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art + object 3 Abbey Street Newton Auckland PO Box 68 345 Newton Auckland 1145 Telephone: +64 9 354 4646 Freephone: 0 800 80 60 01 Facsimile: +64 9 354 4645 info@artandobject.co.nz www.artandobject.co.nz Previous spread: Lots, clockwise from top left: 515 (map), 521, 315, 313, 513, 507, 512, 510, 514, 518, 522, 520, 516, 519, 517 Rear cover: Lot 11 Arthur Thomas Pycroft (1875–1971) Arthur Pycroft was the “essential gentleman amateur”. Like many other lay enthusiasts, he made considerable contributions as a naturalist, scholar, historian and conservationist. He was educated at the Church of England Grammar School in Parnell, Auckland’s first grammar school, where his father Henry Thomas Pycroft a Greek and Hebrew scholar was the headmaster between 1883 and 1886. The family lived in the headmaster’s residence now known as “Kinder House”. He then went on to Auckland Grammar School. On leaving school he joined the Auckland Institute in 1896, remaining a member for 75 years, becoming President in 1935 and serving on the Council for over 40 years. Throughout this time he collaborated as a respected colleague with New Zealand’s foremost men of science, naturalists and museum directors of his era. From an early age he developed a “hands on” approach to all his interests and corresponded with other experts including Sir Walter Buller regarding his rediscovery of the Little Black Shag and other species which were later included in Buller’s 1905 Supplement. New Zealand’s many off shore islands fascinated him and in the summer of 1903-04 he spent nearly six weeks on Taranga (Hen Island), the first of several visits. He also visited Little Barrier in 1928, the Kermadecs with Guthrie Smith in 1929 and in 1932 travelled on an expedition to Melanesia. The garden of his St Heliers home hosted superb examples of the Poor Knight’s Lily (Xeronema) in addition to other rare botanical species. When Sir Robert Falla named a newly discovered species of petrel (Pterodroma pycrofti) it was in recognition of Arthur Pycroft’s long service to ornithology and his organisation of the expedition to Hen Island where the birds had been discovered. He was also a member of the “Moa Searching Committee” among whose objectives were to seek evidence that moas of one species or another had been hunted by the Polynesian invaders. The quest for Moa skeletons took him from Doubtless Bay to the limestone caves of the King Country and Waikaremoana where first evidence was found that a large pelican had once lived in New Zealand. Another great interest lay in Auckland and Far North regions whose history and development he studied closely for more than eight decades, an enthusiasm reflected in the rarities in his collection. Arthur Pycroft and his wife Minna, a recognised ornithological and botanical artist in her own right spent four years in England in the late 1930s, a halcyon time for Arthur who haunted antiquarian book shops in search of rare books. The sheer breadth of the collection is a reflection of the depth of all his interests, accentuated by an acutely sensitive and dedicated approach to acquisitions. The library is rich in rare books, pamphlets, manuscripts and photographs with many of the more notable items having a unique association with the personalities who helped shape early New Zealand and Pacific history. Art & Object is privileged to offer the Arthur Thomas Pycroft Collection. 2
The Pycroft Collection of Rare Books Order of Sale PART ONE Wednesday 2 November, 6.30pm Antarctic and Arctic Exploration Lots 1 – 10 Cook’s Voyages Lots 11 – 22 Voyages and Travels Lots 23 – 72 Australia Lots 73 – 91 Solomon Islands Lots 92 – 95 Whaling and Southern Islands Lots 96 – 109 Shipping and Maritime History Lots 110 – 117 New Zealand Exploration and Travel Lots 118 – 149 The New Zealand Company and Wakefield Settlements Lots 150 – 181 Colonisation, Missionaries, the Treaty of Waitangi Lots 182 – 219 Maori History Lots 220 – 263 Maori Rights and Land Lots 264 – 281 Early Maori Printings, Grammars and Publications Lots 282 – 316 Maori Newspapers Lots 317 – 328 A Rare Maori Land Deed, Proclamations in Maori Lot 329 – 331 Artefacts Lots 332 – 342 PART TWO Thursday 3 November, 6.30pm Natural History and Botany Lots 343 - 373 Flax Manufacture and Cultivation Lots 374 – 379 Mountaineering and Recreation Lots 380 – 399 The Tarawera Eruption and Geological Exploration Lots 400 - 410 Early Tourism, Rotorua, the Hot Lakes District Lots 411 – 424 Rare New Zealand Literature, Children’s Books Lots 425 – 442 Philately and Numismatics Lots 443 – 445 The Land Wars Lots 446 – 491 Regional Histories Auckland Lots 492 – 547 Wellington, Wanganui, Taranaki, the Wairarapa Lots 548 – 566 Canterbury, Nelson, Westland Lots 567 – 609 Otago, Southland Lots 610 – 631 3 Enquiries Pam Plumbly Rare Book Consultant, Art + Object pam@artandobject.co.nz +64 9 354 4646 Acknowledgements The Directors of ART+OBJECT would like to thank Brian Goshinski, in his capacity as specialist in charge of the <strong>catalogue</strong> for his expertise and invaluable assistance in the preparation of the <strong>catalogue</strong>. Pycroft Collection References Bagnall – New Zealand Bibliography, edited by A. G. Bagnall, 1969 – 1980 BM – Books in Maori 1815 – 1900. Parkinson & Griffith, Alexander Turnbull Library Fergusson – Bibliography of Australia by J.A. Fergusson Hocken – A Bibliography relating to New Zealand Mitchell – Bibliography of Captain James Cook, Mitchell Library Straubel – Canterbury Association pamphlets by C. R. Straubel Union List – Union List of Newspapers, National Library of New Zealand W – A Bibliography of Printed Maori to 1900 by H.W. Williams
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