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Auction Name	Rare Books	Total Sales (NZD)	143,817.00
Auction Date	September 09, 2025 - September 09, 2025	Low Estimate of Lots Sold (NZD)	101,715.00
Sale Number	#208	High Estimate of Lots Sold (NZD)	151,440.00
Total Lots	458
Sold Lots	391	Low Estimate of All Lots (NZD)	137,630.00
% of Lots Sold	85.37%	High Estimate of All Lots (NZD)	199,875.00
Unsold Lots	67	Total Sales as a % of High Est.	71.95%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
105	WAKEFIELD, EDWARD JERNINGHAM	[2 Volumes & Folio] Illustrations to Adventure in New Zealand...	1845	NZD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00	NZD 12,300.00
281	COOK, CAPTAIN JAMES	A set of the Accounts of the Voyages...	1773	NZD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00	NZD 12,300.00
332		ATLAS L'ASTROLABE Voyage de la corvette L'Astrolabe execute Pendant Les Annees 1826, 1827, 1828, 1829	1833	NZD 8,000.00 - 9,000.00	NZD 11,685.00
299	JOHN BUCHANAN [1819-1898]	BOTANIST & ARTIST		NZD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	NZD 9,840.00
345	PONTING, HERBERT GEORGE (1871-1935)	Midnight in Antarctic Summer 1910...		NZD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00	NZD 5,043.00
290	PARKINSON, SYDNEY	A Journal of a Voyage to the South Seas in His Majesty's Ship 'The Endeavour': faithfully transcribed from the Papers of the late Sydney Parkinson, Draughtsman to Sir Joseph Banks	1784	NZD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	NZD 3,198.00
305	BULLER, SIR WALTER LAWRY	A History of the Birds of New Zealand	1888	NZD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	NZD 2,952.00
307	BULLER, SIR WALTER LAWRY	A History of the Birds of New Zealand	1888	NZD 600.00 - 800.00	NZD 2,276.00
306	BULLER, SIR WALTER LAWRY	A History of the Birds of New Zealand	1888	NZD 800.00 - 1,000.00	NZD 1,907.00
156	HAMBLY, W.D.	The History of Tattooing and its Significance	1925	NZD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	NZD 1,784.00
365		PHOTOGRAPH The New Zealand All Blacks 1928		NZD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	NZD 1,784.00
342	FORD. C. REGINALD	Antarctica. Leaves from a diary kept on board an exploring vessel.	[1908]	NZD 600.00 - 800.00	NZD 1,538.00
300	JOSEPH CROSBY SMITH	Shipboard Diary of the voyage of the clipper 'Calypso', England to Port Chalmers in 1876		NZD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	NZD 1,230.00
308	BULLER, SIR WALTER LAWRY	[2 items] Manual of the Birds of New Zealand...	1882	NZD 300.00 - 400.00	NZD 1,230.00
371		SCOTTISH RUGBY UNION [2 programmes] New Zealand versus South of Scotland at Mansfield Park, Hawick Saturday, 12th October 1935...	1935	NZD 100.00 - 200.00	NZD 1,107.00
405	KOPPITZ, RUDOLF [AND OTHERS]	Pictures from the Tyng Collection: The Royal Photographic Society, June 1931		NZD 600.00 - 800.00	NZD 1,107.00
84	FENTON, FRANCIS	[1st edition & reprint] Important Judgements 1866-1879		NZD 300.00 - 500.00	NZD 1,046.00
409	BAXTER, JAMES K.	Four Days		NZD 600.00 - 800.00	NZD 1,046.00
297		HISTORIC LATE 19TH CENTURY BRASS MICROSCOPE belonging to James Crosby Smith Family history relates that this microscope was made by J.C.S. when he moved to Invercargill in 1901 as a partner in the firm Smith & Laing Ironmongers, from parts which he import		NZD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	NZD 984.00
322	HETLEY, MRS CHARLES	The Native Flowers of New Zealand	1888	NZD 200.00 - 400.00	NZD 984.00
323	HETLEY, MRS CHARLES	The Native Flowers of New Zealand	1888	NZD 200.00 - 400.00	NZD 984.00
114	STEVENS & BARTHOLOMEW'S	The New Zealand Directory for 1867-68	[1866/67]	NZD 200.00 - 300.00	NZD 923.00
157	HAMILTON, AUGUSTUS	Maori art. The Art Workmanship of the Maori Race in New Zealand. A series of illustrations from specially taken photographs with descriptive notes and essays on the Canoes, Habitations, Weapons, Ornaments and Dress of the Maoris.	1896 - 1901	NZD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00	NZD 923.00
285	FORSTER, GEORGE (1754-1794)	A Voyage round the World, in His Britannic Majesty's sloop, Resolution	1777	NZD 300.00 - 600.00	NZD 923.00
121		MILITARY BADGE. N.Z. ARMED CONSTABULARY		NZD 250.00 - 450.00	NZD 861.00

Koller, Sep. 17: NEWTON, ISAAC. Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica. London, Joseph Streater, "Prostat apud plures Bibliopolas", 1687. CHF 250,000 to 300,000.

Koller, Sep. 17: ORTELIUS, ABRAHAM. Theatrum orbis terrarum. 3 parts in 1 volume. Antwerpen, Plantin, 1612. CHF 120,000 to 160,000.

Koller, Sep. 17: BECKMANN, MAX. Apokalypse. Frankfurt a. M., Privatdruck der Bauerschen Giesserei, 1943. CHF 40,000 to 60,000.

Koller, Sep. 17: BOISSERÉE, SULPIZ. Ansichten, Risse und einzelne Theile des Doms von Köln. AND: Ders. Geschichte und Beschreibung des Doms zu Köln… CHF 30,000 to 50,000.

Koller, Sep. 17: SCHEDEL, HARTMANN. Buch der Chroniken und Geschichten. Nürnberg, Anton Koberger, 23. Dez. 1493. CHF 25,000 to 40,000.
Sotheby's
Fine Books, Manuscripts & More
Available for Immediate Purchase

Sotheby’s: Ian Fleming. Casino Royale, London, 1953. First edition, first printing. $58,610.

Sotheby’s: A.A. Milne, Ernest Howard Shepard. Winnie The Pooh, United Kingdom, 1926. First UK edition. $17,580.

Sotheby’s: Ernest Hemingway. Three Stories And Ten Poems, [Paris], (1923). First edition of Hemingway’s first published book. $75,000.

Sotheby's
Fine Books, Manuscripts & More
Available for Immediate Purchase

Sotheby’s: L. Frank Baum. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chicago, 1900. First edition. $27,500.

Sotheby’s: Man Ray. Photographs By Man Ray 1920 Paris 1934, Hartford, 1934. $7,860.

Sotheby’s: Thomas Pennant. Zoologia Britannica, Augsburg, 1771. $49,125.
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Il Ponte, Sep. 30-Oct. 1: BOETTI, Alighiero - Classifying the thousand longest rivers in the world. Ascoli Piceno: 1977. € 15.000 - 18.000

Il Ponte, Sep. 30-Oct. 1: GOYA Y LUCIENTES, Francisco José - Los desastres de la guerra. Madrid: 1863. € 12.000 - 18.000

Il Ponte, Sep. 30-Oct. 1: HEVELIUS, Johannes - Selenographia sive lunae descriptio. Danzica: 1647. € 10.000 - 15.000

Il Ponte, Sep. 30-Oct. 1: REDOUTÉ, Pierre-Joseph - Douze Bouquets. Parigi e New York: [s.d., ma ca. 1835]. € 15.000 - 25.000