HISTORICAL ART & PRINTS 371 [HODGES, WILLIAM] (2 engravings) Poe-Bird, New Zealand London: Published Feb 1st, 1777, by Wm Strahan & Thos Cadell. Steel engraving 220 x 175mm to plate marks. A very crisp clear image. Plate No. LII. 2. William Hodges - Family in Dusky Bay, New Zealand. London: Published Feb 1st, 1777, by Wm Strahan & Thos Cadell. Steel engraving 252 x 375mm, fold mark. Plate No LXIII. Clean & clear. Both from Cook’s ‘Voyage Towards the South Pole and Round the World’. $200 - $400 372 BREES, SAMUEL CHARLES [1810-1865] Messrs Clifford’s & Vavasour’s clearing (Skipwith’s), Parerua Bush [1847]. Hand coloured engraving shows Mr Skipwith’s cottage, trees, bullocks dragging timber and cart. From Pictorial Illustrations of New Zealand, [London 1847] plate 21, No 63, 150 x 170mm approx., mounted and framed. $100 - $150 373 BROINOWSKI, GRACIUS, J Twelve coloured lithographs from Birds of Australia [ca 1889] They include: Casuarius Bennetti [Mooruk]. Plate xlix; Notornis Mantelli [Moho] Plate vi; Apteryx Owenii Owen’s Apteryx; Apteryx Australis [kiwi kiwi] Plate xlvi; Grus Australasianus. Plate xxiv; Tellegallus Latham [Brush Turkey. plate lviii; Porphyrio Melanotus [Black Backed Porphyriio]. Plate xiii; Herodias Melanopus [Spotless Egret], Herodias Asha [Sombre Egret]. Plate xix; Sula Piscator [Redlegged Gannet] PLV; Numenius Cyanopus [Australian Curlew; Plate xxviii; Casuarius Uniappendiculatus [One carunculated Cassowary. Plate xlviii; Casuarius Australis [Australian Cassowary]. Plate xlvii. All with the appropriate descriptive text from ‘The Birds of Australia’. Tachyptes Minor [Small Frigate Bird] Plate x. Lacking the descriptive text. 355 x 270mm approximately, some light toning at margins, VG. $200 - $300 374 CHARLES BLOMFIELD Two Views on one board: Ohinemutu, View from Mokoia Island oil on board 305 x 420mm Provenance: Estate of Ron Keam $3000 - $4000
376 CHARLES BLOMFIELD Wairoa Geyser Whakarewarewa oil on board, ca. 1887 420 x 295 Provenance: Estate of Ron Keam $3000 - $4000 377 CHARLES BLOMFIELD The White Terraces, Rotomahana oil on canvas original International Art centre label affixed verso 415 x 573mm Provenance: Estate of Ron Keam $6000 - $8000 378 CHARLES BLOMFIELD White Terraces and Tarawera oil on board 340 x 595mm Provenance: Estate of Ron Keam $3500 - $4500 378A CHARLES BLOMFIELD White Terraces oil on board 380 x 530mm Provenance: Estate of Ron Keam $2500 - $3500 379 CHARLES BLOMFIELD Zion Mission Church at Te Wairoa oil on card 245 x 385mm Provenance: Estate of Ron Keam $2000 - $3000 380 CHARLES DECIMUS BARRAUD Head of Basin of Te Tarata, White Terraces Crater at Top watercolour on paper, 1879 signed with artist’s initials, CBD 120 x 235mm Provenance: Estate of Ron Keam $6000 - $8,000 381 E. HAZARD AITCHESON White Terraces oil on canvas board 195 x 240mm Provenance: Estate of Ron Keam $600 - $800
375 CHARLES BLOMFIELD The Champagne Pool, Wairakei oil on board signed and dated 1908 458 x 302mm Illustrated in Muriel William’s ‘Charles Blomfield: His Life and Times’ [Auckland 1979] p.97 possibly a variant. Provenance: Estate of Ron Keam. Purchased from International Art Centre, Auckland 27th March 2003, Lot No. 102 $3500 - $4500
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