Dunbar Sloane: Vintage & Crime Book Collection, 1914, Wellington

Auction Details

Auction Date: December 04, 2025 - December 04, 2025

Page Size: 372 items in 15 pages

Lot Number	Book Title	Estimate	Actual Price
251	Four Biographies & One Anthology	NZD 40.00 - 80.00	NZD 23.80
252	Six Various Biographies	NZD 40.00 - 80.00	NZD 89.25
253	Five Various Biographies	NZD 40.00 - 80.00	NZD 47.60
254	Four Various Biographies & The Oxford Companion To Trollope	NZD 40.00 - 80.00	NZD 23.80
255	Five Literary Biographies	NZD 40.00 - 80.00	NZD 23.80
256	Three Various Biographies & One Anthology	NZD 40.00 - 80.00	NZD 77.35
257	Four Military Biographies	NZD 40.00 - 80.00	Not Sold
258	Six Various Political & Military Biographies	NZD 40.00 - 80.00	NZD 11.90
259	Six Literary Biographies	NZD 30.00 - 60.00	NZD 17.85
260	Four Various Biographies	NZD 30.00 - 60.00	Not Sold
261	Six Collections of Essays	NZD 40.00 - 80.00	NZD 29.75
262	Five Various Biographies	NZD 40.00 - 80.00	NZD 11.90
263	Six Literary Biographies	NZD 40.00 - 80.00	NZD 65.45
264	Six Various Diaries & Collections of Letters	NZD 40.00 - 80.00	Not Sold
265	Four Literary Biographies	NZD 40.00 - 80.00	NZD 11.90
266	Four Literary Biographies	NZD 40.00 - 80.00	Not Sold
267	Five Literary Biographies	NZD 40.00 - 80.00	NZD 11.90
268	Seven Various Biographies	NZD 40.00 - 80.00	NZD 23.80
269	Five Various Collections of Essays	NZD 40.00 - 80.00	NZD 11.90
270	Four Literary Biographies	NZD 40.00 - 80.00	Not Sold
271	Six Literary Biographies	NZD 40.00 - 80.00	NZD 23.80
272	Five NZ Literary Biographies	NZD 30.00 - 60.00	NZD 29.75
273	Four NZ Literary Biographies	NZD 40.00 - 80.00	NZD 65.45
274	Four NZ Literary Biographies	NZD 30.00 - 60.00	NZD 41.65
275	Five NZ Broadcasting Biographies	NZD 30.00 - 60.00	NZD 11.90

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.
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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