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
151

James K Baxter, In Times of Trouble among Nations (Baxter's last published poem)

NZD 7,500.00 - 10,000.00 Not Sold
152 James K Baxter

An Interesting Group Of 5 Hand Written Letters To Thelma Clairmont (Circa early 1970s)

NZD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 Not Sold
153 Potter James John

Diary of a Voyage Gravesend to Auckland by clipper 1879

Robinsons Bay, Akaroa, 2003 NZD 100.00 - 200.00 NZD 53.55
154

2 Volumes On Canterbury & Otago

Christchurch, ND NZD 60.00 - 120.00 NZD 77.35
155

New Zealand Poetry Volume 8 1932-33

1933 NZD 300.00 - 450.00 NZD 357.00
156 Curnow Allen

Enemies poems 1934-36

1937 NZD 200.00 - 350.00 Not Sold
157 (-)

Ko Te Pukapuka O Nga Inoinga

(London) 1859 NZD 100.00 - 200.00 NZD 190.40
158 (-)

Book 1941-1946

Christchurch NZD 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
159 Wall Arnold

Themes And Variations

London 1937 NZD 200.00 - 350.00 Not Sold
160 (-)

Aurora Australis

Auckland 1988 NZD 700.00 - 1,000.00 NZD 1,071.00
161 Featon Mr & Mrs E H

The Art Album of New Zealand Flora Volume I

Wellington 1889 NZD 200.00 - 350.00 NZD 595.00
162

Large Late 19th Century Part Album "Photographs of New Zealand"

NZD 500.00 - 1,000.00 NZD 773.50
163 Beaglehole J C

The New Zealand Scholar

Eastbourne 1982 NZD 200.00 - 350.00 NZD 476.00
164 Morris William

A Note By William Morris On His Aims In Founding The Kelmscott Press

NZD 60.00 - 120.00 NZD 261.80
165 Garnett Richard

The Twilight Of The Gods And Other Tales

London 1924 NZD 60.00 - 120.00 NZD 107.10
166 Hadfield John (Editor)

Restoration Love Songs

1950 NZD 140.00 - 280.00 NZD 71.40
167 Sandford Christopher

Immortality And Other Poems

London 1933 NZD 50.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
168 (-)

The Wentworth Indenture

Christchurch 1979 NZD 50.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
169 Hazlitt William

Character of John Bull

1978 NZD 50.00 - 100.00 NZD 47.60
170 Coppard A E

The Man From Kilsheelan

1930 NZD 50.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
171 Hearn Lafcadio

Japanese Fairy Tales

Mount Vernon 1926 NZD 60.00 - 120.00 NZD 53.55
172 Grant Douglas (Editor)

Phanseys of William Cavendish Marquis Of Newcastle

1956 NZD 70.00 - 140.00 NZD 89.25
173 Lindsay Jack (Trans)

The Complete Poems Of Gaius Catullus

ND (1929) NZD 120.00 - 240.00 Not Sold
174 Dumas Alexandre

Captain Marion

Christchurch 1949 NZD 60.00 - 120.00 NZD 53.55
175 Ashbee C R

The Kings Of Min Zaman

1938 NZD 60.00 - 120.00 Not Sold
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