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Auction Date
March 06, 2025 - March 06, 2025
Page Size: 326 items in 14 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1 Livingstone (David)

MISSIONARY TRAVELS AND RESEARCHES IN SOUTH AFRICA (First issue)

London 1857 USD 600.00 - 700.00 Not Sold
2 Baker (Sir Samuel White)

THE NILE TRIBUTARIES OF ABYSSINIA

London 1867 USD 800.00 - 900.00 Not Sold
3 Alexander (Sir James Edward)

AN EXPEDITION OF DISCOVERY INTO THE INTERIOR OF AFRICA

London 1838 USD 1,800.00 - 2,000.00 Not Sold
4 Selous (F.C.)

A HUNTER'S WANDERINGS IN AFRICA. Author's presentation copy to James Jameson. 'Perhaps the most famous of all hunting books'.

London 1881 USD 1,250.00 - 1,500.00 USD 2,173.50
5 Campbell (Lieutenant Colin)

EIGHT MONTHS ON AN ARMOURED TRAIN (Presentation copy)

Cape Town 1901 USD 500.00 - 600.00 USD 1,207.50
6 Schreiner (Olive)

CLOSER UNION (Presentation copy to J.C. Molteno)

London 1909 USD 850.00 - 950.00 Not Sold
7 Park (Mungo)

TRAVELS IN THE INTERIOR DISTRICTS OF AFRICA

London 1799 USD 350.00 - 450.00 USD 423.20
8 Krenkel (Erich)

GEOLOGY OF AFRICA [3 volumes] (1925-1938)

Berlin 1925-1928-1938 USD 1,200.00 - 1,700.00 Not Sold
9 Cumming (Roualeyn Gordon)

FIVE YEARS OF A HUNTER'S LIFE IN THE FAR INTERIOR OF SOUTH AFRICA

London 1850 USD 500.00 - 750.00 Not Sold
10 Rosenthal (Joseph)

RAISING THE FLAG ON IWO JIMA - ORIGINAL 1945 PRESS PHOTOGRAPH

1945 USD 600.00 - 900.00 Not Sold
11 Dibdin (Thomas Frognall)

A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ANTIQUARIAN AND PICTURESQUE TOUR IN FRANCE AND GERMANY

London 1821 USD 400.00 - 500.00 USD 402.50
12 Butler (Capt. H.)

SOUTH AFRICAN SKETCHES

London 1841 USD 600.00 - 700.00 Not Sold
13 Thompson (George)

TRAVELS AND ADVENTURES IN SOUTHERN AFRICA

London 1827 USD 1,000.00 - 1,100.00 Not Sold
14 Marloth (Rudolf)

THE FLORA OF SOUTH AFRICA

Cape Town 1913 - 1932 USD 350.00 - 450.00 Not Sold
15 Bigge (John Thomas, Colebrooke (William M.G) and Blair (W.)

REPORTS OF THE COMMISSIONERS OF INQUIRY ON THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE

Cape Town 1827 USD 150.00 - 200.00 USD 115.00
16 Blixen-Finecke (Bror von)

AFRICAN HUNTER

London 1937 USD 200.00 - 250.00 USD 302.45
17 Theal (George McCall)

HISTORY OF SOUTH AFRICA

Cape Town 1964 USD 200.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
18 His Majesty's Stationery Office

AGREEMENTS BETWEEN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND PORTUGAL ABOUT THE SOUTHERN AFRICA (1912-1920) - LOT OF 3 ITEMS

London 1912-1920 USD 400.00 - 500.00 USD 287.50
19 Curle (James Herbert)

THE GOLD MINES OF THE WORLD (1899)

London 1899 USD 500.00 - 700.00 Not Sold
20 Klempner (Paul)

THE WITWATERSRAND GOLD MINES (1951)

London 1951 USD 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
21 De Launay (L.)

THE GOLD MINES OF THE TRANSVAAL (1896)

Paris 1896 USD 400.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
22 Katzen (Leo)

GOLD & THE SOUTH AFRICAN ECONOMY (1964)

1964 USD 250.00 - 350.00 Not Sold
23 Hirschson (Niel)

THE NAMING OF JOHANNESBURG (1974)

Johannesburg 1974 USD 90.00 - 90.00 Not Sold
24 Reunert (Theodore)

DIAMONDS AND GOLD IN SOUTH AFRICA (1893)

Cape Town Port Elizabeth and Johannesburg 1893 USD 600.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
25 "Imperialist" pseudonym - VERSCHOYLE (John Stuart)

CECIL RHODES: A Biography and Appreciation, with Personal Reminiscences by Dr. Jameson (1897)

London 1897 USD 90.00 - 90.00 Not Sold
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