• Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    2 October
    Beatrix Potter:
    The Private Collection of Thomas & Greta Schuster
    Dominic Winter, Oct. 2: Potter (Beatrix). The Tale of Peter Rabbit, 1st privately printed edition, 1901. £40,000-£60,000.
    Dominic Winter, Oct. 2: Potter (Beatrix Helen, 1866-1943). Squintina Tabby, Licensed dealer in Tea. £7,000-£10,000.
    Dominic Winter, Oct. 2: Potter (Beatrix Helen, 1866-1943). A pair of original illustrations from The Tale of Benjamin Bunny. £8,000-£12,000.
    Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    2 October
    Beatrix Potter:
    The Private Collection of Thomas & Greta Schuster
    Dominic Winter, Oct. 2: Potter (Beatrix, illustrator). A Happy Pair, 1st [and only] edition, 1890. £5,000-£8,000.
    Dominic Winter, Oct. 2: Potter (Beatrix). Autograph Illustrated Letter, c. 1920. £3,000-£5,000.
    Dominic Winter, Oct. 2: Potter (Beatrix). The Fairy Caravan, 1st (autographed limited) edition, 1929. £2,000-£3,000.
    Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    2 October
    Beatrix Potter:
    The Private Collection of Thomas & Greta Schuster
    Dominic Winter, Oct. 2: Potter (Beatrix). The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin, 1st edition, 1903, inscribed by Beatrix Potter. £1,500-£2,000.
    Dominic Winter, Oct. 2: Potter (Beatrix). The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher, 1st deluxe edition, inscribed by Beatrix Potter. £3,000-£5,000.
    Dominic Winter, Oct. 2: Potter (Beatrix). The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin, 1st deluxe edition, 1903, rare trial binding. £2,000-£3,000.
    Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    2 October
    Beatrix Potter:
    The Private Collection of Thomas & Greta Schuster
    Dominic Winter, Oct. 2: Potter (Beatrix). The Tailor of Gloucester, 1st privately printed edition, December 1902. £2,000-£3,000.
    Dominic Winter, Oct. 2: Potter (Beatrix). Autograph Illustrated Letter Signed, 26 October 1936. £2,000-£3,000.
    Dominic Winter, Oct. 2: Potter (Beatrix). Signed and Inscribed ICAA Christmas Card, 1938. £1,500-£2,000.
  • Gonnelli:
    Auction 63
    Books, Autographs & Manuscripts
    October 7th-9th 2025
    Gonnelli: The Arabian Nights - Alf Laylah wa-Laylah. 1862. Starting price € 25.000
    Gonnelli: Depero futurista. 1927. Starting price € 9.000
    Gonnelli: Dalì, Alchimia dei Filosofi. 1976. Starting price € 3.800
    Gonnelli:
    Auction 63
    Books, Autographs & Manuscripts
    October 7th-9th 2025
    Gonnelli: Cicero, Tusculanae disputationes. 1480. Starting price € 4.800
    Gonnelli: Cassini, De cometa. 1653. Starting price € 10.000
    Gonnelli: Cataldi, Trattato della quadratura del cerchio etc. 1612. Starting price € 8.000
    Gonnelli:
    Auction 63
    Books, Autographs & Manuscripts
    October 7th-9th 2025
    Gonnelli: Cavalieri, Geometria indivisibilibus. 1635. Starting price € 15.000
    Gonnelli: Diophantus, Arithmeticorum libri sex. 1670. Starting price € 15.000
    Gonnelli: Fontana, Novae coelestium observationes. 1646. Starting price € 10.000
    Gonnelli:
    Auction 63
