Dunbar Sloane: Collectables & Estate Auction, 1916, Wellington

Auction Details

Auction Date: December 02, 2025 - December 02, 2025

Page Size: 41 items in 2 pages

Lot Number	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
542	Small Quantity of Assorted incl Cigarette Card Album & Vintage Rugby Match Pamphlets		Not Available	NZD 214.20
543	Two Danish Cereal Card Album Wonders of our time and On Journey with Richs		Not Available	NZD 17.85
546	NZ & Pacific Island FDC's including First Flight Covers		Not Available	NZD 23.80
562	Quantity of Assorted Japanese Books & Pamphlets etc		Not Available	NZD 83.30
564	A Dictionary of Modern Painting & Two Others		Not Available	NZD 11.90
565	Quantity of Assorted Art Reference		Not Available	NZD 11.90
566	Lady Cottington's Pressed Fairy Book together with Pressed Fairy Journal		Not Available	NZD 35.70
567	Three Assorted Quilting & Needlepoint Reference Books		Not Available	NZD 29.75
568	Five Assorted Doll Reference Books		Not Available	Not Sold
569	Two Children's Picture Books		Not Available	NZD 17.85
570	Small Quantity of Assorted Comics		Not Available	NZD 83.30
571	Ferns of New Zealand		Not Available	NZD 29.75
572	Quantity of Assorted Vintage Floral Arrangement Magazines & Songbooks		Not Available	NZD 11.90
573	The Art of Maori Weaving together with Maori Cloaks		Not Available	NZD 53.55
574	George Edward Lodge - The Unpublished NZ Bird Paintings		Not Available	NZD 59.50
575	Quantity of Assorted Doll Reference Books		Not Available	NZD 11.90
576	Box of Assorted Books incl Cuba Reference		Not Available	Not Sold
579	Box of Assorted Books incl World Reference		Not Available	NZD 11.90
581	Quantity of Assorted Art Reference		Not Available	NZD 17.85
582	Rei Hamon - His Life & Drawings together with Quantity of Assorted Books		Not Available	NZD 83.30
583	Wises NZ Post Office Directory 1952 & Assorted Vintage Books	1952	Not Available	NZD 59.50
586	Quantity of Assorted Books incl Film Reference		Not Available	Not Sold
587	Quantity of Assorted Framed (2) & Loose Historical Prints		Not Available	NZD 23.80
588	Three Assorted Maori Themed Prints		Not Available	NZD 35.70
591	Unknown Artist - Ltd Edition Owl Print		Not Available	NZD 65.45

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.