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Auction Name Books - Internet Bidstart 11/23 - PREVIEW Total Sales (USD) 75,461.00
Auction Date November 30, 2017 - November 30, 2017 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 77,670.00
Sale Number #63 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 101,340.00
Total Lots 438
Sold Lots 188 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 174,815.00
% of Lots Sold 42.92% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 221,700.00
Unsold Lots 250 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 34.04%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1 ADAM TAS AND JACOBUS VAN DER HEIDEN

CONTRA-DEDUCTIE - EXCEEDINGLY RARE WILLEM ADRIAAN VAN DER STEL and ADAM TAS BOOK - AN EARLY CAPE/VERGELEGEN ITEM 

1712 USD 5,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 8,400.00
6 Fry (W. Ellerton)

OCCUPATION OF MASHONALAND

1891 USD 7,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 6,000.00
4 Charles Du-Val & Charles Deecker (Editors)

NEWS OF THE CAMP - ALL 40 ISSUES - BOUND PRESENTATION COPY WITH INTERLEAVED ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPHS

1880-1881 USD 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 2,625.00
42 [Oates (C.G.) Editor]]

MATABELE LAND AND THE VICTORIA FALLS

1881 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 2,200.00
234 Thomas GAGE

A New Survey of the West-Indies being a Journal of Three thousand and Three hundred Miles within ... America ... fourth edition.

1699 USD 1,800.00 - 2,500.00 USD 2,100.00
7 FitzPatrick, Sir J. Percy

JOCK OF THE BUSHVELD (signed by the author)

1907 USD 2,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 2,000.00
225 Maharaj (Mac) Editor

REFLECTIONS IN PRISON (Collectors' Edition signed by Mandela and other prominent ANC leaders)

2001 USD 2,500.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,000.00
254 Kidd (Mary Maytham)

ALBUM OF ORIGINAL SKETCHES

USD 600.00 - 700.00 USD 1,838.00
46 Powell-Cotton (Major P.H.G.)

IN UNKNOWN AFRICA

1904 USD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 USD 1,750.00
3 Phil du Plessis, Stephen Gray & Others (Editors)

IZWI / VOICE / STEM - AN ALMOST COMPLETE SET OF 18 1SSUES.

1971 - 1974 USD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 USD 1,575.00
300 BYRON, Edmund (1843-1921)

What We Did in South Africa in 1873. Printed for private circulation.

1874 USD 500.00 - 500.00 USD 1,365.00
184 Battiss (Walter)

BUSHMAN ART, Portfolio Number One.

No date (circa 1940) USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,260.00
197 Captain William Urquhart

THE OUTBREAK ON THE WITWATERSRAND MARCH 1922

1922 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 1,200.00
23 Dickinson (Captain Francis Arthur)

LAKE VICTORIA TO KHARTOUM WITH RIFLE & CAMERA

1910 USD 400.00 - 500.00 USD 1,155.00
8 Hobhouse (Emily)

THE BRUNT OF THE WAR (presentation copy)

1902 USD 400.00 - 500.00 USD 1,050.00
314 Henry M. Stanley

Through the Dark Continent

1878 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 1,050.00
260 Barrow (John)

A VOYAGE TO COCHINCHINA IN THE YEARS 1792 & 1793:

1806 USD 1,250.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,000.00
301 Meiring, Jane

Jock - The Art of Edmund Caldwell

1978 & 1982 USD 800.00 - 900.00 USD 884.00
13 Brocklehurst (Capt.Henry Courtney)

GAME ANIMALS OF THE SUDAN

1931 USD 600.00 - 700.00 USD 840.00
21 Cotton (William Bensley)

SPORT IN THE EASTERN SUDAN

1912 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 840.00
178 Sparrman (Andrew)

A VOYAGE TO THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE TOWARDS THE ANTARCTIC POLAR CIRCLE ROUND THE WORLD

1785 USD 900.00 - 1,000.00 USD 800.00
27 Findlay (Frederick Roderick Noble

BIG GAME SHOOTING AND TRAVEL IN SOUTH-EAST AFRICA

1903 USD 800.00 - 900.00 USD 788.00
193 Stern (Irma)

ZANZIBAR

1948 USD 900.00 - 1,000.00 USD 788.00
20 Chapman (Abel)

SAVAGE SUDAN

1921 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 750.00
38 Lyell (Denis D.)

