Auction Reports
The Book Merchant Jenkins
Auction Info
- Auction Name
- Books and Maps Auction
- Auction Date
- 11/08/2025 - 11/08/2025
- Sale Number
- #110825
- Total Lots
- 312
- Sold Lots
- 284.0
- Lots Sold
- 91.03%
- Unsold Lots
- 28
- Total Sales (AUD)
- 77,836.00
- Low Estimate of Lots Sold (AUD)
- 32,740.00
- High Estimate of Lots Sold (AUD)
- 51,500.00
- Low Estimate of All Lots (AUD)
- 41,340.00
- High Estimate of All Lots (AUD)
- 63,300.00
- Total Sales as a % of High Est.
- 122.96%
Top twenty five by sale price
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | Nicholas Gould | A Short Journall of 3 Parliaments, with other observations |
1690 | AUD 300.00 - 400.00 | AUD 7,930.00 |
| 21 | The Collected Works of Sir Winston Churchill (34 Volumes) |
1973-1976 | AUD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 | AUD 3,416.00 | |
| 294 | Mid-19th century Australian Sheet Music |
AUD 100.00 - 140.00 | AUD 2,196.00 | ||
| 143 | Norman Lindsay; Kenneth Mackenzie | Our Earth by Kenneth Mackenzie with an Original Etching and 13 Illustrations |
1937 | AUD 1,200.00 - 1,600.00 | AUD 2,074.00 |
| 284 | John Curtis | Shipwreck of the Stirling Castle |
1838 | AUD 400.00 - 500.00 | AUD 2,074.00 |
| 91 | John Oxley | Journals of Two Expeditions into the Interior of New South Wales |
1820 | AUD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | AUD 1,952.00 |
| 101 | Phillip P. King | Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia |
1827 | AUD 1,000.00 - 1,400.00 | AUD 1,464.00 |
| 24 | Ernest Shackleton | South: The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917 |
1919 | AUD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | AUD 1,464.00 |
| 236 | Howard Carter; A. C. Mace | The Tomb of Tut-Ankh-Amen |
1927-33 | AUD 400.00 - 500.00 | AUD 1,342.00 |
| 152 | Maria Sibylla Merian | The Surinam Album |
2006 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | AUD 1,098.00 |
| 223 | Collection of four 17th-century sermon books with 3 others |
1641 | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | AUD 1,098.00 | |
| 67 | Wooden library plan or map folio stand Measures approx |
AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | AUD 915.00 | ||
| 140 | Grahame L. Walsh | Bradshaw Art of the Kimberley |
2000 | AUD 600.00 - 800.00 | AUD 854.00 |
| 123 | Thomas Welsby | Schnappering and Fishing in the Brisbane River and Moreton Bay Waters |
1905 | AUD 300.00 - 400.00 | AUD 793.00 |
| 90 | T. B. Wilson [Thomas Braidwood Wilson] | Narrative of a Voyage Round the World |
1835 | AUD 800.00 - 1,000.00 | AUD 793.00 |
| 247 | [Robert Stuart Farquharson] | One of the Six Hundred Crimean Campaigning and Russian Imprisonment |
1889 | AUD 600.00 - 800.00 | AUD 732.00 |
| 170 | Ian Fleming | Goldfinger |
1959 | AUD 300.00 - 400.00 | AUD 671.00 |
| 145 | David Hansen John Glover and the Colonial Picturesque Hobart | Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery |
2003 | AUD 10.00 - 30.00 | AUD 671.00 |
| 161 | Edmund Dulac | The Sleeping Beauty and other fairy tailes from the Old Rench retold by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch |
[1910] | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | AUD 671.00 |
| 8 | Bonaventure Opusculorum Theologicorum Venetiis |
1589 | AUD 400.00 - 600.00 | AUD 610.00 |
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