Auction Report: The Book Merchant Jenkins Books and Art

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Auction Name	Books and Art	Total Sales (AUD)	109,214.40
Auction Date	February 21, 2026 - February 21, 2026	Low Estimate of Lots Sold (AUD)	39,120.00
Sale Number	#22126	High Estimate of Lots Sold (AUD)	65,180.00
Total Lots	381
Sold Lots	354.0	Low Estimate of All Lots (AUD)	43,330.00
% of Lots Sold	92.91%	High Estimate of All Lots (AUD)	71,970.00
Unsold Lots	27	Total Sales as a % of High Est.	151.75%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
49	[LITERATURE] L. Ron Hubbard: Final Blackout Signed First Edition	1948	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 5,612.00
57	[LITERATURE] Steinbeck: Of Mice and Men First Edition	1937	AUD 1,200.00 - 2,000.00	AUD 5,124.00
145	[AUSTRALIA] Hawkesworth: Cook's First Voyage 1773	1773	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	AUD 3,660.00
47	[LITERATURE] Isaac Asimov: Foundation First Edition B Variant	1951	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	AUD 2,928.00
50	[LITERATURE] The Hobbit First Edition, Fourth Impression	1946	AUD 600.00 - 800.00	AUD 2,684.00
22	Sir Redmond Barry's copy of The Works of Edmund Burke	1792 & 1802	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	AUD 2,440.00
131	[AUSTRALIA] The Disappointment: or the Girl Taken from the Blacks	1875	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	AUD 2,440.00
91	Sven Hedin: History of the Expedition in Asia		AUD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00	AUD 2,196.00
151	[AUSTRALIA] Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay 1789 First Edition	1789	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	AUD 2,196.00
98	Wallace: Narrative of Travels on the Amazon 1853 First Edition	1853	AUD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	AUD 1,952.00
141	[AUSTRALIA] Collins First Edition: An Account of the English Colony of New South Wales 1798-1802	1798-1802.	AUD 600.00 - 800.00	AUD 1,952.00
54	[LITERATURE] Ernest Hemingway: The Old Man and the Sea First Edition	1952	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	AUD 1,586.00
212	An Album of the Weapons, Tools, Ornaments, Articles of Dress &c., of the Natives of the Pacific Islands	1898	AUD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	AUD 1,586.00
104	Cook's Second Voyage, Dublin Edition 1776	1776	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 1,464.00
230	[AUSTRALIAN ART] Signed Albert Namatjira	1948	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 1,342.00
110A	Birds of Paradise Folio Society	2011	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 1,220.00
247	Patterson: The Man-Eaters of Tsavo	1907	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 1,159.00
136	[AUSTRALIA] Barrington: The History of New South Wales [WITH] An Account of a Voyage 1802-3	1802	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	AUD 1,098.00
53	[LITERATURE] Ernest Hemingway: A Farewell to Arms First Edition	1929	AUD 600.00 - 800.00	AUD 1,037.00
63	[LITERATURE] The Little Prince First US Edition	1943	AUD 400.00 - 600.00	AUD 1,037.00
68	[LITERATURE] Gulliver's Travels Fourth Edition 1742	1742	AUD 1,000.00 - 1,400.00	AUD 1,037.00
246	[ANTARCTIC] Ross: Voyage to the Southern Seas	1847	AUD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00	AUD 976.00
278	Balance of a Collection: 19th Century Leather		AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 915.00
227	Cassell's Emigrants Guides 1860s	no date [1860s].	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	AUD 854.00
292	[OCCULT] Kenneth Grant: Typhonian Trilogies	1972-2002.	AUD 500.00 - 1,000.00	AUD 854.00

The Book Merchant Jenkins: Books and Art

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Top twenty-five by sale price