Dunbar Sloane: Rare Books, 1917, Wellington

Auction Details

Auction Date: April 09, 2026 - April 09, 2026

Page Size: 401 items in 17 pages

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	Unknown
202	Camden William	The History of The most Renowned and Victorious Princess Elizabeth Late Queen of England	London	1675	NZD 400.00 - 800.00	Unknown
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	Unknown
204	Scott Walter	Marmion A Tale Of Flodden Field	Edinburgh	1808	NZD 50.00 - 100.00	Unknown
205	Ramsay Allan	The Gentle Shepherd A Pastoral Comedy	Glasgow; Edinburgh; London	1788	NZD 400.00 - 700.00	Unknown
206	Bloomfield Rev S T	The Greek Testament Vol I with English Notes, Critical, Philological, And Exegetical	Cambridge	1832	NZD 60.00 - 120.00	Unknown
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	Unknown
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	Unknown
209	Galt John	The Entail or The Lairds Of Grippy (3 Volumes)	Edinburgh	1823	NZD 140.00 - 260.00	Unknown
210	Beckman John	A History of Inventions, Discoveries, And Origins (2 Vols 1846)	London	1846	NZD 70.00 - 140.00	Unknown
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	Unknown
212	Leigh Samuel	Leigh's New Picture Of London	London	1830	NZD 60.00 - 120.00	Unknown
213	Smollett Tobias George	The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (3 Vols)	London; Salisbury	1771	NZD 300.00 - 500.00	Unknown
214		The New Bon Ton Magazine or Telescope of the Times (4 Volumes)	London	1818-1820	NZD 300.00 - 500.00	Unknown
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	Unknown
216	Boswell James	The Life Of Samuel Johnson (4 Volumes)	London	1822	NZD 200.00 - 400.00	Unknown
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	Unknown
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	Unknown
219	Mayhew Henry; Binny John	The Criminal Prison Of London and Scenes Of Prison Life	London	ND (1862)	NZD 140.00 - 260.00	Unknown
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	Unknown
221	Hall Captain Basil	Fragments of Voyages And Travels (3 Vols) Third Series	Edinburgh	1833	NZD 60.00 - 120.00	Unknown
222	Thiers M A; Frederic Shoberl	The History of the French Revolution (4 Vols of 5)	London	1838	NZD 200.00 - 400.00	Unknown
223		The Penny Magazine one years issues for 1832	London	1832	NZD 60.00 - 120.00	Unknown
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	Unknown
225		Elegant Extracts & Elegant Epistles (2 Volumes)	London	1797; 1794	NZD 200.00 - 400.00	Unknown

ALDE, Apr. 8: GUEVARA (ANTONIO DE). Histoire de Marc-Aurèle, Empereur Romain, vray miroir et horloge des Princes. Paris, Pierre et Galliot du Pré, frères, 1565. €3,000 to €4,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: HEURES DE LA VIERGE. Horæ in laudem beatissimæ virginis Mariæ ad usum Romanum. Paris, Charles L'Angelier, 1556. €4,000 to €5,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: MONTAIGNE (MICHEL DE). Les Essais. Édition nouvelle, trouvée après le deceds de l'autheur… Paris, Abel L'Angelier, 1595. €6,000 to €8,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: [ROJAS (FERNANDO DE)]. Celestina, tragicomedia di Calisto et Melibea, tradotta de lingua castigliana in italiano idioma… Venise, 1531. €2,000 to €3,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: CAMÕES (LUÍS DE). Os Lusiadas. Lisbonne, Pedro Crasbeeck, 1613. €2,000 to €3,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE). El Ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Bruxelles, Roger Velpius & Huberto Antonio, 1611. €6,000 to €8,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: LA FONTAINE (JEAN DE). Fables choisies, mises en vers. Paris, Denys Thierry et Claude Barbin, 1678-1694. €6,000 to €8,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE). El Ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Madrid, Joaquin Ibarra, 1780. €3,000 to €4,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: DIDEROT (DENIS) ET JEAN LE ROND D'ALEMBERT. Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers. Paris, 1751-1765. €15,000 to €20,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: [LIVRE TISSÉ]. LAMARTINE (Alphonse de). Les Laboureurs. Poème tiré de Jocelyn… Lyon, J. A. Henry, 1883. €8,000 to €10,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: [LIVRE TISSÉ]. Livre de prières tissé d'après les enluminures des manuscrits du XIVe au XVIe siècle. Lyon, [A. Roux], 1886. €5,000 to €6,000.
Sotheby’s
Books, Manuscripts & Objects from Three Important Collections
Open for Bidding 2-17 April

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: [Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun]. Le Roman de la Rose, [Geneva or Lyons, c.1481], first printed edition of the most important medieval French vernacular poem. £200,000 to £300,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Castiglione. Il libro del cortegiano. [Venice], April 1528, first edition, in a magnificent binding by Jean Picard for Jean Grolier. £100,000 to £150,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Jacobus de Cessolis. Schachzabelbuch, Strasbourg, 1483, von der Lasa copy. £50,000 to £70,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: World Championship, 1972. A collection of 84 press photographs of the famed match between Spassky and Fischer. £2,000 to £3,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Ben Franklin. Autograph letter signed, to Lord Shelburne, British Prime Minister, during peace negotiations, November 1782. £15,000 to £20,000.