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
51 NANSEN, Fridtjof (series editor).

The Norwegian North Polar Expedition 1893-1896. Scientific Results.

Christiania, 1900 AUD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 AUD 952.50
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
53 C.E.W. Bean.

Official History of Australia in the War of 1914-18.

Sydney: AUD 800.00 - 1,000.00 Not Sold
54

1) Tooley's Dictionary of Mapmakers A-D. Brand new. 2) Facsimile of Hulsius, Levinus. Kurtze, wahrhafftige Relation und Beschreibung... Schiffahrten 3) The Great South Land. Hordern House Catalouge 4) Kaarten in Bijbels (16e-18e eeuw) 1995

AUD 80.00 - 120.00 Not Sold
55

Bartholomew's New Reduced Survey Sheet 19 -- Isle of Skye.

Edinburgh 1920 AUD 80.00 - 120.00 Not Sold
56 Rodney Davidson and Jonathan Wantrup.

The Davidson Collection Australian and Pacific voyages from the library of Mr Rodney D. Davidson (deluxe limited edition), signed

AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 114.30
57 Compiled Ann-Mari Mickwitz, Leena Miekkavaara and Tuula Rantanen.

The A.E. Nordenskiold Collection in the Helsinki University Library - Annotated Catalogue of Maps made up to 1800. Vol.1 to 3.

1981 AUD 80.00 - 120.00 Not Sold
58

In Search of the Primitive: An Independent Explorer's Life with the Last of the Exotic Peoples of Africa, the Arctic, New Guinea and the Upper Amazon. Octavo hardcover in dustwrapper. In very good condition.

AUD 50.00 - 100.00 AUD 25.40
59 Gunter Schilder.

Volumes VI and VII of the Monumenta Cartographica Neerlandica

AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
60 H Herman

Brown Coals Of Victoria with Plans and Sketches 1922 Department of Mines. Bulletin Of The Geological Srvey Of Victoria (W. Baragwanath, Director))

AUD 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
61

Celsus de Medicina

1971 AUD 80.00 - 120.00 AUD 50.80
62 Massimo Vignetti and text Peter Lloyd and Mark Ovenden.

Two Transport and Art Vignelli Transit Maps with maps

2012 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 63.50
63 Harold Nicholson.

Diaries and Letters of Harold Nicholson. Three volumes. I) 1930-1939; II)1939-1945; III) 1945-1962

1968 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 63.50
64

A History of Chinese Art Vol. 1 and 2

2016 AUD 250.00 - 350.00 AUD 152.40
65 M. Rollin

The Ancient History of The Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Grecians, and Macedonians 8 Volumes

London 1823 AUD 350.00 - 450.00 AUD 215.90
66 T.S. Eliot

Four volumes of T.S. Eliot Critical Assessments

1990 AUD 50.00 - 100.00 AUD 38.10
67

YUKIO, Yashiro. Art Treasures of Japan.

Tokyo, 1960 AUD 80.00 - 120.00 Not Sold
68

Keylock's Dams of Winners of all Flat Races in Great Britain and Ireland 1915-1947

AUD 50.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
69 Julian Stockwin.

Kydd

2001 AUD 50.00 - 100.00 AUD 25.40
70

English Furniture with some furniture of other countries in the Irwin Untermyer Collection. Introduction by John Gloag. Notes and comments by Yvonne Hackenbroch.

1958 AUD 50.00 - 100.00 AUD 63.50
71 Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens 25 volume set.

AUD 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
72 Grolier,

25 volumes of The Worlds Great Classics, including The Works of Shakespeare, The Divine Comedy, The Odyssey, Plutarch, Huckleberry Finn, Vanity Fair, Ivanhoe & many more.

AUD 100.00 - 150.00 AUD 76.20
73 William Frost. c.1920s

Three Volumes of The Modern Bricklayer; A Practical Work on Bricklaying In All Its Branches,

AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 76.20
74 James Branch Cabell.

The Works of James Branch Cabell.

New York: 1927 AUD 350.00 - 450.00 Not Sold
75

7 Volumes in 8 Parts of Historical records of New South Wales

AUD 500.00 - 700.00 AUD 571.50
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