Christmas 2025!

Decorative Arts and Design, Books, Fine Bindings and Geology A168

12 noon, Sunday 14th December

Sydney Rare Book Auction is happy to present the Christmas sale – and boy it’s a show stopper!

There is something there for everyone from stunning Birmingham silver, geological and engineering publications, maps and atlases, sculptures, original artworks and prints, beautiful and rare Art Nouveau publications, Meiji Period Japanese trinkets, and rare ephemera.

This is a great time to pick up Christmas presents for your friends, families or lovers….

Above: Just a small preview of some silver items see lots 115-160

Lot 1 Sydney Harbour Bridge 1903

Bronze Sculptures Lots 21 – Matisse; Lot 24 Degas; Lot 28 Renoir

14 George Barbier Pochoir Album, Ballets Russes

A sample of the Japanese Tourist Trinkets – mostly made by Y. Konoike 1900-1920 in Yokohama. Lots 138-150

When 12 noon, Sunday 14th December

Catalogue https://connect.invaluable.com/sydneybook/

Timed Auction online bidding and absentee

On Invaluable or our website.

Viewing is encouraged
Questions welcomed

Where: Dalgety Square
C11/372-428 Wattle Street, Ultimo.
(Corner of MacArthur with the entrance on Wattle Street.) We are opened between 10am and 5pm week days.

Absentee bids and questions are due by email 3pm Sydney Time Friday 12th December 2025

***Please note that if you are posting to a metropolitan area and would like a item in time for Christmas, Australia Post recommends sending before the 19th December. Unfortunately this excludes Darwin, Perth and Hobart and international parcels.

History, Science, Mining, Exploration, Zines, Beer and Wine, Photographs and more

12 noon, Sunday 30th November

This auction is an assortment of science, mining, exploration books, to first editions, underground magazine, photography and archives.

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Mining & Geology is composed or a conglomerate of geological reports from Western Australia to Coogardie. We look at goldfields, as well as Logan Jacks reports. Some very finely bound.

We have notable science books from a first English edition of Einstein’s Theory of Relativity(378) to Charles Darwin and Prodromus Victoria.

Underground salaciously sexy, psychedelic and political magazines published by young Sydney-siders.

Not a Sydney magazine, an honorable mention goes to the Gandi”s Young India, a weekly magazine banned from circulation by the British government rebellious content including the Khilafat movement, Gandhi’s imprisonment under the Dandi March in 1930 and more.

When 12 noon, Sunday 30th November 2025

Catalogue https://connect.invaluable.com/sydneybook/

Timed Auction online bidding and absentee

On Invaluable or our website.

Viewing is encouraged
Questions welcomed

Our office is located at Dalgety Square at –
C11/372-428 Wattle Street, Ultimo. We are on the corner of MacArthur with the entrance on Wattle Street. We are opened between 10am and 5pm week days.

Absentee bids are due by email 3pm Sydney Time Friday 28th November 2025

Please get questions in before 3pm Sydney Time

Friday 28th November 2025

Catalogue
Bidding on Sydney Rare Book Auctions’ website Buyer’s Premium remains unchanged at 24%

Please feel free to contact us if you have any questions.