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

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Auction Name Christmas 2025! - Decorative Arts And Design, Books, Fine Bindings And Geology Total Sales (AUD) 66,236.85
Auction Date December 14, 2025 - December 14, 2025 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (AUD) 66,860.00
Sale Number #A168 High Estimate of Lots Sold (AUD) 93,370.00
Total Lots 410
Sold Lots 225.0 Low Estimate of All Lots (AUD) 185,898.00
% of Lots Sold 54.88% High Estimate of All Lots (AUD) 255,080.00
Unsold Lots 185 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 25.97%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
6 George Barbier et Jeans-Louis Vaudoyer

Album Dedie a Tamar Karsavina

1914 AUD 4,000.00 - 4,500.00 AUD 6,350.00
389 Richard Owen

Memoirs on the extinct wingless birds of New Zealand : with an appendix on those of England, Australia, Newfoundland, Mauritius, and Rodriguez

1879 AUD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 AUD 3,302.00
247 JK Rowling

Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone

1997 AUD 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 AUD 2,540.00
8

Romeo et Juliette

1926 AUD 1,300.00 - 1,500.00 AUD 2,286.00
390 Edited by G. J. Symons

The Eruption of Krakatoa, and Subsequent Phenomena

1888 AUD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 AUD 1,905.00
60 BROINOWSKI, Gracius

The Birds of Australia

1887-1891 AUD 250.00 - 300.00 AUD 1,778.00
172 Charles Darwin

The Effects of Cross and Self Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom

1876 AUD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 AUD 1,270.00
449 Walter E. Roth

Ethnological Studies among the North-West-Central Queensland Abordigines

1897 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 1,270.00
111

A bound collection of academic scientific papers

AUD 500.00 - 600.00 AUD 1,143.00
39 George Bentham

Flora Hongkongensis: A Description of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of the Island of Hongkong

1861 AUD 600.00 - 700.00 AUD 1,016.00
3

Choix des plus celebres maisons de plaisance de Rome et de ses environs, mesurees et dessinees par Charles Percier et P.F.L. Fontaine

1809 AUD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 AUD 952.50
15

Sketches in and about the Brisbane High School for Girls

1915 AUD 800.00 - 1,200.00 AUD 889.00
170 Charles Darwin

The Power of Movement in Plants

1882 AUD 800.00 - 1,000.00 AUD 762.00
190 Charles Darwin

The Expression Of The Emotions In Man And Animals

1872 AUD 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 AUD 762.00
257 Charles Darwin

The Different Forms of Flowers on Plants of the Same Species

1880 AUD 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 AUD 762.00
22

Barnett Canto VIII 1964

AUD 200.00 - 400.00 AUD 698.50
31

Marc Chagall

AUD 300.00 - 500.00 AUD 698.50
13 H W Newman May

Extracts & Reports on the Lucknow, or Wentworth Gold-field, Near Orange, New South Wales

1888 AUD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 AUD 635.00
464 Robert Logan Jack

Seven Queensland Reports

1896s -1898s AUD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 AUD 635.00
438

Two shelves of 33 literature books

AUD 300.00 - 400.00 AUD 539.75
89 Edmund Bartell

Hints for Picturesque Improvements in Ornamented Cottages, and their Scenery: Including Some Observations on the Labourer and His Cottage in Three Essays

1804 AUD 700.00 - 800.00 AUD 508.00
200 Robt. M. Johnston

Systematic Account of the Geology of Tasmania

1888 AUD 400.00 - 500.00 AUD 508.00
427

Degenerate Art Germany 1937 Catalogue

1937 AUD 400.00 - 500.00 AUD 508.00
219 Anthony Bradley

The Art of Justin O'Brien

AUD 500.00 - 600.00 AUD 476.25
233

Four shelves of Fine Binding books

AUD 400.00 - 500.00 AUD 476.25
  • 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.