Art + Object: Rare Books, 212, AUCKLAND

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
December 09, 2025 - December 09, 2025
Page Size: 307 items in 13 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
247 GOLDSMITH, OLIVER

The Poetical Works

NZD 50.00 - 100.00 NZD 31.00
248 GOLDSMITH, OLIVER

The Vicar of Wakefield

NZD 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
249 KIPLING, R.

[6x & Others]

NZD 50.00 - 100.00 NZD 55.00
250 LITERATURE

New Zealand & International Poetry

NZD 60.00 - 80.00 NZD 37.00
251 (LADY MARTIN)

Domestic Scenes in New Zealand

NZD 100.00 - 150.00 NZD 37.00
252 STOWE, HARRIET BEECHER

Uncle Tom's Cabin: or Life Among the Lowly

NZD 200.00 - 300.00 NZD 123.00
253 THE CANTERBURY TALES of GEOFFREY CHAUCER

Illustrated after Drawings by W. Russell Flint.

NZD 100.00 - 150.00 NZD 135.00
254 AUDSLEY, W. & G.

The Sermon on the Mount

NZD 200.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
255

BIBLE - ENGLISH

NZD 200.00 - 300.00 NZD 1,538.00
256

BIBLE - IN ENGLYSHE

NZD 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 NZD 4,428.00
257

BOX OF ANTIQUARIAN TITLES

NZD 200.00 - 400.00 NZD 62.00
258 BROWNE, THOMAS

Pseudodoxia Epidemcia

NZD 200.00 - 250.00 NZD 123.00
259 CLARENDON, EDWARD EARL OF

The History of the Rebellion and Civil War in England, Begun in the Year 1641.

NZD 200.00 - 400.00 NZD 172.00
260 DELAMOTTE, D.F.

Mediaeval Alphabets & Initials for Illuminators

NZD 50.00 - 75.00 NZD 197.00
261 HOGARTH, WILLIAM [2 titles]

Plates [volume] published by Longman Hurst, Rees & Orme dated from 1806 -1809.

NZD 100.00 - 200.00 NZD 49.00
262 HYDE, EDWARD [3 titles]

The Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon

NZD 200.00 - 300.00 NZD 49.00
263 MINIATURE BOOK

Brooks Diamond Gazetteer

NZD 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
264 MOUBACH, ABRAHAM & BERNARD PICART

Naaukeurige beschryving der uitwendige godtsdienst-plichten

NZD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 NZD 1,661.00
265 NICHOLSON, PETER [2 volumes]

The New Practical Builder and Workman's Companion

NZD 150.00 - 300.00 NZD 197.00
266 (SURTEES, R.S) [4 titles]

Illustrations by John Leech, 3 titles.

NZD 40.00 - 60.00 NZD 25.00
267

THE HANDBOOK OF COOKERY

NZD 100.00 - 200.00 NZD 80.00
268 THE THUMB BIBLE [miniature]

Verbum Sempiternum

NZD 200.00 - 300.00 NZD 320.00
269 THE YOUNG LADIES' JOURNALS

An Illustrated Magazine

NZD 200.00 - 300.00 NZD 123.00
270 BAGNALL, A.G. & PETERSEN, G.C.

William Colenso

NZD 80.00 - 100.00 NZD 25.00
271 BEAUCHAMP. SIR HAROLD [Katherine Mansfield's father]

