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Dunbar Sloane: Collectable and Estate Auction
Auction Reports
| Auction Name | Collectable and Estate Auction | Total Sales (NZD) | 6,096.00 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Auction Date | July 07, 2026 - July 07, 2026 | Low Estimate of Lots Sold (NZD) | 0.00 |
| Sale Number | #1950 | High Estimate of Lots Sold (NZD) | 0.00 |
| Total Lots | 117 | ||
| Sold Lots | 110.0 | Low Estimate of All Lots (NZD) | 0.00 |
| % of Lots Sold | 94.02% | High Estimate of All Lots (NZD) | 0.00 |
| Unsold Lots | 7 | Total Sales as a % of High Est. | Inf% |
Top twenty-five by sale price
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 582 | Angas George | Portraits of The NZ Maori |
N/A | Not Available | NZD 312.00 |
| 566 | Boswell | Boswell On The Grand Tour; Johnsons Life By Boswell |
N/A | Not Available | NZD 288.00 |
| 583 | Barraud C D | New Zealand Graphic and Descriptive |
N/A | Not Available | NZD 288.00 |
| 581 | Captain Cook's Artists in The Pacific 1769 - 1779 |
1769-1779 | Not Available | NZD 264.00 | |
| 554 | Hotere Ralph | Hotere |
N/A | Not Available | NZD 240.00 |
| 126 | Stanley Gibbons | Stamps of the World Catalogue |
2018 | Not Available | NZD 180.00 |
| 135 | Vintage Postcard Album |
N/A | Not Available | NZD 168.00 | |
| 580 | Pictorial Illustrations of Early New Zealand |
N/A | Not Available | NZD 168.00 | |
| 136 | Vintage Postcard Album |
N/A | Not Available | NZD 132.00 | |
| 572 | Rangi | Guide Rangi of Rotorua; Her Excellency Knitting Book |
N/A | Not Available | NZD 132.00 |
| 137 | Album of Vintage Cigarette Cards; Horse Postcards; Trooping the Colour |
1937 | Not Available | NZD 120.00 | |
| 531 | McCahon Colin | Gates and Journeys |
N/A | Not Available | NZD 114.00 |
| 858 | Ornately Framed Photographic Print |
N/A | Not Available | NZD 108.00 | |
| 539 | Riefenstahl Leni | Two Leni Riefenstahl Reference Volumes |
N/A | Not Available | NZD 96.00 |
| 839 | McCormack Michael | Aro Valley Wellington |
N/A | Not Available | NZD 96.00 |
| 559 | Grant | 4 Books, including: Grant's Atlas of Anatomy |
N/A | Not Available | NZD 84.00 |
| 530 | Albrecht Gretchen | Two Gretchen Albrecht Reference |
N/A | Not Available | NZD 78.00 |
| 535 | Taylor E. Mervyn | Artist Craftsman |
N/A | Not Available | NZD 78.00 |
| 558 | Four Art Reference |
N/A | Not Available | NZD 78.00 | |
| 564 | Ottolenghi Yotam | Four Yotam Ottolenghi Cookbooks |
N/A | Not Available | NZD 78.00 |
| 553 | Art Treasures of The Vatican |
N/A | Not Available | NZD 72.00 | |
| 840 | McCormack Michael | Breaker Bay Wellington |
N/A | Not Available | NZD 72.00 |
| 859 | Ornately Framed Print with Convex Glass |
N/A | Not Available | NZD 72.00 | |
| 143 | NZ Mainly Pre-Decimal FDC's |
N/A | Not Available | NZD 66.00 | |
| 544 | Four Assorted Art Reference |
N/A | Not Available | NZD 66.00 |
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Sotheby’s Geek Week
14-15 JulySotheby’s, July 14: Henry De La Beche. "Awful Changes," 1830. $6,000 to $9,000.Sotheby’s, July 15: [Apollo 11]. Flight Plan, Complete Original Printing Signed by Buzz Aldrin. $5,000 to $8,000.Sotheby’s, July 15: Thomas Alva Edison. Documents Establishing and Ending the Edison Electric Railway Company. $20,000 to $30,000.Sotheby’s, July 15: Richard P. Feynman. Feynman's Lectures on Gravitation 1-16, Including the Original Transcriptions of Lectures 12-16 by Morinigo and Wagner, With Richard Feynman's Manuscript Notations, 1971. $12,000 to $18,000.Sotheby’s, July 15: [Apollo 9]. A Group of Manuals and Mission Documents used by Stuart Roosa as a member of the Astronaut Support Crew. $5,000 to $8,000.Sotheby’s, July 15: [BYTE: The Small Systems Journal]. A collection of early foundational issues of Byte: The Small Systems Journal, with rare hardcover editions. $5,000 to $8,000. -
Forum Auctions
The 10th Anniversary Sale
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
July 16, 2026Forum, July 16: Inundation papyrus. P.Michael 4, the ‘Inundation papyrus’, a geographical account of the Nile near Canopus, in Greek, remains of two columns from a manuscript scroll on papyrus, Egypt, second century CE. £12,000-18,000Forum, July 16: Book of Hours, use of Sarum, manuscript on vellum, 6 full-page miniatures, with famous Middle English inscriptions, Southern Netherlands for the English market, [c.1430]. £30,000-50,000Forum, July 16: Qu'ran, Arabic manuscript on burnished, stencilled, and gold-flecked paper, 447ff., Sultanate Gujarat, Ahmadabad, [after 1411 but no later than 1442]. £15,000-20,000Forum Auctions
The 10th Anniversary Sale
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
July 16, 2026Forum, July 16: Turner (William). A New boke of the natures and properties of all wines that are commonly vsed here in England, rare first edition of the first English book on wine, By William Seres, 1568. £20,000-£30,000Forum, July 16: Spenser (Edmund). The Faerie Queene. first edition, Printed [by John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, 1590. £30,000-40,000Forum, July 16: Shakespeare (William). The Comedie of Errors, extracted from the first folio, Isaac Jaggard and Edward Blount, 1623. £15,000-20,000Forum Auctions
The 10th Anniversary Sale
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
July 16, 2026Forum, July 16: Fleming (Ian). Casino Royale, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author, 1953. £40,000-60,000Forum, July 16: d'Agoty (Jacques-Fabien Gautier). Anatomie de la Tête, first edition, Paris, chez le Sieur Gautier, 1748. £10,000-15,000Forum, July 16: Martial Arts.- Lee (Bruce). 'Praying Mantis style' Kung Fu book, containing numerous annotations, diagrams and graphs in Bruce Lee's hand, c. 1960. £50,000-70,000Forum Auctions
The 10th Anniversary Sale
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
July 16, 2026Forum, July 16: Warre (Capt. Henry James). Sketches in North America and the Oregon Territory, first edition, rare hand-coloured issue, 1848. £30,000-40,000Forum, July 16: Norie (John William). The Marine Atlas, or Seaman's Complete Pilot for all the principal places in the known world..., 1826. £30,000-50,000Forum, July 16: Mao Tse-tung.- Kim Il-sung.-[Note book for visitors from China to Korea], signed by Mao and Kim, [Beijing, 1954]. £10,000-15,000