Rare Book Auction 9 December 2015 130 131 137 143 143 143 FINAL RARE BOOK AUCTION FOR 2015 Wednesday, 9th December commencing at 12 noon. VIEWING Saturday 5th and Sunday 6th 11.00 am to 3.00pm Monday & Tuesday 9.00 am to 5.00pm and morning of sale. For our final rare book auction of the year ART + OBJECT is delighted to be offering a large selection of books from two South Island Libraries and others. The sale includes several important collections: • First edition Antarctic & Arctic titles by Shackleton, Scott, Borchgrevinck, Mawson, Parry, Doorly, J.K. Davis and others. • A collection of New Zealand, World War One official war histories including “With the N.Z. Trench Mortars in France”. • A superb set of four aquatints by John Cleveley “Views in the South Seas”. [1787-88] • A fine impression of “The Death of Captain Cook” by J. Webber [1784] • Hand coloured “Pictorial Illustrations of New Zealand” by S.C. Brees. First issue, London 1847. • Important antiquarian and New Zealand angling items include, an original 19th century “Fly Board” by Wilhelmina Buchan, exhibited in the Otago Industrial Exhibition 1898. Wilhelmina Buchan worked for A & W McCarthy’s in Dunedin. • Blacker’s Art of Flymaking, with hand coloured plates. [1855] • W.L. Buller – A History of the Birds of New Zealand. [with letters] 1st edition [1873 • Mrs Georgina Hetley – The Native Flowers of New Zealand [3 parts, 1887-1888] • The sale also includes early Maori printings, maps, postcards, literature, historic photographs and documents. • Charles Darwin’s - On the Origin of Species [1861] third edition and The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex. First edition in 2 Volumes. [1871] My First sale for 2016 will be held in April. Important items so far received are a collection of 1st editions by Beatrix Potter including the rare 1929 Peter Rabbit Almanac and signed editions. Captain James Cook and James King – A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean… with atlas [1784] Early 19th century books on Napoleon Buonaparte and St Helena. Entries for this sale are now invited. All Inquiries : Pam Plumbly Phone [09] 354 4646 Mobile 021 448 200 Email: [email protected] Art and Object 3 Abbey Street Newton Auckland 1141 Cover: Lot 83 Lot 83 Absentee & Phone Bid Form CatalogueAuction No. No . 95 99 Rare BookRare Auction Book Auction Wednesday 9 December at 12 noon Wednesday 19 August at 12 noon This completed and signed form authorises ART+OBJECT to bid on my behalf at the above mentioned auction for the following lots up to prices indicated below. These bids are to be executed at the lowest price levels possible. Minimum acceptable bid is $20. 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 (18.5%) and GST on the buyers premium. 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Email [email protected], Telephone +64 9 354 4646, Freephone 0800 80 60 01 SUBJECT INDEX LOTS Postcards 1 - 16 Regional History 17 - 69 William Downie Stewart – Bookplates 70 - 79 New Zealand & Pacific History 80 - 129 Captain James Cook and Exploration 130 - 138 Natural History 139 - 161 Angling 162 - 185 Sport and Recreation 186 - 199 Biography 200 - 205 New Zealand Wars 206 - 210 Military History 211 - 260 Maori 261 - 291 Maori Printings 292 - 300 Art 301 - 311 Maps & Plans 312 - 323 Hunting 324 - 340 Polar History and Mountaineering 341 - 379 Maritime History 380 - 381 Newspapers & Periodicals 382 - New Zealand literature 383 - 395 Literature & Private Press 396 - 408 Children’s and illustrated Books 409 - 423 Antiquarian Books 424 - 432 Science and Technology 433 - 438 Bibliography 439 - 440 Early Tourism, Souvenirs, Postcards 441 - 460 Photography, 461 - 487 LOTTING INFORMATION Information on lots appear in the following sequence: Lot number, author, title, edition, publisher, date of publication, number of volumes, pagination (where applicable), Bagnall citation, condition, other notes, estimated price (for some lots only). 