Dunbar Sloane: Collectables & Estate Auction, 1922, Wellington

Auction Details

Auction Date: February 03, 2026 - February 03, 2026

Page Size: 101 items in 5 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Estimate	Actual Price
214		Two Pieces of RD Bunnykins together with Loose Beatrix Potter Prints	Not Available	NZD 108.00
431		Album Mainly UK FDC's	Not Available	NZD 36.00
432		Album Mainly UK FDC's	Not Available	NZD 54.00
433		Album NZ Decimal FDC's	Not Available	NZD 42.00
439		Two Albums NZ FDC's Pre-decimal and Early Decimal	Not Available	NZD 30.00
441		Small Bundle NZ FDC's and Presentation Packs with 3D Postcards	Not Available	NZD 48.00
442		NZ Peace Cover with Booklet and Postcard with Peace FDC's and Assorted	Not Available	NZD 42.00
444		Qty NZ Stamp Packs FDC's with NZ and World Semi-Sorted Loose Stamps	Not Available	NZD 42.00
445		Small Qty World & NZ FDC's with Airmail and Tin Can Envelopes	Not Available	NZD 48.00
446		Qty Manly NZ Pre-Decimal FDC's with Some Blocks and Assorted	Not Available	NZD 66.00
561		Box of Assorted National Geographics together with Other Box of Assorted Time Magazines	Not Available	NZD 48.00
579		Four Assorted Maori Arts Reference Books	Not Available	NZD 90.00
580	Michael King	Te Puea by Michael King	Not Available	NZD 48.00
581	Louis E Ward	Early Wellington by Louis E Ward	Not Available	NZD 48.00
582	J C Beaglehole	The Life of Cpt James Cook by J C Beaglehole	Not Available	NZD 48.00
583		New Zealand Times Jan - June 1875	Not Available	NZD 204.00
590	Niebuhr B G	Niebuhr B G - The History & Lectures On The History Of Rome (Composed 6 Volume Set)	Not Available	NZD 30.00
593	Douglas Norman	Douglas Norman - In The Beginning	Not Available	NZD 12.00
594	Pendennis Arthur	Pendennis Arthur - The Newcomes (2 Volumes) & Ruskin John - Arrows Of The Chace (2 Volumes)	Not Available	NZD 24.00
595		Quantity of Assorted Small Vintage Children's Books Including Beatrix Potter	Not Available	NZD 36.00
596		Folio Society - Aucassin & Nicolette & Three Others	Not Available	Not Sold
597		Tom Brown's School Days with The Dream by John Masefield & Two Others	Not Available	NZD 12.00
599	Ruskin John Collingwood W G	Ruskin John Collingwood W G - The Poems of John Ruskin (2 Volumes)	Not Available	NZD 18.00
600	Laurence Whistler	Oho! The Words by Laurence Whistler - The Drawings by Rex Whistler together with Assorted	Not Available	NZD 90.00
601		Prout's Microcosm together with The Poems of Nazami & Selection of Bound Reproduction Prints of Samuel Prout	Not Available	NZD 24.00

Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
26th March 2026

Forum, Mar. 26: Book of Hours.- Heures a lusaige de Romme, printed on vellum, with 14 full-page illuminated miniatures, Paris, N. Higman for J. de Brie, [c.1521]. £20,000-30,000

Forum, Mar. 26: France.- Book of Hours, perhaps Use of the Abbey of Saint-Gildas de Rhuys, with thirteen miniatures surviving from an original cycle of at least twenty, [c. 1430]. £15,000-20,000

Forum, Mar. 26: Milton (John). Paradise lost. A Poem in Ten Books, first edition, Pforzheimer's sixth state, S. Simmons, 1669. £8,000-12,000

Forum, Mar. 26: Blake (William). Illustrations of the Book of Job, one of 215 first issue "Proof" copies, this one of 65 copies on "French" paper, Published by the Author, March 8, 1825 [but March, 1826]. £15,000-20,000

Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
26th March 2026

Forum, Mar. 26: Christie (Agatha). The ABC Murders, first edition, The Crime Club, 1936. £15,000-20,000

Forum, Mar. 26: Halley (Edmund). Astronomiae Cometicae Synopsis, in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, no. 297, pp.1882-99, March 1705. £10,000-15,000

Forum, Mar. 26: Haytham (Ibn al) [known as Alhazen]. Opticae Thesaurus...Item Vitellonis Thuringopoloni libri X..., first edition, Basel, August, 1572. £20,000-30,000

Forum, Mar. 26: Kepler (Johannes). Dioptrice seu demonstratio eorum quae visui & visibilibus propter conspicilla non ita pridem inventa accidunt, first edition, Augsburg, David Frank, 1611. £12,000-18,000
Forum Auctions
Natural History: The remaining stock of Antiquariaat Junk, 1899-2026
25 March 2026

Forum, Mar. 25: Botany.- Andrews (H.C.) Coloured Engravings of Heaths, 4 vol. in 2, first edition, [1710,--94]-1802-1809-[1830]. £10,000 - £15,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Butterflies.- Cramer (Pierre) and Caspar Stoll. De Uitlandsche Kapellen voorkomende in de drie Waereld-Deelen…,, 5 vol., Amsterdam & Utrecht, 1779-91. £8,000 - £12,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Voyages.- Darwin (Charles) and others. Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle, 3 vol. in 4, including Appendix to vol.2, first edition, 1839. £8,000 - £12,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Butterflies.- de Graaf (Willem Diederik Vincent). [Inlandsche Kapellen in beeld], 170 fine original watercolours, [Enkhuizen], [1800-40]. £8,000 - £12,000.

Forum Auctions
Natural History: The remaining stock of Antiquariaat Junk, 1899-2026
25 March 2026

Forum, Mar. 25: Birds.- Dresser (Henry Eeles). A History of the Birds of Europe, 9 vol., including supplement, first edition, by the author, 1871-96. £6,000 - £8,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Zoology.- Felines.- Elliot (Daniel Giraud). A Monograph of the Felidæ or Family of the Cats, first edition, for the Subscribers, by the Author, [1878]-1883. £25,000 - £30,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Birds.- Frisch (Johann Leonard). Vorstellung der Vögel Deutschlandes, 2 vol., first edition, Berlin, Friedr. Wilhelm Birnsteil, [1736]-1763. £40,000 - £60,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Birds.- Gould (John). The Birds of Great Britain, 5 vol., first edition, by the author, 1862-1873. £30,000 - £40,000.

Forum Auctions
Natural History: The remaining stock of Antiquariaat Junk, 1899-2026
25 March 2026

Forum, Mar. 25: Pomology.- France.- Poiteau (A.) Pomologie Française. Recueil des Plus Beaux Fruits cultivés en France, 4 vol., Paris, 1846. £30,000 - £40,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Botany.- [Robin (Jean)]. Histoire des Plantes, nouvellement trouvées en l'Isle Virgine…,, 1620; with Geoffrey Linocier L'Histoire des plantes, second edition, 1619-20. £3,000 - £4,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Asia.- Japan.- Siebold (P.F. von). Nippon. Archiv zur Beschreibung von Japan, 7 parts in 6 vol., first edition, Leyden, [1832]-1852. £35,000 - £45,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Asia.- Valentijn (Francois). Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indiën..., 5 vol. in 8, first edition, Dordrecht [&] Amsterdam, 1724-26. £8,000 - £12,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Botany.- Australia.- Redouté (P.J.).- Ventenat (Étienne Pierre). Jardin de la Malmaison, 2 vol.,, Paris, 1803-04[-05]. £30,000 - £40,000.