Auction Reports
Sydney Rare Book Auctions
Auction Info
- Auction Name
- Christmas 2025! - Decorative Arts And Design, Books, Fine Bindings And Geology
- Auction Date
- 12/14/2025 - 12/14/2025
- Sale Number
- #A168
- Total Lots
- 410
- Sold Lots
- 225.0
- Lots Sold
- 54.88%
- Unsold Lots
- 185
- Total Sales (AUD)
- 66,236.90
- Low Estimate of Lots Sold (AUD)
- 66,860.00
- High Estimate of Lots Sold (AUD)
- 93,370.00
- Low Estimate of All Lots (AUD)
- 185,898.00
- High Estimate of All Lots (AUD)
- 255,080.00
- 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 |
| 449 | Walter E. Roth | Ethnological Studies among the North-West-Central Queensland Abordigines |
1897 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | AUD 1,270.00 |
| 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 |
| 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 | |
| 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 |
| 190 | Charles Darwin | The Expression Of The Emotions In Man And Animals |
1872 | AUD 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 | AUD 762.00 |
| 170 | Charles Darwin | The Power of Movement in Plants |
1882 | AUD 800.00 - 1,000.00 | 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 |
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![<b>Forum, Feb. 19:</b> Lot 57<br>[Album and Treatise on Hinduism], manuscript treatise on Hinduism in French, 31 watercolours of Hindu deities, Pondicherry, 1865. £3,000-4,000](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/f70b3790-9b4a-4990-b402-f0322021c0de.jpg "<b>Forum, Feb. 19:</b> Lot 57<br>[Album and Treatise on Hinduism], manuscript treatise on Hinduism in French, 31 watercolours of Hindu deities, Pondicherry, 1865. £3,000-4,000")
![<b>Forum, Feb. 19:</b> Lot 62 Allan (Capt. Alexander). <i>Views in the Mysore Country,</i>
[1794]. £2,000-3,000](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/ad2cf7b4-4d93-4231-a956-b440583b39b3.jpg "<b>Forum, Feb. 19:</b> Lot 62 Allan (Capt. Alexander). <i>Views in the Mysore Country,</i>
[1794]. £2,000-3,000")
![<b>Forum, Feb. 19:</b> Lot 123<br>D'Oyly (Charles). <i>Behar Amateur Lithographic Scrap Book,</i> lithographed throughout with title and 55 plates mounted on 43 paper leaves, [Patna], [1828]. £3,000-5,000](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/5651043b-3c0d-4e2c-931f-72133bda9b36.jpg "<b>Forum, Feb. 19:</b> Lot 123<br>D'Oyly (Charles). <i>Behar Amateur Lithographic Scrap Book,</i> lithographed throughout with title and 55 plates mounted on 43 paper leaves, [Patna], [1828]. £3,000-5,000")
![<b>Forum, Feb. 19:</b> Lot 205<br>Marshall (Sir John) and Alfred Foucher. <i>The Monuments of Sanchi,</i> 3 vol., first edition, 141 plates, most photogravure, [Calcutta], [1940]. £3,000-4,000](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/8c8244b7-4573-44d3-9c70-e0d3a3ed3cc4.jpg "<b>Forum, Feb. 19:</b> Lot 205<br>Marshall (Sir John) and Alfred Foucher. <i>The Monuments of Sanchi,</i> 3 vol., first edition, 141 plates, most photogravure, [Calcutta], [1940]. £3,000-4,000")
![<b>Il Ponte, Feb. 25-26:</b> HAMILTON, Sir William (1730-1803) - Campi Phlegraei. Napoli: [Pietro Fabris], 1776, 1779. € 30.000 - 50.000](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/0372eeb9-97e1-47b2-baca-b3287d4704ee.jpg "<b>Il Ponte, Feb. 25-26:</b> HAMILTON, Sir William (1730-1803) - Campi Phlegraei. Napoli: [Pietro Fabris], 1776, 1779. € 30.000 - 50.000")
![<b>Il Ponte, Feb. 25-26:</b> [MORTIER] - BLAEU, Joannes (1596-1673) - Het Nieuw Stede Boek van Italie. Amsterdam: Pieter Mortier, 1704-1705. € 15.000 - 25.000](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/8f9ce440-b420-4407-8293-eb8e1b38ca19.jpg "<b>Il Ponte, Feb. 25-26:</b> [MORTIER] - BLAEU, Joannes (1596-1673) - Het Nieuw Stede Boek van Italie. Amsterdam: Pieter Mortier, 1704-1705. € 15.000 - 25.000")
![<b>Il Ponte, Feb. 25-26:</b> TULLIO D'ALBISOLA (1899-1971) - Bruno MUNARI (1907-1998) - L'Anguria lirica (lungo poema passionale). Roma e Savona: Edizioni Futuriste di Poesia, senza data [ma 1933?]. € 20.000 - 30.000](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/71bb9667-5d66-4aa8-96a2-9880c74a7a26.jpg "<b>Il Ponte, Feb. 25-26:</b> TULLIO D'ALBISOLA (1899-1971) - Bruno MUNARI (1907-1998) - L'Anguria lirica (lungo poema passionale). Roma e Savona: Edizioni Futuriste di Poesia, senza data [ma 1933?]. € 20.000 - 30.000")