THE AFRICAN ELEPHANT AND ITS HUNTERS

1924 USD 1,000.00 - 1,250.00 USD 750.00
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    19th Century Shop. Darwin and Wallace, first printing of the first paper on natural selection
    19th Century Shop. Shakespeare’s Poems, first collected edition
    19th Century Shop. Walt Whitman portrait inscribed with a Leaves of Grass poem
    19th Century Shop. Major Elizabeth Barrett Browning manuscript notebook
    19th Century Shop. Spock's Baby Book, original MS
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    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: NEWLY DISCOVERED FIRST PRINTING OF "WITH MALICE TOWARDS NONE... " FROM THE ONLY NEWSPAPER ACTUALLY ALLOWED TO PARTICIPATE IN LINCOLN’S SECOND INAUGURAL PROCESSION. $4,000 to $8,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: THE MOST IMPORTANT GEORGE WASHINGTON DOCUMENT IN PRIVATE HANDS; GEORGE WASHINGTON’S COMMISSION AS COMMANDER IN CHIEF, 1775, ONE OF ONLY TWO ORIGINALS. $150,000 to $250,000.
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    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: EDISON, Thomas. Patent for Edison’s Improvements on the Electric-Light, No. 219,628. [Washington, D.C.: U.S. Patent Office], 16 September 1879. $2,000 to $3,000.
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    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: [Langland (William)]. The vision of Pierce Plowman, nowe the seconde time imprinted..., Roberte Crowley, 1550. £8,000 to £10,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: [Shakespeare (William)]. [Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies], second folio edition, [by Tho.Cotes, for Robert Allot], [1632]. £30,000 to £40,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Bible, Czech Biblia Bohemica, first complete Bible printed in the Czech vernacular, Prague, August 1488. £30,000 to £40,000.
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    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: Shabthai Tzvi.- Collection of four printed and illustrated broadsides detailing the appearance, rise and fall of the false messiah, Shabthai Tzvi, Augsburg, 1666-67. £40,000 to £60,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Leaf from the Beauvais Missal, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment, [Northern France (perhaps Beauvais or Amiens)], [fourteenth century (c.1310)]. £4,000 to £6,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Aubrey (John). [Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme], manuscript in English, Latin and Greek, [c. 1693]. £30,000 to £50,000.
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    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: Byron (George Gordon Noel, Lord). Poems on Various Occasions, first edition, Harriet Maltby's copy, Newark, Printed by S. & J. Ridge, 1807. £30,000 to £40,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Tolkien (J.R.R.) The Hobbit, first edition, second impression with dust-jacket, 1937 [but 1938]. £7,000 to £10,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Blake (William).- Thornton (Robert John). The Pastorals of Virgil, 2 vol., engraved plates by William Blake, 1821. £8,000 to £12,000.
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    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: America.- Mount (William J.) & Thomas Page. The English Pilot…, [bound with] The Fourth Book, describing The West Indies Navigation from Hudson's-Bay to the River Amazones, 1721. £20,000 to £30,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Oldfield (Henry Ambrose), Rajman Singh Chitrakar & others. An album of 160 photographs and 13 original artworks, (1833-1919), [c. 1850s-1880s]. £20,000 to £30,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Audubon (John James) [and William MacGillivray]. Ornithological Biography…, 5 vol., first edition, presentation copy inscribed by Audubon, Edinburgh, 1831-49 [i.e. 1831-39]. £10,000 to £15,000.
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