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
1 The Rev. William Norris.

Annals of the Diocese of Adelaide

 1852 AUD 300.00 - 400.00 AUD 203.20
2 Dr. Sir Charles Bell

The Hand Its Mechanism and Its Vital Endowments. An Evincing Design

 London 1837 AUD 300.00 - 400.00 AUD 190.50
3 Simpson Newland,

The Far North Country

 1887 AUD 250.00 - 350.00 Not Sold
4 RENNELL, James.

The Geographical System of Herodotus, examined, and explained,

 London, 1800 AUD 500.00 - 600.00 AUD 317.50
5 DELAMOTTE, Philip H.

The Practice of Photography. A manual for students and amateurs.

London 1855 AUD 250.00 - 350.00 AUD 539.75
6

The Colonial Intelligencer, or, Aborigines Friend 1848-1854

London 1848-1854 AUD 250.00 - 350.00 AUD 412.75
7

Two plates of classical vases,

circa 1800 AUD 450.00 - 600.00 AUD 285.75
8 Elijah H Burritt.

A Plan of the Solar System exhibiting its relative Magnitudes and Distances. Map pasted onto the front cover of the Atlas designed to Illustrate the Geography and Heavens

 1835 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 139.70
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
10 George Frederick Cruchley

Western Hemisphere. Top cartouche reads: Cruchley's Improved Atlas for Schools and Families. Bottom cartouche reads July 1st 1841.

AUD 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
11 Ferdinand Maria

An Original Bavarian Document implemented by Ferdinand Maria, Elector of Bavaria

 1675 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
12

Map of the Islands in the Pacific Ocean.

1817 AUD 120.00 - 180.00 Not Sold
13 Louis LeBreton. Engraved Lemercier.

Village de Dobo (Iles Arrow) drawn

AUD 50.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
14

Four official programmes from the 1956 Melbourne Olympic Games.

1956 AUD 50.00 - 100.00 AUD 25.40
15

Verse - Issued every two. Narrow publication.

 1930-1932 AUD 150.00 - 200.00 AUD 88.90
16

The Horn Book Magazine.

1985 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 127.00
17 Fowles.

The Sydney Drawing book; The elementary free-hand drawing book

 AUD 150.00 - 250.00 AUD 88.90
18 Norman Lindsay

Five Norman Lindsay Bookplates for the following people 1. Hugh D McIntosh 2. Janet Linday 3. Helen Linday 4. Keith Wingrove 5. Mary Wingrove

AUD 400.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
19

Government Notice. Colonial Secretary's Office, Sydney. 22nd April 1829. Alexander Mcleay.

1829 AUD 400.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
20 Philip-Stephan

7 large colour photolithographs

 c1880s AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
21

2 Maps depicting Brazil, both containing colour. 1) South America East Coast. Pernambuco to Maceio. 2) South America. Brazil. Abrolhos Rocks with adjacent coast from San Mateo to Itacolomis Reef.

 AUD 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
22 H Warren and engraved J Rogers.

Victoria or Port Philip Vignette of people, animals and scenes illustrated

 London c1851 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 127.00
23 D. S. L. Clift

Gold Dredging in New South Wales

 Sydney 1975 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 165.10
24

One of Australia's Daughters. An autobiography of Mrs. Harrison Lee.

 London, 1906 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
25

The Memoirs of Captain Liddell Hart.

 London, 1965 AUD 150.00 - 250.00 AUD 101.60
  • <b><center>Sotheby’s<br>Year in Review</center></b> <b>Sotheby’s Year in Review:</b> A Rare Hebrew Bible with Micrographic Masorah. Sold: 1,514,000 USD <b>Sotheby’s Year in Review:</b> "The Freedman's Primer.” Sold: 241,300 USD <b>Sotheby’s Year in Review:</b> Smith, William. "The Map that Changed the World." Sold: 139,700 USD <b>Sotheby’s Year in Review:</b> Psalter, C13th. Illuminated Psalter. Sold: 330,200 GBP <b>Sotheby’s Year in Review:</b> Lincoln, Abraham. The abolition of slavery. Sold: 13,697,500 USD <b>Sotheby’s Year in Review:</b> Vergilius. Opera, Venice, Aldo Manuzio, 1501. Sold: 1,041,400 USD
    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
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