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
665	Joan Taylor	Joan Taylor - Beyond North Head - Ltd Ed Etching	Not Available	NZD 84.00
667		Three Assorted Historical Prints	Not Available	NZD 12.00
668	Joan Taylor	Joan Taylor - Contemplation - Ltd Ed Print	Not Available	NZD 42.00
671	Russell M Jackson	Russell M Jackson - Piha - Ltd Ed Print	Not Available	NZD 108.00
677	Rei Hamon	Rei Hamon - Landscape - Ltd Ed Print & Two Others	Not Available	NZD 24.00
678		Two Framed Turnbull Library Reproduction Prints	Not Available	NZD 288.00
680		Set of Handcoloured Botanical Book Plates & Other	Not Available	NZD 12.00
696		Framed Wellington Production Print	Not Available	NZD 156.00
699		Set of Five Prints Depicting Papua New Guinea	Not Available	NZD 12.00
700		Four Framed Art Car Posters	Not Available	NZD 36.00
702		Set of Cyprian Bridge: Scenes of The War in the North - Turnbull Library Prints (Unframed)	Not Available	NZD 54.00
705		Four Assorted Whale Prints	Not Available	NZD 42.00
706		Four Framed Cetacean Prints	Not Available	NZD 42.00
707		Set of Four Framed Reproduction Hunting Prints	Not Available	NZD 48.00
712		Unknown Artist - "Wellington Post Office" - Engraving	Not Available	NZD 144.00
713	Juliana Jarvie	Juliana Jarvie - "Diana & Eve" - Lithograph	Not Available	NZD 48.00
714		Framed Town Plan of Northampton	Not Available	NZD 24.00
715	Vintage Enamel	Vintage Enamel "Faggs Fleet Ashford" Advertising Sign	Not Available	NZD 168.00
716		Tinplate Advertising Sign - Andrews Liver Salt	Not Available	NZD 144.00
717		Enamel Advertising Sign - Sunlight Soap	Not Available	NZD 192.00
718		Tinplate Advertising Sign - Cook Straight Rail Ferries	Not Available	NZD 552.00
719		Tinplate Advertising Sign - Sunhouse Electric Fires	Not Available	NZD 102.00
720		Tinplate Advertising Sign - Peerless Ice Cream	Not Available	NZD 132.00
721		Tinplate Advertising Sign - Thomson Lewis Soft Drinks	Not Available	NZD 252.00
722		Tinplate Advertising Sign - Taubmans Paints	Not Available	NZD 42.00

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.