    Books, Autographs & Manuscripts
    October 7th-9th 2025
    Gonnelli: Galileo, Sidereus nuncius. 1610. Starting price € 100.000
    Gonnelli: Pico della Mirandola, Conclusiones nonagentae. 1532. Starting price € 7.000
    Gonnelli: Jansson's Waterworld. 1657. Starting price € 20.000
  • Fonsie Mealy’s, Oct. 1-2: The Corner-stone Document of Irish Freedom: 1916 PROCLAMATION OF THE IRISH REPUBLIC. €100,000 to €150,000.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Oct. 1-2: Important 18th Century Gaelic Scribal Manuscript. Ceating (Dochtuir) [Keating, Dr. Geoffrey]. Forus Feasa ar Éirinn. €15,000 to €20,000.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Oct. 1-2: Rare Irish Provincial Printed 18th Century Herbal. K'eogh (John). Botanalogia Universalis Hibernica, or, A General Irish Herbal, Calculated for this Kingdom… €1,500 to €2,000.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Oct. 1-2: Somerville (E.OE.) The Discontented Little Elephant. Inscribed presentation copy. €700 to €1,000.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Oct. 1-2: Broadside: “Great News from Dublin, Giving a True Account of the Seizing of a Ship coming from Ireland, with Fifty Commissions from the late King James…” €800 to €1,000.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Oct. 1-2: Welch (Rbt.) Photographer: Six photographic prints of the Titanic. €800 to €1,200.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Oct. 1-2: Rare Modern Irish Masterpiece. O’Brien (Flann). At Swim-Two-Birds. €3,000 to €4,000.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Oct. 1-2: Newton (Sir Isaac). Opticks : or, A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections and Colours of Light. €3,000 to €4,000.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Oct. 1-2: [Natural History] Donovan (Edward). The Natural History of British Birds; or a Selection of the Most Rare, Beautiful and Interesting Birds which Inhabit this Country. €3,000 to €4,000.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Oct. 1-2: The Authors First Publication. Heaney (Seamus). Eleven Poems. €1,000 to €1,500.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Oct. 1-2: Heaney (Seamus). Remembering Malibu. €3,500 to €5,000.
  • Chiswick Auctions
    Bulldog Spirit: The Churchill Sale
    30th September 2025
    Chiswick Auctions, Sep. 30: Churchill (Winston Spencer). The World in Crisis. Inscribed in 4 vols. 1923-31. £20,000 to £30,000.
    Chiswick Auctions, Sep. 30: Churchill (Winston Spencer). A V for Victory Cartier silver pendant. £2,000 to £3,000.
    Chiswick Auctions, Sep. 30: British School, mid 20th century (After Graham Sutherland) Portrait of Sir Winston Churchill. £2,000 to £3,000.
    Chiswick Auctions
    Bulldog Spirit: The Churchill Sale
    30th September 2025
    Chiswick Auctions, Sep. 30: Churchill (Winston Spencer). Signed typed letter, 1963. £1,500 to £2,000.
    Chiswick Auctions, Sep. 30: Churchill (Winston Spencer). The Collected Works, 38 vol., Centenary Limited Edition. £3,000 to £4,000.
    Chiswick Auctions, Sep. 30: Churchill (Winston Spencer). Photographic half-length portrait, signed ("Winston Churchill, 1953"). £2,000 to £3,000.

