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
26 BUICK, T. LINDSAY

The Romance of the Gramophone

NZD 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
27 BULLER, REV JAMES [2 titles]

Forty Years in New Zealand

NZD 150.00 - 200.00 NZD 246.00
28 COX, ALFRED

Recollections

NZD 50.00 - 100.00 NZD 49.00
29 CRAIK, G.L.

The New Zealanders

NZD 100.00 - 150.00 NZD 111.00
30 CRUISE, RICHARD A.

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

NZD 100.00 - 150.00 NZD 49.00
31 DIEFFENBACH, ERNEST

Travels in New Zealand

NZD 200.00 - 300.00 NZD 160.00
32 GOVERNMENT PAPERS

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

NZD 50.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
33 INGLIS, JAMES

Our New Zealand Cousins

NZD 80.00 - 100.00 NZD 49.00
34 JACKSON, MRS. J. HOWARD

Annals of a New Zealand Family

NZD 80.00 - 120.00 NZD 62.00
35 NG, JAMES [signed]

Windows on a Chinese Past, 4 volumes

NZD 300.00 - 400.00 NZD 271.00
36

PERIODICALS RELATING TO MISSIONARIES

NZD 100.00 - 200.00 NZD 62.00
37 REED, F.W. [2 items]

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

NZD 50.00 - 100.00 NZD 49.00
38 SCOTT, TOM

[text & illustrations, 5 titles by]

NZD 75.00 - 100.00 NZD 55.00
39 VON HOCHSTETTER, F. AND OTHERS

The Geology of New Zealand

NZD 100.00 - 150.00 NZD 111.00
40 WAKEFIELD, E.G.

A View of the Art of Colonization

NZD 200.00 - 300.00 NZD 197.00
41 WAKEFIELD, EDWARD JERNINGHAM

Adventure in New Zealand, from 1839 to 1844

NZD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
42 WAKEFIELD, EDWARD JERNINGHAM

The Hand-Book for New Zealand

NZD 200.00 - 300.00 NZD 197.00
43 WILSON, JOHN ALEXANDER

The Story of Te Waharoa

NZD 60.00 - 100.00 NZD 80.00
44 YATE, REV WILLIAM

An Account of New Zealand

NZD 200.00 - 300.00 NZD 271.00
45 ANDERSEN, JOHANNES C. [3 titles]

Maori Music with its Polynesian Background

NZD 150.00 - 175.00 NZD 98.00
46

BEST ELSDON & MAORI RELATED BOOKS

NZD 100.00 - 150.00 NZD 123.00
47 BEST, ELSDON [2 titles bound as one]

Te Whanga Nui A Tara

NZD 100.00 - 150.00 NZD 148.00
48 BEST, ELSDON

The Maori

NZD 150.00 - 200.00 NZD 123.00
49 BEST, ELSDON

Tuhoe; The Children of the Mist

NZD 150.00 - 200.00 NZD 861.00
50 BRAILSFORD, BARRY [2x]

The Tattooed Land

NZD 80.00 - 120.00 NZD 80.00
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