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
149		ALL BLACKS / SOUTH AFRICAN TOUR & 1921 SUPPLEMENT [2 items]	NZD 80.00 - 100.00	NZD 43.00
150	ALL BLACKS 1925 INVINCIBLES	Signed menu card for a dinner on board S.S. Montlaurier, 1st February 1925	NZD 600.00 - 800.00	NZD 1,230.00
151		ALL BLACKS TOURING TEAM TO THE U.K. 1953-54	NZD 150.00 - 200.00	NZD 92.00
152	BAKER, C. ALMA	Rough Guide to New Zealand Big Game Fishing	NZD 200.00 - 300.00	NZD 135.00
153	BANWELL, D. BRUCE	Great New Zealand Deer Heads, Vol. II	NZD 150.00 - 200.00	NZD 172.00
154	BANWELL, D. BRUCE	Great New Zealand Deer Heads, Volume III	NZD 150.00 - 200.00	NZD 172.00
155	CHESTER, R.H & McMILLAN, N.A.C. [2x]	The Visitors: The History of International Rugby Tours in New Zealand.	NZD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
156	COLONEL COOK	Observations on Fox Hunting	NZD 100.00 - 150.00	NZD 62.00
157	EGAN, PIERCE [Association copy to poet Thomas Moore]	Boxiana	NZD 200.00 - 400.00	NZD 400.00
158	GREY ZANE	Tales of Swordfish and Tuna	NZD 400.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
159	GREY, ROMER	The "Fisherman" Under the Southern Cross	NZD 100.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
160	GREY, ZANE [2 Titles]	Tales from a Fisherman's Log.	NZD 80.00 - 120.00	NZD 49.00
161	GREY, ZANE	An American Angler in Australia	NZD 400.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
162	GREY, ZANE	Tales of the Angler's Eldorado New Zealand	NZD 500.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
163	HAMILTON, CAPT. G.D	Trout-Fishing and Sport in Maoriland	NZD 200.00 - 300.00	NZD 295.00
164		INVINCIBLES SIGNED CIGARETTE CARDS	NZD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	Not Sold
165	JEFFERIES, RICHARD	The Amateur Poacher	NZD 50.00 - 75.00	NZD 135.00
166		NEW ZEALAND STUD BOOKS	NZD 300.00 - 500.00	NZD 1,292.00
167	PHOTOGRAPH [1935]	Otago Rugby Football Representatives, Winners of the Ranfurly Shield 1935.	NZD 400.00 - 600.00	NZD 246.00
168	PHOTOGRAPH	Otago Representatives. Touring Team 1900.	NZD 400.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
169	RICHARDSON, JOHN, MAUNSELL & FINCH MASON	Gentlemen Riders, Past and Present	NZD 150.00 - 200.00	NZD 62.00
170	ROSS, MALCOLM	A Climber in New Zealand	NZD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
171		RUGBY LEAGUE [programmes 1936, 1949, 1955, 1980]	NZD 50.00 - 100.00	NZD 68.00
172		THE 1935-6 NEW ZEALANDER'S AUTOGRAPHS	NZD 200.00 - 300.00	NZD 123.00
173	VYNER, ROBERT T.	Notitia Venatica: A Treatise on Fox-Hunting	NZD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold

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.