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
76	Herries Beattie	3 Volumes By Herries Beattie: A History of Gore And Surrounding Districts; The Pioneers Explore Otago; Maori Lore of Lake, Alp and Fiord		1862-1962; 1947; 1945	NZD 100.00 - 200.00	NZD 107.10
77	Herries Beattie	Maori Place-Names Of Canterbury Including One Thousand hitherto unpublished names		1945	NZD 50.00 - 100.00	NZD 65.45
78	Herries Beattie	Pioneer Recollections Fourth Series, Mainly of the Gore District		1956	NZD 80.00 - 140.00	Not Sold
79	Herries Beattie	3 Volumes By Herries Beattie: Mackenzie The Sheep Stealer; Mackenzie of the Mackenzie Country; The Attractions Of Te Anau		1959; 1946; 1955	NZD 80.00 - 160.00	NZD 95.20
80	Herries Beattie	2 Herries Beattie Booklets: Doubtful Sound; The Andersons Of Early Wyndham		1955; 1960	NZD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
81	Herries Beattie; James Beattie	2 Booklets By Herries Beattie: European Place-Names In Southern New Zealand; Trade Hunting in the Backblocks		1912; 1913	NZD 50.00 - 100.00	Not Sold
82	Herries Beattie	The Moa When Did It Become Extinct Maori Traditions And Pakeha Conjectures		ND	NZD 80.00 - 140.00	NZD 166.60
83	Herries Beattie; Taare te Maiharoa; Maud Goodenhough Hayter	3 Herries Beattie Booklets: Folklore And Fairy Tales Of The Canterbury Maoris; I Visit Manapouri; Majestic Manapouri		1957; 1949; 1955	NZD 80.00 - 140.00	NZD 101.15
84	Herries Beattie	Records of the Gore and Surrounding Districts Early Settlers Association (4)		1927; 1933; 1940; 1953	NZD 140.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
85	Herries Beattie	European Place-Names In Southern New Zealand		1912	NZD 50.00 - 100.00	NZD 65.45
86	Herries Beattie	16 Extracts from the Journal of the Polynesian Society by Herries Beattie		N/A	NZD 80.00 - 140.00	NZD 142.80
87	H. A. H. Insull; A. D. McIntosh	2 Volumes On Marlborough: Marlborough Place Names by H. A. H. Insull; Marlborough A Provincial History	Wellington	1952; 1940	NZD 70.00 - 140.00	NZD 77.35
88	David Macmillan; Paula Dickie	2 Large Historical Canterbury Volumes: By-Ways of History & Medicine; Land Of Many Hills	Christchurch	1946; 1982	NZD 80.00 - 140.00	NZD 59.50
89	Ronal W Malloch; James Allan Thomson; Edmund Smith; W. Scott Gilkison	4 Early Otago Volumes: Early Waikouaiti; The Taieri Allans And Related Families; Early Adventures In Otago; Peaks, Packs And Mountain Tracks		ND (1940); 1929; 1940; ND (1940)	NZD 80.00 - 140.00	NZD 59.50
90	C. F. Overton; R. N. Adams; Margaret Campbell	4 Volumes Otago Etc: Fifty Years Sheep Farming In Canterbury, Otago And Southland; Dineen's Commercial Directory and Tourists Guide; The Counterfeit Seal; Music In Dunedin		1949; 1903-4; 1897; c1945	NZD 100.00 - 200.00	NZD 35.70
91	G. A. Hamilton; Maurice Kelly; John H Angus; Geoffrey P Duff; John Hall-Jones; Joan Macintosh	6 S.I. Volumes Including Fiordland Southland Etc: History Of Northern Southland; Mill in the Valley; Donald Reid Otago Farmers Limited; One Hundred Years; Early Fiordland; The Wreck Of The Tararua		1971; 1977; 1978; 1979; 1968; 1970	NZD 80.00 - 160.00	NZD 35.70
92	G. B. Stevenson; J. B. Hislop; R. T. Hunt; Isabel Ramsay; J. O. P. Watt; Roy Belmer	6 Otago Volumes: Maori & Pakeha in North Otago; Pure Gold And Rough Diamonds; From Cob Hut to Area School; Land Of Our Fathers Central Otago; The Trial Of Minnie Dean; Around The Southern Coast		c1947; c1943; 1979; 1970; 1973; 1973	NZD 100.00 - 200.00	NZD 59.50
93	Robert Gilkison; Edmund Smith; Sheila Macdonald	5 Otago Related Volumes: Early Days In Central Otago; Early Adventures In Otago; The Member For Mount Ida; A Regional Survey Of The Borough Of Naseby; A Century Of Fires And Fire Brigades In Dunedin		1930; 1940; 1938; 1939; 1848-1948	NZD 100.00 - 200.00	NZD 71.40
94	A. H. Reed	7 Volumes By A. H. & A. W. Reed: Farthest North & Farthest East; A foot In Maoriland Byways; Farthest East & Farthest West; Great Barrier Isle of Enchantment; The Friendly Road; From North Cape To Bluff		1946; 1950 & 53; 1946; 1964; 1961	NZD 80.00 - 160.00	NZD 59.50
95	Irvine Roxburgh; Terri Macnicol; G. E. Dewar; Philip Houghton	5 Volumes: Jacksons Bay A Centennial History; Beyond The Skippers Road; Echoes from Slippers Canyon; Chaslands Pioneering Days In Southern New Zealand; Hidden Water		1976; 1965 & 67; r/p 1953; 1974	NZD 80.00 - 160.00	NZD 53.55
96	A Bathgate; Rev. T Burns; D. G. Conly	4 Early Books On Dunedin: Dunedin And Its Neighbourhood; City Of Dunedin New Zealand Jubilee; Early Otago and Genesis Of Dunedin; "J.J's" Dunedin	Dunedin	1904; 1865-1915; 1848-1865; ND	NZD 100.00 - 200.00	NZD 47.60
97	J. T. Paul; Robert Gilkison; Rev. C Stuart Ross	3 Books On Otago & Dunedin: The Otago Daily Times Diamond Jubilee 1861-1921; Early Days in Dunedin; The Story Of The Otago Church And Settlement	Dunedin	1924; 1938; 1887	NZD 80.00 - 160.00	NZD 47.60
98	Gladys Swain; Peter Mackenzie; R. G. Pullar	3 Books: Stewart Island Days A District Nurse Looks Back; Pioneers Of Martin's Bay; By Blueskin Bay	Queenstown	1970; 1947; 1957	NZD 80.00 - 160.00	NZD 89.25
99	George M Moir; Gerard Hall-Jones; T. A. McGavin; John Bathgate; A. H. Reed	6 South Island Booklets: New Zealand and South Seas Exhibition Dunedin 1925-26 Official Souvenir Catalogue; Guide Book to the Tourist Routes; Moir's Guide Book Southern Section; …		1925-26; 1925; 1969; 1866-1916; 1952	NZD 80.00 - 160.00	NZD 95.20
100	John Wilson; D. W. Carmalt Jones; John Collie; A. H. Reed	4 Books On Otago: Reminiscences of the Early Settlement of Dunedin and South Otago; Annals of the University Of Otago Medical School; The Story of the Otago Free Church Settlement; The Story Of Otago Age Of Adventure		1912; 1875-1939; 1848 to 1948; 1947	NZD 80.00 - 160.00	NZD 35.70

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