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
404

Three books on Music 1) J Brahms - Piano Solo Complete in slip case,

AUD 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
405 Robert Short.

Two books on Dada 1) Dada and Surrealism

1980 AUD 50.00 - 100.00 AUD 38.10
406 Simon Kooijman.

Art. Art Objects, and Ritual in the Mimika Culture

AUD 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
407 Sylvie Joubert.

Arts primitifs dans les ateliers d'artistes. Musee de l'homme, Paris, 1967.

Paris 1967 AUD 50.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
408 Chris Boylan.

Four Books 1) New Guinea Shields. Animated by Spirits

New York, 2012 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
409 Robert K Liu.

A collection of five Jewellery Books. 1) Collectible Beads A Universal Aesthetic

Vista 1995 AUD 80.00 - 120.00 AUD 88.90
410 Schuller.

4 books on Architecture, all in very good condition. 1) Old Art in New Rooms

South Brunswick 1969 AUD 50.00 - 100.00 AUD 25.40
411

9 Books, mostly on Australian Art.

AUD 50.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
412 Adrienne L. Kaeppler.

2 books on Tonga, both in good condition. 1) From the Stone Age to the Space Age

1999 AUD 50.00 - 100.00 AUD 25.40
413

Five Books 1) Roads Cross: The Paintings of Rover Thomas with Kim Akerman, Mary Macha, Will Christensen and Wally Caruana.

AUD 150.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
414 edited by Chris McGuigan.

Karnta: Aboriginal Women's Art

AUD 80.00 - 120.00 Not Sold
415

Norman Lindsay's Ship Models.

Sydney 1966 AUD 350.00 - 450.00 AUD 539.75
416 edited by Lin Bloomfield.

Rose Lindsay: A Model Life

2001 AUD 350.00 - 450.00 Not Sold
417 Mareidi and Gert Stoll.

IBEJI: Twin Figures of the Yoruba

Munich 1980 AUD 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
418

Aboriginal Australia 1) The Tasmania Aborigines by NJB Plomley. In good condition. 2) Rom: An Aboriginal Ritual of Diplomacy edited by Stephen Wild.

Canberra 1986 AUD 80.00 - 150.00 AUD 76.20
419 A L Crawford

Aida Life and Ceremony of the Gogodala

1981 AUD 50.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
420 edited by Everard Leske with contributions M Lohe, FW Albrecht, and LH Leske.

1) Hermannsburg: A Vision and a Mission

Adelaide 1977 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 63.50
421

1) Dreamings : The Art of Aboriginal Australia edited Peter Sutton. Viking 1989. 2) Windows on the Dreaming: Aboriginal Paintings in the Australian National Gallery edited by Wally Caruana.

1989 AUD 80.00 - 120.00 Not Sold
422 Emily McCulloch Childs and Ross Gibson.

New Beginnings: Classic Paintings from the Corrigan Collection of 21st Century Aboriginal Art

Melbourne 2008 AUD 80.00 - 120.00 AUD 63.50
423 Marjorie Pizer.

To You, the Living: poems of bereavement and loss Marjorie Pizer.

Leura 1981 AUD 50.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
424 Michael Boulter.

Art of Utopia. 1) The Art of Utopia. New Direction in Contemporary Aboriginal Art

1991 AUD 80.00 - 120.00 AUD 50.80
425 edited by Anne Marie Brody.

Aboriginal Art 1) Stories: Eleven Aboriginal Artists, Works from the Holmes a Court Collection

1997 AUD 80.00 - 120.00 Not Sold
426 Lionel Lindsay.

The Art of Sir Lionel Lindsay.

1982-7 AUD 700.00 - 900.00 AUD 1,079.50
427 edited by Rick Kearn and

A discontinuous collection of the Flyfisher's Annual from 1994 to 2003.

Croydon, Victoria AUD 50.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
428

A nice group of books on fly fishing for trout in Tasmania.

1999 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 63.50
  • Sotheby’s
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