Auction Reports

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Auction Info

Auction Name
Rare Books
Auction Date
09/09/2025 - 09/09/2025
Sale Number
#208
Total Lots
458
Sold Lots
391
Lots Sold
85.37%
Unsold Lots
67
Total Sales (NZD)
143,817.00
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (NZD)
101,715.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (NZD)
151,440.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (NZD)
137,630.00
High Estimate of All Lots (NZD)
199,875.00
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
365

PHOTOGRAPH The New Zealand All Blacks 1928

NZD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 NZD 1,784.00
156 HAMBLY, W.D.

The History of Tattooing and its Significance

1925 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
409 BAXTER, JAMES K.

Four Days

NZD 600.00 - 800.00 NZD 1,046.00
84 FENTON, FRANCIS

[1st edition & reprint] Important Judgements 1866-1879

NZD 300.00 - 500.00 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

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  • Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    1 October
    Printed Books & Maps, Travel & Natural History, Bewick Woodblocks & Ex-Libris
    Dominic Winter, Oct. 1: Sherley (Anthony). Sir Anthony Sherley his Relation of His Travels into Persia, 1st edition, 1613. £10,000 to £15,000.
    Dominic Winter, Oct. 1: Buc'hoz (Pierre-Joseph). Premiere [seconde] Centurie des Plances Enluminees, 2 volumes, 1775-81. £8,000 to £12,000.
    Dominic Winter, Oct. 1: Chinese Export School. An album of 25 fine large botanical studies in watercolour, circa 1830-40. £7,000 to £10,000.
    Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    1 October
    Printed Books & Maps, Travel & Natural History, Bewick Woodblocks & Ex-Libris
    Dominic Winter, Oct. 1: World. Schedel (Hartmann), Secunda etas Mundi, Nuremberg: 1493. £5,000 to £8,000.
    Dominic Winter, Oct. 1: Anderson (J. & G. A. Boulenger). Zoology of Egypt, 1898-1907. £3,000 to £4,000.
    Dominic Winter, Oct. 1: Donovan (Edward). Natural History of the Insects of India, 1st edition, 1800. £2,000 to £3,000.
    Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    1 October
    Printed Books & Maps, Travel & Natural History, Bewick Woodblocks & Ex-Libris
    Dominic Winter, Oct. 1: Wolley (John). Ootheca Wolleyana: an Illustrated Catalogue..., 1864-1907. £1,000 to £1,500.
    Dominic Winter, Oct. 1: Wolley (John). Ootheca Wolleyana: an Illustrated Catalogue..., 1864-1907. £1,500 to £2,000.
    Dominic Winter, Oct. 1: Shackleton (Ernest). South, 1st edition, 1st impression, 1919. £1,000 to £1,500.
    Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    1 October
    Printed Books & Maps, Travel & Natural History, Bewick Woodblocks & Ex-Libris
    Dominic Winter, Oct. 1: Bell (Robert Anning, 1863-1933). Collection of 71 ex-libris by Robert Anning Bell. £300 to £500.
    Dominic Winter, Oct. 1: Roberts (David). The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt & Nubia, 6 vols in 3, 1st quarto edition, 1855-56. £1,000 to £1,500.
    Dominic Winter, Oct. 1: M'Cormick (Robert). Voyages of Discovery, 2 volumes, 1st edition, 1884. £800 to £1,200.
  • Rare Map, Book, and Autograph Fair
    17 and 18 Oct
    Rare Map, Book, and Autograph Fair
    17 and 18 Oct
    Rare Map, Book, and Autograph Fair
    17 and 18 Oct
  • 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
  • 30th September 2025
    Chiswick Auctions, Sep. 30: Dickens: "Phiz" Original Drawings to Little Dorrit. 1857. £25,000 to £35,000.
    Chiswick Auctions, Sep. 30: Shaw (George) & Nodder (Frederick P.) The Naturalist's Miscellany, 24 vols., 1789 – 1813. £4,000 to £6,000.
    Chiswick Auctions, Sep. 30: Photographic. Afghanistan - Military [1878-80]. Photographic albumen prints. £3,000 to £4,000.
    Chiswick Auctions, Sep. 30: Tuke Correspondence [Tea, Coffee & Cocoa] etc. 1732-1852. Over five hundred letters. £1,000 to £1,500.
    Chiswick Auctions, Sep. 30: Indian Mutiny. Dodgson. Als' Lucknow 26th.Sept. 1857. £1,200 to £1,500.
  • Sotheby’s
    By a Lady
    1-15 October 2025
    Sotheby’s, Oct. 1-15: Austen, Jane. A long and intimate autograph letter signed ("JA"), to Cassandra Austen. $300,000 to $400,000.
    Sotheby’s, Oct. 1-15: Austen, Jane. “Lines on Maria Beckford,” autograph manuscript signed ("Jane Austen"). $100,000 to $150,000.
    Sotheby’s, Oct. 1-15: [Austen, Jane]. Emma, the extraordinary Edgeworth-Butler copy. $250,000 to $350,000.