RARE BOOK AUCTION
ARTIFACTS 196 KURU POUNAMU Greenstone ear pendant 19th century translucent greenstone earring/pendant of flat elongated form with white circular flecks in the pounamu. Suspension hole at the top. 125mm. Y20349 $300 - $400 197 KO Wooden Digging Stick Made from dark brown wood, flattened blade, round shaft and rounded knob at the end of the handle. Harakeke cordage tied to end of the handle. 610mm with blue label attached to handle reading Moerewa. Y20364. $150 - $200 198 PATU ARUHE Wooden Beater Made from dark brown wood of tapering form with bulbous end. Harakeke cordage tied round the handle. Marked with label as coming from Moerewa. Y20362 $150 - $200 199 PATU ARUHE Wooden Beater Made from dark brown wood of classic tapering form, handle ending in rounded knob with flattened end, L 315mm. Y203673. $150 - $200 200 TOKI 3 Adzes Three 19th century stone adzes. Greywacke adze with small flakes and chips to blade Y20361. L. 105mm. 3 other adzes, one marked with label from Coromandel. Y20360, 137mm; Y20352m 109mm, marked in ink Maungatorato; $150 - $250 201 TOKI 4 Adzes Grey stone adzes all marked with labels of where collected. Y20355, L. 196mm from Coromandel; Y20356, L.160mm, Coromandel; Y20357, L.132mm Wairoa; Y20358, 134mm, Wairoa. $150 - $200 202 TOKI 6 Adzes Grey stone of Tapering forms, Y20297 L160mm; Y20291, 130mm; Y20295, L. 150mm; Y20293, 160mm, [repaired]; Y20287, 185mm; [chips]; Y20281, L 80mm, [chips] $300 - $400 203 TOKI 7 Adzes Grey stone of tapering forms. Y20289, L 147mm; Y20292 L. 160mm; Y20277, 135mm; Y20282, L. 100mm; Y20271 L. 95mm; Y20276 L. 100mm. Stone fragment, rounded end with a central ridge L. 164mm, possibly part of a miti or stone club. Y20265 $300 - $500 204 TOKI Adze Large argilte adze of classic form L. 320mm. Flake scars on sides and back of haft area, small chips to the blade. Name inscribed in neat white ink “C. McGregor loc. Kerikeri”. Y20353. $200 - $300 205 TOKI Group of Adzes [3] Large grey stone adze edges well defined with sharp straight blade. Y20354, L. 189mm. Dark grey stone with short bevel and straight sharp blade. Label attached reads Titerangi. Y20351, L.880mm.
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Small greywacke adze with large flakes, straight sharp blade. Y20350. L.720mm $200 - $300
MARITIME 206 ANSON, R.A. The Piraki Log [E Purnaga Ahau Koe] or The Diary of Captain Hempleman. Oxford printed for private circulation 1910. 171p, frontis [fldg map], illustrations. 230mm, original green cloth worn at spine ends and cloth splitting anng back hinge. Scarce. $80 - $120 207 BRETT, HENRY White Wings [ Vol.I & II] Volume 1. Fifty Years of Sail in the New Zealand Trade 1850-1900. 368p, illustrated, tipped into front endpaper typed list of wrecks, the date, vessel, Captain and where wrecked. Volume.2. Founding of the Provinces and Old-Time Shipping. Passenger ships from 1840-1885. Auckland: Brett Printing Company 1924 & 1928. some light browning on endpapers, both volumes in original unmatched blue cloth, light wear, VG. With 6 other nautical books including: The New Zealand Companys Pocket Book. London 1908; 3 Volumes by S.D. Waters - The Pamir. Reed 1949 [2x] and Richardsons of Napier. 1959; P.A. Eaddy - Neath Swaying Spars. W & T 1939. $200 208 FELL, ALFRED A Colonists Voyage to New Zealand under sail in the early “forties”. Foreword by his son Sir Alfred Fell. Ln: Simpkin Marshall [1926?] 1st edition. 3p.l., 112p, plan of the ship. Sprinkle of foxing and owners stamps on prelims. 190mm, green cloth with black ship & gilt titles, and in DJ, VG. The Voyage of the Lord Auckland to Nelson 184101842. $50 - $100 209 MCNAB, ROBERT The Old Whaling Days. [2 titles] A Hsitory of Southern New Zealand from 1830-1840. N.Z: W & T 1913. xii, 508p, 220mm, owners stamps on prelims, original cloth with gilt titles, VG. $50
MISSIONARIES & MAORI PRINTING 210 BIBLE Ko te Paipera Tapu ara ko te Kawento Tawhito me te Kawenata Hou... Ranana A.W.M Watts 1868. First complete Maori bible. 1199p, contents with soiling and browning, bound in original full leather with blind tooling and gilt titles, binding tight, leather abraided and worn. Williams 434 $400 - $600 211 AUTHOR UNKNOWN [Journal] Fragments of thoughts on the word Church by one of the subjects and disciples of the Redeemer’s Kingdom. 19th century manuscript, approximately 140 leaves handwritten in ink on both sides [280pp], numerous notes and half pages tipped in, 185mm. In the original blue papered cards covers hand sewn with linen thread, the text is in neat close decipherable hand writing and appears to by a cleric, possibly Hadfield or Taylor. The book is unsigned. $200
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