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Art+Object’s final Rare Book auction of 2024 features a large and diverse collection of early New Zealand and Māori histories, Antarctic photographs, Hawaiian and South Sea Islands histories, Voyages and Exploration, New Zealand Literature, historic maps, prints and art.
Important consignments feature books from the collection of philanthropists and collectors David and Corina Silich, including first editions of ‘The New Zealander’s Illustrated’ by G.F. Angas ; Sydney Parkinson’s ‘A Journal of a Voyage to the South Seas; Edward Jerningham Wakefield’s folio, ‘Illustrations to Adventure in New Zealand’, with the text ‘Adventure in New Zealand’; Bank’s Florilegium – New Zealand, Parts XX–XXVI, 1st ed, Alecto.
We are also privileged to be offering books from the library of the Birch family of Patea. This collection includes a complete set of Captain James Cook’s 'Three Voyages' with two atlases, ‘The Life of Captain James Cook’ by A. Kippis. [1773–1788], and a copy of ‘Rambles in New Zealand’ by J.C. Bidwell.