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

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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
176

Pologne en 1333 au temps de Wladislas Le Bref 15cm x 17.5cm (image size), 19.5cm x 28.5cm (sheet size). Handcoloured map. From La Pologne Historique, 1835-1842. Tanned.

AUD 30.00 - 50.00 AUD 24.40
177

Two mid-19th century French documents, one marriage and one will, both 4 pages folded into wrappers 30cm x 11cm, with stamps. Minor creasing, soiling, and tanning.

mid-19th century AUD 20.00 - 40.00 AUD 24.40
178

The Experienced English Housekeeper: for the Use and Ease of Ladies, Housekeepers, Cooks, &c

Philadelphia 1801 AUD 300.00 - 400.00 AUD 366.00
179

The Cook's Dictionary, and House-Keeper's Directory: A New Family Manual of Cookery and Confectionary, on a Plan of Ready Reference Never Hitherto Attempted

London 1830 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 97.60
180

The Flowing Bowl: A Treatise on Drinks of All Kinds and of All Periods, Interspersed with Sundry Anecdotes and Reminiscences

London 1903 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 109.80
181

Bush Recipes for the Manufacture of Aerated & Mineral Waters and Cordials

London 1894 AUD 50.00 - 100.00 AUD 85.40
182

The Food and Beverage Department of Hong Kong Hilton Culinary Heritage of Hong Kong

Hong Kong no date. AUD 50.00 - 100.00 AUD 48.80
183

4 volumes on cheese. John Squire Cheddar Gorge: A Book of English Cheeses edited by John Squire with illustrations by Ernest H. Shepard

London 1937 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
184

3 volumes by Nirvana on cakes, all published London: Maclaren & Sons, 25cm x 18.5cm in dustjackets. Commercial Cake Decoration

London AUD 40.00 - 80.00 AUD 36.60
185

A Young Man and a Nail Can: An Industrial Romance

Melbourne 1921 AUD 80.00 - 120.00 Not Sold
186

The Complete Confectioner, or The Whole Art of Confectionary, Made Easy; with Receipts for Liqueures, Home-Made Wines, &c. The Result of Many Years Experience with the Celebrated Negri and Written by Frederic Nutt, Esq. Fourth Edition.

London 1807 AUD 50.00 - 100.00 AUD 73.20
187

Skuse's Complete Confectioner, A Practical Guide to the Art of Sugar Boiling in All Its Branches: The Manufacture of Fondants, Creams, Chocolates, Liqueurs, Pastilles, Jujubes (Gelatine and Gum, Comfits, Lozenges (Plain and Medicated), Caramels, Noyeaus,

London no date (circa 1890s). AUD 50.00 - 100.00 AUD 73.20
188

The Royal Confectioner: English and Foreign. A Practical Treatise on the Art of Confectionary in All Its Branches; Comprising Ornamental Confectionary Artistically Developed

London 1883 AUD 40.00 - 80.00 AUD 48.80
189

The Housekeeper's Instructor; or, Universal Family Cook. Being a Full and Clear Display of the Art of Cookery in all its Branches. .. To Which is Added, The Complete Art of Carving, illustrated with engravings, ... The Seventeenth Edition. Corrected, Revi

London 1811 AUD 80.00 - 140.00 AUD 73.20
190

The New Domestic Cookery. By a Lady.

London 1828 AUD 50.00 - 100.00 AUD 48.80
191

Liebig Company's Practical Cookery Book

London 1894 AUD 30.00 - 60.00 AUD 48.80
192

Golden Tips. A Description of Ceylon and its great Tea Industry.

London 1904 AUD 40.00 - 80.00 AUD 73.20
192A

The Money Tree: Coffee in Papua New Guinea

Bathurst 1995 AUD 60.00 - 100.00 AUD 61.00
193

The Olive: Its Culture and Products in the South of France and Italy

Adelaide 1878 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 268.40
194

Small shelf lot of cooking books. The Colonial Mutual Life Cookery Book

AUD 40.00 - 80.00 AUD 61.00
195

Les Diners de Gala & The Wines of Gala (2 Volumes)

Koln 2016-7. AUD 50.00 - 100.00 AUD 146.40
196

2 small herbals: Matthew Robinson The New Family Herbal: Comprising a Description, and the Medical Virtues of British and Foreign Plants, Founded on the Works of Eminent Modern English and American Writers on the Medical Properties of Herbs: to which is a

London no date. AUD 40.00 - 80.00 AUD 292.80
197

Medical Botany; or, Illustrations and Descriptions of the Medicinal Plants of the London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Pharmacopoeias, Comprising a Popular and Scientific Account of Poisonous Vegetables Indigenous to Great Britain (3 Volumes)

London 1834-6. AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 463.60
198

Codex Rosae Crucis: A Rare and Curious Manuscript of Rosicrucian Interest, Now Published for the First Time in Its Original Form. Introduction and Commentary by Manly Hll. Numerous Illustrations from Early Books and Manuscripts of the Order

1974 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 390.40
199

The Rosicrucian Fraternity in America: Authentic and Spurious Organizations As considered and dealt with in treatises

Quakertown 1935 AUD 60.00 - 120.00 AUD 195.20
  • GonnelliAuction 59Antique prints, paintings and mapsMay 20th 2025 GonnelliAuction 59Antique prints, paintings and mapsMay 20th 2025
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    Antique prints, paintings and maps
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    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€
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    Antique prints, paintings and maps
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    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€
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    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€
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    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 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.
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    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
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    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
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    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
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    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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