The Book Merchant Jenkins: Natural History Books, Artists Books, and More, 62324, West End

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
June 23, 2024 - June 23, 2024
Page Size: 260 items in 11 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
26 Gilbert White

1. The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne in the County of Southampton.

London 1875 AUD 30.00 - 50.00 AUD 24.40
27 Dr. A Kerner

Flowers and Their Unbidden Guests

London 1878 AUD 30.00 - 50.00 AUD 73.20
28 Andrew Pritchard

A History of Infusorial Animalcules, Living and Fossil: Illustrated by several hundred magnified representations.

London 1852 AUD 20.00 - 50.00 AUD 24.40
29 Thomas Henry Huxley

Shelf lot of books by or about Thomas Henry Huxley

AUD 60.00 - 120.00 AUD 73.20
30 C. G. Lehmann

Physiological Chemistry.

London 1851, 1853, 1854 AUD 20.00 - 40.00 Not Sold
31

1. J. W. Dawson: The Chain of LIfe in Geological Time. A Sketch of the Origin and Succession of Animals and Plants.

London No Date c. 1880. AUD 30.00 - 50.00 AUD 146.40
32

Apes and Monkeys Shelf lot

AUD 30.00 - 60.00 AUD 24.40
33

Birds Shelf lot

AUD 30.00 - 60.00 AUD 61.00
34 F. Manson Bailey

Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: Both Indigenous and Naturalised

Brisbane No date AUD 40.00 - 80.00 AUD 73.20
35

The Welsh Journal of Agriculture

1925 -1945. AUD 50.00 - 100.00 AUD 170.80
36 Philip Henry Gosse

A Naturalist's Rambles on the Devonshire Coast

London 1853 AUD 60.00 - 120.00 AUD 61.00
37 Baron Ferd. von Mueller

Iconography of Australian Species of Acacia and Cognate Genera Decades I-XIII w/ Index

Melbourne 1887-1888 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 122.00
38

Endeavour Journal of Joseph Banks, 1768-1771

Sydney 1962 AUD 60.00 - 120.00 AUD 170.80
39

Natural History, 3 Shelves

AUD 60.00 - 120.00 AUD 109.80
40 an anonymous artist after W. H. Freeman and John Gould.

[ORNITHOLOGY, DRAWING] Mistletoe Bird

AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 122.00
41

[TASMANIA] Tiger-Wolf and Wombat from Wilde Theire aller Zonen.

(Esslingen 1864?.) AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 292.80
42 C. Burckardt

Animaux Sauvages. Wild Animals. Wilde Thiere. Animales Salvages. Animales Salvaggios

Weissenburg No date circa 1890. AUD 60.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
43

Mushroom Photo Album

AUD 50.00 - 100.00 AUD 219.60
44 Garry Shead

Garry Shead: Ern Malley, The Darkening Ecliptic

AUD 800.00 - 1,000.00 Not Sold
45 Choi Kyu-Il; Sydney Ball; Robert Baines

Choi Kyu-Il; Sydney Ball; Robert Baines Traces

Townsville and Melbourne 2001 AUD 900.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
46 Monica Oppen

Monica Oppen: Botanikos

Sydney 2007 2012. AUD 60.00 - 100.00 AUD 85.40
47 Lorri (Lorraine Whiting); George Macbeth

Private: Lorri. 4 Original Illustration to 4 Quotations from Curtmantle by Christopher Fry

Rome 1965 AUD 500.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
48 Jan Davis

Ch'i

Lismore 1996 AUD 160.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
49 Michael Schlitz

Artists' Books: The Catalogue (Deluxe Edition)

Brisbane 1991 AUD 160.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
50 Robert Jacks

[ARTISTS BOOK] Robert Jacks

AUD 80.00 - 140.00 AUD 146.40
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