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	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
201	Campbell Alistair Te Ariki	Death and the Tagua	Wellington	1995	NZD 100.00 - 200.00	NZD 285.60
202	Paterson Alistair & Dalgarno Roy	Incantations For Warriors	Auckland	1987	NZD 100.00 - 200.00	NZD 53.55
203	Curnow Allen	The Scrap-Book	Wellington	1996	NZD 100.00 - 140.00	NZD 154.70
204	Beebe Channing	Cannibals And Big Game		1917-1921	NZD 160.00 - 280.00	NZD 380.80
205	Price John Edward	On A Bastion Of London Wall	London	1880	NZD 60.00 - 120.00	NZD 53.55
206	A Naval Officer (Alfred Thornton)	The Adventures of A Post Captain	Cheapside, London,	ND (1817)	NZD 350.00 - 500.00	NZD 321.30
207	Chalmers Thomas	Sermons Preached On Public Occasions	Glasgow	1823	NZD 50.00 - 100.00	Not Sold
208	Thomson James	The Seasons	London	1778	NZD 50.00 - 100.00	Not Sold
209	Mudie Robert	The Feathered Tribes Of The British Islands (2 Volumes)	London	1834	NZD 100.00 - 200.00	NZD 190.40
210	Caldecott	R Caldecott's First Collection Of Pictures And Songs	London,	ND	NZD 50.00 - 100.00	NZD 47.60
211	Blunden Edmund	English Poems	Thavies Inn	1925	NZD 70.00 - 140.00	NZD 47.60
212	Maugham W Somerset	Liza Of Lambeth	London	1947	NZD 100.00 - 200.00	NZD 89.25
213	Sackville-West V	The Garden	London	1946	NZD 400.00 - 600.00	NZD 773.50
214	Lawrence D G	Love Poems And Others	New York	1915	NZD 300.00 - 450.00	Not Sold
215	Weber Max	Cubist Poems	London	1914	NZD 100.00 - 200.00	NZD 65.45
216	Masefield John	The Dream		ND (1922)	NZD 300.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
217	Thomas Dylan	The Map Of Love	London	1939	NZD 50.00 - 100.00	NZD 119.00
218	Gibbings Robert	Coming Down The Seine		1953	NZD 160.00 - 280.00	NZD 142.80
219		4 Volumes By Robert Gibbings		1955	NZD 100.00 - 200.00	NZD 101.15
220	Tolkien J R R	The Lord Of The Rings Trilogy	London	1954	NZD 2,000.00 - 3,500.00	NZD 3,808.00
221	Sitwell Osbert	Left Hand Right Hand The Autobiography Of Osbert Sitwell (4 vols of 5)		1945	NZD 100.00 - 200.00	NZD 89.25
222	Peake Mervyn	Titus Alone	London	1959	NZD 100.00 - 200.00	NZD 178.50
223	Peake Mervyn	Gormenghast	London	1950	NZD 80.00 - 140.00	NZD 190.40
224	Ould Charles	Eve and Lilith	Geneva	1942	NZD 100.00 - 200.00	NZD 238.00
225	An Old Boy (Thomas Hughes)	Tom Brown's School Days	London	1890	NZD 60.00 - 120.00	Not Sold

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Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: An Exceptionally Fine Copy of Austenís Emma: A Novel in Three Volumes. $40,000 - $60,000.

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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.

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Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Finely Bound by Michael Wilcox. $20,000 - $30,000.

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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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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.
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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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