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Art+Object’s first auction of Rare Books for 2024 will be held exclusively online on Tuesday 16 April. The sale includes two important collections.

Leading collector John Mowbray established his philately career in 1965 and has risen to become a successful auctioneer and one of the preeminent figures in the field of stamps, rare coins, bank notes and medals in the southern hemisphere.

Art+Object are pleased to include John’s private book collection in this catalogue. Major items include two copies of both the first & second editions of Walter Lawry Buller’s ’A History of the Birds of New Zealand’ and J.D. Hooker’s ‘The Botany of the Antarctic Voyage Flora Novae Zelandiae. Part I. Flowering Plants. London: Lovell Reeve 1853.

The sale also includes an important collection of New Zealand literature from the library of dedicated collector Alex Twaddle. It features 1st editions by influential and internationally respected writers Katherine Mansfield and Janet Frame. New Zealand’s poets also feature largely in his library with early editions by R.A.K. Mason, A.R.D. Fairburn, Denis Glover, Allen Curnow, Sam Hunt and J.K. Baxter.

Also included in the catalogue are several signed Napoleonic documents from a private Dunedin estate; a collection of interesting and rare New Zealand maps, including Jamieson’s Celestial Atlas [1822]; a large number of early New Zealand histories; and much more.