Dunbar Sloane: Rare Books, 1917, Wellington

Auction Details

Auction Date: April 09, 2026 - April 09, 2026

Page Size: 401 items in 17 pages

Auction Lot Books
Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
276	Paul Nash; David Low; Robert Gibbings; Eric Kennington; Leon Underwood; Stanley Spencer; Edmund Sullivan; Roger Fry; Will Dyson; Percy Smith	Sermons by Artists		1934	NZD 50.00 - 100.00	NZD 53.55
277	Mathers E Powys; Robert Gibbings	A Circle of the Seasons A Translation of the Ritu-Samhara of Kalidasa		1929	NZD 50.00 - 100.00	NZD 41.65
278	Lord Dunsany; Robert Gibbings	Lord Adrian A Play In Three Acts Engravings By Robert Gibbings		1933	NZD 200.00 - 300.00	NZD 71.40
279		Chanticleer A Bibliography Of The Golden Cockerel Press 1936 April 1921, 1936 August		1936	NZD 50.00 - 100.00	NZD 53.55
280	Earle John; Gwendolen Murphy	Micro-cosmographie Or A Piece Of The World Discovered In Essayes And Characters		1928	NZD 50.00 - 100.00	Not Sold
281	John Buckland Wright	Cockerel Cavalcade John Buckland Wright's Devices Engraved In Wood 1938-1945	London	1988	NZD 50.00 - 100.00	NZD 41.65
282	V G Calderon; Richard Phibbs; Dorothea Braby	The Lottery Ticket done into English by Richard Phibbs with engravings by Dorothea Braby		1945	NZD 50.00 - 100.00	NZD 29.75
283	A E Coppard	Count Stefan		1928	NZD 50.00 - 100.00	NZD 29.75
284	A E Coppard	Pelagea		1926	NZD 50.00 - 100.00	NZD 23.80
285	Jack Lindsay; Lionel Ellis	The Complete Poems Of Gaius Catullus with decorations engraved on wood by Lionel Ellis	London	ND (1929)	NZD 50.00 - 100.00	NZD 47.60
286	Frances Hume; John Buckland-Wright	The Story Of The Circle Of Chalk with illustrations by John Buckland-Wright	London	ND (1954)	NZD 50.00 - 100.00	NZD 29.75
287	Peter Quennell	Masques & Poems		1922	NZD 50.00 - 100.00	NZD 11.90
288	A E Coppard	Hips & Haws (Poems)		1927	NZD 50.00 - 100.00	NZD 17.85
289	Richard Phibbs; V. G. Calderon; Clifford Webb	The White Llama Being La Venganza Del Condor Of V. G. Calderon, Engravings By Clifford Webb		1938	NZD 50.00 - 100.00	NZD 35.70
290	Martin Armstrong	2 Golden Cockerel Volumes The Puppet Show By Martin Armstrong, 1922, together with The White Llama, (softcover copy, 1938)		1922; 1938	NZD 50.00 - 100.00	NZD 29.75
291	Jeremy Taylor; Martin Armstrong	A Selection From His Works Made By Martin Armstrong		1923	NZD 50.00 - 100.00	NZD 11.90
292	Hugh Walpole; Lynton Lamb	The Apple Trees Four Reminiscences with wood-engravings by Lynton Lamb		1933	NZD 120.00 - 240.00	NZD 53.55
293	Havelock Ellis	2 Golden Cockerel Press Volumes by Havelock Ellis Sonnets with Folk Songs from the Spanish by Havelock Ellis, 1925, and Kanga Creek An Australian Idyll, 1922		1925; 1922	NZD 50.00 - 100.00	NZD 29.75
294	Lucius Apuleius; Lettice Sandford	Cupid & Psyches The Most Pleasant & Delectable Tale Of Their Marriage, Engravings By Lettice Sandford		1934	NZD 200.00 - 300.00	NZD 95.20
295	Hester Sainsbury; Martin Armstrong	2 Golden Cockerel Press Volumes Lucina Sine Concubitu: A Letter Humbly Address'd To The Royal Society, With 3 Engravings On Copper By Hester Sainsbury, 1930, and The Puppet Show by Martin Armstrong, 1922		1930; 1922	NZD 70.00 - 140.00	NZD 29.75
296	Richard Hughes; Pamela Bianco; Alexander Pushkin; Robert Gibbings	Gipsy-Night and Other Poems by Richard Hughes, With a lithograph by Pamela Bianco, 1922, and The Tale Of The Golden Cockerel by Alexander Pushkin, engravings by Robert Gibbings, 1936		1922; 1936	NZD 50.00 - 100.00	NZD 35.70
297	Edward Sharpham; Lodowick Carlell	3 Golden Cockerel Volumes From The Berkshire Series Cupids Whirligig by Edward Sharpham, 1926, and, The Tragedy Of Osmond The Great Turk or the Noble Servant (1657) by Lodowick Carlell, 1926, and The Fool Would Be A Favourite: or The Discreet Lover (1657)		1926	NZD 50.00 - 100.00	NZD 65.45
298	J. D. Beresford; Havelock Ellis	2 Golden Cockerel Volumes Signs & Wonders by J. D. Beresford. 1921. Kanga Creek An Australian Idyll By Havelock Ellis, 1922		1921; 1922	NZD 50.00 - 100.00	NZD 29.75
299	A E Coppard	Clorinda Walks In Heaven		1922	NZD 50.00 - 100.00	NZD 29.75
300	David Villiers; Osbert Lancaster	A Winter Firework with decorations by Osbert Lancaster		1937	NZD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold

Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
28th May 2026

Forum, May 28: Book of Hours.- Heures de nostre dame a l'usaige de Romme, Paris, Antoine Chappiel pour Germain Hardouin, [1504]. £6,000-8,000

Forum, May 28: Colonna (Francesco). La Hypnerotomachia di Poliphilo, second edition, Venice, Sons of Aldus Manutius, 1545. £15,000-20,000

Forum, May 28: The Christ Child holding a crystal orb and surrounded by banderoles with devotional exhortations, on a leaf most probably from a Book of Hours, [Southern Netherlands, last decades of the fifteenth century]. £2,000-3,000

Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
28th May 2026

Forum, May 28: Jackson (Shirley). The Haunting of Hill House, first English edition, signed presentation inscription from the author to Claude Fredericks, 1960. £2,000-3,000

Forum, May 28: Lennon (John). In His Own Write, first edition, first impression, signed by the author, 1964. £3,000-4,000

Forum, May 28: Doves Press.- Keats (John). [Poems], one of 200 copies on paper, Doves Press, 1914. £5,000-7,000

Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
28th May 2026

Forum, May 28: Rodrigues (João Barbosa). Sertum Palmarum Brasiliensium, 2 vol., first and only edition, Brussels, 1903. £8,000-12,000

Forum, May 28: Newton (Sir Isaac). Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica…editio ultima, auctior et emendatior, Amsterdam, Sumptibus Societatis, 1714. £8,000-12,000

Forum, May 28: Kepler (Johannes). Ad Vitellionem paralipomena, wuibus astronomiae pars optica traditur, first edition, Frankfurt am Main, 1604. £5,000-7,000

Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
28th May 2026

Forum, May 28: Tagliacozzi (Gaspare). De Curtorum Chirurgia per insitionem, libri duo, first edition, Venice, Gasparo Bindoni, 1597. £7,000-10,000

Forum, May 28: Lootsman (Jacobsz). The Lightning Colomne, or Sea-Mirrour, containing the Sea-Coasts of the Northern, Eastern and Western Navigation..., 1670. £8,000-12,000

Forum, May 28: Ribelles y Helip (José), Attributed to. An album comprising 33 finely executed watercolours of Spanish costume, bull-fighting scenes, and other genre subjects, [circa 1830]. £10,000-15,000