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The Book Merchant Jenkins: Books and Maps Auction

Auction Reports

Auction Name Books and Maps Auction Total Sales (AUD) 77,836.00
Auction Date November 08, 2025 - November 08, 2025 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (AUD) 32,740.00
Sale Number #110825 High Estimate of Lots Sold (AUD) 51,500.00
Total Lots 312
Sold Lots 284.0 Low Estimate of All Lots (AUD) 41,340.00
% of Lots Sold 91.03% High Estimate of All Lots (AUD) 63,300.00
Unsold Lots 28 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 122.96%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
3 Nicholas Gould

A Short Journall of 3 Parliaments, with other observations

1690 AUD 300.00 - 400.00 AUD 7,930.00
21

The Collected Works of Sir Winston Churchill (34 Volumes)

1973-1976 AUD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 AUD 3,416.00
294

Mid-19th century Australian Sheet Music

AUD 100.00 - 140.00 AUD 2,196.00
143 Norman Lindsay; Kenneth Mackenzie

Our Earth by Kenneth Mackenzie with an Original Etching and 13 Illustrations

1937 AUD 1,200.00 - 1,600.00 AUD 2,074.00
284 John Curtis

Shipwreck of the Stirling Castle

1838 AUD 400.00 - 500.00 AUD 2,074.00
91 John Oxley

Journals of Two Expeditions into the Interior of New South Wales

1820 AUD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 AUD 1,952.00
24 Ernest Shackleton

South: The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917

1919 AUD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 AUD 1,464.00
101 Phillip P. King

Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia

1827 AUD 1,000.00 - 1,400.00 AUD 1,464.00
236 Howard Carter; A. C. Mace

The Tomb of Tut-Ankh-Amen

1927-33 AUD 400.00 - 500.00 AUD 1,342.00
152 Maria Sibylla Merian

The Surinam Album

2006 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 1,098.00
223

Collection of four 17th-century sermon books with 3 others

1641 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 1,098.00
67

Wooden library plan or map folio stand Measures approx

AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 915.00
140 Grahame L. Walsh

Bradshaw Art of the Kimberley

2000 AUD 600.00 - 800.00 AUD 854.00
90 T. B. Wilson [Thomas Braidwood Wilson]

Narrative of a Voyage Round the World

1835 AUD 800.00 - 1,000.00 AUD 793.00
123 Thomas Welsby

Schnappering and Fishing in the Brisbane River and Moreton Bay Waters

1905 AUD 300.00 - 400.00 AUD 793.00
247 [Robert Stuart Farquharson]

One of the Six Hundred Crimean Campaigning and Russian Imprisonment

1889 AUD 600.00 - 800.00 AUD 732.00
145 David Hansen John Glover and the Colonial Picturesque Hobart

Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery

2003 AUD 10.00 - 30.00 AUD 671.00
161 Edmund Dulac

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

[1910] AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 671.00
170 Ian Fleming

Goldfinger

1959 AUD 300.00 - 400.00 AUD 671.00
8

Bonaventure Opusculorum Theologicorum Venetiis

1589 AUD 400.00 - 600.00 AUD 610.00
23 Gilbert Burnet

The Memoires of the Lives and Actions of James and William Dukes of Hamilton and Castleherald, &c.

1677 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 610.00
26 Vincent Wing

Geodaetes Practicus: or, the Art of Surveying

1664 AUD 600.00 - 800.00 AUD 610.00
100 Clement Hodgkinson

Australia, from Port Macquarie to Moreton Bay

1845 AUD 400.00 - 600.00 AUD 561.20
165

Large collection of 40 Ethel Turner first and early editions

AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 561.20
169 Arthur Rimbaud

A Season in Hell / Une Saison en Enfer

1949 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 536.80
  • 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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