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Sale Name
Rare Books
Auction Date
10/18/2012 - 10/18/2012
Year of Sale
2012
Sale Number
#22
Total Lots
392
Sold Lots
182
Lots Sold
46.4%
Unsold Lots
210
Price Unknown
0
Total Sales (USD)
30,595.00
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
38,520.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
37,875.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (USD)
93,910.00
High Estimate of All Lots (USD)
100,830.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.
30.34%
Currency
USD
Inflation Adjusted Price in U.S. Dollars
34,875.90

Top twenty five by sale price

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Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
181 The Cape Times THE CAPE TIMES WEEKLY EDITION including The War Day By Day 1899-1901

1899

 USD 1,500.00 - 1,800.00 2,258.00
224 Thomas Herbert A Relation of Some Years Travaile begunne anno 1626 into Afrique and the Greater Asia (1634 ed). "Especially the territories of the Persian monarcy and some parts of the Oriental Indies and Iles adjacent. First edition of Herbert's fascinating 17th-c

1634

 USD 2,500.00 - 3,000.00 2,000.00
6 STERN, Irma Zanzibar. "Limited to 500 copies

1948

 USD 750.00 - 750.00 1,362.00
141 South African Historical Mint Genootskap van Regte Afrikaners Medallion (38 grams of gold). . .

USD 1,200.00 - 1,200.00 1,200.00
276 Frederick Courteney Selous A Hunter's Wanderings in Africa

1890

 USD 1,000.00 - 1,000.00 1,103.00
79 Amery, L.S. (Editor) The Times History of The War in South Africa, 1899 - 1902 ( 7 volumes - complete set) Vol. 3 has the rare suppressed plate + the replacement

1900

 USD 650.00 - 650.00 998.00
44 Colonel R.S.S. Baden-Powell THE MATABELE CAMPAIGN, 1896

1897

 USD 1,000.00 - 1,250.00 750.00
268 Latrobe (Rev. C.I.) JOURNAL OF A VISIT TO SOUTH AFRICA, IN 1815 and 1816

1818

 USD 850.00 - 1,000.00 700.00
332 Kerr (Walter Montagu) THE FAR INTERIOR (2 VOLS.)

1886

 USD 800.00 - 1,000.00 683.00
172 RSA THE HATED 'DOMPAS' (2 x Apartheid Era Artifacts). "A Lot consisting of two Apartheid Era's most hated Items'

USD 100.00 - 150.00 650.00
81 Baldwin, William Charles African Hunting and Adventure From Natal to the Zambesi Including Lake Ngami, the Kalahari Desert, & From 1852 to 1860

1863

 USD 250.00 - 250.00 630.00
27 GREENWOOD T J Fighting the Boers (Inscribed by author)

1900

 USD 300.00 - 400.00 504.00
34 COLE B The Elite - (Special de luxe ed, signed by author)

1984

 USD 100.00 - 200.00 499.00
76 Hofmeyr, J.H. with F.W. Reitz Het Leven van Jan Hendrik Hofmeyer (Onze Jan) - General Louis Botha's copy, presented to him by Sir Abe Baily

1913

 USD 1,000.00 - 1,000.00 483.00
188 William J Burchell TRAVELS IN THE INTERIOR OF SOUTHERN AFRICA Vol. 1 and 2

1953

 USD 300.00 - 325.00 473.00
62 Roosevelt, Theodore African Game Trails (Two Volumes)

1920

 USD 700.00 - 700.00 441.00
314 Van Riebeeck Society SET OF THE FIRST SERIES, Volumes 1 – 50 (Volume 1 in photocopy and bound in matching grey cloth)

1918

 USD 700.00 - 800.00 400.00
298 Oppenheimer Series: GOVERNMMENT ARCHIVES OF SOUTHERN RHODESIA, OPPENHEIMER SERIES.

1945

 USD 500.00 - 600.00 400.00
2 Brown (William Harvey) ON THE SOUTH AFRICAN FRONTIER - THE ADVENTURES AND OBSERVATIONS OF AN AMERICAN IN MASHONALAND AND MATABELELAND

1899

 USD 350.00 - 400.00 378.00
357 Cowper Rose Four Years in Southern Africa. "Bound in original half leather with leather corners over marbled paper boards. External condition is good only

1829

 USD 475.00 - 525.00 375.00
385 Baines (Thomas) SCENERY AND EVENTS IN SOUTH AFRICA (De Luxe Edition)

1852

 USD 250.00 - 300.00 331.00
37 DE VILLIERS C C Geslacht-Register der Oude Kaapsche Familien, 3 Vols.

1893

 USD 200.00 - 400.00 315.00
41 LEWCOCK R Early Nineteenth Century Architecture in South Africa, (De Luxe edition, signed)

1963

 USD 200.00 - 300.00 315.00
21 GOLDBLATT, DAVID Some Afrikaners Photographed (Signed by author)

1975

 USD 300.00 - 400.00 300.00
115 Obholzer, A.M. Baraitser, M. and Malherbe, W.D. The Cape House and its Interior (Limited/numbered ed). "Limited/numbered edition 1600 copies

1985

 USD 300.00 - 300.00 287.00
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