The Book Merchant Jenkins: Books and Maps Auction, 110825, Woolloongabba

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
November 08, 2025 - November 08, 2025
Page Size: 312 items in 13 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1 Lancelot Andrewes

XCVI Sermons by The Right Honourable and Revered Father in God Lancelot Andrewes, late Lord Bishop of Winchester. . .

London 1635 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 292.80
2 Clement of Alexandria [Klementos Alexandreos ta heuriskomena]

Clementis Alexandrini Opera Graece et Latine quae extant post accuratam D. V. Danielis Heinsii Recensionem et breues additas in fine emendationes...

[Paris] 1629 AUD 400.00 - 600.00 AUD 488.00
3 Nicholas Gould

A Short Journall of 3 Parliaments, with other observations

1690 AUD 300.00 - 400.00 AUD 7,930.00
4 Rapin de Thoyras; N. Tindal

The History of England Written in French by Mr. Rapin de Thoyras

London 1732-33 AUD 300.00 - 400.00 AUD 341.60
5

Small circular 19th-century oil painting by an unknown artist

19th-century AUD 40.00 - 80.00 AUD 317.20
6 Suetonius; Alexander Thomson

Lives of the First Twelve Caesars

London 1796 AUD 50.00 - 100.00 AUD 463.60
7 Suetonius C.

Suetonius Tranquillus, Et in eum Commentarius, Exhibente Joanne Schildio

Lugduni Batavorum [Leiden] 1662 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 488.00
8

Bonaventure Opusculorum Theologicorum Venetiis

[Venice] 1589 AUD 400.00 - 600.00 AUD 610.00
9 Marcus Fabius Quintilianus M.

Fabij Quintiliani oratoriarum institutionum Lib. XII

[Paris] [1516] AUD 500.00 - 600.00 AUD 488.00
10 Edmund Gibson M.

Marcus Fabius Quintilianus; Fabii Quinctiliani de Institutione Oratoria Libris Duodecim

[Oxford] 1693 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 97.60
11 Pieter Burman

Ovid; Publii Ovidii Nasonis Opera omnia IV. voluminibus comprehensa

[Amsterdam] 1727 AUD 400.00 - 600.00 AUD 390.40
12 [Samuel Johnson]

A Selection from the Harleian Miscellany of Tracts, which Principally Regard the English History of which Many are Referred to by Hume

London 1793 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 146.40
13 Francis Henry Stratmann

A Dictionary of the Old English Language

London 1873 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 195.20
14 James Boswell

The Life of Samuel Johnson

London 1807 AUD 50.00 - 100.00 AUD 317.20
15 John T. White; J. E. Riddle

A Latin-English Dictionary

London 1862 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 122.00
16

Vellum Manuscript Antiphonary Leaf 66cm x 49cm

Circa 1540 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 170.80
17

Two incunable leaves from The Decretales of Pope Gregory IX, 1486

[Speyer] [1486] AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 366.00
18

Five post-incunable leaves of Aeneid by Virgil, 1502

[Strassburg] [1502] AUD 60.00 - 120.00 AUD 97.60
19

Five incunable leaves all by Venice printers, 1478-1494

1478-1494 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 170.80
20 Robert Ainsworth; Thomas Morell

Robert Ainsworth's Dictionary, English and Latin

London 1773 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 268.40
21

The Collected Works of Sir Winston Churchill (34 Volumes)

London 1973-1976 AUD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 AUD 3,416.00
22 Bede; Robert Hussey

Baedae Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum

[Oxford] 1846 AUD 50.00 - 100.00 AUD 85.40
23 Gilbert Burnet

The Memoires of the Lives and Actions of James and William Dukes of Hamilton and Castleherald, &c.

London 1677 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 610.00
24 Ernest Shackleton

South: The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917

London 1919 AUD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 AUD 1,464.00
25 C. M. H. Clark

A History of Australia

Melbourne 1985-7 AUD 300.00 - 400.00 AUD 414.80
  • Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("Martinus Luther") to His Friend the Theologian Gerhard Wiskamp ("Gerardo Xantho Lampadario"). $100,000 - $150,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: An Exceptionally Fine Copy of Austenís Emma: A Novel in Three Volumes. $40,000 - $60,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Presentation Copy of Ernest Hemmingwayís A Farewell to Arms for Edward Titus of the Black Mankin Press. $30,000 - $50,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript Signed Integrally for "The Songs of Pooh," by Alan Alexander. $30,000 - $50,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript of "Three Fragments from Gˆtterd‰mmerung" by Richard Wagner. $30,000 - $50,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Preliminary Artwork, for the First Edition of Snow Crash. $20,000 - $30,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("T.R. Malthus") to Economist Nassau Senior on Wealth, Labor and Adam Smith. $20,000 - $30,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Finely Bound by Michael Wilcox. $20,000 - $30,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: First Edition of Lewis and Clark: Travels to the Source of the Missouri River and Across the American Continent to the Pacific Ocean. $8,000 - $12,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Artwork for the First Edition of Neal Stephenson's Groundbreaking Novel Snow Crash. $100,000 - $150,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: A Complete Set Signed Deluxe Editions of King's The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King. $8,000 - $12,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("John Adams") to James Le Ray de Chaumont During the Crucial Years of the Revolutionary War. $8,000 - $12,000.
  • Sotheby’s
    Book Week
    December 9-17, 2025
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Francesco Colonna. Hypnerotomachie, Paris, 1546, Parisian calf by Wotton Binder C for Marcus Fugger. €200,000 to €300,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Nausea. De principiis dialectices Gorgias, and other works, Venice, 1523, morocco gilt for Cardinal Campeggio. €3,000 to €4,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Billon. Le fort inexpugnable de l'honneur, Paris, 1555, Parisian calf gilt for Peter Ernst, Graf von Mansfeld. €120,000 to €180,000.
    Sotheby’s
    Book Week
    December 9-17, 2025
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Salinger, J.D. The Graham Family archive, including autographed letters, an inscribed Catcher, a rare studio photograph of the author, and more. $120,000 to $180,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: [Austen, Jane]. A handsome first edition of Sense and Sensibility, the author's first novel. $60,000 to $80,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Massachusetts General Court. A powerful precursor to the Declaration of Independence: "every Act of Government … without the Consent of the People, is … Tyranny." $40,000 to $60,000.
  • Heritage Auctions
    Rare Books Signature Auction
    December 15, 2025
    Heritage, Dec. 15: John Donne. Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Author's Death. London: M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, 1633.
    Heritage, Dec. 15: Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
    Heritage, Dec. 15: F. Scott Fitzgerald. Tender is the Night. A Romance.
    Heritage, Dec. 15: Bram Stoker. Dracula. Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co., 1897.
    Heritage, Dec. 15: Jerry Thomas. How to Mix Drinks, or the Bon-Vivant's Companion, Containing Clear and Reliable Directions for Mixing All the Beverages Used in the United States…
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