Dunbar Sloane: The Tony Arthur Library, 1901, Wellington

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
November 26, 2025 - November 26, 2025
Page Size: 301 items in 13 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed 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
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