The Book Merchant Jenkins: Books, Maps, Photographs, Artwork, and Ephemera, 30425, Woolloongabba

Auction Details

Auction Date: March 04, 2025 - March 04, 2025

Page Size: 421 items in 17 pages

Lot Number	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
375	Chamber's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People Illustrated with Maps and Numerous Wood Engravings	London	1877	AUD 40.00 - 100.00	AUD 61.00
376	12 bound volumes of Les Veillees des Chaumieres, 1901-1912		1901-1912	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
377	Lot of early, undated, Chapman and Hall Charles Dickens editions rebound in leather: Little Dorrit with fifty-eight illustrations by J. Mahoney...			AUD 30.00 - 50.00	AUD 97.60
378	Lot of 6 Enid Blyton books, all published by Collins,	Collins		AUD 20.00 - 40.00	AUD 48.80
379	Lot of 8 childrens books. 5 annuals including Disneyland and 3 others.			AUD 10.00 - 20.00	Not Sold
380	Broken run of 48 issues of Mickey Mouse from March 10th, 1945 - October 14, 1950.	Published in London by Odhams.		AUD 30.00 - 50.00	AUD 36.60
381	Appoximately 95 issues of Hobbies Weekly, 1950-1951		1950-1951	AUD 20.00 - 40.00	AUD 12.20
382	How Columbus Discovered America	London	[1960].	AUD 40.00 - 80.00	Not Sold
383	Recereations Instructives. Voyage Pittoresque a travers le monde	Paris	No date [circa 1840].	AUD 80.00 - 120.00	Not Sold
384	The Chinese Alphabet: Four Thousand Most Frequent Characters, According to their Frequency. In Four Series of One Thousand Characters Each, and Subdivided into Nine Classes. For Private Study and Self-Examination, and for use in Chinese Schools (Series II	Shanghai	1904	AUD 40.00 - 60.00	AUD 61.00
385	2 Canadian private press items published by Oakhill Pond Press, 2017, commemoraitng 160 years of Canadian Confederation.	published by Oakhill Pond Press	2017	AUD 20.00 - 40.00	AUD 12.20
386	Chandos Library. The Percy Anecdotes. Collected and Edited by Reuben and Sholto Percy. A Verbatim Reprint of the Original Edition. With a Preface by John Timbs.	London	no date.	AUD 20.00 - 40.00	AUD 61.00
387	Lot of 7 volumes in illustrated cloth most with award plates or inscriptions and bookseller's label of Robertson & Provan, Toowoomba.			AUD 20.00 - 40.00	AUD 48.80
388	Ashley Crawford Tension: Images, Ideas, Style: Australian & International Arts	Melbourne	1987-1991.	AUD 50.00 - 100.00	AUD 109.80
389	Upper and Lower Case: The International Journal of Graphic Design and Digital Media			AUD 30.00 - 50.00	AUD 24.40
390	Collection of books and magazines relating to typography and lettering. Arthur J. Hewett The Letter Cutter's Manual for Monumental and other Masons	London	1921	AUD 60.00 - 100.00	AUD 73.20
391	5 private press and poetry items: 1. Rosmarie Waldrop: Fan Poem for Deshika	(Tucson	1993	AUD 20.00 - 40.00	AUD 24.40
392	An antiquarian bookseller's reference library of catalogues including a Catalogue of the General Assembly Library of New Zealand, numerous Sotheby's catalogues, and catalogues from many antiquarian dealers and auction houses. 4 shelves.			AUD 50.00 - 100.00	AUD 61.00
393	7 shelves of military books. An academic's reference, used, worn, some foxing and annotations.			AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 146.40
394	Shelf lot of psychology books by Carl Gustav Jung. Generally Good to Very Good.			AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 146.40
395	3 shelves of sci-fi and fantasy books. Generally Good to Very Good.			AUD 30.00 - 50.00	AUD 73.20
396	Shelf lot of Stephen King books. Most hardcover with jacket. 18 in total. Some with foxing but generally Very Good.			AUD 30.00 - 50.00	AUD 122.00
397	30 books on tabletop and RPGs. Generally Very Good.			AUD 30.00 - 50.00	AUD 122.00
398	1 issue of Man, 2 issues of Man Junior, and 3 issues of Parade, together with I.C.A.'s My Lady Fair Color Calendar for 1967. 7 pieces in total. Moderate general wear and some tanning. A few of the spines heavily rubbed but all intact. The Calendar complet			AUD 30.00 - 50.00	AUD 36.60
399	Very large run of French comic magazine Fluide Glacial, Number 1-370. Paris: Editions AUDIE, 1975-2007.			AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 244.00

Leland Little, May 21: Signed Artist Proof of the Monumental G.O.A.T.: A Tribute to Muhammad Ali.

