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Auction Name
Art - Prints
Auction Date
02/19/2014 - 02/20/2014
Sale Number
#16
Total Lots
104
Sold Lots
0.0
Lots Sold
0.00%
Unsold Lots
104
Total Sales (NZD)
0.00
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (NZD)
0.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (NZD)
0.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (NZD)
0.00
High Estimate of All Lots (NZD)
295,700.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.
NaN%

Top twenty five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
15 Laurence Aberhart

Hau Hau Flag #1

NZD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Unknown
316 William Russell Flint

The Idlers

NZD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 Unknown
24 Ralph Hotere

A Union Jack?

1990 NZD 3,500.00 - 4,500.00 Unknown
23 John Pule

E Fononga E Koe Haau

1999 NZD 3,500.00 - 5,500.00 Unknown
22 Ans Westra

Mongrel Mob Convention, Porirua, 1982

NZD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 Unknown
21 Robin White

Buzzy Bee for Siulolovao

1977 NZD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 Unknown
20 Peter Peryer

Erica, Mt Victoria

NZD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 Unknown
19 Brian Brake

Temple by Kunming Lake, Yunnan, China, 1957

NZD 700.00 - 900.00 Unknown
18 Nigel Brown

Crossing Urewera, Set No. 1

1987 NZD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 Unknown
17 Sara Hughes

Data Attraction 1

2006 NZD 900.00 - 1,300.00 Unknown
16 Robert Motherwell

Delta

NZD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 Unknown
1 Colin McCahon

North Otago Landscape

NZD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 Unknown
13 Pat Hanly

Dawn, Mt Eden

1974 NZD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 Unknown
11 Colin McCahon

North Otago

1973 NZD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 Unknown
10 Brian Brake

Chengdu Agriculture, China 1959

1976 NZD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 Unknown
9 Peter Peryer

Coelacanth

2000 NZD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 Unknown
6 Andrew McLeod

Silk Road

2011 NZD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 Unknown
5 Paul Hartigan

Phantom

2006 NZD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Unknown
4 Dan Arps

Studies for a Proposed Subdivision #4

2003/2004 NZD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 Unknown
3 Marti Friedlander

Ralph Hotere and Black Phoenix

NZD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Unknown
  • Sotheby’s
    Book Week
    December 9-17, 2025
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 11: Darwin and Wallace. On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties..., [in:] Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society, Vol. III, No. 9., 1858, Darwin announces the theory of natural selection. £100,000 to £150,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 11: J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, 1997, first edition, hardback issue, inscribed by the author pre-publication. £100,000 to £150,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 11: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Autograph sketchleaf including a probable draft for the E flat Piano Quartet, K.493, 1786. £150,000 to £200,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Hooke, Robert. Micrographia: or some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies made by Magnifying Glasses. London: James Allestry for the Royal Society, 1667. $12,000 to $15,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Chappuzeau, Samuel. The history of jewels, first edition in English. London: T.N. for Hobart Kemp, 1671. $12,000 to $18,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Sowerby, James. Exotic Mineralogy, containing his most realistic mineral depictions, London: Benjamin Meredith, 1811, Arding and Merrett, 1817. $5,000 to $7,000.
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    Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
    December 9, 2025
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 156: Cornelis de Jode, Americae pars Borealis, double-page engraved map of North America, Antwerp, 1593.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 206: John and Alexander Walker, Map of the United States, London and Liverpool, 1827.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 223: Abraham Ortelius, Typus Orbis Terrarum, hand-colored double-page engraved world map, Antwerp, 1575.
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    Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
    December 9, 2025
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 233: Aaron Arrowsmith, Chart of the World, oversize engraved map on 8 sheets, London, 1790 (circa 1800).
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 239: Fielding Lucas, A General Atlas, 81 engraved maps and diagrams, Baltimore, 1823.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 240: Anthony Finley, A New American Atlas, 15 maps engraved by james hamilton young on 14 double-page sheets, Philadelphia, 1826.
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    Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
    December 9, 2025
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 263: John Bachmann, Panorama of the Seat of War, portfolio of 4 double-page chromolithographed panoramic maps, New York, 1861.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 265: Sebastian Münster, Cosmographei, Basel: Sebastian Henricpetri, 1558.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 271: Abraham Ortelius, Epitome Theatri Orteliani, Antwerp: Johann Baptist Vrients, 1601.
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    Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
    December 9, 2025
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 283: Joris van Spilbergen, Speculum Orientalis Occidentalisque Indiae, Leiden: Nicolaus van Geelkercken for Jodocus Hondius, 1619.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 285: Levinus Hulsius, Achtzehender Theil der Newen Welt, 14 engraved folding maps, Frankfurt: Johann Frederick Weiss, 1623.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 341: John James Audubon, Carolina Parrot, Plate 26, London, 1827.