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	Estimate	Actual Price
99	HAWKESWORTH, JOHN	An Account of the Voyages	NZD 3,500.00 - 4,000.00	NZD 5,166.00
100	HODGES, WILLIAM (2 engravings)	Poe-Bird, New Zealand	NZD 300.00 - 500.00	NZD 160.00
101	JOHNSON, SAMUEL	A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland	NZD 100.00 - 150.00	NZD 37.00
102	KIPPIS, A.	A Narrative of the Voyages Round the World	NZD 100.00 - 150.00	NZD 117.00
103		PACIFIC ISLAND & NEW ZEALAND ENGRAVINGS [29X]	NZD 200.00 - 300.00	NZD 74.00
104	BROINOWSKI, GRACIUS JOSEPH (1837-1913)	The Birds of Australia	NZD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	NZD 2,460.00
105	BULLER, SIR WALTER	A History of the Birds of New Zealand	NZD 1,500.00 - 3,000.00	NZD 2,952.00
106	BULLER, WALTER LAWRY	A History of the Birds of New Zealand	NZD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00	Not Sold
107	COLENSO, WILLIAM	In Memoriam	NZD 100.00 - 200.00	NZD 86.00
108	DARWIN, CHARLES	Journal of Researches into Natural History and Geology	NZD 100.00 - 150.00	NZD 117.00
109	EVELYN, JOHN	Sylva	NZD 500.00 - 600.00	NZD 369.00
110	FIELD, H.C.	Ferns of New Zealand	NZD 80.00 - 100.00	NZD 111.00
111	HENRI-LOUIS DUHAMEL DU MONCEAU	A Practical Treatise of Husbandry	NZD 300.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
112	HUDSON, G.B. [3 titles]	New Zealand Beetles and Their Larvae	NZD 80.00 - 120.00	NZD 111.00
113	HUDSON, G.V.	New Zealand Neuroptera	NZD 80.00 - 120.00	NZD 98.00
114		NATURAL HISTORY	NZD 50.00 - 80.00	NZD 68.00
115	TAPLIN, WILLIAM	The Sportsman's Cabinet	NZD 300.00 - 500.00	NZD 86.00
116	VON HAAST, JULIUS	Geology of the Provinces of Canterbury and Westland, New Zealand.	NZD 100.00 - 150.00	NZD 86.00
117	BAXTER, GEORGE	The Rev. J. Waterhouse superintending the landing of the missionaries the Rev Charles and Mrs Creed at Paranake (Taranaki), New Zealand.	NZD 150.00 - 250.00	NZD 92.00
118	COODE, SIR JOHN C.E.	The Harbours of New Zealand	NZD 150.00 - 300.00	NZD 135.00
119	MAP OF NEW ZEALAND	Shewing Railways Open for Traffic September 1898	NZD 100.00 - 150.00	NZD 344.00
120		MAPS NEW ZEALAND [plus 3 others]	NZD 150.00 - 200.00	NZD 111.00
121		MAPS OCEANIE [bundle]	NZD 200.00 - 300.00	NZD 523.00
122		PLAN DU HAVRE DE TONGATABOU	NZD 100.00 - 150.00	NZD 197.00
123		EPHEMERA RELATED TO THE HATCHWELL FAMILY	NZD 150.00 - 250.00	NZD 400.00

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
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.