Auction Explorer Books: Auction Explorer Books : 52, 52,

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Auction Date: January 01, 2007 - January 01, 2007

Page Size: 481 items in 5 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1	Gardner F.Williams	The Diamond Mines of South Africa (Two vols)	New York	1905	USD 250.00 - 250.00	Not Sold
2	Harriet Ward	Five years in Kaffirland (Two vols)	London	1848	USD 500.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
4	M.W.Luckin	The History of South African Cricket	Johannesburg	1915	USD 120.00 - 120.00	Not Sold
5	John Barrow	Travels in China	London	1804	USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	Not Sold
7	Mrs. Hutchinson	In Tents in the Transvaal	London	1879	USD 80.00 - 100.00	63.00
8	Dixie, Lady Florence	A defence of Zululand and its king. Echoes from the Blue Books. With an appendix	London	1882	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	2,100.00
9	N/A	1937 CORONATION MEDAL	Manchester. UK	1937	USD 200.00 - 250.00	Not Sold
10	N/A	ZULU ARMBANDS			USD 400.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
11	Not known	zulu knobkerrie			USD 700.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
12	F.J.H.Hannan	IMPERIAL GUIDES	Lydenburg.	1899 - 1902	USD 200.00 - 250.00	Not Sold
13	Philip Gibbs	THE DEATHLESS STORY OF THE 'TITANIC'	UK	1912	USD 300.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
14	John Lovett	CONTACT	Rhodesia	1977 First Edition	USD 100.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
15	N/A	RHODESIAN 'GUARD FORCE' PLAQUE			USD 80.00 - 100.00	Not Sold
16	N/A	RHODESIAN UDI TRAINING WING PLAQUE	Rhodesia		USD 80.00 - 100.00	Not Sold
17	Bellow, Saul	Dangling Man	New York	1944	USD 500.00 - 500.00	195.00
18	Goldmann, Charles Sydney	With General French and the Cavalry in South Africa	London	1902	USD 600.00 - 600.00	150.00
19	Shreiner, Olive + Vincent, Wendy	The Hunter	Johannesburg	July 1979	USD 600.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
20	Batten, Auriol	Flowers of Southern Africa	Sandton	1986	USD 80.00 - 80.00	79.00
21	Beiles, Sinclair + Skotnes, Cecil	Tales (Six original Skotnes woodcuts)	Johannesburg	1972	USD 50.00 - 50.00	20.00
22	Lee, Robin (Editor)	Values Alive-a tribute to Helen Suzman (Signed de luxe)	Parklands	1990	USD 50.00 - 50.00	79.00
23	Lee, Harper	To Kill a Mockingbird	London	1960	USD 200.00 - 200.00	79.00
24	Jeppe, Barbara	South African Aloes - Revised & Enlarged	Cape Town	1977	USD 50.00 - 50.00	52.00
25	Ballen, Roger	Platteland - Images from rural South Africa	Rivonia	1994	USD 100.00 - 100.00	107.00
26	J.STUART	HISTORY OF THE ZULU REBELLION 1906	UK	1913	USD 200.00 - 250.00	140.00
27	various	ILLUSTRATED SUPPLEMENT TO LE PETIT JOURNAL	Paris. France	19 Nov. 1899	USD 200.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
28	Parkinson (John)	THEATRUM BOTANICUM. THE THEATRE OF PLANTS	London	1640	USD 6,000.00 - 7,000.00	Not Sold
29	Dodoens (R.)	CRUYDT-BOECK..... VOLGHENS SIJNE LAETSTE VERBETERINGHE:	Antwerp	1644	USD 9,000.00 - 9,000.00	Not Sold
30	Mizauld (Antione)	ALEXIKEPUS, SEU AUXILIARIS HORTUS	Paris	1564	USD 1,500.00 - 1,750.00	Not Sold
31	Morison (Robert)	HORTUS BLESENSIS AUCTUS	London	1669	USD 1,250.00 - 1,500.00	1,439.00
32	Ray (John)	SYNOPSIS METHODICA STIRPIUM BRITANNICARUM	London	1724	USD 600.00 - 700.00	400.00
33	Rousseau (Jean-Jacques)	LETTRES ELEMENTAIRES SUR LA BOTANIQUE	Paris	1879	USD 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
34	Rousseau (Jean-Jacques)	RECUEIL DE PLANTES COLORIEES	Paris	1789	USD 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
