Dunbar Sloane: Collectables & Estate Auction, 110425, Wellington

Auction Details

Auction Date: November 04, 2025 - November 04, 2025

Page Size: 225 items in 9 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Estimate	Actual Price
560	John Stuthers	Miramar Peninsula - (Two Copies)	Not Available	NZD 29.75
561		Quantity of Assorted Art Bulletin Journals & Art Reference	Not Available	NZD 11.90
562		Quantity of Assorted NZ Reference	Not Available	NZD 41.65
563	Graeme Lay	In Search of Paradise -	Not Available	NZD 53.55
564	Van Gogh	Van Gogh: A Retrospective	Not Available	NZD 35.70
565	Peter McIntyre	Peter McIntyre's New Zealand	Not Available	NZD 53.55
566		Quantity of Assorted Vintage Books	Not Available	NZD 53.55
567	G. F. Angas	South Australia -	Not Available	NZD 77.35
568		European Brasses & Other Metal Work Reference	Not Available	NZD 11.90
569		Charles Darwin: A Centennial Commemorative (Two Copies)	Not Available	NZD 29.75
570	Buller'	Buller's Birds of New Zealand	Not Available	NZD 119.00
571	Picasso	Picasso: Cubism	Not Available	NZD 35.70
572	Eleanor Catton	The Luminaries - Eleanor Catton, Inscribed by the author	Not Available	NZD 11.90
573		Quantity of Assorted Arts Yearbook Etc	Not Available	NZD 476.00
574		Woollaston: Erua Spiralbound Offset Lithographs Edition 642/1000	Not Available	Not Sold
575		10 Assorted Volumes of Kunst Aus Osterreich - Art Treasures in Austria & Other	Not Available	Not Sold
576		3 Assorted Art Reference Together with Scrapbook	Not Available	NZD 35.70
577		The Cyclopedia of New Zealand	Not Available	NZD 29.75
578	Gabriele Fahr-Becker	Art Nouveau -	Not Available	NZD 29.75
579		Great Pictures in Private Galleries Together with 100 Popular Pictures & Two Other Pictorial References	Not Available	NZD 11.90
580		Three Assorted Art Reference	Not Available	NZD 53.55
581		The Times History of the War in South Africa (Complete Set Vols 1 - 7)	Not Available	NZD 178.50
582		Monet - Daniel Wildenstein Four Volume Box Set	Not Available	NZD 357.00
583		Set Of 10 Leather Bound Shakespeare Volumes	Not Available	NZD 154.70
584	Brian James	E. Mervyn Taylor - Artist Craftsman by Brian James with Two War Reference Books	Not Available	NZD 89.25

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.