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77	Herries Beattie	Maori Place-Names Of Canterbury Including One Thousand hitherto unpublished names		1945	NZD 50.00 - 100.00	NZD 65.45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

Sotheby's Book Week
2 June - 9 July

Sotheby’s, June 25: Smith, Adam. The Wealth of Nations, on its 250th anniversary. $180,000 to $250,000.

Sotheby’s, June 17: Fontana, Lucio. Concetto Spaziale. 1967. Leporello en papier doré. Bel exemplaire signé. €4,000 to $€,000.

Sotheby’s, June 25: Fitzgerald, F. Scott. "So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past”. $150,000 to $200,000.

Sotheby’s, June 25: Washington, George (as First President). Washington decries “an ostentatious imitation, or mimickry of Royalty” in his Presidency. $250,000 to $500,000.

Sotheby’s, June 17: Lope de Vega. Rare manuscrit autographe signé de la préface dédicatoire de "El Cardenal de Belen" (le cardinal de Bethléem), pièce composée en 1610. €40,000 to €60,000.
Leland Little, June 12: The First Illustrated Edition of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.

Leland Little, June 12: John Morton, Signer of the Declaration of Independence, Signed Pennsylvania Land Survey.

Leland Little, June 12: The Scarce Jansson Edition of a Remarkable Early View of London.

Leland Little, June 12: Signed Limited Edition of The Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

Leland Little, June 12: Faden’s Important and Scarce Map of the Southern Campaign of the American Revolution.

Leland Little, June 12: William J. Tate (NC, 1869-1953), Archive of the "Original host to the Wright brothers at Kitty Hawk.”
Aste Bolaffi, June 17-18: Galileo Galilei. Dialogo sopra i due massimi sistemi del mondo tolemaico, e copernicano. Firenze, 1632

Aste Bolaffi, June 17-18: Saverio Manetti. Storia naturale degli uccelli. Firenze, 1771-76

Aste Bolaffi, June 17-18: Fortunato Depero. Depero futurista. Rovereto, 1927

Aste Bolaffi, June 17-18: Nicolas Visscher. Atlas minor sive totius orbis terrarum contracta delineat ex conatibus. Amsterdam, circa 1649-95

Aste Bolaffi, June 17-18: Andreas Vesalius. Anatomia. Addita nunc. Antiquorum Anatome. Venezia, 1604

Aste Bolaffi, June 17-18: Tristan Tzara and Salvador Dalì. Grains et Issues. Parigi, 1935
June 25, 2026

Doyle, June 25: Houdini's biography, boldly signed. $3,000 to $5,000.

Doyle, June 25: A volume from Abraham Lincoln's library, signed just before heading to Washington for his inauguration. $20,000 to $30,000.

Doyle, June 25: A very early Confederate recruiting manual belonging to the chief commissary in Lee's Army. $600 to $800.

Doyle, June 25: Rare hand-colored lithographs of the life of Napoleon. $20,000 to $30,000.

Doyle, June 25: The "Holster Atlas" of the American Revolution. $5,000 to $8,000.

Doyle, June 25: Jewish ceremonies in fine hand-colored engravings. $7,000 to $10,000.

Doyle, June 25: A very rare work on Turkish military costume. $1,000 to $1,500.

June 25, 2026

Doyle, June 25: The most important illustrated work on the Mexican-American War. $10,000 to $15,000.

Doyle, June 25: The finest illustrated book on Afghanistan. $10,000 to $15,000.

Doyle, June 25: Henry Justice Ford St. George rescues the Princess from the horrible Dragon. $2,000 to $3,000.

Doyle, June 25: A rare work of Prussian Army uniforms under Frederick William II, with exquisite hand-colored engravings. $800 to $1,200.

Doyle, June 25: Lenny Bruce typed letter signed to a Village bohemian during his obscenity trials, with a manuscript note and drawing. $300 to $500.

Doyle, June 25: Schiff's scarce Shanghai Sketchbook. $300 to $500.

Doyle, June 25: The first accurate published representation of the American flag. $2,000 to $4,000.
Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 123. Celebrate 250 Years of Independence with Original Stars and Stripes (1790) Est. $1,400 - $1,700

Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 20. Keulen's Spectacular Chart of the World Featuring California as an Island (1728) Est. $12,000 - $15,000

Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 42. Schedel's Ancient World Map with Fantastic Humanoid Creatures (1493) Est. $14,000 - $17,000

Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 591. Matching Set of 3 Stunning Globe Gores of Eastern Asia from Coronelli's 3.5 Foot Globe (1688) Est. $5,500 - $7,000

Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 9. Speed's Popular World Map with Allegorical Representations of the Elements (1651) Est. $14,000 - $17,000

Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 168. First Separate Map of Kansas & Nebraska Territories (1854) Est. $5,500 - $7,000

Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 43. Only Macrobius Map with Britain Attached to Europe (1515) Est. $800 - $950

Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 250. Rare Map of Boston and One of the Earliest Maps of the Revolutionary War (1775) Est. $2,000 - $2,300

Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 79. Schenk's Uncommon Map Featuring Two Figurative Title Cartouches (1696) Est. $1,200 - $1,500

Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 681. Hand-Colored Image of the Annunciation to the Shepherds (1502) Est. $800 - $950