Dunbar Sloane: John Anscombe Library (Part 1), 1838, Wellington

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Auction Date
December 10, 2024 - December 10, 2024
Page Size: 300 items in 12 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
276 Hargraves Edward Hammond

Australia And Its Gold Fields. A Historical Sketch Of The Progress Of The Australian Colonies, From The Earliest Times to The Present Day; ...

London 1855 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 65.45
277 Russell Right Rev M

Polynesia. A History Of The South Sea Islands Including New Zealand.

London 1850 AUD 60.00 - 120.00 AUD 47.60
278

5 Various Volumes. Captured in Tibet by Robert Ford,

1957 AUD 60.00 - 120.00 AUD 35.70
279

4 Various Volumes. On The Spanish Main or, Some English Forays On The Isthmus Of Darien, .

London 1906 AUD 60.00 - 120.00 AUD 35.70
280

6 Pacific Island Related Books. Art Of The South Pacific Islands by Paul S. Wingert,

1953 AUD 60.00 - 120.00 AUD 35.70
281 Maturin Mrs Fred

Adventures Beyond The Zambesi. Of The O'Flaherty: The Insular Miss: The Soldier Man: And The Rebel Woman.

London 1913 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 59.50
282 Graves R P

Lawrence of Arabia and his world.

London 1976 AUD 50.00 - 100.00 AUD 29.75
283

Selection Of South Pacific & Australian Books. including, South Sea folk by Gilbert Archey. Arts Of The Oceanic Peoples. Samoana....

AUD 70.00 - 140.00 AUD 29.75
284

(-) Chums An Illustrated Paper For Boys.

London 1903 AUD 40.00 - 80.00 AUD 17.85
285 Dickens Charles

The Old Curiosity Shop. Illustrated in Colour by Frank Reynolds,

London ND (1912) AUD 60.00 - 120.00 AUD 35.70
286 Forster The Rev Edward

The Arabian Nights Entertainments. Illustrated by Six Hundred Engravings On Wood

London ND 1839 AUD 50.00 - 100.00 AUD 89.25
287 Bedier Joseph

The Romance Of Tristram And Iseult. Illustrated by Maurice Lalau,

London 1910 AUD 60.00 - 120.00 AUD 41.65
288 Brunton Winnifred

Great Ones Of Egypt. Portraits by Winnifred Brunton, Historical Studies by Various Egyptologists.

1929 AUD 160.00 - 280.00 AUD 95.20
289 Kingsley Charles

The Water Babies. Illustrated by Jessie Willcox Smith,

ND AUD 40.00 - 80.00 AUD 59.50
290 Quiller-Couch Sir Arthur

The Sleeping Beauty and other fairy tales. Illustrated by Edmund Dulac,

London ND (C1920s) AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 65.45
291 Housman Laurence

Stories from The Arabian Nights. With Drawings By Edmund Dulac,

London ND AUD 50.00 - 100.00 AUD 59.50
292

Goldsmith. Oliver, She Stoops to Conquer The Mistakes of a Night,. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson,

London ND (C1912) AUD 60.00 - 120.00 AUD 11.90
293 Kipling Rudyard

A Song Of The English. Illustrated By W Heath Robinson, with 12 colour plates,

London ND AUD 50.00 - 100.00 AUD 29.75
294

4 Classic Illustrated Volumes. Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, rendered into English verse by Edward Fitzgerald, illustrated by Robert Stewart Sherriffs, ,

London reprint 1971 AUD 60.00 - 120.00 AUD 17.85
295 Kunos Dr Ignacz

Forty-Four Turkish Fairy Tales. With illustrations by Willy Pogany,

London ND AUD 240.00 - 375.00 AUD 154.70
296

4 Childrens Classics. Thumbelina by Hans Christian Andersen, illustrated by Elsa Beskow,

pictorial boards. East Of Suez being a selection of Eastern Verses from the Poetical Works of Rudyard Kipling ND AUD 60.00 - 120.00 AUD 41.65
297 Shakespeare William

Shakespeares Comedy As You Like It. with illustrations by Hugh Thomson,

London ND (1914) AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 41.65
298 Day Rev Lal Behari

Folk-Tales Of Bengal. With 32 Illustrations In Colour By Warwick Goble, with captioned blank leaves,

London 1912 AUD 160.00 - 300.00 AUD 130.90
299

Kipling. Rudyard, Just So Stories For Little Children, Illustrated by the Author,

London 1902 AUD 60.00 - 120.00 AUD 142.80
300 Greenaway Kate

The Kate Greenaway Treasury. Intro by Ruth Hill Viguers. An Anthology of the Illustrations and Writings of Kate Greenaway,

London 1968 AUD 50.00 - 100.00 AUD 11.90
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