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
76 Claud Levi-Strauss

1) The Raw and the Cooked. Cape 2) From Honey to Ashes Harper Row 3) The Origin of Table Manners Cape 4) Tristes Tropiques Cape

AUD 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
77

1) Large map that depicts the coastal area of Seal Rocks, located in New South Wales. 2) 3 Maps of areas around NSW, including 2 maps focussing on the Sydney area.

AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 165.10
78 Nakamura Baisen, Yokoyama Kei and Inoue Seiji

Japanese Manga Travel Maps.

AUD 500.00 - 700.00 AUD 317.50
79

Four Colour New South Wales Maps From Surveys by The Royal Australian Navy.

AUD 80.00 - 120.00 AUD 50.80
80

A screenprint poster of Ronald Reagan. Poster is Christmas themed with the large caption at the top, "Peace on where?".

AUD 150.00 - 250.00 AUD 88.90
81

The Coast of Portugal, Spain and Morocco. Leading to the Strait of Gibraltar' Surveyor unknown,

1848 AUD 50.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
82 the Royal Australian Navy.

Four Port Jackson Colour Maps. From Surveys

AUD 50.00 - 100.00 AUD 25.40
83

Cache of five large French Admiralty charts of the South American coastline, each measuring 655 x 965 mm.

1833 AUD 50.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
84 John Sands.

Four Colour Maps

No date c1886 AUD 400.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
85

Two John Oslen's reproduction prints. 1) Spanish Encounter.

1970 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 63.50
86

A bundle of Maps of the Bendigo Strathfieldsaye Area.

1930s-80s AUD 150.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
87

Thirteen Victoria Geological Maps

1970s AUD 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
88

About 20 Maps, Posters and Prints.

AUD 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
89 John Bartholomew.

Two Imperial Maps of England & Wales.

No date c1860s AUD 150.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
90

The Pele Albums - Selections From Public and Private Collections Celebrating The Soccer Career of Pele. 2 Volumes.

1990 AUD 50.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
91 James Bryce LLD

The Complete Atlas, One Hundred and Twenty Maps of Modern Historical , Classical, and Physical Geography; with Descriptive Letterpress of Modern and Physical Geography

No date c1878 AUD 80.00 - 120.00 AUD 127.00
92

Bradshaw's Continental Railway Guide and General Handbook, Illustrated with Local and Other Maps, Special Edition.

2012 AUD 80.00 - 120.00 AUD 50.80
93

This is Japan, Number 5 1958.

Tokyo 1957 AUD 80.00 - 120.00 AUD 50.80
94

English Newspaper The Sphere used as a cricket scrapbook. A cricket lover has compiled a scrapbook using a copy of the Sphere Newspaper (Magazine?) .

AUD 150.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
95 edited by Ludwig Goldscheider

Leonardo Da Vinci

1954 AUD 50.00 - 100.00 AUD 25.40
96 Geoffrey De Bellaigue,

French Porcelain In the Collection of Her Majesty The Queen. Three volumes

2010 AUD 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
97 Michael Freeman

Four books from the Collins Photography Workshop 1) Cameras and Lenses 2) Light 3) The Image 4) Film 5) Travels of Victorian Photographer Folio Society. 6) Halliwell's film guide 2005

AUD 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
98 Michael Poliza.

2 Books on Africa 1) Africa

2006 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 63.50
99

Velazquez: The Complete Works Jose Lopez-Rey

1998 AUD 150.00 - 200.00 AUD 152.40
100 Giovanni Fanelli

Italy Around 1900. A Portrait in Colour

Cologne AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 63.50
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