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Sale Name
Antiquarian Books - bidstart 6/2
Auction Date
06/09/2022 - 06/09/2022
Year of Sale
2022
Sale Number
#99
Total Lots
539
Sold Lots
179
Lots Sold
33.2%
Unsold Lots
360
Price Unknown
0
Total Sales (USD)
35,137.10
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
33,985.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
41,535.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (USD)
101,005.00
High Estimate of All Lots (USD)
124,082.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.
28.32%
Currency
USD
Inflation Adjusted Price in U.S. Dollars
32,434.20

Top twenty five by sale price

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Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
6 Gustave Flaubert Madame Bovary (First English Edition)

1886

 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 1,811.25
23 Mandela (Nelson) LONG WALK TO FREEDOM (signed)

1994

 USD 600.00 - 600.00 1,731.90
7 Bannister (Saxe) MEMOIR RESPECTING BRITISH INTERESTS AND THE INTERESTS OF THE NATIVE TRIBES

[1838]

 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 1,598.50
5 Bruce (James of Kinnaird) TRAVELS TO DISCOVER THE SOURCE OF THE NILE

1790

 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 1,569.75
20 Backhouse (James) A NARRATIVE OF A VISIT TO THE MAURITIUS AND SOUTH AFRICA (Presentation copy signed by the author)

1844

 USD 600.00 - 700.00 1,459.35
9 Books of Rhodesia RHODESIANA REPRINT LIBRARY

1968 – 1974

 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 1,380.00
18 Mohr (Edward) TO THE VICTORIA FALLS OF THE ZAMBESI.

1876

 USD 900.00 - 1,000.00 952.20
12 Spiegelman (Art) MAUS ( Presentation copy signed by the author with original drawings by him)

1986 and 1991

 USD 900.00 - 1,000.00 862.50
13 Alexander (Samuel) PHOTOGRAPHIC SCENERY OF SOUTH AFRICA .

1878

 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 862.50
19 W. S. Rayner & W. W. O'Shaughnessy HOW BOTHA AND SMUTS CONQUERED GERMAN SOUTH WEST (1916)

1916

 USD 800.00 - 800.00 690.00
126 BOER WAR SERVICES OF MILITARY OFFICERS

1998

 USD 300.00 - 400.00 603.75
32 Sutcliffe (Tom) YET MORE SWEET DAYS (With author's original pencil sketch to title page and five of his original artworks)

2019

 USD 750.00 - 1,000.00 575.00
22 ANGLO BOER WAR

USD 600.00 - 700.00 575.00
308 [Moodie (D.C.F.) Editor] JOHN DUNN, CETEWAYO, AND THE THREE GENERALS

1886

 USD 600.00 - 700.00 575.00
396 Huxley, Elspeth White Man's Country - Lord Delamere and The Making of Kenya, Vol I (1870-1914) and II (1914-1931) SIGNED

1935

 USD 450.00 - 550.00 517.50
167 Harmsen (Frieda) MAUDE SUMNER PAINTER AND POET

1992

 USD 400.00 - 500.00 402.50
162 Carruthers (Jane) and Arnold (Marion) THE LIFE AND WORK OF THOMAS BAINES (Sponsors’ edition signed by the authors)

1995

 USD 400.00 - 500.00 402.50
227 William Kentridge & Neo Muyanga Second Hand Reading - Vinyl Limited to 300 Pressings

2016

 USD 200.00 - 200.00 402.50
148 Sackville-West (Vita) SAINT JOAN OF ARC (Limited edition signed by the author)

1936

 USD 300.00 - 400.00 362.25
174 Cole (Ernest) HOUSE OF BONDAGE (Presentation copy signed by the author)

1967

 USD 400.00 - 500.00 345.00
425 H. A. Bryden Kloof and Karroo in Cape Colony

1889

 USD 400.00 - 400.00 318.55
406 Pease, Sir Alfred E The Book of the Lion

1913

 USD 125.00 - 150.00 302.45
397 Butt-Thompson, F W Capt West African Secret Societies. Their Organizations Officials and Teachings

1929

 USD 250.00 - 300.00 287.50
178 Goldblatt (David) SOME AFRIKANERS PHOTOGRAPHED (Limited edition signed by the photographer)

1975

 USD 300.00 - 400.00 287.50
303 Boscawen-Wright (Charles) WITH THE IMPERIAL LIGHT INFANTRY THROUGH NATAL