Leland Little, May 21: Assorted Rare Publications Related to H.P. Lovecraft, Including The Recluse Signed by Vincent Starrett.

Leland Little, May 21: Two Issues of The Vagrant, Including the First Appearance of H.P. Lovecraft's "Dagon" in Number Eleven.

Leland Little, May 21: Rare First Printing of Anne of Green Gables, With ALS from the Author.

Leland Little, May 21: First Edition of Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea, In First Issue Jacket.

Leland Little, May 21: The Limited Paumanok Edition of The Complete Writings of Walt Whitman.

Leland Little, May 21: Beautifully Bound Limited Flaubert Edition of The Works of Guy de Maupassant.

Leland Little, May 21: First Edition of Bonaparte's Celebrated American Ornithology, With Spectacular Hand-Colored Plates.

Leland Little, May 21: A Rare Complete Set of Jardine's The Naturalist's Library, With Hand-Colored Plates.

Leland Little, May 21: Invitation to the Lincoln-Johnson National Inaugural Ball, March 4th, 1865.

Leland Little, May 21: A Scarce Inscribed First Edition of James Baldwin's Nobody Knows My Name.

Leland Little, May 21: Picasso's Le Goût du Bonheur, Limited Edition.
Sotheby's
Sell Your Fine Books & Manuscripts

Sotheby's
Sell Your Fine Books & Manuscripts

Sotheby’s: The Shem Tov Bible, 1312 | A Masterpiece from the Golden Age of Spain. Sold: 6,960,000 USD

Sotheby’s: Ten Commandments Tablet, 300-800 CE | One of humanity's earliest and most enduring moral codes. Sold: 5,040,000 USD

Sotheby’s: William Blake | Songs of Innocence and of Experience. Sold: 4,320,000 USD

Sotheby’s: The Declaration of Independence | The Holt printing, the only copy in private hands. Sold: 3,360,000 USD

Sotheby's
Sell Your Fine Books & Manuscripts

Sotheby’s: Thomas Taylor | The original cover art for Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Sold: 1,920,000 USD

Sotheby’s: Machiavelli | Il Principe, a previously unrecorded copy of the book where modern political thought began. Sold: 576,000 GBP

Sotheby’s: Leonardo da Vinci | Trattato della pittura, ca. 1639, a very fine pre-publication manuscript. Sold: 381,000 GBP

Sotheby’s: Henri Matisse | Jazz, Paris 1947, the complete portfolio. Sold: 312,000 EUR
Gonnelli
Auction 59
Antique prints, paintings and maps
May 20th 2025

Gonnelli
Auction 59
Antique prints, paintings and maps
May 20th 2025

Gonnelli: Pietro Aquila, Psyche and Proserpina,1690. Starting price 140€

Gonnelli: Jacques Gamelin, Memento homo quia pulvis es et in pulverem reverteris, 1779. Starting price 300€

Gonnelli: Giorgio Ghisi, The final Judgement, 1680. Starting price 480€

Gonnelli
Auction 59
Antique prints, paintings and maps
May 20th 2025

Gonnelli Goya y Lucientes Francisco, Los Proverbios.1877. Starting price 1000 €

Gonnelli: Domenico Peruzzini, Long bearded old man, 1660. Starting price 2200€

Gonnelli: Enea Vico, Leda and the Swan,1542. Starting price 140€

Gonnelli
Auction 59
Antique prints, paintings and maps
May 20th 2025

Gonnelli: Andrea Del Sarto [school of], San Giovanni Battista, 1570. Starting price 25000€

Gonnelli: Carlo Maratta, Virgin Mary and Jesus, 1660. Starting Price 1200€

Gonnelli: Louis Brion de La Tour, Sphére de Copernic Sphere de Ptolemée / Le Systême de Ptolemée. Le Systême de Ticho-Brahe…, 1766. Starting price 180€

