Art + Object: Rare Books, 208, AUCKLAND

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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
105 WAKEFIELD, EDWARD JERNINGHAM

[2 Volumes & Folio] Illustrations to Adventure in New Zealand...

London 1845 NZD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 NZD 12,300.00
106 WAKEFIELD, EDWARD JERNINGHAM [inscribed]

Adventure in New Zealand, from 1839-1844

London 1845 NZD 250.00 - 500.00 NZD 172.00
107 WAKEFIELD, EDWARD JERNINGHAM

Adventure in New Zealand from 1839-1944

London 1845 NZD 150.00 - 300.00 NZD 117.00
108 WAKEFIELD, EDWARD

New Zealand Illustrated

1889 NZD 175.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
109 WILLIAM COLENSO

AUTOBIOGRAPHY [early typescript] [2 items]...

NZD 600.00 - 800.00 NZD 800.00
110 YATE, REV WILLIAM

[association copy] An Account of New Zealand;

London 1835 NZD 300.00 - 400.00 NZD 234.00
111

HANDBOOKS. NEW ZEALAND [3x] The Handbook to The Bay of Plenty and Guide to the Hot Lakes. [two copies]...

1875 NZD 80.00 - 120.00 NZD 62.00
112 LOUGHNAN, ROBERT ANDREW

The Settler's Handbook of New Zealand

Wellington 1902 NZD 50.00 - 100.00 NZD 43.00
113 MOSLEY, M.

[box of] M. Mosley [compiler] - New Zealand International Exhibition. 1882...

NZD 200.00 - 250.00 NZD 135.00
114 STEVENS & BARTHOLOMEW'S

The New Zealand Directory for 1867-68

[1866/67] NZD 200.00 - 300.00 NZD 923.00
115

UNION STEAM SHIP COMPANY OF NEW ZEALAND [3 Titles]...

Melbourne etc 1884 NZD 100.00 - 150.00 NZD 62.00
116 VOGEL, JULIUS [3 items]

The Official Handbook of New Zealand...

London 1875 NZD 150.00 - 200.00 NZD 117.00
117 COWAN, JAMES [signed]

The Maoris in the Great War

1926 NZD 200.00 - 300.00 NZD 271.00
118 GUDGEON, THOS WAYTH

The Defenders of New Zealand

Auckland 1887 NZD 200.00 - 300.00 NZD 197.00
119 LIVERPOOL, CECIL GEORGE SAVILE FOLJAMBE, EARL OF

Three Years on the Australian Station

London 1868 NZD 400.00 - 600.00 NZD 246.00
120 MAIR, CAPTAIN GILBERT

The Story of Gate Pa, April 29th, 1864

Tauranga 1926 NZD 50.00 - 75.00 NZD 55.00
121

MILITARY BADGE. N.Z. ARMED CONSTABULARY

NZD 250.00 - 450.00 NZD 861.00
122 ROOKES, CHARLES

[2ND WEST INDIA REGIMENT]

NZD 100.00 - 150.00 NZD 62.00
123 SMITH, S. PERCY

[2 titles] Maori Wars of the Nineteenth Century...

Auckland etc 1921 NZD 100.00 - 200.00 NZD 172.00
124 WHITMORE, MAJOR- GENERAL SIR GEORGE

The Last Maori War in New Zealand under the Self Reliant Policy...

London 1902 NZD 120.00 - 180.00 NZD 74.00
125 WHITMORE, SIR GEORGE, S.

[2 titles] The Last Maori War in New Zealand under the Self-Reliant Policy...

London 1902 NZD 100.00 - 150.00 NZD 105.00
126 ANDERSEN, JOHANNES C.

[2 by] Maori Music with its Polynesian Background...

New Plymouth 1934 NZD 150.00 - 200.00 NZD 344.00
127 ANDERSEN, JOHANNES C.

[association copy] Maori Life in Ao-tea

1907 NZD 100.00 - 150.00 NZD 86.00
128 ANDERSEN, JOHANNES C.

Maori Life in Ao-tea

1907 NZD 100.00 - 150.00 NZD 160.00
129 BEATTIE, HERRIES

[association copy] Moriori The Morioris of the South Island

Dunedin 1941 NZD 100.00 - 150.00 NZD 160.00
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    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.
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    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 233: Aaron Arrowsmith, Chart of the World, oversize engraved map on 8 sheets, London, 1790 (circa 1800).
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    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.
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    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 283: Joris van Spilbergen, Speculum Orientalis Occidentalisque Indiae, Leiden: Nicolaus van Geelkercken for Jodocus Hondius, 1619.
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    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.
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    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.
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