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Dunbar Sloane: Collectibles and Estate Auction

Auction Reports


Auction Name	Collectibles and Estate Auction	Total Sales (NZD)	13,667.15
Auction Date	June 03, 2025 - June 03, 2025	Low Estimate of Lots Sold (NZD)	0.00
Sale Number	#60325	High Estimate of Lots Sold (NZD)	0.00
Total Lots	86
Sold Lots	79.0	Low Estimate of All Lots (NZD)	0.00
% of Lots Sold	91.86%	High Estimate of All Lots (NZD)	0.00
Unsold Lots	7	Total Sales as a % of High Est.	Inf%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
485		Vintage Burns Philp Line Island Tours Cruise Ship Advertisement		Not Available	NZD 1,428.00
515		Quantity of Unframed Tourism Advertisements		Not Available	NZD 1,428.00
479		Unframed Vintage NZ Lighthouse Chart		Not Available	NZD 1,309.00
486		Vintage Cunard White Star Line America to Europe Advertising by Montague B. Black		Not Available	NZD 1,190.00
487		Vintage NZ Cook Strait Rail Ferries Wellington to Picton Advertisement on Metal Panel & Other Similar Example		Not Available	NZD 1,071.00
470	A.D. Willis after Charles Blomfield -	"Mount Tarawera in Eruption" - Lithograph		Not Available	NZD 1,011.50
422		Pair of Japanese Wood Block Prints		Not Available	NZD 595.00
423		Vintage British WW2 Framed Propoganda Poster		Not Available	NZD 357.00
499		Three Antique Wellington Independent Newspaper Pages & Antique Screw Steamer Diagram & Other		Not Available	NZD 273.70
495		Three Vintage NZ Railway Posters		Not Available	NZD 261.80
475		Vintage Kiwiana Unframed Cook Strait Ferry Poster		Not Available	NZD 249.90
467	After A. D. Willis -	Pick & White Terraces - Reproduction Prints (2) - A/F		Not Available	NZD 214.20
146		Book of Music for Bagpipes together with Pipe		Not Available	NZD 190.40
481		British WW2 Propaganda Poster		Not Available	NZD 190.40
14A	J Cowan	Official Record of the NZ Exhibition 1906 - 07	1910	Not Available	NZD 154.70
493		Assorted Vintage NZ Nautical Interest Posters		Not Available	NZD 154.70
14		Small Collection NZ Centennial Exhibition 1940 Certificate etc	1940	Not Available	NZD 142.80
53		Two NZ Reference Books including Seaweeds of NZ & NZ Mollusca		Not Available	NZD 142.80
459	R Aitken -	Untitled - Ltd Ed Print & Other	'70	Not Available	NZD 142.80
62		Five Assorted Royalty Reference Books together with Signed Framed Photograph & Other		Not Available	NZD 130.90
507		Three Unframed Les Finch Ltd Edition Prints		Not Available	NZD 130.90
63		NZ Reference Book - "New Zealand Illustrated"		Not Available	NZD 113.05
591		Enamelled Sign "Caution Keep Guns Pointed In For Safety"		Not Available	NZD 113.05
65		The Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic News 1876	1876	Not Available	NZD 107.10
513		NZ Birds by Raymond Ching		Not Available	NZD 107.10

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.
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