Art + Object: Rare Books, 208, AUCKLAND

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
September 09, 2025 - September 09, 2025
Page Size: 458 items in 19 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
381

SCRAPBOOK A large album [360 x 250mm]

NZD 200.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
382

THELONIOUS MONK QUARTET [signed]

NZD 300.00 - 600.00 NZD 492.00
383 WINSTON CHURCHILL

Framed Signed Letter and Photograph Typescript letter on 10 Downing Street letterhead signed in ink 'Winston Churchill'

NZD 600.00 - 1,000.00 NZD 492.00
384

ART & PRIVATE PRESS [6 Titles]...

2007 NZD 100.00 - 200.00 NZD 62.00
385 COLERIDGE SAMUEL

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Christchurch NZD 120.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
386 DAVID CRAIG & G. O'BRIEN

[9 titles] His Own Steam. The Work of Barry Brickell...

2013 NZD 50.00 - 100.00 NZD 55.00
387 DICKSON, EMILY Poet. 1830-1886

JOHANKNECHT, SUSAN. Illus., STEINER, ELIZABETH, Book binder...

London 1998 NZD 80.00 - 100.00 NZD 135.00
388 EDMOND, MURRAY [text] JOANNA FORSBERG [images]

The fruits of

Auckland 2009 NZD 200.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
389

'HOTERE'

2008 NZD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 Not Sold
390 JOHNSON, W.R.

Lucretius and other Sonnets

Vermont 2017 NZD 100.00 - 150.00 NZD 62.00
391 LINDAUER, GOTTFRIED [paintings] JAMES COWAN [text]

Pictures of Old New Zealand

Auckland etc 1930 NZD 100.00 - 200.00 NZD 98.00
393 PEET, BRIAN [3 titles]

The Seuffert Legacy...

2008 NZD 50.00 - 100.00 NZD 37.00
394 RIDING, LAURA [Len Lye, covers]

Twenty Poems

Paris 1930 NZD 150.00 - 200.00 NZD 861.00
395 VAN VLIET, CLAIRE [ILLUSTRATOR]

Greed

Vermont 2013 NZD 200.00 - 400.00 NZD 861.00
396 BAXTER, GEORGE

[2 lithographs] The Reception of the Rev. J. Williams at Tanna in the South Seas...

NZD 200.00 - 400.00 NZD 369.00
397 CLEVELEY, JOHN 1747 - 1786 [after James Cleveley]

Two 'Views of the South Seas'

London 1788 NZD 200.00 - 400.00 NZD 738.00
398 DE SAINSON, LOUIS AUGUSTE

Maison du Chef Pomare a la Baie des Isles Maison d'un Chef de la Baie des Iles

Paris 1833 NZD 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
399 DENNIS KNIGHT TURNER

Two pencil sketches

NZD 80.00 - 100.00 NZD 68.00
400 PIRON, JEAN

Sauvage de la Nouvelle Zeelande

[Paris] [1800] NZD 200.00 - 300.00 NZD 123.00
401

POSTER 'PARADE OF HOMES', BOYCE AVENUE, MT ROSKILL

NZD 200.00 - 300.00 NZD 123.00
402 PYCROFT, ARTHUR THOMAS

Water-colour of a Tui bird perched on a branch

NZD 150.00 - 250.00 NZD 117.00
403

AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM [1880's]...

NZD 6,000.00 - 7,000.00 Not Sold
404

BURTON BROS Te Hauhau at Te Kuiti, King Country

NZD 200.00 - 300.00 NZD 221.00
405 KOPPITZ, RUDOLF [AND OTHERS]

Pictures from the Tyng Collection: The Royal Photographic Society, June 1931

NZD 600.00 - 800.00 NZD 1,107.00
406 PHOTOGRAPHER UNKNOWN [attrib. to Thomas Andrews 1855-1939]

South Seas photograph Young Man with Spears

NZD 60.00 - 100.00 NZD 271.00
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