35	Tournefort (Joseph de Pitton)	RELATION D'UN VOYAGE DU LEVANT	Lyon	1717	USD 2,500.00 - 3,000.00	2,316.00
36	Wernischeck (Jacob)	GENERA PLANTARUM	Vienna	1766	USD 60.00 - 70.00	44.00
37	Boerhaave (Hermann)	INDEX ALTER PLANATARUM QUAE IN HORTO ACADEMICO LUGDUNO-BATAVO ALUNTUR	Leiden	1820	USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	Not Sold
38	Brown (N.E.)	STAPELIAE BARKLYANAE	London	1890	USD 75.00 - 100.00	95.00
39	Burmann (Johannes)	RARIORUM AFRICANARUM PLANTARUM	Amsterdam	1738 - 1739	USD 2,500.00 - 3,000.00	2,625.00
40	Burmann (Johannes)	THESAURUS ZEYLANICUS	Amsterdam	1757	USD 3,000.00 - 3,500.00	2,500.00
41	Burmann (Nicolas Laurent)	FLORA INDICA	Leiden & Amsterdam	1768	USD 3,000.00 - 3,500.00	Not Sold
42	Hermann (Paul)	PARADISUS BATAVUS	Leiden	1705	USD 2,500.00 - 3,000.00	2,663.00
43	Hermann (Paul)	HORTI ACADEMICI LUGDUNO-BATAVI CATALOGUS	Leiden	1687	USD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00	1,659.00
44	Persoon (C.H.)	TRAITE SUR LES CHAMPIGNONS COMESTIBLES	Paris	1819	USD 700.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
45	Persoon (C.H.)	SYNOPSIS FUNGORUM	Gottingen	1801 (Index 1808)	USD 1,250.00 - 1,500.00	Not Sold
46	Thornton (Robert John)	THE BRITISH FLORA	London	1812	USD 500.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
47	Thunberg (Carl Peter)	PLANTARUM CAPENSIUM SPECIES NOVAE	Upsaliae	1824	USD 1,250.00 - 2,000.00	1,050.00
48	Thunberg (Carl Peter)	DISSERTATIO BOTANICA DE ERICA	Upsaliae	1785	USD 1,750.00 - 2,000.00	1,838.00
49	Thunberg (Carl Peter)	DISSERTATIO BOTANICA DE PROTEA	upsaliae	1781	USD 1,750.00 - 200.00	2,100.00
50	Thunberg (Carl Peter)	DISSERTATIO BOTANICA, FICUS GENUS	Upsaliae	1786	USD 250.00 - 300.00	200.00
51	Thunberg (Carl Peter)	DISSERTATIO BOTANICA DE BRUNIA	Upsaliae	1804	USD 250.00 - 300.00	200.00
52	Thunberg (Carl Peter)	DISSERTATIONES ACADEMICA UPSALIAE HABITAE	Gottingen	1799 - 1800	USD 2,250.00 - 2,500.00	2,779.00
53	Thunberg (Carl Peter)	FLORA CAPENSIS	Stuttgart	1823	USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	1,470.00
54	Harvey (W.H.)	THE GENERA OF SOUTH AFRICAN PLANTS	Cape Town	1868	USD 200.00 - 250.00	188.00
55	Bolus (H.)	THE ORCHIDS OF THE CAPE PENINSULA	Cape Town	1918	USD 400.00 - 450.00	300.00
56	Munting (Abraham)	NAAUWKEURIGE BESCHRYVING DER AARDGEWASSEN	Leiden & Utrecht	1696	USD 6,000.00 - 7,000.00	5,775.00
57	Andersson, Charles John	Lake Ngami	London	1856	USD 400.00 - 400.00	410.00
58	Baker, Sir Samuel W.	The Nile Tributaries of Abyssinia	London	1867	USD 100.00 - 100.00	30.00
59	Baldwin, William Charles	African Hunting	London	1863	USD 400.00 - 400.00	436.00
60	Barrow, John	Voyage to Cochinchina + Booshuana Nation	London	1806	USD 400.00 - 400.00	221.00
61	Campbell, John	Travels in South Africa	New York	1816	USD 120.00 - 120.00	105.00
62	Stanley, Henry M.	In Darkest Africa (2 vols.)	London	1890	USD 120.00 - 120.00	279.00
63	Lydekker, Richard	3 Volumes from Lloyd's Natural History	London	1896	USD 90.00 - 90.00	40.00
64	Harris, William Cornwallis	Wild Sports of Southern Africa	Cape Town	1963	USD 50.00 - 50.00	25.00
65	Maxwell, Marius	Stalking Big Game with a Camera.	London	1925	USD 30.00 - 30.00	20.00
66	Tschumi, Bernard	The Manhattan Transcripts	London	1994	USD 110.00 - 110.00	Not Sold
67	Huskisson, Yvonne	The Bantu composers of southern Africa	Johannesburg	1969	USD 60.00 - 60.00	27.00
68	Buchan, John	The History of the South African Forces in France	London	April 1920	USD 85.00 - 85.00	30.00
69	Summers, Roger (Editor)	Prehistoric Rock Art of the Federation of Rhodesia & Nyasaland	Salisbury	1959	USD 85.00 - 85.00	32.00
