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
201	Echard Laurence	Terence's Comedies Made English with his Life and Some Remarks at the End	London	1718	NZD 80.00 - 140.00	NZD 47.60
202	Camden William	The History of The most Renowned and Victorious Princess Elizabeth Late Queen of England	London	1675	NZD 400.00 - 800.00	NZD 380.80
203	Churchill Charles	Poems By Churchill Containing, The Rosciad, The Apology, The Prophecy Of Famine, An Epistle To William Hogarth and The Ghost, In Four Books	London	1763	NZD 200.00 - 400.00	NZD 142.80
204	Scott Walter	Marmion A Tale Of Flodden Field	Edinburgh	1808	NZD 50.00 - 100.00	NZD 29.75
205	Ramsay Allan	The Gentle Shepherd A Pastoral Comedy	Glasgow; Edinburgh; London	1788	NZD 400.00 - 700.00	Not Sold
206	Bloomfield Rev S T	The Greek Testament Vol I with English Notes, Critical, Philological, And Exegetical	Cambridge	1832	NZD 60.00 - 120.00	NZD 35.70
207		The Book of Common Prayer And Administration of the Sacraments And Other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church	London	1735	NZD 350.00 - 500.00	NZD 142.80
208	Galt John	The Ayrshire Legatees or The Pringle Family The Second Edition to which is added The Gathering Of The West	Edinburgh	1823	NZD 50.00 - 100.00	NZD 29.75
209	Galt John	The Entail or The Lairds Of Grippy (3 Volumes)	Edinburgh	1823	NZD 140.00 - 260.00	NZD 71.40
210	Beckman John	A History of Inventions, Discoveries, And Origins (2 Vols 1846)	London	1846	NZD 70.00 - 140.00	NZD 113.05
211	Emerson Ralph Waldo	The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (2 Vols) Comprising, His Essays, Lectures, Poems, And Orations	London	1875	NZD 60.00 - 120.00	NZD 95.20
212	Leigh Samuel	Leigh's New Picture Of London	London	1830	NZD 60.00 - 120.00	NZD 35.70
213	Smollett Tobias George	The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (3 Vols)	London; Salisbury	1771	NZD 300.00 - 500.00	NZD 1,190.00
214		The New Bon Ton Magazine or Telescope of the Times (4 Volumes)	London	1818-1820	NZD 300.00 - 500.00	NZD 226.10
215	Southee Robert	The Remains of Henry Kirke White Of Nottingham (2 Vols) Late Of St Johns College, Cambridge	London	1813	NZD 50.00 - 100.00	Not Sold
216	Boswell James	The Life Of Samuel Johnson (4 Volumes)	London	1822	NZD 200.00 - 400.00	NZD 285.60
217	Jewell Rev John	An Apology for the Church of England Faithfully Translated From The Original Latin, And Illustrated With Copious Notes, by The Reverend Stephen Isaacson	London	1825	NZD 100.00 - 200.00	NZD 23.80
218	Oliver Goldsmith; Robert Bloomfield	The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith. Aesop's Fables With Upwards Of One Hundred And Fifty Engravings On Wood. The Farmer's Boy A Rural Poem by Robert Bloomfield	London	1830; 1838; 1803	NZD 100.00 - 200.00	NZD 77.35
219	Mayhew Henry; Binny John	The Criminal Prison Of London and Scenes Of Prison Life	London	ND (1862)	NZD 140.00 - 260.00	NZD 59.50
220	Johnson Samuel	The Lives Of The Most Eminent English Poets (4 Vols) With Observations On Their Works	London	1781	NZD 160.00 - 300.00	NZD 101.15
221	Hall Captain Basil	Fragments of Voyages And Travels (3 Vols) Third Series	Edinburgh	1833	NZD 60.00 - 120.00	NZD 77.35
222	Thiers M A; Frederic Shoberl	The History of the French Revolution (4 Vols of 5)	London	1838	NZD 200.00 - 400.00	NZD 83.30
223		The Penny Magazine one years issues for 1832	London	1832	NZD 60.00 - 120.00	NZD 47.60
224	Shepherd Thomas H	Modern Athens Displayed In A Series Of Views or Edinburgh In The Nineteenth Century	London	1829	NZD 60.00 - 120.00	NZD 23.80
225		Elegant Extracts & Elegant Epistles (2 Volumes)	London	1797; 1794	NZD 200.00 - 400.00	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