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
351	Jardine Sir William	The Naturalist's Library (5 Volumes of 24)	Edinburgh	1834-1842	NZD 200.00 - 400.00	NZD 130.90
352	Bolton James	Harmonia Ruralis (2 Volumes in 1) or, An Essay Towards A Natural History of British Song Birds	London	1845	NZD 1,500.00 - 3,000.00	NZD 1,785.00
353	Featon Mr & Mrs E H	The Art Album of New Zealand Flora Volume I Authors Edition	Wellington; London	1889	NZD 500.00 - 800.00	NZD 952.00
354	Featon Mr And Mrs E H	The Art Album of New Zealand Flora Being A Systematic And Popular Description Of The Native Flowering Plants Of New Zealand And The Adjacent Islands	Wellington	1889	NZD 400.00 - 700.00	NZD 357.00
355	Greenwood James	Wild Sports of The World A Boys Book of Natural History And Adventure	London	1862	NZD 50.00 - 100.00	Not Sold
356	Bury Viscount; Hillier G Lacy	Cycling The Badminton Library		1889	NZD 70.00 - 140.00	NZD 89.25
357	Archibald Sinclair; William Henry; A. G. Steel; Hon. R. H. Lyttelton	2 Badminton Library Sporting Volumes Swimming	London	1893	NZD 60.00 - 120.00	NZD 89.25
358	C. T. Dent; Hedley Peek	2 Badminton Library Volumes Mountaineering		1892; 1896	NZD 60.00 - 120.00	NZD 59.50
359	P. F. Warner; C. J. Longman; Col. H Walrond	2 Badminton Library Sporting Volumes Cricket A New Edition	London	1920; 1894	NZD 50.00 - 100.00	NZD 65.45
360	Shearman Montague	Athletics and Football The Badminton Library		1894	NZD 50.00 - 100.00	NZD 130.90
361	Earl Of Suffolk And Berkshire; W. G. Craven; Arthur Coventry; Alfred E. T. Watson; Captain Robert Weir; J. Moray Brown	2 Badminton Library Equestrian Related Volumes Racing And Steeple-Chasing, Racing by the Earl Of Suffolk And Berkshire and Mr W. G. Craven, Steeple-Chasing by Arthur Coventry and Alfred E. T. Watson	London	1886; 1891	NZD 60.00 - 120.00	NZD 154.70
362	A. Wallis Myers; A. P. F. Chapman; Sydney Spencer	3 Lonsdale Library Sporting Volumes Lawn Tennis Its Principles & Practice, A Player's guide to modern methods by A. Wallis Myers, The Lonsdale Library Volume V		1930; ND; ND	NZD 60.00 - 120.00	NZD 35.70
363	Bocourt; Couverchel; Decamps; A Deroy; Durand-Brager; Godefroy-Durand; Gustave Dore; Gustave Janet; Lix; Marcelin; De Montaut; E Morin; Riou; Rouargue; Therond; Thorigny; Charles Yriarte	Album-Evenement 300 Dessins by Bocourt, Couverchel, Decamps, A Deroy, Durand-Brager, Godefroy-Durand, Gustave Dore, Gustave Janet, Lix, Marcelin, De Montaut, E Morin, Riou, Rouargue, Therond, Thorigny, Charles Yriarte	Paris	N/A	NZD 100.00 - 200.00	NZD 83.30
364	Murray-Oliver Anthony	Captain Cook's Artists In The Pacific 1769-1779 Avon Fine Prints Ltd, Christchurch,1969, limited edition number 1716 of 2000	Christchurch	1969	NZD 100.00 - 200.00	NZD 107.10
365	Ross Frederick; A. F. Lydon	The Ruined Abbey's of Britain Illustrated With Coloured Plates And Wood Engravings By A. F. Lydon. William Mackenzie, London	London	ND (C1870)	NZD 80.00 - 140.00	NZD 107.10
366	Haghe Louis	Haghe's Sketches In Belgium Germany Etc Henry Graves, London, Second Series, 1845, elephant folio, lithographic plates by Day & Haghe	London	1845	NZD 100.00 - 200.00	NZD 47.60
367	Harding J D	Elementary Art or The Use Of The Lead Pencil Advocated And Explained. A New Edition, Charles Tilt, London, 1838	London	1838	NZD 70.00 - 140.00	NZD 47.60
368	Taylor E Mervyn	Engravings On Wood The Mermaid Press, Wellington, first edition, 1957	Wellington	1957	NZD 140.00 - 280.00	NZD 547.40
369		Finely Bound Copies Of The Sphere & Illustrated London News 1911 Coronation Issues		1911	NZD 300.00 - 500.00	NZD 95.20
370		Fine Leather Bound Copy of Her Majesty's Glorious Jubilee 1897 The Record Number of a Record Reign, Published by The Proprietors of The Illustrated London News		1897	NZD 100.00 - 200.00	NZD 71.40
371		The Ceremonies To Be Observed At The Royal Coronation Of Her Most Sacred Majesty Queen Victoria In The Abbey Church of Westminster, On Thursday The Twenty-Eighth Day Of June MDCCCXXXIII, folio, printed by Samuel Bentley, London	London	1833	NZD 200.00 - 350.00	NZD 119.00
372		2 Royal Related Copies Of The Illustrated London News the first, Her Majesty's Glorious Jubilee 1897, the other Geo V Coronation Number 1911		1897; 1911	NZD 60.00 - 120.00	NZD 71.40
373	John Dower; E. Weller	John Dower, New Zealand Middle & South Islands, Circa 1863 hand coloured lithographic map by E. Weller, from Cassells Weekly Dispatch Atlas		c. 1863	NZD 100.00 - 200.00	NZD 238.00
374		18th Century Chart of Cook's Strait hand coloured copper engraved map, published by Alexander Hogg, London, c1780	London	c. 1780	NZD 200.00 - 400.00	NZD 476.00
375	Topham	Italy Divided into its Kingdoms States etc hand coloured copper engraved map, c1809		c. 1809	NZD 100.00 - 200.00	NZD 59.50

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