70	Maggs, Tim (Editor)	Major Rock Paintings of Southern Africa	Cape Town	1979	USD 70.00 - 70.00	33.00
71	Perello, E.Ripoll (Editor)	Miscelanea....Abate Henri Breuil (Two vols)	Barcelona	1964	USD 120.00 - 120.00	Not Sold
72	Breuil, Abbe Henri	The White Lady of the Brandberg	London	1955	USD 80.00 - 80.00	30.00
73	Bleek, D. F. (Editor)	The Mantis and his Friends - Bushman Folklore	Cape Town	Not given	USD 25.00 - 25.00	48.00
74	Tyrrell, Barbara	Tribal Peoples of Southern Africa	Cape Town	1968	USD 80.00 - 80.00	37.00
75	Amery, L.S. ( Editor )	The Times History of the War in South Africa-1899-1902	London	1899 - 1909	USD 400.00 - 400.00	222.00
76	Breytenbach, J. H.	Die Geskiedenis van die Tweede Vryheidsoorlog (6 Vols)	Pretoria	1969 to 1996	USD 150.00 - 150.00	186.00
77	Creswicke, Louis	South Africa and the Transvaal War	Edinburgh	1900	USD 150.00 - 150.00	64.00
78	Vijn,Cornelius	Cetshwayo's Dutchman	London	1988	USD 30.00 - 40.00	25.00
79	Greaves,Adrian,Ed	Redcoats & Zulus	Barnsley	2004	USD 33.00 - 40.00	Not Sold
80	Knight,Ian	"By The Orders of the Great White Queen"	London	1992	USD 36.00 - 42.00	Not Sold
81	Knight,Ian	Great Zulu Battles. 1838-1906	New Jersey	2003	USD 30.00 - 35.00	Not Sold
82	Rothwell,J S Captain	Narrative of the Field Operations connected with the Zulu Wa	London	1989	USD 40.00 - 45.00	25.00
83	Naidoo,S R & Bramdaw,Dhanee(ed(	Sastri Speaks	Pietermaritzburg	1931	USD 30.00 - 40.00	20.00
84	Greaves,Adrian,Ed	David Rattray's Guidebook to the Anglo-Zulu War Battlefields	Barnsley	2003	USD 40.00 - 45.00	32.00
85	Knight,Ian	Nothing Remains But To Fight	London	1993	USD 45.00 - 50.00	30.00
86	Knight,Ian	Brave Men's Blood	London-	1990	USD 35.00 - 40.00	25.00
87	Pachai,Bridglal	The South African Indian Question 1860-1971	Cape Town	1971	USD 35.00 - 40.00	32.00
88	Smith,Michael	Tom Green-An Illustrated Life	Cork-Ireland	2006	USD 45.00 - 50.00	Not Sold
89	Smith,Michael	Tom Green-An Illustrated Life	Cork-Ireland	2006	USD 45.00 - 50.00	Not Sold
90	Young,John	They Fell Like Stones	London-	1991	USD 35.00 - 40.00	25.00
91	Coupland,Sir Reginald	Zulu Battle Piece:Isandhlwana	London-	1991	USD 35.00 - 40.00	Not Sold
92	Watkins-Pitchford,H	Besieged In Ladysmith	Pietermaritzburg	1964	USD 35.00 - 40.00	Not Sold
93	Bennett,Ian	Eyewitness in Zululand	London-	1989	USD 45.00 - 50.00	30.00
94	Uys,Ian	Heidelbergers of the Boer War	Heidelberg	1981	USD 30.00 - 35.00	20.00
95	Becker,Peter	Rule of Fear	London-	1979	USD 30.00 - 33.00	Not Sold
96	Clark,Dr John	Natal Settler-Agent	Cape Town	1972	USD 60.00 - 65.00	53.00
97	Preston,Adrian(ed)	Sir Garnet Wolseley's South African Diaries(Natal) 1875	Cape Town	1971	USD 50.00 - 60.00	40.00
98	Gallop,Alan	Mr Stanley,I Presume?	Stroud	2004	USD 30.00 - 33.00	45.00
99	Tabler,E C	To the Victoria Falls via Matabeleland	Cape Town	1967	USD 35.00 - 40.00	50.00
100	Edgecombe,Ruth	The Constancy of Change:A History of Hlobane Colliery 1898-1	Vryheid	1998	USD 30.00 - 38.00	21.00
101	Parker,Vincent	The Atlas of the Birds of Sul Do Save,Southern Mozambique	Johannesburg	1999	USD 35.00 - 40.00	20.00
102	Smythies,Bertram E	The Birds of Borneo	Sabah	1981	USD 35.00 - 40.00	25.00

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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.

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Heritage, Dec. 15: F. Scott Fitzgerald. Tender is the Night. A Romance.

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Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript of "Three Fragments from Gˆtterd‰mmerung" by Richard Wagner. $30,000 - $50,000.

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