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July 10, 2025 - July 10, 2025
Page Size: 328 items in 14 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1 Alberti (Lodewyk)

DE KAFFERS AAN DE ZUIDKUST VAN AFRIKA

Amsterdam 1810 USD 12,500.00 - 15,000.00 Not Sold
2 Baines (Thomas)

THE VICTORIA FALLS ZAMBESI RIVER

London 1865 USD 9,000.00 - 11,000.00 USD 9,786.50
3 Solinus (Gaius Julius)

C. IVLII SOLINI POLYHISTOR, RERVM TOTO ORBE MEMORABILIUM THESAURUS LOCUPLETISSIMUS.

Basliae/Basel 1538 USD 6,000.00 - 7,000.00 Not Sold
4 Haldeman (Dr. J. N.)

THE INTERNATIONAL CONSPIRACY TO ESTABLISH A WORLD DICTATORSHIP AND THE MENACE TO SOUTH AFRICA (1960)

Pretoria 1960 USD 1,250.00 - 1,250.00 USD 2,013.65
5 Goldie (Fay) & Haldeman (Dr. J. N.)

LOST CITY OF THE KALAHARI - INCLUDES ELON MUSK'S GRANDFATHER'S OWN ACCOUNT OF HIS SEARCH FOR THE LOST CITY

Cape Town 1963 USD 70.00 - 70.00 USD 46.00
6 Breuil (Henri)

BEYOND THE BOUNDS OF HISTORY - Scenes from the Old Stone Age (1949) - foreword by General Jan Smuts

London 1949 USD 650.00 - 650.00 Not Sold
7 Wolf (Joseph)

A SERIES OF THIRTEEN PENCIL SKETCHES

USD 3,500.00 - 4,000.00 Not Sold
8 [Kounin (I.I.) Editor:]

EIGHTY FIVE YEARS OF THE SHANGHAI VOLUNTEER CORPS

Shanghai No date, circa 1938 USD 750.00 - 1,000.00 Not Sold
9 Ten Rhyne (William)

SCHEDIASMA DE POMONTORIO BONAE SPEI EJUSVE TRACTUS INCOLIS HOTTENTOTTIS (Early account of the Cape 1686)

Scafusii (Schaffhausen, 1686 USD 1,750.00 - 2,000.00 Not Sold
10 Praagh (L. V.)

THE TRANSVAAL AND ITS MINES (1906)

London 1906 USD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 USD 1,437.50
11 Reunert (Theodore)

DIAMONDS AND GOLD IN SOUTH AFRICA (1893)

London, Cape Town, Port Elizabeth and Johannesburg 1893 USD 900.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
12 Jansen (E.)

CONCEPTS ABOUT DIAMOND SCIENCE AND DIAMOND PROCESSING (1923)

Antwerpen 1923 USD 1,000.00 - 1,300.00 USD 906.20
13 Williams (Gardner F.)

THE DIAMOND MINES OF SOUTH AFRICA (Special Author's Signed Edition)

New York 1905 USD 400.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
14 Chilvers (Hedley A.)

THE STORY OF DE BEERS

London 1939 USD 200.00 - 250.00 USD 256.45
15 Bowler (Thomas W.)

PICTORIAL ALBUM OF CAPE TOWN

Cape Town 1866 USD 900.00 - 1,100.00 Not Sold
16 Bowler (Thomas William)

THE KAFIR WARS AND THE BRITISH SETTLERS IN SOUTH AFRICA (With hand coloured plates on India paper)

London 1865 USD 1,800.00 - 2,200.00 Not Sold
17 Herbert (Thomas)

SOME YEARS TRAVELS INTO DIVERS PARTS OF AFRICA AND ASIA THE GREAT

London 1677 USD 900.00 - 1,100.00 Not Sold
18 Bogaert (Abraham)

A. BOGAERT'S HISTORISCHE REIZEN DOOR D'OOSTERSCHE DEELEN VAN ASIA:

Amsterdam 1711 USD 1,250.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,150.00
19 Beeckman (Captain Daniel)

A VOYAGE TO AND FROM THE ISLAND OF BORNEO, IN THE EAST INDIES

London 1718 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 Not Sold
20 Alexander (Sir J.E.)

AN EXPEDITION OF DISCOVERY INTO THE INTERIOR OF AFRICA

London 1838 USD 1,100.00 - 1,300.00 USD 1,147.70
21 Burchell (William J.)

TRAVELS IN THE INTERIOR OF SOUTHERN AFRICA

London 1822-1824 USD 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 Not Sold
22 Delegorgue (Louis Adulphe)

TRAVELS IN SOUTHERN AFRICA [2 VOLUMES] (1847)

Paris 1847 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
23 Dunn (E. J.)

GEOLOGY OF GOLD (SOUTH AFRICA, AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND) (1929)

London 1929 USD 500.00 - 700.00 Not Sold
24 Rose (T. Kirke); edited by Roberts-Austin (W.C.)

THE METALLURGY OF GOLD (1894)

London 1894 USD 500.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
25 Gray (Ethel Lillian & James)

A HISTORY OF THE DISCOVERY OF THE WITWATERSRAND GOLD FIELDS (1940). (Signed copy)

Johannesburg 1940 USD 500.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
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