Gonnelli
Auction 59
Antique prints, paintings and maps
May 20th 2025

Gonnelli: Marc’Antonio Dal Re, Ville di Delizia o Siano Palaggi Camparecci nello Stato di Milano Divise in Sei Tomi Con espressevi le Piante…, Tomo Primo, 1726. Starting price 7000€

Gonnelli: Katsushika Hokusai, Bird on a branch, 1843. Starting price 100€
Swann, May 15: Lot 4: Helena Bochoráková-Dittrichová, Z Mého Detství Drevoryty, Prague: Obzina, 1929. First trade edition, signed by the artist. $4,000 to $6,000.

Swann, May 15: Lot 4: Helena Bochoráková-Dittrichová, Z Mého Detství Drevoryty, Prague: Obzina, 1929. First trade edition, signed by the artist. $4,000 to $6,000.

Swann, May 15: Lot 10: Nancy Cunard, Negro Anthology, with a tipped-in A.L.S. to Karl Marx's niece, 1934. First edition. $3,000 to $5,000.

Swann, May 15: Lot 14: Margaret Fuller, Woman in the Nineteenth Century, 1845. First edition. $4,000 to $6,000.

Swann, May 15: Lot 17: Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun, inscribed first edition, 1959. $2,000 to $3,000.

Swann, May 15: Lot 28: Margaret Hill Morris, Private Journal Kept during a Portion of the Revolutionary War, for the Amusement of a Sister, 1836. First edition. $3,000 to $4,000.

Swann, May 15: Lot 38: Anna Sewell, Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse, 1877. First edition. $3,000 to $5,000.

Swann, May 15: Lot 43: Gertrude Stein, Portrait of Mabel Dodge at the Villa Curonia, signed presentation copy with photograph of Stein, 1912. First edition. $8,000 to $12,000.

Swann, May 15: Lot 48: Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse, first edition in the scarce dust jacket, 1927. $6,000 to $8,000.

Swann, May 15: Lot 54: Katherine Dunham, large archive of material from her attorney, 1951-53. $20,000 to $30,000.

Swann, May 15: Lot 55: Margaret Fuller Signed Autograph Letter, New York City, 1846. $3,000 to $5,000.

Swann, May 15: Lot 92: Sonia Delaunay, illus. & Tristan Tzara, Juste Present, deluxe edition with original gouache, 1961. $20,000 to $25,000.

Swann, May 15: Lot 93: Flor Garduño, The Sonnets of Shakespeare, 2006. Limited edition. $6,000 to $8,000.
Ketterer Rare Books
Auction May 26th

Ketterer Rare Books
Auction May 26th

Ketterer, May 26: Th. McKenney & J. Hall, History of the Indian tribes of North America, 1836-1844. Est: €50,000

Ketterer, May 26: Biblia latina vulgata, manuscript on thin parchment, around 1250. Est: €70,000

Ketterer, May 26: M. Beckmann, Fanferlieschen Schönefüßchen, 1924. Est: €10,000

Ketterer Rare Books
Auction May 26th

Ketterer, May 26: A. Ortelius, Theatrum orbis terrarum, 1574. Est: €50,000

Ketterer, May 26: M. S. Merian, Eurcarum ortus, alimentum et paradoxa metamorphosis, 1717-18. Est: €6,000

Ketterer, May 26: PAN, 9 volumes, 1895-1900. Est: €12,000

Ketterer Rare Books
Auction May 26th

Ketterer, May 26: Breviarium Romanum, Latin manuscript, 1474. Est: €15,000

Ketterer, May 26: Quran manuscript from the Saadian period, Maghreb, 16th century. Est: €10,000

Ketterer, May 26: E. Hemingway, The old man and the sea, 1952. First edition in first issue jacket. Presentation copy. Est: €3,000

Ketterer Rare Books
Auction May 26th

Ketterer, May 26: Flavius Vegetius Renatus, De re militari libri quatuor, 1553. Est: €3,000

Ketterer, May 26: K. Marx, Das Kapital, 1867. Est: €30,000

Ketterer, May 26: Brassaï, Transmutations, 1967. Est: €6,000

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