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
199	Rene Oberthuer; Henri Dauthenay	Repertoire de Couleurs pour aider a la determination des couleurs des Fleurs	Paris	[1905]	AUD 50.00 - 100.00	AUD 48.80
200	Andre Breton	Introduction au Discours sur le pue de realite	Paris	1927	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
201	Carol Jerrems; Virginia Fraser	A Book About Australian Women	Melbourne	1974	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 463.60
202		Young Women's Christian Association of Australia Woman 1975	Melbourne	1975	AUD 60.00 - 100.00	AUD 170.80
203		Small lot of Australian art books including John Perceval			AUD 30.00 - 50.00	AUD 36.60
204		Shelf lot of as new Australian art books including a selection of Norman Lindsay and family books			AUD 30.00 - 50.00	AUD 61.00
205	Homer; William Cowper; J. Johnson	The Odyssey of Homer	London	1802	AUD 30.00 - 60.00	AUD 85.40
206	Edward Gibbon	The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire	London and New York	1887	AUD 40.00 - 80.00	AUD 170.80
207	G. P. R. James	A group of eight mid-19th century novels and biographies in English	Paris	between 1839 and 1842	AUD 50.00 - 100.00	AUD 146.40
208	P. Neville Barnett	Armorial Book-Plates: Their Romantic Origin and Artistic Development	Sydney	1932	AUD 80.00 - 120.00	AUD 219.60
209		Lot of 3 bookplate collector works			AUD 30.00 - 60.00	AUD 85.40
210	Quintus Curtius Rufus; Joannes Freinshemius; Christopher Cellarius	Q. Curtii Rufi De Rebus Alexandri Magni	[The Hague]	1727	AUD 50.00 - 100.00	AUD 366.00
211	Hans Andersen; Edmund Dulac	Stories from Hans Andersen with illustrations by Edmund Dulac	London	1912	AUD 50.00 - 100.00	AUD 97.60
212	P. Terentii	Afri Comoediae Londini	[London]	1854	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 170.80
213	Richard Thomson	An Historical Essay on the Magna Charta of King John	London	1829	AUD 40.00 - 80.00	AUD 317.20
214		Lot of 2 disbound 18th century English poems			AUD 30.00 - 50.00	AUD 97.60
215	Thomas Kingsmill Abbott	Immanuel Kant; Kant's Critique of Practical Reason and Other Works on the Theory of Ethics	London	1889	AUD 20.00 - 40.00	AUD 85.40
216	Henri Bergson	Time and Free Will: An Essay on the Immediate Data of Consciousness	London	1910	AUD 20.00 - 40.00	AUD 122.00
217	H. A. J. Munro	Lucretius; Titi Lucreti Cari De Rerum Natura Libri Sex with a translation and notes	Cambridge	1864	AUD 50.00 - 100.00	AUD 85.40
218	William Bates	A Funeral-Sermon for the Reverend, Holy and Excellent Divine, Mr. Richard Baxter, Who deceased Decemb. 8. 1691	London	1692	AUD 40.00 - 60.00	AUD 219.60
219	Robert Barclay	An Apology for the True Christian Divinity	Dublin	1737	AUD 30.00 - 50.00	AUD 73.20
220	John Preston	The Breast-Plate of Faith and Love	London	1630-31	AUD 60.00 - 100.00	AUD 268.40
221	Robert Bolton	Some Generall Directions for a Comfortable Walking with God: Delivered in the Lecture at Kettering in Northhamptonshire,...	London	[1625]	AUD 60.00 - 100.00	AUD 195.20
222	Thomas Edwards	Antapologia: Or, A Full Answer to the Apologeticall Narration of Mr Goodwin, Mr Nye, Mr Sympson, Mr Burroughs, Mr Bridge, Members of the Assembly of Divines	London	1644	AUD 30.00 - 60.00	AUD 170.80
223		Collection of four 17th-century sermon books with 3 others	London	1641	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 1,098.00

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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