensland Centenary Souvenir Book	Brisbane	1959	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
185		The Pocket Queensland Containing General information Regarding the Great North-Eastern State of the Australian Commonwealth	Brisbane	c1919	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
186	Chalmers B Leask	Leask's Genealogical Guide to some Australian Families their Antecedents and Genealogies	Adelaide	1979	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 177.80
187	edited by Rev. James Jerram	Memoir and a selection of letters of the late Reverend Charles Jerram	London	1855	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
188	Samuel Lodge	Scrivelsby: The Home of the Champions, with some Account of the Marmion and Dymoke Families	London	1894	AUD 250.00 - 350.00	Not Sold
189	IS Hunter Young	Victorian Geographical and Biographical Charades : Intended as a Pastime for Winter Evenings, Combining Amusement with Instruction	Melbourne	1870	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 228.60
190	Charles Darwin	The Expression Of The Emotions In Man And Animals	London	1872	AUD 1,200.00 - 1,500.00	AUD 762.00
191		Footprints: a memoir of the late Alexander Hay, one of the fathers and early colonists of South Australia	London	1899	AUD 250.00 - 350.00	AUD 152.40
192	James Anthony Froude	Oceana or England and Her Colonies	London	1886	AUD 250.00 - 350.00	Not Sold
193	Mrs. Campbell Praed	My Australian Girlhood: Sketches and Impressions of Bush Life	London	190??	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	AUD 254.00
194		Nine NSW Parliamentary Papers of Postal History Interest			AUD 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
195	Sir T W Edgeworth David	Explanatory notes to accompany a new geological map of the commonwealth of Australia,: Based on the maps already published by the geological surveys of the various states, etc.		1932	AUD 600.00 - 700.00	Not Sold
196		1908 Western Australias Geological Survey Bulletin No. 31	Perth	1908	AUD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	Not Sold
197	John Shirley	The Lichen Flora Of Queensland with Descriptions of Species		1889	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	AUD 317.50
198	John Tyndall	Lessons in Electricity. At The Royal Institution 1875-6	London	1876	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 139.70
199	Reverend Julian Edmund Woods	Geological Observations in South Australia, principally in the District South-East of Adelaide	London	1862	AUD 500.00 - 600.00	AUD 317.50
200	Robt. M. Johnston	Systematic Account of the Geology of Tasmania		1888	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	AUD 508.00
201	R. Brough. Smyth	The Gold Fields and Mineral Districts of Victoria		1980	AUD 150.00 - 250.00	AUD 88.90
202		W. H. Smith & Son's Railway Map of the British Isles	London	1880	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 63.50
203		The History of Williamstown : From its First Settlement to a City 1834 - 1934	Melbourne	1934	AUD 150.00 - 250.00	AUD 114.30
204		Gillen's Diary. The Camp Jottings of F.J. Gillen on the Spencer and Gillen Expedition across Australia 1901-1902	Adelaide	1968	AUD 150.00 - 250.00	Not Sold
205		A History of the Vintage Motorcycle Club of Australia N.S.W		1978	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
206	William Morrell	The Pioneer Histories The Gold Rushes	London	1940	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 101.60
207		The Dens of London	London	1848	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	AUD 215.90
208		H.M. bark Endeavour: With an Account of Her Construction, Crew and Equipment and a Narrative of Her Voyage on the East Coast of New Holland in the Year 1770		1997	AUD 150.00 - 200.00	AUD 88.90

Sotheby’s
Year in Review

Sotheby’s Year in Review: A Rare Hebrew Bible with Micrographic Masorah. Sold: 1,514,000 USD

Sotheby’s Year in Review: "The Freedman's Primer.” Sold: 241,300 USD

Sotheby’s Year in Review: Smith, William. "The Map that Changed the World." Sold: 139,700 USD

Sotheby’s Year in Review: Psalter, C13th. Illuminated Psalter. Sold: 330,200 GBP

Sotheby’s Year in Review: Lincoln, Abraham. The abolition of slavery. Sold: 13,697,500 USD

Sotheby’s Year in Review: Vergilius. Opera, Venice, Aldo Manuzio, 1501. Sold: 1,041,400 USD
Case Antiques
2026 Winter Fine Art & Antiques
January 31 and February 1, 2026

Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: 1775 Map of Virginia, Fry and Jefferson, ex-John Tyler. $6,000 to $8,000.

Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: Albrecht Durer Engraving, The Peasant Couple at Market. $3,400 to $3,800.

Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: 1777 Map: Wm. Faden, British Colonies in N. America, ex. John Tyler. $2,000 to $2,400.

Case Antiques
2026 Winter Fine Art & Antiques
January 31 and February 1, 2026

Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: 30 Vols. George Eliot 1st Editions; Mill on the Floss, Silas Marner, Deronda, etc. $1,400 to $1,800.

Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: Celestial Floor Globe c. 1800. $1,400 to $1,800.

Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: Lewis Carroll: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, 1866 London MacMillan. $900 to $1,200.

Case Antiques
2026 Winter Fine Art & Antiques
January 31 and February 1, 2026

Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: President Andrew Jackson Signed Patent, 1831. $1,000 to $1,200.

Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: Civil War Tintype of Calvin “Old Ballie” Walker, CSA 3rd TN Infantry, KIA, plus 3 Union Images. $800 to $1,000.

Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: 1855 Georgia Pocket Map, W. G. Bonner. $800 to $1,000.

Case Antiques
2026 Winter Fine Art & Antiques
January 31 and February 1, 2026

Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: Audubon c. 1835 Birds of America Common Cormorant, Havell Edition. $800 to $900.

Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: George Eliot, Middlemarch, 1st Edition in 8 Volumes. $600 to $800.

Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: Four NASA Moon Survey Photos; 144M, 148M, 149M, 149H1. $400 to $600.

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