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 – Backend 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 ND – No date TNZI – Transactions of the New Zealand Institute Please Note: Telephone bids are accepted on items over $500, we presume you have inspected the items or consulted the advice of staff regarding condition, please register in advance by contacting our office for this service. We accept no responsibility if for any reason we are unable to contact you during the auction. 9 POSTCARDS POSTCARDS Maori Theme Thirty cards with white margins and titled along bottom margin. The cards are all circa 1940’s and feature Maori life, children, carvings, dance etc. 1 ANTARCTIC POSTARD $150 - $200 British National Antarctic Expedition 1901. 10 POSTCARDS This card commemorates the departure of the expedition... Maori theme Signed in ink “With Best Wishes from Chas R. Ford. Postally used verso 37 postcards all real photograps they include cards by Tourist Series and dated 15 Dec 1901 [lacks postal stamp]. Image shows a double cards ca 1930; Blencowe, Rotorua; FGR; Iles photos Rotorua. Also scene with Commander Scott and The Discovery. Corners have small cards featuring Maori children swimming, Maori Haka & poi dancing, chips and edges rubbed. weaving etc. All VG and ca 1930’s. Charles Reginald Ford volunteered to serve on the first Expedition led $200 - $300 by Commander Robert Falcon Scott in the Discovery during 1901-4 serving as steward and as assistant to Scott, he accompanied Scott on 11 POSTCARDS lecture tours around the United Kingdom. He published extracts from Samoa his diary of the expedition in 1908. 26 real photograph postcards featuring young Samoan women all $60 - $100 circa 1930’s. Unused and VG. $200 2 AUCKLAND 20 Real Photo Cards 12 POSTCARDS They include Grafton Bridge and old windmill; Early scene of Samoa Devonport wharf with early buses ca 1910; waterfront scenes; Several 22 postcards, featuring portraits, group and family scenes, unused, Street scenes of Mt Eden featuring horse and cart, houses, another white borders and circa 1920’s, & 1930,s showing shop frontages; Rangitoto island and harbour. mostly early $100 - $200 1900’s. 13 POSTCARDS $200 Samoa 3 AUCKLAND 18 real photo cards circa 1920; featuring portraits, Samoan houses, 22 Real photo cards Pango Pango, R.L.Stevenson’s home in Vailima, dancing etc. All VG. They include Auckland waterfront showing Harbour Board Office, $150 - $200 Sectional views of the waterfront, Auckland, Seaplane flying over 14 POSTCARDS Auckland Harbour, several other waterfront and yachting scenes, T.S.S. “Waratah” street scenes featuring buidings etc. Mostly dating from the early Three postcards - 1900’s, 4 later cards, circa 1950’s. VG. 1. printed card showing the ship with a hand painted sprig of berries. $300 - $400 2 & 3 are real photograph cards showing the head & shoulder image 4 AUCKLAND of a young man within a lifebuoy, titled Waratah at the top and 35 Postcards London at the base of the lifebuoy. one of the cards has a hand They include 7 Ponsonby cards - 4 views of Three Lamps Ponsonby; painted ribbon with a sickle and TS on the ribbon. also Leys Institute; Beach views etc; 9 early views of Mt Eden; 7 early The T.S.S. Waratah disappeared en route to Durban in 1909 Queen st views; Early scene of Manukau Road, Parnell; also habour, with 211 passengers and crew aboard, to this day no trace of the ship beach and house scenes. has been has been found. $200 - $300 3. Also 2 Concert Programmes from R.M.S. Corinthic dated December 1909. 2 Royal Souvenir postcards ca 1911. 5 AUCKLAND 4. Some small fragments of red and green silk fabric in an envelope 40 Postcards with an inscription on paper ‘Cut from the canopy which covered They include 12 real photo cards.