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 |
![<b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 16:</b> [Austen, Jane]. A handsome first edition of <i>Sense and Sensibility,</i> the author's first novel. $60,000 to $80,000.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/9a74d9ff-42dd-46a1-8bb2-b636c4cec796.png "<b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 16:</b> [Austen, Jane]. A handsome first edition of <i>Sense and Sensibility,</i> the author's first novel. $60,000 to $80,000.")
![<b>Heritage, Dec. 15:</b> John Donne. <i>Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Author's Death.</i> London: M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, 1633.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/8caddaea-4c1f-47a7-9455-62f53af36e3f.jpg "<b>Heritage, Dec. 15:</b> John Donne. <i>Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Author's Death.</i> London: M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, 1633.")
