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Auction Name Books, Manuscripts, Prints Total Sales (USD) 10,176.80
Auction Date July 03, 2019 - July 03, 2019 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 11,506.00
Sale Number #70319 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 14,058.00
Total Lots 221
Sold Lots 56 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 46,614.00
% of Lots Sold 25.34% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 64,746.00
Unsold Lots 165 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 15.72%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
8 Harris, Captain W. Cornwallis

Portraits of the Game and Wild Animals of South Africa

 USD 7,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 4,921.35
2 Olive Schreiner

Olive Schreiner letter

 USD 150.00 - 200.00 USD 892.50
221 Blunt, David Enderby

Elephant

 USD 120.00 - 130.00 USD 472.50
12 Various

Signed "Vlaglied" & Flag Committee Proposal Documents - The Union of South Africa

 USD 120.00 - 150.00 USD 350.00
50 Waller ( Horace)

THE LAST JOURNALS OF DAVID LIVINGSTONE IN CENTRAL AFRICA FROM 1865 TO HIS DEATH

 USD 350.00 - 500.00 USD 250.00
11 Paton, Alan

Alan Paton Letters. [3 sets of original, hand-written letters, SIGNED and dated].

 USD 150.00 - 200.00 USD 236.25
15 Levaillant, François

Reize in de Binnenlanden van Afrika, Langs de Kaap de Goede Hoop, in de Jaaren 1780 tot 1785, gedaan. Uit het Fransch door J.D. Pasteur. [3 volume set- incomplete].

 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 210.00
145 Hodson, Arnold W

TREKKING THE GREAT THIRST SPORT ANDTRAVEL IN THE KALAHARI DESERT

 USD 195.00 - 250.00 USD 195.00
20 Ian Fleming

Dr No

 USD 160.00 - 200.00 USD 178.50
155 Earl, George Windsor

The Eastern Seas

 USD 200.00 - 225.00 USD 175.00
46 Gabi Schneider

Treasures of the Diamond Coast

 USD 65.00 - 85.00 USD 168.00
159 Penn, Jack.

2 Manuscripts (4)

 USD 180.00 - 200.00 USD 150.00
122 Various

Human & Rousseau Publications

 USD 90.00 - 100.00 USD 106.05
19 Beaglehole, J. C. (Edited by).

The Journals of Captain James Cook on His Voyages of Discovery in Four Volumes (Without the Portfolio).

 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 100.00
17 Christopher, J.S.

Natal, Cape of Good Hope. A Grazing, Agricultural, and Cotton-Growing Country. Comprising Descriptions of this well-endowed Colony, from the Year 1575 to the Present Time....

 USD 90.00 - 200.00 USD 84.00
108 Various

History of Maps (8)

 USD 90.00 - 100.00 USD 80.00
109 Various

Map Collecting - Foreign Language (8)

 USD 90.00 - 100.00 USD 80.00
95 Various

Atlas Collection (7)

 USD 85.00 - 95.00 USD 75.00
105 Various

Books on Map Collecting (8)

 USD 85.00 - 95.00 USD 75.00
136 Taylor, Clarence D. (Compiled by)

Rev. William Boardman 1768 - 1825 And His Family

 USD 150.00 - 200.00 USD 75.00
197 Macmillan, Allister [Compiled and Edited by]

Eastern Africa And Rhodesia, Historical And Descriptive, Commercial And Industrial Facts, Figures, And Resources

 USD 90.00 - 120.00 USD 75.00
129 N/A

"Gedenk" Programme signed by H.F. Verwoerd et al

 USD 60.00 - 70.00 USD 63.00
101 Various

Southern Africa Exploration - Oppenheimer Series (5)

 USD 70.00 - 80.00 USD 60.00
107 Various

Catrography (4)

 USD 70.00 - 80.00 USD 60.00
180 Huntly, Jeff

THE WORLD OF THE WAGON (SIGNED) (SOLD ON BEHALF OF THE FRIENDS OF JOHANNESBURG LIBRARY)

 USD 120.00 - 150.00 USD 60.00
  • Doyle, May 1: Thomas Jefferson expresses fears of "a war of extermination" in Saint-Dominigue. $40,000 to $60,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An exceptional presentation copy of Fitzgerald's last book, in the first issue dust jacket. $25,000 to $35,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The rare first signed edition of Dorian Gray. $15,000 to $25,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The Prayer Book of Jehan Bernachier. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Doyle, May 1: Van Dyck's Icones Principum Virorum Doctorum. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The magnificent Cranach Hamlet in the deluxe binding by Dõrfner. $7,000 to $10,000.
    Doyle, May 1: A remarkable unpublished manuscript of a voyage to South America in 1759-1764. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Doyle, May 1: Bouchette's monumental and rare wall map of Lower Canada. $12,000 to $18,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An rare original 1837 abolitionist woodblock. $8,000 to $12,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An important manuscript breviary in Middle Dutch. $15,000 to $25,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An extraordinary Old Testament manuscript, circa 1250. $20,000 to $30,000.
  • Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Piccolomini's De La Sfera del Mondo (The Sphere of the World), 1540.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Vellutello's Commentary on Petrarch, With Map, 1525.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Finely Bound Definitive, Illustrated Edition of I Promessi Sposi, 1840.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Rare First Edition of John Milton's Latin Correspondence, 1674.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Giolito's Edition of Boccaccio's The Decamerone, with Bedford Binding, 1542.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of the First Biography of Marie of the Incarnation, with Rare Portrait, 1677.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Aldine Edition of Volume One of Cicero's Orationes, 1540.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Bonanni's Illustrated Costume Catalogue, with Complete Plates, 1711.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: An Important Incunable, the First Italian Edition of Josephus's De Bello Judaico, 1480.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Jacques Philippe d'Orville's Illustrated Book of the Ruins of Sicily, 1764.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: An Incunable from 1487, The Contemplative Life, with Early Manuscript.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Ignatius of Loyola's Exercitia Spiritualia, 1563.
  • Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 546. Christoph Jacob Trew. Plantae selectae, 1750-1773.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 70. Thomas Murner. Die Narren beschwerung. 1558.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 621. Michael Bernhard Valentini. Museum Museorum, 1714.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 545. Sander Reichenbachia. Orchids illustrated and described, 1888-1894.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1018. Marinetti, Boccioni, Pratella Futurism - Comprehensive collection of 35 Futurist manifestos, some of them exceptionally rare. 1909-1933.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 634. August Johann Rösel von Rosenhof. 3 Original Drawings, around 1740.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 671. Jacob / Picasso. Chronique des Temps, 1956.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1260. Mary Webb. Sarn. 1948. Lucie Weill Art Deco Binding.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 508. Felix Bonfils. 108 large-format photographs of Syria and Palestine.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 967. Dante Aligheri and Salvador Dali. Divina Commedia, 1963.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1316. Tolouse-Lautrec. Dessinateur. Duhayon binding, 1948.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1303. Regards sur Paris. Braque, Picasso, Masson, 1962.
  • Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Winston Churchill. The Second World War. Set of First-Edition Volumes. 6,000 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: A.A. Milne, Ernest H. Shepard. A Collection of The Pooh Books. Set of First-Editions. 18,600 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Salvador Dalí, Lewis Carroll. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Finely Bound and Signed Limited Edition. 15,000 USD
    Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ian Fleming. Live and Let Die. First Edition. 9,500 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter Series. Finely Bound First Printing Set of Complete Series. 5,650 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell to Arms. First Edition, First Printing. 4,200 USD
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