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
76	Braby Dorothea	The Ninety-First Psalm	1944	NZD 100.00 - 200.00	NZD 65.45
77	Coppard A E	Adam & Eve & Pinch Me	1921	NZD 200.00 - 350.00	NZD 130.90
78	Calderon V G	The Lottery Ticket	1945	NZD 60.00 - 120.00	Not Sold
79		2 Golden Cockerel Volumes	1939	NZD 80.00 - 160.00	NZD 71.40
80	Buckland Wright John	Cockerel Cavalcade	1988	NZD 80.00 - 140.00	Not Sold
81	Rutter Joan	Here's Flowers	1917	NZD 60.00 - 120.00	NZD 53.55
82	Apuleius Lucius	Cupid & Psyches	1934	NZD 400.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
83		2 Golden Cockerel Press Volumes by Havelock Ellis	1925	NZD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
84	Walpole Hugh	The Apple Trees Four Reminiscences	1933	NZD 300.00 - 450.00	Not Sold
85	Stewart Cecil	Topiary An Historical Diversion	1959	NZD 80.00 - 160.00	NZD 714.00
86	Swinburne Algernon Charles	Pasipahe	1950	NZD 200.00 - 350.00	NZD 285.60
87	Grammont Sieur De	Heartsease And Honesty	1935	NZD 80.00 - 140.00	NZD 101.15
88	Miller Patrick	Ana The Runner	1937	NZD 60.00 - 120.00	NZD 71.40
89	Mathers E Powys	A Circle of the Seasons	1929	NZD 60.00 - 120.00	Not Sold
90	Lord Dunsany	Lord Adrian A Play In Three Acts	1933	NZD 400.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
91	Whitfield Christopher	Mr Chambers And Persephone	1937	NZD 140.00 - 280.00	NZD 95.20
92	Rutter Owen	We Happy Few An Anthology	1946	NZD 70.00 - 140.00	NZD 65.45
93	Lucas F L	Hero & Leander	1949	NZD 300.00 - 450.00	NZD 178.50
94	Johnson Samuel	The New London Letter Writer	1948	NZD 80.00 - 140.00	NZD 71.40
95		2 Golden Cockerel Press Volumes	1930	NZD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
96		2 Small Golden Cockerel Volumes	1922	NZD 70.00 - 140.00	Not Sold
97	Spenser Edmund	The Wedding Songs of Edmund Spenser	1923	NZD 60.00 - 120.00	NZD 65.45
98	Jones Glyn	The Saga Of Llywarch The Old	1955	NZD 400.00 - 600.00	NZD 892.50
99	Sterne Laurence	A Sentimental Journey Through France And Italy	1928	NZD 100.00 - 200.00	NZD 89.25
100	Cave Roderick & Manson Sarah	A History of The Golden Cockerel Press 1920-1960	1988	NZD 100.00 - 200.00	NZD 107.10

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.