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![<b>Sotheby’s:</b> Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson], John Tenniel. <i>Alice's Adventures in Wonderland</i> First Edition. Macmillan & Co., 1866. $15,000.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/cc3f4f98-f195-4049-aca6-329c27fdd27c.png "<b>Sotheby’s:</b> Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson], John Tenniel. <i>Alice's Adventures in Wonderland</i> First Edition. Macmillan & Co., 1866. $15,000.")
Sotheby's
Fine Books, Manuscripts & More
Available for Immediate PurchaseSotheby’s: William Shakespeare. The Temple Shakespeare. Housed in Custom Bookcase. $6,365.Sotheby’s: Frederick Douglass. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Boston: Anti-Slavery Office, 1845. $14,000.Sotheby’s: Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol. London: William Heinemann, 1915. $2,900.Sotheby’s: F. Scott Fitzgerald. First Edition Set, Including This Side of Paradise, The Great Gatsby, and others. Charles Scribner's Sons. 1920 – 1941. $24,180.Sotheby’s: Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson], John Tenniel. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland First Edition. Macmillan & Co., 1866. $15,000. -
![<b>Dominic Winter, Nov. 5:</b> Aquinas (Thomas). <i>[Summa Theologica], Secunda Parte,</i> Venice, 1496. £700 to £1,000.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/b69c37e7-f18c-4417-b08b-f00e9b97a413.jpg "<b>Dominic Winter, Nov. 5:</b> Aquinas (Thomas). <i>[Summa Theologica], Secunda Parte,</i> Venice, 1496. £700 to £1,000.")
Dominic Winter
Printed Books & Maps, Geology & Charles Darwin
5th November, 2025Dominic Winter, Nov. 5: Darwin (Charles). Geological Observations on the Volcanic Islands, 1st edition, 1844. £4,000 to £6,000.Dominic Winter, Nov. 5: Rashleigh (Philip). Specimens of British Minerals, 2 parts in 1, 1797 & 1802. £3,000 to £5,000.Dominic Winter, Nov. 5: Murchison (Roderick Impey). The Silurian System, 1st edition, 1839. £3,000 to £5,000.Dominic Winter
Printed Books & Maps, Geology & Charles Darwin
5th November, 2025Dominic Winter, Nov. 5: Darwin (Charles). The Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs, 1st edition, 1842. £3,000 to £5,000.Dominic Winter, Nov. 5: Darwin (Charles). Geological Observations on South America, 1st edition, 1846. £3,000 to £5,000.Dominic Winter, Nov. 5: Sowerby (James). The Mineral Conchology of Great Britain, 6 volumes, 1812-29. £2,000 to £3,000.Dominic Winter
Printed Books & Maps, Geology & Charles Darwin
5th November, 2025Dominic Winter, Nov. 5: Emerson (William). Cyclomathesis: or an Easy Introduction to ... Mathematics, 10 vols. in 9, 1770. £1,500 to £2,000.Dominic Winter, Nov. 5: Robinson (Thomas). New observations on the Natural History of This World of Matter, 1696. £800 to £1,200.Dominic Winter, Nov. 5: Aquinas (Thomas). [Summa Theologica], Secunda Parte, Venice, 1496. £700 to £1,000.Dominic Winter
Printed Books & Maps, Geology & Charles Darwin
5th November, 2025Dominic Winter, Nov. 5: Parfit (Cliff). Tesuki Washi. Handmade Papers of Japan, 1981-1988. £400 to £600.Dominic Winter, Nov. 5: Herbert (Thomas). A Relation of some yeares Travaile... Into Afrique and the greater Asia, 1634. £800 to £1,200.Dominic Winter, Nov. 5: Lindbergh (Charles A.). The Spirit of St. Louis, 1955, signed. £200 to £300. -
Swann
Autographs
November 6, 2025Swann, Nov. 6: Lot 93: Autograph album containing 29 autograph letters signed by each president from Washington to Coolidge, 1785-1945.Swann, Nov. 6: Lot 166: Franz Schubert, Autograph Musical Manuscript, fragment from Die Taucher, 1813.Swann, Nov. 6: Lot 111: Thomas Jefferson, holograph plat drawing: map of field near Monticello, 1790s.Swann
Autographs
November 6, 2025Swann, Nov. 6: Lot 208: George Sand, Autograph Manuscript Signed, draft of her one-act play, Francia, ca. 1872.Swann, Nov. 6: Lot 218: Walt Whitman, Manuscript Signed, draft of three complete poems from Leaves of Grass, 1891.Swann, Nov. 6: Lot 8: James Dean, Photograph Signed and Inscribed, still from Giant, 1955.Swann
Autographs
November 6, 2025Swann, Nov. 6: Lot 20: John Lennon, Typescript Signed, interview discussing Paul, Linda, and Yoko, 1971.Swann, Nov. 6: Lot 215: Mark Twain, engraved portrait Signed, "Mark Twain / SL. Clemens," 1890s.Swann, Nov. 6: Lot 81: Vaslav Nijinsky, reproduction of an artwork by Léon Bakst Inscribed and Signed, 1916.Swann
Autographs
November 6, 2025Swann, Nov. 6: Lot 73: Malcolm X, The Harvard Crimson Signed and Inscribed: his street address and phone number, 1961.Swann, Nov. 6: Lot 11: Lou Gehrig, Photograph Signed and Inscribed, ca. 1939.Swann, Nov. 6: Lot 153: George Gershwin, Photograph Signed and Inscribed, portrait by Renato Toppo. -
