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Catalogue No.157 ART + OBJECT Rare Books 09.12.20 AO1579FA Cat157 Rare Books cover.indd All Pages 18/11/20 11:28 AM 69 55 53 257 126 127 132 146 145 147 148 153 151 152 149 162 154 156 160 RARE BOOKS AUCTION 157 Wednesday 9 December 2020 at 12pm NZT VIEWING Friday 4 December 9.00am – 5.00pm Saturday 5 December 11.00am – 4.00pm Sunday 6 December 11.00am – 4.00pm Monday 7 December 9.00am – 5.00pm Tuesday 8 December 9.00am – 5.00pm After an uncertain year, our final auction for 2020 will be held on Wednesday, 9th of December. The sale is a small but interesting collection featuring some early and rare items including “A Deed of Conveyance” dated 6th December 1839, transferring parcels of land near Cape Farewell, between Maori Chiefs and ‘an English Gentleman’. Other rare items include a late-18th century watercolour of the native tui, titled verso ‘Tuee‘. A first-hand account dated 1879 of ‘The wreck of the Harriet’ off the coast of Taranaki by Robert Leeds Sinclair. First editions by Charles Dickens, Charles Darwin and J.R.R. Tolkien. A strong collection of historic New Zealand photography and stereoscopic cards that include 1901 America’s Cup and the Boer War. Our usual selection of Maori and New Zealand histories; art and private press books; science fiction; and literature including signed works by Janet Frame. Other interesting items include a Bastion Point Poster May 25, 1978, signed by Tim Shadbolt. A large collection of vintage fountain & ball point pens & retractable pencils by Parker, Watermans, Cross, Sheaffer, Aurora, Mont Blanc and others. On behalf of Art+Object I would like to thank you for your support during the year, I wish you all a happy Christmas and look forward to seeing you in 2021. Pam Plumbly, Rare Books Consultant Phone: +64 9 354 4646 Mobile: +64 21 448 200 Email: [email protected] www.artandobject.co.nz Art+Object 3 Abbey Street Newton Auckland 1010 New Zealand 282 Cover Lot 145-163 ABSENTEE & PHONE BID FORM This completed and signed form authorises Art+Object to bid on my behalf at the Auction No. 157 Rare Books above mentioned auction for the following lots up to prices indicated below. These Wednesday 9 December 2020 12pm NZT bids are to be executed at the lowest price levels possible. I understand that if successful I will purchase the lot or lots at or below the prices listed on this form and the listed buyers premium for this sale (20%) and GST on the buyers premium. I warrant also that I have read and understood and agree to comply with the conditions of sale as printed in the catalogue. Lot no. Lot Description Bid maximum in New Zealand dollars (for absentee bids only) Payment and Delivery: Art+Object will advise me as soon as is practical that I am I will arrange for collection or dispatch of my purchases. If Art+Object is the successful bidder of the lot or lots described above. instructed by me to arrange for packing and dispatch of goods I agree to pay any I agree to pay immediately on receipt of this advice. Payment will be by Eftpos, costs incurred by Art+Object. Note: Art+Object requests that these shipping cash (under $5000.00) or direct credit. I understand that there is a 2.5% arrangements are made prior to the auction date to ensure prompt delivery surcharge for payment by Visa or MasterCard credit cards. I understand that processing. payments over $10,000.00 must be made by direct credit to Art+Object’s bank account as shown on the invoice. Please indicate as appropriate by ticking the box: PHONE BID ABSENTEE BID MR/MRS/MS: FIRST NAME: SURNAME: ADDRESS: HOME PHONE: MOBILE: BUSINESS PHONE: EMAIL: Signed as agreed: To register for Absentee or Phone Bidding this form must be lodged with Art+Object prior to the day of the auction in one of three ways: 1. Email a printed, signed and scanned form to Art+Object: [email protected] 2. Fax a completed form to Art+Object: +64 9 354 4645 3. Post a form to Art+Object, PO Box 68345 Wellesley Street, Auckland 1141, New Zealand SUBJECT INDEX LOTS South Island History 1 - 19 North Island History 20 - 32 New Zealand History 33 - 67 Pacific History 68 - 70 New Zealand Wars & Military History 71 - 75 Māori History & Printing 76 - 125 Historic Documents 126 - 127 Natural History 128 - 143 Charles Darwin 144 - 163 Maritime 164 - 168 Maps & Prints 169 - 172 Polar 173 - 192 Sport & Recreation 193 - 217 Art Books & Private Press 218 - 239 Periodicals & Posters 240 - 248 Art & Photography 249 - 262 New Zealand Literature 263 - 278 Oak Bookcase 279 Literature 280 - 290 Science Fiction 291 - 296 Automobile Books 297 - 321 Antiquarian Books 322 - 324 Vintage Pen Collection 325 - 361 Childrens Books 362 - 377 ABBREVIATIONS & CITATIONS AEG All edges gilt Rep Reprint AF With all faults SLF Slight foxing DJ Dust jacket SA Signed by author DJR Dust jacket repaired TP Title page EPs Endpapers W & T Whitcombe and Tombs FEP Front end paper OUP Oxford University Press BEP Back end paper ODT & Witness Otago Daily Times and Witness Frontis Frontispiece PC Paper/Card covers IA Inscribed by author HMSO Her Majesty’s Stationary Office HC Half calf binding D.I.A. Dept of Internal Affairs Illus - Illustrated TNZI Transactions of the New Zealand Institute ND No date SUBJECT INDEX 3 3. Geoffrey Wilson - Linkwater, A History. Blenheim 1962. 