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

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