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
51	Robley Major-General	Moko; or Maori Tattooing With 180 Illustrations From Drawings By The Author And From Photographs		1969	NZD 200.00 - 400.00	NZD 154.70
52	Elsdon Best	2 Elsdon Best Dominion Museum Monographs No 3, The Astronomical Knowledge Of The Maori, 1922. No 5, Polynesian Voyagers, The Maori as a Deep-sea Navigator, Explorer and Colonizer, 1923		1922; 1923	NZD 50.00 - 100.00	NZD 71.40
53	White John	Illustrations Prepared For White's Ancient History of The Maori	Wellington	1897	NZD 200.00 - 400.00	NZD 654.50
54	Scott Dick	The Parihaka Story	Auckland	1954	NZD 50.00 - 100.00	NZD 77.35
55	Stack James West; H. Fildes	A White Boy Among The Maoris In The "Forties", edited by A. H. Reed, published by Reed, 1934, together with, The Last of the Ngati Mamoe, The Wild People of the New Zealand Mountain and Bush by H. Fildes, Reed, 1936		1934; 1936	NZD 60.00 - 120.00	NZD 65.45
56		Te Oranga Maori me ona tikanga rekareka. The Maori at home with his pleasures and pastimes. A collection of images of Maori people and their homes	Auckland	1920	NZD 200.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
57		4 Tanner Bros Ltd Maoriland Photographic Series Postcards c1910-20 comprising, Hanaero, Tuwharetoa Chief, N.Z. 2186. Maihi Paraone, N.Z. 2171. A Rotorua Chief, N.Z. 2202. Oneha Ra! (Departed Days) 633		c1910-20	NZD 100.00 - 200.00	NZD 59.50
58		4 Vintage Postcards Of Maori Chiefs 2 Tanner Bros Ltd Photographic Series examples, numbers 98 & 100, Te Ritimana, Te Rapouru and Maori Chief N.Z. 2 others being Chief Mita and another by F. J. Denton, Wanganui	Wanganui	N/A	NZD 100.00 - 200.00	NZD 130.90
59		4 Tanner Bros Ltd Maoriland Photographic Series Postcards c1910-20 comprising, A Maori Warrior, N.Z. 97. Maori Chief, N.Z. 103. Maori Washing Rotorua, N.Z. R55. You Like Haka? Rotorua, N.Z. R53		c1910-20	NZD 100.00 - 200.00	NZD 59.50
60		4 Vintage Maori Black & White Postcards comprising, Wairehu, Tuwharetoa Chief, N.Z. 2189 from Tanner Bros Ltd Maoriland Photographic Series. Te Hongi . An unnamed Maori beauty by F. J. Denton, Wanganui, and Maori Beauties, NZ	Wanganui	N/A	NZD 100.00 - 200.00	NZD 59.50
61	E Le Grice; Frederick George Radcliffe	4 Vintage Maori Postcards comprising Maoris Cooking, Maori Kitchen, Maori Whare, General View Ohinemutu	Rotorua, N.Z.	N/A	NZD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
62		14 Vintage Maori/NZ Black & White Photographs		N/A	NZD 400.00 - 800.00	NZD 238.00
63	Aileen Fox; Ernest & Pearl Beaglehole; J. M. Barrington & T. H. Beaglehole; T. Barrow; Patricia Burns; Margaret Orbell	6 Maori Related Volumes: Prehistoric Maori Fortifications; Some Modern Maoris; Maori Schools; Life and Work of the Maori Carver; Te Rauparaha; Natural World Of The Maori		1976; 1946; 1974; 1963; 1980; 1985	NZD 100.00 - 200.00	NZD 107.10
64	A G Bagnall	Wairarapa An Historical Excursion	Masterton	1976	NZD 100.00 - 200.00	NZD 89.25
65	Herries Beattie	Pioneer Recollections (Signed copy) Dealing chiefly with the Early Days of the Mataura Valley	Dunedin	1911	NZD 50.00 - 100.00	NZD 154.70
66	Herries Beattie	The Maoris and Fiordland (Signed copy) Maori Myths, Fascinating Fables, Legendary Lore		1949	NZD 80.00 - 140.00	Not Sold
67	Herries Beattie	Far Famed Fiordland (Signed copy) Histporic and Descriptive, European Explorers		1950	NZD 80.00 - 140.00	Not Sold
68	Herries Beattie	Our Southernmost Maoris Their Habitat, Nature Notes, Problems and Perplexities		1954	NZD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
69	Herries Beattie	Tikao Talks (Signed & Inscripbed copy) Traditions And Tales Told By Teone Taare Tikao To Herries Beattie	Dunedin	1939	NZD 140.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
70	Herries Beattie	Mackenzie Of The Mackenzie Country Pioneer, Explorer, Sheeplifter		1946	NZD 100.00 - 200.00	NZD 130.90
71	Herries Beattie	3 Herries Beattie Volumes: Maori Place-names of Otago; Early Runholding In Otago; Moriori. The Morioris of the South Island		1944; 1947; 1993	NZD 100.00 - 200.00	NZD 113.05
72	Herries Beattie	2 Herries Beattie Volumes On Otago: The Pioneers Explore Otago; Early Runholding In Otago		1947	NZD 100.00 - 200.00	NZD 101.15
73	Herries Beattie	2 Herries Beattie Volumes: Moriori The Morioris of the South Island; Our Southernmost Maori		1941; 1954	NZD 100.00 - 200.00	NZD 119.00
74	Herries Beattie	Otago Place Names As Bestowed by the Pakeha and Jotted down by Herries Beattie		1948	NZD 80.00 - 140.00	NZD 107.10
75	Herries Beattie	Maori Lore of Lake Alp and Fiord, Folk Lore, Fairy Tales, Traditions and place-Names		1945	NZD 100.00 - 200.00	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