Art + Object: Rare Books, 212, AUCKLAND

Auction Details

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
26 BUICK, T. LINDSAY

The Romance of the Gramophone

NZD 100.00 - 200.00 Unknown
27 BULLER, REV JAMES [2 titles]

Forty Years in New Zealand

NZD 150.00 - 200.00 Unknown
28 COX, ALFRED

Recollections

NZD 50.00 - 100.00 Unknown
29 CRAIK, G.L.

The New Zealanders

NZD 100.00 - 150.00 Unknown
30 CRUISE, RICHARD A.

Journal of a Ten Months' residence in New Zealand [1920]

NZD 100.00 - 150.00 Unknown
31 DIEFFENBACH, ERNEST

Travels in New Zealand

NZD 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
32 GOVERNMENT PAPERS

Supplement of the NZ Gazette of Thursday, Wellington: November 30, 1934

NZD 50.00 - 100.00 Unknown
33 INGLIS, JAMES

Our New Zealand Cousins

NZD 80.00 - 100.00 Unknown
34 JACKSON, MRS. J. HOWARD

Annals of a New Zealand Family

NZD 80.00 - 120.00 Unknown
35 NG, JAMES [signed]

Windows on a Chinese Past, 4 volumes

NZD 300.00 - 400.00 Unknown
36

PERIODICALS RELATING TO MISSIONARIES

NZD 100.00 - 200.00 Unknown
37 REED, F.W. [2 items]

The Rev. S. Leigh's Visit to Whangarei Harbour in 1823

NZD 50.00 - 100.00 Unknown
38 SCOTT, TOM

[text & illustrations, 5 titles by]

NZD 75.00 - 100.00 Unknown
39 VON HOCHSTETTER, F. AND OTHERS

The Geology of New Zealand

NZD 100.00 - 150.00 Unknown
40 WAKEFIELD, E.G.

A View of the Art of Colonization

NZD 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
41 WAKEFIELD, EDWARD JERNINGHAM

Adventure in New Zealand, from 1839 to 1844

NZD 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
42 WAKEFIELD, EDWARD JERNINGHAM

The Hand-Book for New Zealand

NZD 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
43 WILSON, JOHN ALEXANDER

The Story of Te Waharoa

NZD 60.00 - 100.00 Unknown
44 YATE, REV WILLIAM

An Account of New Zealand

NZD 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
45 ANDERSEN, JOHANNES C. [3 titles]

Maori Music with its Polynesian Background

NZD 150.00 - 175.00 Unknown
46

BEST ELSDON & MAORI RELATED BOOKS

NZD 100.00 - 150.00 Unknown
47 BEST, ELSDON [2 titles bound as one]

Te Whanga Nui A Tara

NZD 100.00 - 150.00 Unknown
48 BEST, ELSDON

The Maori

NZD 150.00 - 200.00 Unknown
49 BEST, ELSDON

Tuhoe; The Children of the Mist

NZD 150.00 - 200.00 Unknown
50 BRAILSFORD, BARRY [2x]

The Tattooed Land

NZD 80.00 - 120.00 Unknown
  • SD Scandinavian Art & Rare Book Auctions
    The Odfjell Collection
    Polar – History – Ornithology – Colour Plate Books
    Ending December 4th
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ROALD AMUNDSEN: «Sydpolen» [ The South Pole] 1912. First edition in jackets and publisher's slip case.
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: AMUNDSEN & NANSEN: «Fram over Polhavet» [Farthest North] 1897. AMUNDSEN's COPY!
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ERNEST SHACKLETON [ed.]: «Aurora Australis» 1908. First edition. The NORWAY COPY.
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ERNEST SHACKLETON: «The heart of the Antarctic» + SUPPLEMENT «The Antarctic Book», 1909.
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: SHACKLETON, BERNACCHI, CHERRY-GARRARD [ed.]: «The South Polar Times» I-III, 1902-1911.
    SD Scandinavian Art & Rare Book Auctions
    The Odfjell Collection
    Polar – History – Ornithology – Colour Plate Books
    Ending December 4th
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: [WILLEM BARENTSZ & HENRY HUDSON] - SAEGHMAN: «Verhael van de vier eerste schip-vaerden […]», 1663.
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: TERRA NOVA EXPEDITION | LIEUTENANT HENRY ROBERTSON BOWERS: «At the South Pole.», Gelatin Silver Print. [10¾ x 15in. (27.2 x 38.1cm.) ].
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ELEAZAR ALBIN: «A natural History of Birds.» + «A Supplement», 1738-40. Wonderful coloured plates.
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: PAUL GAIMARD: «Voyage de la Commision scientific du Nord, en Scandinavie, […]», c. 1842-46. ONLY HAND COLOURED COPY KNOWN WITH TWO ORIGINAL PAINTINGS BY BIARD.
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: JAMES JOYCE: «Ulysses», 1922. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS.
  • 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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  • Swann
    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.
    Swann
    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.
    Swann
    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.
    Swann
    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.