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

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
March 04, 2025 - March 04, 2025
Page Size: 421 items in 17 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
51

Two views of Sydney Town Hall. Town Hall, Sydney. Signed in the image C. Wilkinson '96. 18cm x 25cm.

[London c. 1890s.] AUD 30.00 - 50.00 Not Sold
52

Crimson Rosella 35.5cm x 27cm(image size), 67cm x 56.5cm (frame size). Original signed mixed media on paper. Original painting of a Crimson Rosella by Jeremy T. Boot (1948-), illustrator of a number of Australian bird books including The Birds of Victoria

AUD 300.00 - 400.00 AUD 1,464.00
53

Nouvelle-Hollande. Vases, Armes, Peche

[Paris 1824]. AUD 80.00 - 120.00 Not Sold
54

De Nagemaakte Wilden [The Counterfeit Savages]

Paris [c. 1902]. AUD 80.00 - 120.00 Not Sold
55

Sketches by a Passenger on Board the ship Cape Finisterre,

London to Lyttleton 1878-79 AUD 320.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
56

The Political Drama, No. 33. The Ministers and Their Cronies Off to Botany Bay, and the Dorchester Men Returning

London 1834 AUD 600.00 - 800.00 AUD 732.00
57

Consequences of a Successful French Invasion No. 1. Plates 1st. We come to recover your long lost Liberties - Scene. The House of Commons

London March 1st 1798. AUD 120.00 - 160.00 Not Sold
58

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

Weissenburg No date [circa 1890]. AUD 20.00 - 40.00 AUD 48.80
59

Two original paintings both depicting scenes by the watersedge: 31cm x 47cm. Unframed on academy board. Illegibal signature (possibly J.C.?] lower right and dated 1900. 29cm x 14cm (image size), 39cm x 23.5cm (mount size). Mounted with gold matboard, the

AUD 20.00 - 50.00 AUD 36.60
60

3 watercolour landscapes, all oval shaped approximately 15.5cm x 10.5cm. Each signed E. H. O. Unframed. Some wear to edges, signs of previous mounting. Art

AUD 30.00 - 50.00 AUD 36.60
61

23.5cm x 34cm. Watercolour on paper.

AUD 20.00 - 50.00 AUD 73.20
62

For the Benefit of Mrs. Maylett ... the Serio Pantomime, entitled La Perouse

[London] 1841 AUD 120.00 - 160.00 Not Sold
63

Lady May Lamington Signed autograph letter on Government House, Brisbane letterhead

AUD 20.00 - 40.00 AUD 122.00
64

Souvenir of the State Performance at the Royal Opera, Covent Garden ... July 4th, 1893, By Command of Her Most Gracious Majestry The Queen, in Honour of the Marriage of Their Royal Highnesses The Duke of York and the Princess May of Teck, Gounod's Romeo e

AUD 20.00 - 40.00 AUD 24.40
65

Stevengraph after Elisabeth Sonrel Flora 33cm x 18cm. Unframed stevengraph (woven silk). Small crease to top of left edge and bottom left corner.

AUD 30.00 - 50.00 AUD 61.00
66

Stevengraph after V. Renault

AUD 30.00 - 50.00 Not Sold
67

Gold Rush: Twenty-Five Wood Engravings by Barry Moser on a Theme of the Discover and Mining of Gold in America, Africa, and Australia with a Note on Those Prints by the Artist.

Los Angeles 1985 AUD 320.00 - 400.00 AUD 390.40
68

A Portfolio of Sketches of Sydney: Personally Signed Prints

Sydney 1970 AUD 50.00 - 100.00 AUD 48.80
69

Collection of 76 tinted lithographic portrait plates of men from The National Portrait Gallery by Maclure & Macdonald and Cassell, Petter & Galpin, each 27.5cm x 21cm,

circa 1870s. AUD 30.00 - 50.00 AUD 48.80
70

39 colour plates and 10 full page black and white illustrations from Lewis Wright's The Illustrated Book of Poultry. Some foxing. Occasional marginal chip or tear.

AUD 30.00 - 50.00 AUD 268.40
71

Collection of approximate 285 prints and plates from various portfolios and books. Various sizes and conditions. Some tears and staining but most Fine to Very Good.

AUD 30.00 - 50.00 AUD 97.60
72

Collection of mostly 1950s Toohey's Beer Labels 10 different beer labels, as well as a Vodka and Rum label bottled by Toohey's, most with duplicates. 55 pieces in total.

AUD 20.00 - 40.00 AUD 36.60
73

Copper One Penny Trade Token minted by Thomas Stokes, Melbourne, for the colonial Grocers, Ironmongers & Drapers: J. W. & G. Williams, Eagle Hawk. Brown with underlying red lustre. Near Fine. *This lot is sold on a GST-Free basis.

AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 170.80
74

[CRICKET] The Invincibles. 59cm x 64cm (frame size). 17 cigarette cards (9 signed), 7 signature sheets, 1 didactic. Professionally mounted and framed. Framed set of cigarette cards of the 1948 Australian Test Cricket Touring Team to England, with signatur

AUD 600.00 - 800.00 AUD 1,098.00
75

Cricketers in Action, 1906. Lot of 40 Milo cigarette cards of Australian and English cricketers. Sniders and Abrahams S88-16. A complete set, rarely seen in excellent condition. SKINNER pg 119. Most Near Fine, some Very Good with tanning mostly on verso.

1906 AUD 400.00 - 600.00 AUD 390.40
  • 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.
  • 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.
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