Auction Report: 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

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

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Top twenty-five by sale price