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
149 Bruno Leti

Recorded Movements in Time: Eight Silksreen Prints

Melbourne 1991 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 97.60
150 Murray Waldren; Reg Mombassa

The Mind and Times of Reg Mombassa

Sydney 2009 AUD 30.00 - 50.00 AUD 97.60
151 Reg Mombassa

The Landscapes of Reg Mombassa: Antipodean Scenery: Views from the Eyes of a Car

Sydney 2016 AUD 50.00 - 80.00 AUD 439.20
152 Maria Sibylla Merian

The Surinam Album

London 2006 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 1,098.00
153

Shelf lot of 14 Folio Society books

AUD 60.00 - 100.00 AUD 439.20
154

Aleksandr Afanas'ev Myths and Legends of Russia

London 2009 AUD 60.00 - 100.00 AUD 122.00
155 Edward Gibbon

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

London 2001 AUD 30.00 - 60.00 AUD 219.60
156

4 in the Folio Society series of Historical Shockers: The Great Fire of London in 1666

AUD 30.00 - 50.00 AUD 244.00
157 Christopher Tyerman

An Eyewitness History of the Crusades

London 2004 AUD 30.00 - 50.00 AUD 244.00
158

Shelf lot of 10 Folio Society books

AUD 60.00 - 100.00 AUD 414.80
159

2 shelves of Folio Society books

AUD 60.00 - 100.00 AUD 390.40
160

2 shelves of Folio Society books

AUD 30.00 - 60.00 AUD 341.60
161 Edmund Dulac

The Sleeping Beauty and other fairy tailes from the Old Rench retold by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch

London [1910] AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 671.00
162 J. M. Barrie

Peter and Wendy

London No date [1911] AUD 400.00 - 600.00 AUD 390.40
163

Collection of 3 nicely bound literature works

London 1905 AUD 40.00 - 80.00 AUD 170.80
164 Ethel S. Turner

Seven Little Australians

London 1894 AUD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 Not Sold
165

Large collection of 40 Ethel Turner first and early editions

AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 561.20
166 Nettie Palmer

The South Wind

London 1914 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 317.20
167 Mrs. Aeneas Gunn

We of the Never-Never

Melbourne 1954 AUD 30.00 - 60.00 AUD 268.40
168

Lot of 5 Mark Twain UK First & Early Editions

London 1880-1889 AUD 60.00 - 100.00 AUD 61.00
169 Arthur Rimbaud

A Season in Hell / Une Saison en Enfer

London 1949 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 536.80
170 Ian Fleming

Goldfinger

London 1959 AUD 300.00 - 400.00 AUD 671.00
171 Ian Fleming

For Your Eyes Only

London 1960 AUD 60.00 - 120.00 AUD 170.80
172 Ian Fleming

The Spy Who Loved Me

London 1962 AUD 30.00 - 60.00 AUD 219.60
173 Ian Fleming

On Her Majesty's Secret Service

London 1963 AUD 30.00 - 60.00 AUD 268.40
  • 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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