1903

 USD 300.00 - 400.00 287.50
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  • <b><center>Heritage Auctions<br>Rare Books Signature Auction<br>December 15, 2025</center></b> <b>Heritage, Dec. 15:</b> John Donne. <i>Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Author's Death.</i> London: M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, 1633. <b>Heritage, Dec. 15:</b> Edgar Rice Burroughs. <i>Tarzan of the Apes.</i> <b>Heritage, Dec. 15:</b> F. Scott Fitzgerald. <i>Tender is the Night. A Romance.</i> <b>Heritage, Dec. 15:</b> Bram Stoker. <i>Dracula.</i> Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co., 1897. <b>Heritage, Dec. 15:</b> Jerry Thomas. <i>How to Mix Drinks, or the Bon-Vivant's Companion, Containing Clear and Reliable Directions for Mixing All the Beverages Used in the United States…</i>
    Heritage Auctions
    Rare Books Signature Auction
    December 15, 2025
    Heritage, Dec. 15: John Donne. Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Author's Death. London: M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, 1633.
    Heritage, Dec. 15: Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
    Heritage, Dec. 15: F. Scott Fitzgerald. Tender is the Night. A Romance.
    Heritage, Dec. 15: Bram Stoker. Dracula. Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co., 1897.
    Heritage, Dec. 15: Jerry Thomas. How to Mix Drinks, or the Bon-Vivant's Companion, Containing Clear and Reliable Directions for Mixing All the Beverages Used in the United States…
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  • <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Letter Signed ("Martinus Luther") to His Friend the Theologian Gerhard Wiskamp ("Gerardo Xantho Lampadario"). $100,000 - $150,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> An Exceptionally Fine Copy of Austenís Emma: A Novel in Three Volumes. $40,000 - $60,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Presentation Copy of Ernest Hemmingwayís A Farewell to Arms for Edward Titus of the Black Mankin Press. $30,000 - $50,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Manuscript Signed Integrally for "The Songs of Pooh," by Alan Alexander. $30,000 - $50,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Manuscript of "Three Fragments from Gˆtterd‰mmerung" by Richard Wagner. $30,000 - $50,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Original Preliminary Artwork, for the First Edition of Snow Crash. $20,000 - $30,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Letter Signed ("T.R. Malthus") to Economist Nassau Senior on Wealth, Labor and Adam Smith. $20,000 - $30,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Finely Bound by Michael Wilcox. $20,000 - $30,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> First Edition of Lewis and Clark: Travels to the Source of the Missouri River and Across the American Continent to the Pacific Ocean. $8,000 - $12,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Original Artwork for the First Edition of Neal Stephenson's Groundbreaking Novel Snow Crash. $100,000 - $150,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> A Complete Set Signed Deluxe Editions of King's The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King. $8,000 - $12,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Letter Signed ("John Adams") to James Le Ray de Chaumont During the Crucial Years of the Revolutionary War. $8,000 - $12,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("Martinus Luther") to His Friend the Theologian Gerhard Wiskamp ("Gerardo Xantho Lampadario"). $100,000 - $150,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: An Exceptionally Fine Copy of Austenís Emma: A Novel in Three Volumes. $40,000 - $60,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Presentation Copy of Ernest Hemmingwayís A Farewell to Arms for Edward Titus of the Black Mankin Press. $30,000 - $50,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript Signed Integrally for "The Songs of Pooh," by Alan Alexander. $30,000 - $50,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript of "Three Fragments from Gˆtterd‰mmerung" by Richard Wagner. $30,000 - $50,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Preliminary Artwork, for the First Edition of Snow Crash. $20,000 - $30,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("T.R. Malthus") to Economist Nassau Senior on Wealth, Labor and Adam Smith. $20,000 - $30,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Finely Bound by Michael Wilcox. $20,000 - $30,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: First Edition of Lewis and Clark: Travels to the Source of the Missouri River and Across the American Continent to the Pacific Ocean. $8,000 - $12,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Artwork for the First Edition of Neal Stephenson's Groundbreaking Novel Snow Crash. $100,000 - $150,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: A Complete Set Signed Deluxe Editions of King's The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King. $8,000 - $12,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("John Adams") to James Le Ray de Chaumont During the Crucial Years of the Revolutionary War. $8,000 - $12,000.
  • <center><b>Sotheby’s<br>Book Week<br>December 9-17, 2025</b></center> <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 17:</b> Francesco Colonna. <i>Hypnerotomachie,</i> Paris, 1546, Parisian calf by Wotton Binder C for Marcus Fugger. €200,000 to €300,000. <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 17:</b> Nausea. <i>De principiis dialectices Gorgias,</i> and other works, Venice, 1523, morocco gilt for Cardinal Campeggio. €3,000 to €4,000. <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 17:</b> Billon. <i>Le fort inexpugnable de l'honneur,</i> Paris, 1555, Parisian calf gilt for Peter Ernst, Graf von Mansfeld. €120,000 to €180,000. <center><b>Sotheby’s<br>Book Week<br>December 9-17, 2025</b></center> <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 16:</b> Salinger, J.D. The Graham Family archive, including autographed letters, an inscribed Catcher, a rare studio photograph of the author, and more. $120,000 to $180,000. <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 16:</b> [Austen, Jane]. A handsome first edition of <i>Sense and Sensibility,</i> the author's first novel. $60,000 to $80,000. <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 16:</b> Massachusetts General Court. A powerful precursor to the Declaration of Independence: "every Act of Government … without the Consent of the People, is … Tyranny." $40,000 to $60,000.
    Sotheby’s
    Book Week
    December 9-17, 2025
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Francesco Colonna. Hypnerotomachie, Paris, 1546, Parisian calf by Wotton Binder C for Marcus Fugger. €200,000 to €300,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Nausea. De principiis dialectices Gorgias, and other works, Venice, 1523, morocco gilt for Cardinal Campeggio. €3,000 to €4,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Billon. Le fort inexpugnable de l'honneur, Paris, 1555, Parisian calf gilt for Peter Ernst, Graf von Mansfeld. €120,000 to €180,000.
    Sotheby’s
    Book Week
    December 9-17, 2025
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Salinger, J.D. The Graham Family archive, including autographed letters, an inscribed Catcher, a rare studio photograph of the author, and more. $120,000 to $180,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: [Austen, Jane]. A handsome first edition of Sense and Sensibility, the author's first novel. $60,000 to $80,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Massachusetts General Court. A powerful precursor to the Declaration of Independence: "every Act of Government … without the Consent of the People, is … Tyranny." $40,000 to $60,000.