160p, SOUTH ISLAND HISTORY illustrated. Green cloth 223mm, VG. 4. Peter Bronmley Maling - Samuel Butler at Mesopotamia. Well: Govt Ptr 1960. 66p. illustrated, card covers, VG. 1 BRERETON, LT. COL. CYPRIAN $50 - $60 No Roll of Drums. Wellington: Reed 1947. 176p, illustrated, endpaper maps. 185mm, original brown cloth, black title to spine. VG. 8 KNIGHT, HARDWICKE An account of early pioneer days in the 19th century in the Otago Peninsula. A Local History. Ngatimoti district of Nelson, New Zealand. Published by author, Broad Bay 1979. 2nd edition with additions to $40 - $60 text and illustration.158p, illustrations and maps. 295mm, original cream paper covers with black titles, and spine. Light marks and light wear. 2 CARRICK, RO A detailed, illustrated history of the Peninsula on the Otago Historical Records of New Zealand South prior to 1840. Harbour, covering its various periods, farming, recreation, Dunedin: ODT & Witness 1903. 206p, owner’s name on title and community development, including cemetery records and notations on endpaper. 220mm, original black cloth, gilt titles, additional material to the first edition faded. $50 - $100 $100 - $150 9 MACDONALD, C.A. 3 COOPER, W.M. & A. KOCH Pages from the Past. Map of the Buller Coal Field, New Zealand. Some Chapters in the History of Marlborough. Blenheim: H. from Special Surveys made for the Public Works and Geological Duckworth [1933]. [4]p, 321p, illustrations. 226mm, DJ torn with Departments by W.M. Cooper under the direction of James loss, else VG. Hector. 1 map on ten separate sheets folding to 350 x 225mm into 2. Philip Ross May - The West Coast Gold Rushes. Pegasus original pale blue paper covers, directions, and index on sheet 8. Press 1967, 2nd edition. 560p, illustrated, endpaper maps. Short Front cover detached and chips and creases along edges. marginal tears to 5 pages [no loss]. DJ. $100 - $200 3. Murray McCaskill - The Goldrush Population of Westland. From the NZ Geographer 1956. 50p, paper covered booklet. 4 CYCLOPEDIA OF NEW ZEALAND Loosely enclosed a letter from ‘Phil’? Philip Ross May to Bill Nelson, Marlborough, and Westland Provincial Districts. regarding the publication, ‘... the most accurate and reasonable Volume 5. estimate of the West Coast gold rush population that exists...’ Christchurch: Cyclopaedia Company 1906. xxi, 615p, errata at $50 - $100 end. Illustrated throughout, colour fldg map of Westport Harbour 1898. 285mm, original half calf binding, cloth boards, leather split 10 MARLBOROUGH POLICE HISTORY COMMITTEE. [3 TITLES] along front hinge, and light fading, else VG. The Straight and the Narrow. A History of Policing in $80 - $120 Marlborough. Marlborough Police 1998. 140p, illustrations. 295mm, illustrated soft covers, fine copy. 5 DUNEDIN PAMPHLETS 2. Miles Singe & D. Thomson - Authority to Protect. A Story 1. Dunedin - Deepening the Upper Harbour. Preliminary Report of Policing in Otago. Published by authors 1992. NZ Police by the Sub-Committee appointed to Circulate Information. April Presentation inscription. 321p, illustrated, 265mm, DJ, VG. 1873. Evening Star Office 1873. 12p, large folding colour map 3. M. Poole - The Southern Beat. A History of Policing: Southland showing area with proposed improvements, from Quarantine and Lakes District. Invercargill, 2002. 8 signatures on half-title Island to Dunedin. 215mm, lacking paper covers. including author. 279p, illustrated 306mm, DJ fine. 2. Final Report by the Sub-Committee appointed to Circulate $50 - $100 Information. March 1874, Dunedin Daily Times Office. 27p, 3 large folding maps, [including one of the city of Dunedin by Fergusson 11 MCNAB ROBERT [ 2 TITLES] & Mitchell 1872. 230mm, original lemon paper covers, detached The Old Whaling Days. with small edge chips. VG. A History of Southern New Zealand from 1830 - 1840. 3. Land Regulations for the Province of Otago, New Zealand. Christchurch etc: W & T 1913. xiii, [1]l., 508p. Owners details on Dunedin: Printed for Provincial Govt by John Dick 1862, iv, 25p, 7p. endpaper. 220mm original blue buckram, gilt titles, VG. 215mm, Original blue paper covers. 2. From Tasman to Marsden. A History of Northern New Zealand 4.Catalogue of the Otago Fine Arts Exhibition Held at Dunedin from 1642 - 1818. Dunedin: J. Wilkie 1914. xiv, 236p, 220mm, green 1869.