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Dunbar Sloane: The Folio Society Book Collection

Auction Reports

Auction Name The Folio Society Book Collection Total Sales (NZD) 35,723.80
Auction Date July 03, 2025 - July 03, 2025 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (NZD) 0.00
Sale Number #1896 High Estimate of Lots Sold (NZD) 0.00
Total Lots 569
Sold Lots 559.0 Low Estimate of All Lots (NZD) 0.00
% of Lots Sold 98.24% High Estimate of All Lots (NZD) 0.00
Unsold Lots 10 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
810 William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth - Selected Works

Not Available NZD 892.50
578 C S Lewis

Seven Volume Box Set

Not Available NZD 773.50
1030 Shelley Foote

Three Volume Boxed Set The Civil War

Not Available NZD 523.60
1023 C.M. Doughty

Two Volume Boxed Set Travels in Arabia Deserta

Not Available NZD 523.60
526 Virgil

Aeneid (Fully Boxed)

Not Available NZD 476.00
664 Geoffrey Chaucer

The Canterbury Tales & Eric Gill

Not Available NZD 452.20
901 H.G. Wells & Alvin Langdon Coburn

The Door In The Wall

Not Available NZD 357.00
768 Isaac Asimov

Three Volume Boxed Set

Not Available NZD 297.50
648 Simon Winchester

The Surgeon of Crowthorne

Not Available NZD 297.50
948 Edward Gibbon

Edward Gibbon - Eight Volume Boxed Set

Not Available NZD 285.60
767 George R R Martin

A Song Of Ice And Fire

Not Available NZD 285.60
743 C S Forester

Three Volume Boxed Set

Not Available NZD 285.60
742 C S Forester

Three Volume Boxed Set

Not Available NZD 285.60
689 Murasaki Chikibu

The Tale of Genji

Not Available NZD 285.60
501 Jane Austen

Box Set Seven Volumes & Other

Not Available NZD 285.60
945 Byzantium

Byzantium - Three Volume Boxed Set

Not Available NZD 273.70
804 William Shakespeare

The Tempest & Commentary

Not Available NZD 249.90
803 William Shakespeare

A Midsummer Night's Dream & Commentary

Not Available NZD 249.90
797 Robert Graves

Two volume Boxed Set

Not Available NZD 249.90
789 Mary Renault

Three Volume Boxed Set

Not Available NZD 238.00
756 Dorothy L Sayers

Dorothy L Sayers - Five Volume Boxed Set

Not Available NZD 238.00
912

Everest (1921-1953) Two Volume Boxed Set

Not Available NZD 214.20
881 Mark Girouard

Life in the English Country House

Not Available NZD 214.20
680

Four Folio Anthologies

Not Available NZD 214.20
873 Elizabeth David

An Omelette and a Glass of Wine

Not Available NZD 202.30
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    Sotheby’s Year in Review: Lincoln, Abraham. The abolition of slavery. Sold: 13,697,500 USD
    Sotheby’s Year in Review: Vergilius. Opera, Venice, Aldo Manuzio, 1501. Sold: 1,041,400 USD
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