Dunbar Sloane: The Tony Arthur Library, 1901, Wellington

Auction Details

Auction Date: November 26, 2025 - November 26, 2025

Page Size: 301 items in 13 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1	Besterman Theodore (Editor)	The Pilgrim Fathers	1939	NZD 160.00 - 280.00	NZD 154.70
2	Davies Rhys	Daisy Matthews And Three Other Tales	1932	NZD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
3	Whitfield Christopher	Together And Alone two Short Novels	1945	NZD 100.00 - 200.00	NZD 65.45
4	Swift The Reverend Jonathan	Selected Essays	1925	NZD 300.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
5	Quennell Peter	Masques & Poems	1922	NZD 50.00 - 100.00	Not Sold
6	Browne Sir Thomas	The Garden Of Cyrus	1923	NZD 200.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
7	Coppard A E	Hips & Haws (Poems)	1927	NZD 50.00 - 100.00	Not Sold
8	Scott, Walter Sidney, (Ed)	The Athenians: Harriet And Mary: Shelley At Oxford (3 Volumes)	1943-44	NZD 400.00 - 700.00	Not Sold
9	Jones Gwyn (Editor)	Salmacis And Hermaphroditus	1951	NZD 500.00 - 750.00	NZD 428.40
10	Bannet Ivor	The Amazons	1948	NZD 240.00 - 375.00	NZD 142.80
11	Earle John	Micro-cosmographie	1928	NZD 80.00 - 160.00	Not Sold
12	Macnamara Francis (Ed)	Miscellaneous Writings Of Henry the Eighth	1924	NZD 300.00 - 500.00	NZD 654.50
13	De Chair Somerset	Julius Caesar's Commentaries	1951	NZD 300.00 - 400.00	NZD 285.60
14	De Chair Somerset	The Story Of Lifetime	1954	NZD 500.00 - 800.00	NZD 452.20
15	Shelley Percy Bysshe	Zastrozzi A Romance	1955	NZD 200.00 - 300.00	NZD 190.40
16	Bennett Arnold	The Bright Island	1924	NZD 120.00 - 240.00	Not Sold
17	Taylor Jeremy & Armstrong Martin	Jeremy Taylor A Selection From His Works	1923	NZD 60.00 - 120.00	Not Sold
18	Coppard A E	Tapsters Tapestry	1938	NZD 200.00 - 350.00	Not Sold
19	Acton Harold & Yi-Hsieh	Glue And Lacquer	1941	NZD 300.00 - 450.00	Not Sold
20	Thornley George (Trans)	Daphnis & Chloe	1923	NZD 60.00 - 120.00	NZD 53.55
21	Coppard E A	Crotty Shinkwin	1932	NZD 70.00 - 140.00	Not Sold
22	Mathers E Powys	Procreant Hymn	1926	NZD 1,000.00 - 15,000.00	NZD 833.00
23	Apuleius Lucius	The xi Bookes of the Golden Asse	1923	NZD 70.00 - 140.00	NZD 65.45
24	Jones Gwyn	The Green Island	1946	NZD 70.00 - 140.00	NZD 65.45
25	Swinburne Algernon Charles	Laus Veneris	1948	NZD 300.00 - 450.00	NZD 285.60

Heritage Auctions
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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.
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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.

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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.