Dunbar Sloane: Collectors and Estate Auction, 1904, Wellington

Auction Details

Auction Date: September 30, 2025 - September 30, 2025

Page Size: 90 items in 4 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Estimate	Actual Price
377		Box of Assorted Art & Sculpture Reference Books	Not Available	NZD 65.45
378		Box of Assorted Books	Not Available	NZD 29.75
379	Len Castle	Len Castle - Making The Molecules Dance	Not Available	NZD 89.25
380		Bullers Birds of New Zealand	Not Available	NZD 95.20
381		The Life & Times of James Walter Chapman Taylor - Judy Siers	Not Available	NZD 107.10
382	Peter McIntyre	Peter McIntyre's New Zealand	Not Available	NZD 41.65
383	G. Braque	The Intimate Sketch Books of G. Braque	Not Available	NZD 95.20
384	Peter McIntyre	Peter McIntyre's New Zealand	Not Available	NZD 47.60
385		Four Assorted Folio Society Books	Not Available	NZD 35.70
386		Four Assorted Folio Society Books	Not Available	NZD 65.45
387	Giovanni Boccaccio	The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio Volumes 1 & 2 (Box Set)	Not Available	NZD 77.35
388		Two Folio Society Books	Not Available	NZD 35.70
389		Folio Society Boxed Set "Two Books"	Not Available	NZD 71.40
390		Folio Society Boxed Set - "The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci"	Not Available	NZD 380.80
391		Three Folio Society Books - Kevin Crossley-Holland Books	Not Available	NZD 77.35
392		Folio Society Graham Greene Six Book Boxed Set	Not Available	NZD 107.10
393		Three Assorted Folio Society Books	Not Available	NZD 41.65
394		Three Assorted Folio Society Books	Not Available	NZD 95.20
395		Two Assorted Folio Society Books	Not Available	NZD 130.90
396		Two Assorted Folio Society Books	Not Available	NZD 47.60
397		Folio Society Mary Renault Three Book Boxed Set	Not Available	NZD 83.30
398		Folio Society Shakespeare Four Book Boxed Set	Not Available	NZD 89.25
399		Folio Society Shakespeare Four Book Boxed Set	Not Available	NZD 89.25
400		Four Assorted Folio Society Books	Not Available	NZD 23.80
401		Four Assorted Folio Society Books	Not Available	NZD 59.50

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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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.