Dunbar Sloane: John Anscombe Library (Part 1), 1838, Wellington

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Auction Date: December 10, 2024 - December 10, 2024

Page Size: 300 items in 12 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
26	Hastings D Harris	Official Record of the New Zealand And South Seas Exhibition. Held At Dunedin, 1889-1890.	Wellington	1891	AUD 60.00 - 120.00	AUD 95.20
27	Cruise Richard	Journal of a Ten Months Residence in New Zealand.	London	1824	AUD 50.00 - 100.00	AUD 119.00
28	Power W Tyrone	Sketches In New Zealand. With Pen And Pencil.	London	1849	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 101.15
29	Tucker Rev H W	Memoir of the Life and Episcopate of George Augustus Selwyn (2 Volumes). Bishop Of New Zealand, 1844-1869; Bishop Of Lichfield, 1867-1878.	London	1879	AUD 60.00 - 120.00	AUD 17.85
30		4 Early NZ Historical Volumes. The Early History of New Zealand by The Late Dr T. M. Hocken, first edition,		1914	AUD 60.00 - 120.00	AUD 47.60
31	Sherrin & Wallace	Early History Of New Zealand. Brett's Historical Series, edited by Thomson W. Leys,	Auckland	1890	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 107.10
32	Gudgeon Thomas Wayth	The Defenders Of New Zealand.	Auckland	1887	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 107.10
33	Chorlton Arthur	Motor Pioneers Through The King Country. With The First Car From Wellington To Auckland via Taihape, Taumarunui, Ohura, Aria And Te Kuiti, pictures by Ernest Gilling,		1912	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 77.35
34	Brown William	New Zealand And Its Aborigines. Being An Account Of The Aborigines, Trade, And Resources Of The Colony.	London	1845	AUD 50.00 - 120.00	AUD 65.45
35	Barker Lady	Travelling About Over Old And New Ground.		ND (1872)	AUD 50.00 - 100.00	AUD 59.50
36	Westra Ans	notes on the country i live in.	Wellington	1972	AUD 60.00 - 120.00	AUD 178.50
37	Chisholm Jocelyn	Brind Of The Bay Of Islands. Some Readings And Notes Of Thirty Years In The Life Of A Whaling Captain,	Wellington	1979	AUD 50.00 - 120.00	AUD 35.70
38		New Zealand Centennial Exhibition 1939-40 Official Souvenir Catalogue.			AUD 50.00 - 100.00	AUD 452.20
39	Yate Rev William	An Account of New Zealand.	London	1835	AUD 80.00 - 140.00	AUD 65.45
40		3 NZ Historical Volumes. A Surveyor In New Zealand 1857-1896 The Recollections Of John Holland Baker, edited by Noeline Baker,	Auckland	1932	AUD 60.00 - 120.00	AUD 53.55
41		3 Early Maoriland Adventure Books By J W Stack. Early Maoriland Adventures,	Dunedin	1935	AUD 50.00 - 120.00	AUD 95.20
42		4 Volumes On Pioneer & Maori Women. Maori Women by Berys Heuer,	1972 with DJ (torn). Brave Days Pioneer Women Of New Zealand	1939	AUD 50.00 - 100.00	AUD 65.45
43		4 NZ Historical Volumes. Sketches of Early Colonisation in New Zealand And Its Phases Of Contact With The Maori Race by "Te Manuwiri",	Christchurch	ND	AUD 50.00 - 120.00	AUD 65.45
44		4 NZ Historical Volumes. Recollections and Reflections of an Old New Zealander by E. Maxwell,		1935	AUD 50.00 - 100.00	AUD 89.25
45		Thomson. Arthur S, The Story of New Zealand (2 Volumes),. Past And Present - Savage And Civilized.	London	1859	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 142.80
46		4 NZ Historical Volumes. John Rutherford, The White Chief, A Story of Adventure in New Zealand		1905	AUD 80.00 - 140.00	AUD 83.30
47	Thorn James	Peter Fraser New Zealand's Wartime Prime Minister. With A Foreword by The Rt. Hon. Clement Atlee,	London	green cloth	AUD 60.00 - 120.00	AUD 71.40
48		9 Books On Prehistoric NZ Archaeology Etc.			AUD 80.00 - 160.00	AUD 261.80
49		4 Volumes On Early New Zealand. Reminiscences of Twelve Months Service in New Zealand by Lieut H. F. McKillop, A Midshipman, During The Late Disturbances In That Colony,		1973	AUD 80.00 - 140.00	AUD 71.40
50		4 Capper Press NZ Historical Reprints. The Boy Colonists or Eight years of Colonial Life in Otago, New Zealand by Rev. E Simeon Elwell,		1975	AUD 80.00 - 160.00	AUD 23.80

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