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Auction Name: Rare and Collectable Book Auction | Timed Online
Auction Date: 07/20/2025 - 07/20/2025
Sale Number: #72025
Total Lots: 123
Sold Lots: 82
Lots Sold: 66.67%
Unsold Lots: 41

Total Sales (ZAR): 270,084.00
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (ZAR): 129,000.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (ZAR): 187,300.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (ZAR): 172,400.00
High Estimate of All Lots (ZAR): 252,400.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.: 107.01%

Top twenty five by sale price

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
89	various authors	JOAN MIRO LITHOGRAPHS CATALOGUE RAISSONE (6 VOLUMES COMPLETE SET; LIMITED EDITION) by various authors	1972	ZAR 6,000.00 - 8,000.00	ZAR 32,578.00
110	Various Authors	BRENTHURST LIBRARY SERIES (FIRST SERIES, 10 VOLUMES) by Various Authors	1975-1984	ZAR 10,000.00 - 12,000.00	ZAR 32,578.00
4	Don E. Wilson, Russell A. Mittermeier et al.	HANDBOOK OF THE MAMMALS OF THE WORLD (6 VOLS) by Don E. Wilson, Russell A. Mittermeier et al.	2009 - 2016	ZAR 12,000.00 - 15,000.00	ZAR 22,554.00
111		OPPENHEIMER SERIES (13 VOLUMES, COMPLETE SET )	1945-1956	ZAR 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	ZAR 13,783.00
88	Charles Sorlier	CHAGALL: LITHOGRAPHS (VOLUME II, V, VI) by Charles Sorlier		ZAR 4,000.00 - 7,000.00	ZAR 12,530.00
112	various authors	BRENTHURST LIBRARY SERIES (SECOND SERIES, 10 VOLUMES) by various authors	1985 - 1994	ZAR 6,000.00 - 8,000.00	ZAR 11,903.50
11	Various Authors	THE BIRDS OF AFRICA (7 VOLS) by Various Authors	1982	ZAR 9,000.00 - 12,000.00	ZAR 10,024.00
70	Esme Berman and Karel Nel (eds)	ALEXIS PRELLER: A VISUAL BIOGRAPHY (TWO VOLUMES, IN A SLIPCASE) by Esme Berman and Karel Nel (eds)	2009	ZAR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	ZAR 8,771.00
44	Patrick Cramer	HENRY MOORE: THE CATALOGUE OF GRAPHIC WORK 1931-- 1984 (VOLUME I - IV; LIMTED EDITION; SIGNED) by Patrick Cramer	1980	ZAR 6,000.00 - 8,000.00	ZAR 8,144.50
114		BRENTHURST THIRD SERIES (FIVE VOLUMES)	1996	ZAR 2,000.00 - 2,400.00	ZAR 7,518.00
115		TWELVE VOLUMES SOUTH AFRICANS AT WAR		ZAR 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	ZAR 6,891.50
102	R. Raven-Hart	CAPE GOOD HOPE - 1652-1702: THE FIRST 50 YEARS OF DUTCH COLONISATION AS SEEN BY CALLERS (TWO VOLS) by R. Raven-Hart	1971	ZAR 800.00 - 1,200.00	ZAR 5,638.50
3	Reay Smithers	MAMMALS OF THE SOUTHERN AFRICAN SUBREGION by Reay Smithers	1983	ZAR 700.00 - 1,000.00	ZAR 5,012.00
12	by Phil Hockey, Richard Dean and Peter Ryan (ed.)	ROBERTS BIRDS OF SOUTHERN AFRICA (COLLECTORS EDITION; EDITION VII) by Phil Hockey, Richard Dean and Peter Ryan (ed.)	2006	ZAR 1,200.00 - 1,800.00	ZAR 4,761.40
45	Warren Siebrits	WALTER BATTISS: "I INVENTED MYSELF" THE JACK GINSBURG COLLECTION (INSCRIBED BY WARREN SIEBRITS) by Warren Siebrits	2016	ZAR 1,000.00 - 3,000.00	ZAR 4,385.50
48	PATRICK CRAMER	JOAN MIRO: THE ILLUSTRATED BOOKS BY PATRICK CRAMER	1989	ZAR 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	ZAR 3,759.00
16	by Claude Gibney Finch-Davies	THE BIRD PAINTINGS OF CLAUDE GIBNEY FINCH-DAVIES (LIMITED COLLECTOR'S EDITION) by Claude Gibney Finch-Davies	1984	ZAR 2,500.00 - 3,500.00	ZAR 3,508.40
56	Andree Bosch and Johan de Waal	ESIAS BOSCH (DELUXE EDITION) by Andree Bosch and Johan de Waal	1988	ZAR 1,000.00 - 3,000.00	ZAR 3,257.80
119	K. Clayton (ed.)	DOC CRAVENS TRIBUTE: THE LEGENDS OF SPRINGBOK RUGBY 1889 - 1989 (LIMITED EDITION) by K. Clayton (ed.)	1989	ZAR 2,500.00 - 3,000.00	ZAR 3,132.50
61	Walter Koschatzky	FRIEDENSREICH HUNDERTWASSER: CATALOGUE RAISONNE DE L'OEUVRE GRAVE, 1951-1986 (FRENCH TRANSLATION; INSCRIBED BY THE ARTIST) by Walter Koschatzky	1986	ZAR 2,000.00 - 4,000.00	ZAR 3,007.20

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