Bonhams, Nov. 3-13: Presentation Copy of a Whitman "Holy Grail." Whitman, Walt. $10,000-$15,000.Bonhams, Nov. 3-13: Endymion in Original Boards. Keats, John. $8,000-Bonhams, Nov. 3-13: Association Copy of the Privately Printed Edition of The Tale of Peter Rabbit. Potter, Beatrix. $8,000-$12,000Bonhams, Nov. 3-13: Christina Rossetti's Own Copy of Her First Book. Rossetti, Christina G. $8,000-$12,000Bonhams, Nov. 3-13: The Borden Copy of The Life of Merlin in an Elaborate Binding by Riviere. Heywood, Thomas, Translator. $6,000-$8,000Bonhams, Nov. 3-13: Arion Press. Whitman, Walt, Leaves of Grass. $4,000-$6,000Bonhams, Nov. 3-13: Call It Sleep in the First State Jacket. Roth, Henry. $2,000-$3,000Bonhams, Nov. 3-13: Steinbeck's Best-Known Work. Steinbeck, John. $2,000-$3,000Bonhams, Nov. 3-13: A Fine Jewelled Binding Signed by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Sangorski, Francis. $40,000-$60,000Bonhams, Nov. 3-13: The Complete Tales of Beatrix Potter: A Complete Set of First Editions. Potter, Beatrix. $2,000-$3,000Bonhams, Nov. 3-13: Kelmscott Shelley. Shelley, Percy Bysshe. The Poetical Works. $3,000-$5,000Bonhams, Nov. 3-13: Inscribed by Martin Luther King Jr. King, Martin Luther, Jr. $3,000-$5,000
The Book Merchant Jenkins: Books and Maps Auction, 110925, Woolloongabba
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- November 09, 2025 - November 09, 2025
| 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 | Unknown |
| 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 | Unknown |
| 3 | Nicholas Gould | A Short Journall of 3 Parliaments, with other observations |
1690 | AUD 300.00 - 400.00 | Unknown | |
| 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 | Unknown |
| 5 | Small circular 19th-century oil painting by an unknown artist |
19th-century | AUD 40.00 - 80.00 | Unknown | ||
| 6 | Suetonius; Alexander Thomson | Lives of the First Twelve Caesars |
London | 1796 | AUD 50.00 - 100.00 | Unknown |
| 7 | Suetonius C. | Suetonius Tranquillus, Et in eum Commentarius, Exhibente Joanne Schildio |
Lugduni Batavorum [Leiden] | 1662 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | Unknown |
| 8 | Bonaventure Opusculorum Theologicorum Venetiis |
[Venice] | 1589 | AUD 400.00 - 600.00 | Unknown | |
| 9 | Marcus Fabius Quintilianus M. | Fabij Quintiliani oratoriarum institutionum Lib. XII |
[Paris] | [1516] | AUD 500.00 - 600.00 | Unknown |
| 10 | Edmund Gibson M. | Marcus Fabius Quintilianus; Fabii Quinctiliani de Institutione Oratoria Libris Duodecim |
[Oxford] | 1693 | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | Unknown |
| 11 | Pieter Burman | Ovid; Publii Ovidii Nasonis Opera omnia IV. voluminibus comprehensa |
[Amsterdam] | 1727 | AUD 400.00 - 600.00 | Unknown |
| 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 | Unknown |
| 13 | Francis Henry Stratmann | A Dictionary of the Old English Language |
London | 1873 | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | Unknown |
| 14 | James Boswell | The Life of Samuel Johnson |
London | 1807 | AUD 50.00 - 100.00 | Unknown |
| 15 | John T. White; J. E. Riddle | A Latin-English Dictionary |
London | 1862 | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | Unknown |
| 16 | Vellum Manuscript Antiphonary Leaf 66cm x 49cm |
Circa 1540 | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | Unknown | ||
| 17 | Two incunable leaves from The Decretales of Pope Gregory IX, 1486 |
[Speyer] | [1486] | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | Unknown | |
| 18 | Five post-incunable leaves of Aeneid by Virgil, 1502 |
[Strassburg] | [1502] | AUD 60.00 - 120.00 | Unknown | |
| 19 | Five incunable leaves all by Venice printers, 1478-1494 |
1478-1494 | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | Unknown | ||
| 20 | Robert Ainsworth; Thomas Morell | Robert Ainsworth's Dictionary, English and Latin |
London | 1773 | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | Unknown |
| 21 | The Collected Works of Sir Winston Churchill (34 Volumes) |
London | 1973-1976 | AUD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 | Unknown | |
| 22 | Bede; Robert Hussey | Baedae Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum |
[Oxford] | 1846 | AUD 50.00 - 100.00 | Unknown |
| 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 | Unknown |
| 24 | Ernest Shackleton | South: The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917 |
London | 1919 | AUD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | Unknown |
| 25 | C. M. H. Clark | A History of Australia |
Melbourne | 1985-7 | AUD 300.00 - 400.00 | Unknown |
