The Book Merchant Jenkins: Books and Maps Auction, 110825, Woolloongabba

Auction Details

Auction Date: November 08, 2025 - November 08, 2025

Page Size: 312 items in 13 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
249	Phil Belbin; Ross Gillett	The Royal Australian Navy, The First Seventy-Five Years	Sydney	1986	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 390.40
250	Trevor Pidgeon	The Tanks at Flers: An Account of the First Use of Tanks in War at the Battle of Flers-Courcelette	Cobham	1995	AUD 40.00 - 80.00	AUD 97.60
251	E. R. Henry	Classification and Uses of Finger Prints	London	1901	AUD 30.00 - 50.00	AUD 36.60
252	Boris Mihailovic	The Devil May Care: A Tribute to the Modern-Day Outlaw		1992	AUD 20.00 - 40.00	AUD 24.40
253		A large broken run of the Australian outlaw motorcycle magazine Ozbike			AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 97.60
254		An extremely large unbroken run of the Australian outlaw motorcycle magazine Live to Ride: The Australian Biker Journal from No. 1 to 348			AUD 200.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
255	Janic Geelen	The Topdressers	Te Awamutu	1983	AUD 100.00 - 160.00	Not Sold
256	Dian Hanson	The Big Book of Breasts / Legs / Pussy & The Big Butt Book	Koln	2006-2011	AUD 60.00 - 100.00	AUD 170.80
257		Lot of 4 Tijuana Bibles A Tijuana Bible is a short pornographic cartoon story booklet originating in the United States in the early 20th century		early 1960s	AUD 30.00 - 50.00	AUD 36.60
258		Lot of 4 books on Shunga and Japanese erotica Marco Fagioli: Shunga			AUD 30.00 - 50.00	AUD 36.60
259	Mark Day	Australian Penthouse	Sydney	1979	AUD 20.00 - 40.00	AUD 61.00
260		Cynicus Cartoons Social And Political	London	1893	AUD 30.00 - 50.00	AUD 48.80
261		Aeschylus Aeschyli Tragoediae que extant septem	[Glasgow]	1746	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 195.20
262	J. L. Soulavie	Tableaux de L'Histoire de la Decadence de la Monarchie Francaise	Paris	1803	AUD 30.00 - 50.00	Not Sold
263	Charles Cotton	Michel de Montaigne; Montaigne's Essays in Three Books	London	1743	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
264	Edmund Ludlow	Memoirs of Edmund Ludlow, Esq; Lieutenant Genral of the Horse, Commander in Chief of the Forces in Ireland	London	1721	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 439.20
265	M. Volney	The Ruins: Or A Survey of the Revolutions of Empires	London	1795	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 109.80
266	Max Harris	The Antiquities & Ethnographica Society Catalogue 1-7	Adelaide	No date	AUD 30.00 - 50.00	Not Sold
267	J. Ferrar	The History of Limerick, Ecclesiastical, Civil and Military, From the Earliest Records, To the Year 1787	Limerick	1787	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
268		Pele: Edson Arantes do Nascimento	Sao Paulo	2006	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 244.00
269	Thomas C. Manley	Housing: Hong Kong, Singapore, and London, England: A Study		Summer 1973	AUD 80.00 - 140.00	AUD 97.60
270	Blake L. Twigden	Pisces Tropicani	Melbourne	1978	AUD 50.00 - 100.00	AUD 85.40
271		Lot of three 19th-century books on little things and observing little things	London	1859	AUD 30.00 - 50.00	AUD 85.40
272		Miniature circular 19th-century oil painting			AUD 40.00 - 80.00	AUD 61.00
273		5 books being the balance of a collection: 1. Abba: The Photo Book			AUD 20.00 - 40.00	AUD 24.40

Heritage Auctions
Rare Books Signature Auction
December 15, 2025

Heritage, Dec. 15: John Donne. Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Author's Death. London: M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, 1633.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.

Heritage, Dec. 15: F. Scott Fitzgerald. Tender is the Night. A Romance.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Bram Stoker. Dracula. Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co., 1897.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Jerry Thomas. How to Mix Drinks, or the Bon-Vivant's Companion, Containing Clear and Reliable Directions for Mixing All the Beverages Used in the United States…
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Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("Martinus Luther") to His Friend the Theologian Gerhard Wiskamp ("Gerardo Xantho Lampadario"). $100,000 - $150,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: An Exceptionally Fine Copy of Austenís Emma: A Novel in Three Volumes. $40,000 - $60,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Presentation Copy of Ernest Hemmingwayís A Farewell to Arms for Edward Titus of the Black Mankin Press. $30,000 - $50,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript Signed Integrally for "The Songs of Pooh," by Alan Alexander. $30,000 - $50,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript of "Three Fragments from Gˆtterd‰mmerung" by Richard Wagner. $30,000 - $50,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Preliminary Artwork, for the First Edition of Snow Crash. $20,000 - $30,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("T.R. Malthus") to Economist Nassau Senior on Wealth, Labor and Adam Smith. $20,000 - $30,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Finely Bound by Michael Wilcox. $20,000 - $30,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: First Edition of Lewis and Clark: Travels to the Source of the Missouri River and Across the American Continent to the Pacific Ocean. $8,000 - $12,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Artwork for the First Edition of Neal Stephenson's Groundbreaking Novel Snow Crash. $100,000 - $150,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: A Complete Set Signed Deluxe Editions of King's The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King. $8,000 - $12,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("John Adams") to James Le Ray de Chaumont During the Crucial Years of the Revolutionary War. $8,000 - $12,000.
Sotheby’s
Book Week
December 9-17, 2025

Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Francesco Colonna. Hypnerotomachie, Paris, 1546, Parisian calf by Wotton Binder C for Marcus Fugger. €200,000 to €300,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Nausea. De principiis dialectices Gorgias, and other works, Venice, 1523, morocco gilt for Cardinal Campeggio. €3,000 to €4,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Billon. Le fort inexpugnable de l'honneur, Paris, 1555, Parisian calf gilt for Peter Ernst, Graf von Mansfeld. €120,000 to €180,000.

Sotheby’s
Book Week
December 9-17, 2025

Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Salinger, J.D. The Graham Family archive, including autographed letters, an inscribed Catcher, a rare studio photograph of the author, and more. $120,000 to $180,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: [Austen, Jane]. A handsome first edition of Sense and Sensibility, the author's first novel. $60,000 to $80,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Massachusetts General Court. A powerful precursor to the Declaration of Independence: "every Act of Government … without the Consent of the People, is … Tyranny." $40,000 to $60,000.