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
26	7 Snapshot Photographs of Maori Scenes Silver gelatin photographs, all 6cm x 8.5cm. Minor to very minor general wear, all captioned on the verso: Pot Holes for Maori Cooking, Thermal Region, Rotorua			AUD 50.00 - 100.00	Not Sold
27	Two albumen photographs of Melbourne Bourke St. 14cm x 20cm (image size). Mounted on card. Collins St. 13.5cm x 20.5cm (images size). Mounted on card. Top right corner clipped. Australia, Victoria			AUD 20.00 - 40.00	AUD 12.20
28	2 albumen photographs of Sydney Sydney Harbour. 13.5cm x 20cm. Sydney Town Hall. 15cm x 20cm. Both mounted on the same card. Australia, New South Wales			AUD 30.00 - 50.00	AUD 24.40
29	Framed photograph of the New Farm Football Club, Second Grade, Queensland Rugby League, 1915, with the players names in the caption.	Brisbane	1915	AUD 30.00 - 50.00	AUD 36.60
30	Group of 35 albumen photographs and 33 lithographs showing views of Sydney and New South Wales. 1880s. Various photographers. Various sizes.			AUD 70.00 - 140.00	AUD 317.20
31	Group of 32 Grand Tour albumen photographs from the 1880s by Felix Bonfils, Pascal Sebah, and others.			AUD 400.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
32	[PHOTOGRAPHS] Grand Tour Edinburgh, Italy, Switzerland, Yemen, Japan Group of 27 albumen photographs. 13 unmounted, 14 mounted. Various sizes.			AUD 30.00 - 50.00	AUD 61.00
33	9 mounted photographs of WWII US Military parades. Various sizes, all approximately 17cm x 21cm mounted on 21cm x 30cm boards. United States, Military			AUD 40.00 - 60.00	AUD 48.80
34	Australian Commonwealth Military Forces: Field Engrs. 11th.. Coy. Mounted Section Nominal Roll May 31-1916, Jan. 1918.	London		AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 195.20
35	[The Kanguroo, an Animal found on the Coast of New Holland]	[London]	1773	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	AUD 512.40
36	Lord Derby's Kangaroo, Aroe Kangaroo, Parry's Kangaroo, Wolly Kangaroo, Brush Tailed Kangaroo, Rat-Tailed Hypsiprymnus, Rabbit-Eared Perameles	Glasgow, Edinburg and London	(Circa 1840-1859).	AUD 60.00 - 100.00	Not Sold
37	John Webber A Man of Van Diemen's Land / A Woman of Van Diemen's Land	[London]	1784	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	AUD 390.40
38	Warriors of New S. Wales	London	1813	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
39	The Dance	London	1813	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
40	Smoking Out the Opoussum	London	1813	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 97.60
41	Throwing the Spear	London	1813	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
42	Fishing No. 1	London	1813	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
43	Fishing No. 2	London	1813	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
44	Hunting the Kangaroo	London	1813	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
45	Climbing Trees	London	1813	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 97.60
46	Repose	London	1813	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
47	Trial	London	1813	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
48	[John Heaviside Clark] Aboriginal Life in Old Australia, [Field Sports, &c. &c. of the Native Inhabitants of New South Wales]	Melbourne	2003	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 292.80
49	6 coloured steel engravings by John Skinner Prout 3 engraved by E. Brandard, and one each by T. Heawood, J. B. Allen, and A. Willmore each showing a Tasmanian view: Maria Island			AUD 40.00 - 80.00	AUD 73.20
50	Edinburgh.	Brisbane Glasgow	no date.	AUD 30.00 - 50.00	AUD 109.80

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: 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 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, 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
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.

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