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

Auction Details

Auction Report
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
274

Rolling Stone

March 2 & 16, 1972 AUD 30.00 - 50.00 AUD 36.60
275 Gerald Frape

The Bush Telegraph

Bangalow 1977 AUD 20.00 - 40.00 AUD 12.20
276 Edward Barnard

The New, Comprehensive and Complete History of England: From the Earliest Period of Authentic Information, to the Middle of the Year

London 1782 AUD 20.00 - 40.00 AUD 61.00
277 John Smith

Essex Dove, Presenting the World with a few of her Olive Branches: or, A Taste of the Workes of that Reverend

London 1629 AUD 50.00 - 100.00 AUD 122.00
278 Ethel Turner

Happy Hearts: A Picture Book for Boys and Girls

London and Melbourne 1908 AUD 20.00 - 50.00 AUD 195.20
279 Kerry White

Marcie Muir; Australian Children's Books: A Bibliography, 1774-2000

Melbourne 1992-2004 AUD 40.00 - 80.00 AUD 48.80
280 Dorothy Wall

Blink Bill and Nutsy: Two Little Australians

Sydney 1937 AUD 20.00 - 40.00 AUD 48.80
281 Will Durant

Lot of 6 books on philosophy and logic. The Mansions of Philosophy

AUD 30.00 - 60.00 AUD 24.40
282

Lot of 9 Hakluyt Society books. Searching for Franklin, the Land Arctic Search Expedition, 1855

AUD 30.00 - 60.00 AUD 61.00
283 Samuel Purchas

Hakluytus Posthumus or Purchas His Pilgrimes: Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and Lande Travells by Englishmen and others

Glasgow 1905-07 AUD 40.00 - 100.00 AUD 341.60
284 John Curtis

Shipwreck of the Stirling Castle

London 1838 AUD 400.00 - 500.00 AUD 2,074.00
285

The Wesleyan Immigrants' Home at Melbourne

London 1854 AUD 30.00 - 50.00 Not Sold
286 Dylan Thomas

Under Milk Wood: A Play for Voices

London 1954 AUD 50.00 - 100.00 AUD 109.80
287 T. H. White

Loved Helen and Other Poems

London 1929 AUD 50.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
288 [R. S. Surtees]; John Leech

Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour

London 1853 AUD 50.00 - 100.00 AUD 73.20
289 Rudyard Kipling

The Second Jungle Book

London 1895 AUD 50.00 - 100.00 AUD 48.80
290 Rudyard Kipling

Collection of 6 books

AUD 50.00 - 100.00 AUD 195.20
291 Rudyard Kipling

Captains Courageous: A Story of the Grand Banks

London 1897 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 195.20
292 Sir Walter Scott

Full set of 25 uniform half leather Waverley Novels

1877-1880 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 292.80
293

The Annual Register, or a View of the History, Politics, and Literature For the Year 1792, 1795, 1797-1800, 1802-04, 1806-09, 1811-13 1792

AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 268.40
294

Mid-19th century Australian Sheet Music

Sydney, Melbourne, and Hobart AUD 100.00 - 140.00 AUD 2,196.00
295 Benjamin Ward Richardson

Two 19th-century temperance books

(London) -1877 AUD 30.00 - 50.00 AUD 61.00
296

2 shelves of 20th century fiction and romance novels

AUD 30.00 - 60.00 AUD 170.80
297

Lot of six 20th century fiction books from the 1930s and 1940s

-1942 AUD 20.00 - 40.00 AUD 85.40
298 Harriet B. Stowe

Lot of 6 books, all in publisher's cloth. The Minister's Wooing (1894)

AUD 20.00 - 40.00 AUD 73.20
  • 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.
  • 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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