Dunbar Sloane: Collectables and Estate Auction, 1902, Wellington

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
October 14, 2025 - October 14, 2025
Page Size: 156 items in 7 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
45

Quantity of Assorted Vintage Floral Arrangement Magazines & Songbooks

Not Available Not Sold
59 Norma Ashworth & Jocelyn Chisholm

Artist & Bon Vivant - A Memoir of Bruce Henry (11 Copies)

Not Available Not Sold
60

Box Quantity of Assorted Books

Not Available NZD 11.90
260

Five Facsimile Book Plates from Les Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry

Not Available NZD 113.05
263 Jean R. Bowron -

"Harbour View" - Drypoint Etching

Not Available NZD 285.60
264

Two Vintage Poultry Prints & Other

Not Available NZD 23.80
265 Malcolm Warr -

"Morning" - Design Colour Proof

Not Available NZD 41.65
269 Cynthia Taylor -

"Manuka" "NZ Native Series" - Ltd Ed Print

Not Available NZD 202.30
270 Cynthia Taylor -

"Earth Elementals" - Artist's Proof 7

Not Available NZD 249.90
273

Framed Gallery Poster Print

Not Available NZD 77.35
282 Yu Yuen Hong

Mr Yu Yuen Hong - Three Ltd Ed Prints on Textured Paper

Not Available NZD 29.75
284

Indistinctly Signed - "Lost in Transit" - Screen Print

Not Available NZD 17.85
286 Herbert Davis

Large Vintage Herbert Davis Engraving

Not Available NZD 47.60
287

Vintage Framed Queen Street Shopping Festival Advertising Poster

Not Available NZD 53.55
291

Four Framed Prints

Not Available Not Sold
292

Whites Aviation - Waipoua Forest - Photographic Print

Not Available NZD 214.20
293

Three Assorted NZ Photographic Prints

Not Available NZD 47.60
294

Large Framed NZ Photographic Print

Not Available NZD 166.60
295

Large Framed Scenic Photographic Print of Mount Egmont

Not Available NZD 71.40
296

Whites Aviation - Waipoua Forest - Photographic Print

Not Available NZD 35.70
297 Richard Taylor

Richard Taylor Signed "Rover Patrol" Ltd Ed Print

Not Available NZD 309.40
298 Richard Taylor

Robert Taylor Signed "Broken Silence" Ltd Ed Print

Not Available NZD 547.40
303

Five Assorted Reproduction Framed Advertising Prints

Not Available Not Sold
303A

Indistinctly Signed - Owl Study - Print

Not Available NZD 309.40
304

Three As New Posters

Not Available Not Sold
  • 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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