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The Book Merchant Jenkins: Natural History Books, Artists Books, and More

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Auction Name Natural History Books, Artists Books, and More Total Sales (AUD) 30,707.40
Auction Date June 23, 2024 - June 23, 2024 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (AUD) 17,100.00
Sale Number #62324 High Estimate of Lots Sold (AUD) 28,630.00
Total Lots 260
Sold Lots 199 Low Estimate of All Lots (AUD) 34,230.00
% of Lots Sold 76.54% High Estimate of All Lots (AUD) 52,670.00
Unsold Lots 61 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 58.30%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
156 Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice: First Peacock Edition

1894 AUD 300.00 - 500.00 AUD 1,830.00
107 Guillaume Thomas Francois Raynal; Rigobert Bonne

Atlas de toutes les Parties Connues du Globe Terrestre

c. 1780. AUD 1,000.00 - 1,400.00 AUD 1,708.00
155 Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde: Lady Windermere's Fan, First Edition

1893 AUD 800.00 - 1,200.00 AUD 1,037.00
60 Nadine Amadio; Charles Blackman

[AUSTRALIAN ART] Charles Blackman: Orpheus

1983 AUD 800.00 - 1,000.00 AUD 915.00
96 De La Mano [Zell Dreitzehn]

[MAGIC] De La Mano the Magician

AUD 600.00 - 800.00 AUD 610.00
144 Monte Luke Anna Pavlova

Anna Pavlova Signed Photograph

AUD 400.00 - 600.00 AUD 561.20
68 Hugh McCrae; Norman Lindsay

[AUSTRALIAN ART] Norman Lindsay; Hugh McCrae: Satyrs & Sunlight

1909 AUD 300.00 - 600.00 AUD 512.40
169 J. R. R. Tolkien

Folio Society: The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings

AUD 40.00 - 80.00 AUD 512.40
224 Edward. M. Curr

Curr: The Australian Race

1886-7. AUD 300.00 - 500.00 AUD 512.40
135 Francis Birtles

[PHOTOGRAPHS, QUEENSLAND] Francis Birtles: Mount Morgan

AUD 600.00 - 800.00 AUD 488.00
137 William Skeen; Charles Scowen

[PHOTOGRAPHS] Ceylon

circa 1880. AUD 500.00 - 600.00 AUD 488.00
222 Geo. Leo Haydock; F. C. Husenbeth; Richard Challoner; Bernard O'Reilly

Douay Rheims Haydock Third Quarto Series Bible

AUD 200.00 - 400.00 AUD 463.60
76

As New Art Monographs, 2 Shelves

AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 366.00
85 Barthelemy Roger (engraver); Nicolas-Martin Petit (artist)

Nouvelle-Hollande. Cour-Rou-Bari-Gal

1824 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 366.00
203 Willm. Coxe; P. H. Mallet

[ARMORIAL BINDING] Coxe Voyage en Pologne, Russie, Suede, Dannemarc, &c.

1786 AUD 400.00 - 600.00 AUD 366.00
116

Japanese Swords

AUD 50.00 - 100.00 AUD 317.20
136

1880s Australian Photo Album

AUD 200.00 - 400.00 AUD 317.20
167

Folio Society: Literature

AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 317.20
173

Folio Society: Histories of Ancient Civilisations

AUD 40.00 - 80.00 AUD 317.20
177

[OCCULT] Two Rare Booklets

2014 AUD 60.00 - 120.00 AUD 317.20
220

Prophecies of Daniel Vellum 1562 & 1720

1562 AUD 140.00 - 240.00 AUD 317.20
41

[TASMANIA] Tiger-Wolf and Wombat from Wilde Theire aller Zonen.

1864?.) AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 292.80
101 Mariko Mori

Mariko Mori: Star Doll (for Parkett no. 54)

1998 AUD 240.00 - 300.00 AUD 292.80
111

Military, 7 Shelves

AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 292.80
171

Folio Society: History

AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 292.80
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    Forum, July 17: Lucianus Samosatensis. Dialogoi, editio princeps, second issue, Florence, Laurentius Francisci de Alopa, 1496. £10,000 to £15,000.
    Forum, July 17: Boccaccio (Giovanni). Il Decamerone, Florence, Philippo di Giunta, 1516. £10,000 to £15,000.
    Forum, July 17: Henry VII (King) & Philip the Fair (Duke of Burgundy). [Intercursus Magnus], [Commercial and Political Treaty between Henry VII and Philip Duke of Burgundy], manuscript copy in Latin, original vellum, 1499. £8,000 to £12,000.
    Forum, July 17: Bible, English. The Holy Bible, Conteyning the Old Testament, and the New, Robert Barker, 1613. £4,000 to £6,000.
    Forum, July 17: Bond (Michael). A Bear Called Paddington, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author, 1958. £4,000 to £6,000.
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    Forum, July 17: Yeats (William Butler). The Secret Rose, first edition, with extensive autograph corrections, additions and amendments by the author for a new edition, 1897. £6,000 to £8,000.
    Forum, July 17: Byron (George Gordon Noel, Lord). Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, bound in dark green morocco elaborately tooled in gilt and with 3 watercolours to fore-edge, by Fazakerley of Liverpool, 1841. £4,000 to £6,000.
    Forum, July 17: Miró (Juan), Wassily Kandinsky, John Buckland-Wright, Stanley William Hayter and others.- Spender (Stephen). Fraternity, one of 101 copies, with signed engravings by 9 artists. £6,000 to £8,000.
    Forum, July 17: Sowerby (George Brettingham). Album comprising 22 leaves of original watercolour drawings of fossil remains of Cheltenham and Vicinity, [c.1840]. £6,000 to £8,000.
    Forum, July 17: Mathematics.- Blue paper copy.- Euclid. De gli Elementi, Urbino, Appresso Domenico Frisolino, 1575. £12,000 to £18,000.
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    Sotheby’s, July 15: Buzz Aldrin's FLOWN Apollo 11 Crew-Signed NASA Manned Spacecraft Center Cover. $15,000 to $20,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 15: Lunar Surface Flown Mission Emblem Presented to Tom Stafford by John Young. $8,000 to $12,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 17: Albert Einstein. Typed Letter Signed ("A. Einstein."), to Ann Morrisett, Affirming a Pacifist's Right to Self-Defense, March 21, 1952. $10,000 to $15,000.
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    Sotheby’s, July 17: Operating and Maintenance Manual for the BINAC Binary Automatic Computer Built for Northrop Aircraft Corporation. Philadelphia, 1949. $30,000 to $50,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 17: Steve Jobs Apple Computer Business Card, c. 1977. $5,000 to $8,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 15: Extensive Chronology of Spacecraft From Apollo to Skylab, Signed by a Member of Every Crewed Apollo Flight and the Commanders of Each Skylab Mission. $5,000 to $8,000.
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