Reminiscences and Recollections

NZD 100.00 - 200.00 NZD 185.00
  • Sotheby’s
    Fine Manuscript and Printed Americana
    27 January 2026
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: An extraordinary pair of books from George Washington’s field library, marking the conjunction of Robert Rogers, George Washington, and Henry Knox. $1,200,000 to $1,800,000.
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: An extraordinary letter marking the conjunction of George Washington, the Marquis de Lafayette, and Benjamin Franklin. $1,000,000 to $1,500,000.
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: Virginia House of Delegates. The genesis of the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights. $350,000 to $500,000.
    Sotheby’s
    Fine Manuscript and Printed Americana
    27 January 2026
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: (Gettysburg). “Genl. Doubleday has taken charge of the battle”: Autograph witness to the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg, illustrated by fourteen maps and plans. $200,000 to $300,000.
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: President Lincoln thanks a schoolboy on behalf of "all the children of the nation for his efforts to ensure "that this war shall be successful, and the Union be maintained and perpetuated." $200,000 to $300,000.
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: [World War II]. An archive of maps and files documenting the allied campaign in Europe, from the early stages of planning for D-Day and Operation Overlord, to Germany’s surrender. $200,000 to $300,000.
  • Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Plato. [Apanta ta tou Platonos. Omnia Platonis opera], 2 parts in 2 vol., editio princeps of Plato's works in the original Greek, Venice, House of Aldus, 1513. £8,000-12,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Book of Hours, Use of Rome, In Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum, [Southern Netherlands (probably Bruges), c.1460]. £6,000-8,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Correspondence and documents by or addressed to the first four Viscounts Molesworth and members of their families, letters and manuscripts, 1690-1783. £10,000-15,000
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Shakespeare (William). The Dramatic Works, 9 vol., John and Josiah Boydell, 1802. £5,000-7,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Joyce (James). Ulysses, first edition, one of 750 copies on handmade paper, Paris, Shakespeare and Company, 1922 £8,000-12,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Powell (Anthony). [A Dance to the Music of Time], 12 vol., first editions, each with a signed presentation inscription from the author to Osbert Lancaster, 1951-75. £6,000-8,000
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Chaucer (Geoffrey). Troilus and Criseyde, one of 225 copies on handmade paper, wood-engravings by Eric Gill, Waltham St.Lawrence, 1927. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Borges (Jorge Luis). Luna de Enfrente, first edition, one of 300 copies, presentation copy signed by the author to Leopoldo Marechal, Buenos Aires, Editorial Proa, 1925. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Nolli (Giovanni Battista). Nuova Pianta di Roma, Rome, 1748. £6,000-8,000
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Roberts (David). The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, & Nubia, 3 vol., first edition, 1842-49. £15,000-20,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Blacker (William). Catechism of Fly Making, Angling and Dyeing, Published by the author, 1843. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Herschel (Sir John F. W.) Collection of 69 offprints, extracts and separate publications by Herschel, bound for his son, William James Herschel, 3 vol., [1813-50]. £15,000-20,000
  • Dominic Winter
    Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
    Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
    28th January 2026
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 26. Company School. An album of 85 Indian mica paintings, Madras, c. 1852. £700-1,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 28. Ross & Hooker. Notes on the Botany of the Antarctic Voyage, 1st edition, 1843. £4,000-6,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 44. Gould (John). The Birds of Great Britain, 5 volumes, 1st edition, 1862-73. £30,000-40,000
    Dominic Winter
    Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
    Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
    28th January 2026
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 72. Edwards (George). A Natural History of Uncommon Birds… [and] Gleanings of Natural History, 7 volumes, 1st edition, 1743-64. £7,000-10,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 87. Walcott (Charles D. et al.). Geologic Atlas of the United States, 227-volume set, U.S. Geological Survey, 1894-1945. £500-800
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 236. A New Dictionary of the Terms Ancient and Modern of the Canting Crew…, By B. E. Gent., 1st edition, [1699]. £3,000-4,000
    Dominic Winter
    Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
    Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
    28th January 2026
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 245. Frost Fair Broadside. Upon the Frost in the Year 1739-40, Printed on the Ice upon the Thames at Queen-Hithe, 1739/40. £1,500-2,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 270. Micheli (Antonino di). La Nuova Chitarra di Regole…, 1st edition, Palermo, 1680. £10,000-15,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 280. Elgar (Edward). Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, [1910], signed presentation copy. £500-800
    Dominic Winter
    Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
    Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
    28th January 2026
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 282 - Griffes (Charles). Autograph Manuscript Score for Overture to Hänsel und Gretel, c. 1910. £2,000-3,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 304. Churchill (Winston). A terracotta maquette of Churchill by Oscar Nemon, c. 1955. £1,500-2,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 364 - Russian Imperial Archaeological Commission. Mecheti Samarkanda..., Fascicule I Gour-Emir, St. Petersburg, 1905. £2,000-3,000