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
376	Jacques Nicolas Bellin	Carte Reduite Des Australes 1753 hand coloured map, featured in the Abbe Prevosts massive voyage collection, "Histoire generale des voyages", published between 1746-1759		1753	NZD 400.00 - 800.00	NZD 261.80
377		18th Century Map of Cook's Strait in New Zealand hand coloured and published by Alexander Hogg at The Kings Arms, 16 Paternoster Row, London, c1780	London	c. 1780	NZD 160.00 - 300.00	NZD 89.25
378	William Whitchurch	A Sketch Of Dusky Bay in New Zealand 1773 hand coloured map, Plate No XIII from Cook's "A Voyage Towards The South Pole", published by William Strahan & Thomas Cadell, London, 1777	London	1773; 1777	NZD 200.00 - 400.00	NZD 107.10
379	William IV; George IV	2 Interesting Original Letters One Signed William IV the other as Regent George IV The 1837 letter signed William relating to a fine imposed upon a Thomas George Smith		1837	NZD 400.00 - 800.00	NZD 238.00
380	Vincenzo Coronelli	Mare Del Sud/Mare Pacifico a large hand coloured copperplate engraved map, 1696		1696	NZD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00	NZD 2,618.00
381		The Islands Of New Zealand		c1838	NZD 160.00 - 300.00	NZD 166.60
382	Charles Heaphy	NZ Sketch of the Waikato River 1863		1863	NZD 350.00 - 700.00	NZD 166.60
383	W Deverell	Map Of New Zealand With Mountain Features In Pictorial Relief		N/A	NZD 260.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
384	William Hidges	3 18th Century Portrait Engravings After William Hidges		N/A	NZD 50.00 - 100.00	NZD 29.75
385	Pierre Tardieu	Carte De L'Oceanie contenant L'Australie La Polnesie et Les Asiatiques 1842		1842	NZD 100.00 - 200.00	NZD 47.60
386	Louis Le Breton	Entree De La Baie Des Iles (Nouvelle Zelande) c1840s	Paris	c1840s	NZD 750.00 - 1,500.00	NZD 595.00
387	Louis Brion de la Tour	L'Angleterre 1766		1766	NZD 70.00 - 140.00	Not Sold
388	Eugene Andriveau Goujon	Mappe Monde en Deux Hemispheres 1854	Paris	1854	NZD 160.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
389	Charles Francois Delamarche	L'Etat Du Monde Vers La Fin Du XVeme Siecle 1848		1848	NZD 50.00 - 100.00	NZD 23.80
390	Gottlieb Canzler	Karte von Funften Eratheil oder Polynesien-Inselwelt oder Australien od Sudindien 1795		1795	NZD 350.00 - 700.00	NZD 273.70
391	George Baxter	Pair Of 19th Century Baxter Prints		N/A	NZD 80.00 - 160.00	NZD 83.30
392		5 Various Engravings From Cooks & Other Pacific Voyages		N/A	NZD 80.00 - 160.00	Not Sold
393	Robert Benard	Illustrated London News Pages c1860s Etc		c1860s	NZD 80.00 - 160.00	NZD 29.75
394	Nicolas Sanson	Principaute De Galles 1658		1658	NZD 70.00 - 140.00	NZD 53.55
395		Group Of 18th & 19th Century Engravings & Prints chiefly architectural		N/A	NZD 50.00 - 100.00	NZD 77.35
396	Charles Francois Delamarche	Mappe Monde 1802 ou Carte Generale de toutes les parties du Globe		1802	NZD 100.00 - 200.00	NZD 83.30
397	Louis August de Sainson	A Small Group Of Engravings After Louis August de Sainson from the Voyage of the Astrolabe		N/A	NZD 80.00 - 160.00	NZD 59.50
398	John Thomson	New Holland and Asiatic Isles 1814		1814	NZD 200.00 - 400.00	NZD 309.40
399	F A Garnier	6 Large French Maps By F A Garnier 1860		1860	NZD 200.00 - 400.00	NZD 119.00
400	William Hodges	After William Hodges A Women Of New Zealand, Plate No LVIII from James Cook, A Voyage Towards The South Pole, 1777		1777	NZD 50.00 - 100.00	NZD 23.80

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