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Sydney Rare Book Auctions: End of Year Sale: Books, Ephemera, Maps

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Auction Name End of Year Sale: Books, Ephemera, Maps Total Sales (AUD) 31,838.90
Auction Date December 28, 2025 - December 28, 2025 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (AUD) 40,440.00
Sale Number #A169 High Estimate of Lots Sold (AUD) 62,460.00
Total Lots 440
Sold Lots 223.0 Low Estimate of All Lots (AUD) 102,870.00
% of Lots Sold 50.68% High Estimate of All Lots (AUD) 153,310.00
Unsold Lots 217 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 20.77%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
46 Peter Lombard

49 leaves printed both sides (so 98 pages) written

 1487 AUD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 AUD 1,905.00
293 SYDNEY LONG AND SQUIRE MORGAN

SYDNEY LONG AND SQUIRE MORGAN CORRESPONDENCE AND DOCUMENTATION

 AUD 1,800.00 - 2,200.00 AUD 1,143.00
426 Lionel Lindsay.

The Art of Sir Lionel Lindsay.

1982-7 AUD 700.00 - 900.00 AUD 1,079.50
51 NANSEN, Fridtjof (series editor).

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

1900 AUD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 AUD 952.50
50

A set of six Agatha Christie books. Bound in full leather and with all edges gilt.. A special limited edition set Number 22 of 350 copies with The Mysterious Affair at Styles (The Author's first book) bearing the number and the signature of Rosalind Hicks

 1990 AUD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 AUD 635.00
75

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

AUD 500.00 - 700.00 AUD 571.50
5 DELAMOTTE, Philip H.

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

1855 AUD 250.00 - 350.00 AUD 539.75
415

Norman Lindsay's Ship Models.

 1966 AUD 350.00 - 450.00 AUD 539.75
6

The Colonial Intelligencer, or, Aborigines Friend 1848-1854

1848-1854 AUD 250.00 - 350.00 AUD 412.75
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
111 Meredith J. Smith.

Marsupials of Australia. Volume 1: Possums, the Koala Wombats. Text

 1980 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 381.00
190

Boswell's Life Of Johnson Illustrated .

 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 381.00
4 RENNELL, James.

The Geographical System of Herodotus, examined, and explained,

 1800 AUD 500.00 - 600.00 AUD 317.50
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
44

A bundle of fine bindings. Mostly half leather with gilt details on spine. One Sangoorski and Sutcliffe. In good to excellent condition.

 AUD 400.00 - 500.00 AUD 317.50
78 Nakamura Baisen, Yokoyama Kei and Inoue Seiji

Japanese Manga Travel Maps.

AUD 500.00 - 700.00 AUD 317.50
110 Robert David Fitzgerald.

1) Australian Orchids Volume 1 only.

 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 317.50
310

Four books relating to Waddesdon Manor & the Rothschild Collections.

 AUD 400.00 - 700.00 AUD 317.50
7

Two plates of classical vases,

circa 1800 AUD 450.00 - 600.00 AUD 285.75
149

Victoria and Riverina. With which is incorporated Victoria 1930, Victoria and Riverina 1931 and Victoria and Riverina 1931 - 1932.

 1933 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 285.75
204

Four books about Australian Army in Vietnam.

AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 285.75
49 Mr Michael Sawtell (Chairman of the Committee for Aboriginal Citizenship)...

Two ephemeral pieces 1. A flyer 14 x 21 from Workers' Educational Association Announcing: Series of Threee Popular Lectures on The Australian Aborigine to be given

 AUD 400.00 - 500.00 AUD 254.00
128

Large map of western France, with some detail of Spain and lower England. Titled "Accuratissima Galliae Tabula vulgo Royaume de France".

 circa 1670 AUD 400.00 - 600.00 AUD 254.00
156

A lot of fourteen books. 1) Winter Range by Claire Davis 2000 2) To Cut a Long Story Short by Jeffrey Archer 2000 3) Shelter by Jayne Anne Phillips 1994 ...

 AUD 400.00 - 500.00 AUD 254.00
179 Ian Fleming.

Octopussy and The Living Daylights

 1966 AUD 400.00 - 600.00 AUD 254.00
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    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
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    Sotheby’s Year in Review: Vergilius. Opera, Venice, Aldo Manuzio, 1501. Sold: 1,041,400 USD
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