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
  • ALDE, Mar. 11: AUGUSTIN (Saint). De civitate Dei. Rome, Konrad Sweynheym et Arnold Pannartz, 1470. €20,000 - €30,000.
    ALDE, Mar. 11: [REGNART (LE LIVRE DE)]. [Le] Docteur en malice, maistre Regnard, demonstrant les ruzes et cautelles qu'il use envers les personnes… Rouen, 1550. €20,000 - €30,000.
    ALDE, Mar. 11: TRITHÈME (JEAN). Polygraphie et universelle escriture cabalistique. Paris, [Benoît Prévost pour] Jacques Kerver, 1561. €8,000 - €10,000.
    ALDE, Mar. 11: CAUS (SALOMON DE). La Perspective, avec la raison des ombres et des miroirs. Londres, John Norton, 1612.
    ALDE, Mar. 11: NICERON (JEAN-FRANÇOIS). La Perspective curieuse ou magie artificielle des effets merveilleux de l'optique. Paris, Pierre Billaine, 1638. €6,000 - €8,000.
    ALDE, Mar. 11: VONTET (JACQUES). L’Art de trancher la viande et toute sorte de fruits… S.l.n.d. [probablement Lyon, vers 1647]. €20,000 - €30,000.
    ALDE, Mar. 11: HUGO (VICTOR). [Paysage spectral avec une église], [vers 1837]. €20,000 - €30,000.
    ALDE, Mar. 11: [HERVEY DE SAINT-DENYS (LÉON D')]. Les Rêves et les Moyens de les diriger. Observations pratiques. Paris, Amyot, 1867. €3,000 - €4,000.
    ALDE, Mar. 11: GACHET (PAUL-FERDINAND). Les Chats de Gachet (Manuscrit). S.d. [avant mai 1873]. €6,000 - €8,000.
    ALDE, Mar. 11: [REDON (ODILON)]. PICARD (EDMOND). Le Juré. Monodrame en cinq actes… Bruxelles, Mme veuve Monnom, 1887. €7,000 - €9,000.
    ALDE, Mar. 11: [TOULOUSE-LAUTREC (HENRI DE) ET HENRI-GABRIEL IBELS]. MONTORGUEIL (GEORGES). Le Café-concert. Paris, [1893]. €4,000 - €5,000.
    ALDE, Mar. 11: [TERRY (EMILIO)]. Projet de fontaine. Dessin original au stylo et à l'encre noire. 1938. €2,000 - €3,000.
  • Il Ponte, Feb. 25-26: HAMILTON, Sir William (1730-1803) - Campi Phlegraei. Napoli: [Pietro Fabris], 1776, 1779. € 30.000 - 50.000
    Il Ponte, Feb. 25-26: [MORTIER] - BLAEU, Joannes (1596-1673) - Het Nieuw Stede Boek van Italie. Amsterdam: Pieter Mortier, 1704-1705. € 15.000 - 25.000
    Il Ponte, Feb. 25-26: 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
    Il Ponte, Feb. 25-26: IL MANOSCRITTO RITROVATO DI IPPOLITA MARIA SFORZA. TITO LIVIO - Ab Urbe Condita. Prima Decade. Manoscritto miniato su pergamena, metà XV secolo. € 280.000 - 350.000