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
204 WOLLASTON A F R From Ruwenzori to the Congo London

1908

USD 150.00 - 200.00 174.00
205 1820 Settlers' Association South Africa - a Country in which to Live Cape Town

1936

USD 20.00 - 30.00 Not Sold
206 SAR & H South Africa - The Golden Land London

1935

USD 20.00 - 40.00 Not Sold
207 Iris Murdoch The Bell (Signed) London

1958

USD 500.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
208 Dodsley, R. Select Fables Of Esop And Other Fabulists London

1789

USD 200.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
209 Seccombe, Major Army And Navy Drolleries London

1876

USD 400.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
210 [Dickens, Charles] The Tuggs's At Ramsgate And Other Sketches Philadelphia

1837

USD 600.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
211 Newton, Isaac The Chronology Of Ancient Kingdoms London

1728

USD 200.00 - 2,500.00 Not Sold
212 anon The Holy Bible Containing The Old And New Testaments Translated Out Of The Orig Cambridge

1796

USD 500.00 - 700.00 Not Sold
213 Johnson, Samuel A Dictionary Of The English Language London

1785

USD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 Not Sold
214 Pushkin, Alexander The Golden Cockerel -Edmund Dulac NY

1950

USD 175.00 - 200.00 110.00
215 Mitchell, A. Mitchell's New General Atlas Philadelphia

1866

USD 1,800.00 - 2,000.00 Not Sold
216 Freeman, Leila Crocheron Nip and Tuck NY

1926

USD 125.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
217 Fitzpatrick, Sir Percy Jock of the Bushveld London

1907

USD 550.00 - 550.00 289.00
218 Dickens, Charles Martin Chuzzlewit London

1868

USD 150.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
219 Ruark, Robert C. Horn of the Hunter London

1954

USD 100.00 - 100.00 37.00
220 Manington, George A Soldier of the Legion London

1907

USD 150.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
221 Morris, Alice Talwin Old Friends & New Fables London

1916

USD 150.00 - 175.00 Not Sold
222 Malte-Brun, M. A System Of Universal Geography Boston

1834

USD 800.00 - 1,000.00 575.00
223 Southey, Robert The Poetical Works Of Robert Southey London

1817

USD 2,500.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
224 Butler, Alban Lives Of The Fathers, Martyrs And Other Principal Saints London & Dublin

1870

USD 850.00 - 1,000.00 Not Sold
225 Strickland, Agnes Lives Of The Queens Of England London & Dublin

1869

USD 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
226 Tolkein, J.R.R. Lord of the Rings (3 volumes) London

1967 & 1968

USD 300.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
227 Logier, J.B. A System of The Science of Music and Practical Composition incidentally comprising what is usually understood by the term thorough bass London

1827

USD 900.00 - 900.00 Not Sold
228 Boldrewood, Rolf The Ghost Camp or The Avengers London

1902

USD 90.00 - 90.00 Not Sold
229 Drummond, Violet Hilda The Charming Taxi-Cab London

1967

USD 150.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
230 Warburton, Peter Egerton Colonel Journey Across the Western Interior of Australia London

1875

USD 1,800.00 - 1,800.00 Not Sold
231 Austin Roberts The Mammals of South Africa ( First 1951 )

May 1951

USD 500.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
232 Professor J. L. B. Smith The Sea Fishes of Southern Africa ( First 1949, Signed ) Cape Town

1949

USD 600.00 - 600.00 300.00
233 Professor J. L. B. Smith The Sea Fishes of Southern Africa Cape Town

1970

USD 100.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
234 Margaret M Smith Smith's Sea Fishes ( First 1986 ) Johannesburg

1986

USD 200.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
235 Vivian F.M. Fitzsimon Snakes of Southern Africa ( First 1962 ) South Africa

1962

USD 60.00 - 60.00 40.00
236 Allister Macmillan The Red Book Of West Africa London.

1968

USD 80.00 - 80.00 Not Sold
237 R. E. Moreau The Bird Faunas of Africa and Its Islands ( First 1966 ) London.

1966

USD 120.00 - 120.00 Not Sold
238 A. C. Martin The Durban Light Infantry ( 2 vols ( First 1969 ) Durban

1969

USD 200.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
239 A. M. Pollock Pienaar of Alamein ( First 1943 ) Cape Town

1943

USD 45.00 - 45.00 32.00
240 Harry Klein Springboks in Armour ( First 1965 ) Cape Town

1965

USD 120.00 - 120.00 50.00
241 Fred Bridgland The War for Africa Gibraltar

1991

USD 60.00 - 60.00 42.00
242 C. J. Harris War At Sea Johannesburg

1991

USD 60.00 - 60.00 23.00
243 Oliver Warner The Glorius First of June (First 1961 ) London.

1961

USD 40.00 - 40.00 Not Sold
244 Christopher Hibbert Corunna ( First 1961 ) London.

1961

USD 40.00 - 40.00 Not Sold
245 Michael Edwardes The Battle of Plassey ( First 1963 ) London.

1963

USD 40.00 - 40.00 23.00
246 B. B. Schofield The Russian Convoys ( First 1964 ) London.

1964

USD 60.00 - 60.00 Not Sold
247 R Gordon Cumming A Hunter's Life in South Africa Johannesburg

1986

USD 50.00 - 50.00 25.00
248 D. Gifford Butterflies of Malawi ( First 1965 )

1965

USD 80.00 - 80.00 40.00
249 Major H. C. Maydon & Others Big Game Shooting in Africa London.

1951

USD 120.00 - 120.00 Not Sold
250 T. V. Bulpin The Hunter is Death ( First 1962 ) Cape Town

1962

USD 50.00 - 50.00 Not Sold
251 Professor J. L. B. Smith High Tide ( First 1968 ) Cape Town

1968

USD 40.00 - 40.00 Not Sold
252 Christopher Lloyd The Capture of Quebec ( First 1959 ) London.

1959

USD 40.00 - 40.00 Not Sold
253 T. H. McGuffie The Siege of Gibraltar ( First 1965 ) London.

1965

USD 40.00 - 40.00 Not Sold
254 Christopher Lloyd St Vincent & Camperdown ( First 1963 ) London.

1963

USD 40.00 - 40.00 Not Sold
255 Geoffrey Bennett The Battle of Jutland ( First 1964 ) London.

1964

USD 40.00 - 40.00 Not Sold
256 Oliver Warner Trafalgar London.

1961

USD 50.00 - 50.00 Not Sold
257 Geoffrey Bennett Coronel and The Falklands ( First 1962 ) London.

1962

USD 40.00 - 40.00 Not Sold
258 Donald Macintyre The Battle for the Mediterranean ( First 1964 ) London.

1964

USD 40.00 - 40.00 Not Sold
259 Werner Rauh Bromeliads For Home, Garden and Greenhouse Dorset

1979

USD 80.00 - 80.00 Not Sold
260 H. Jacobsen Succulent Plants ( First 1935 ) London.

1935

USD 60.00 - 60.00 Not Sold
261 John & Julie Batchelor In Stanley's Footsteps ( First 1990 ) London.

1990

USD 40.00 - 40.00 20.00
262 Robert D. Moeser U.S. Navy: Vietnam ( First 1969 ) Maryland USA

1969

USD 150.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
263 Barter, Charles The Dorp and the Veld; or, Six Months in Natal London

1852

USD 150.00 - 200.00 125.00
264 Baker, A.W. A South African Boy: Schoolboy Life in Natal, By Natalian London

1897

USD 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
265 Ingram, J.Forsyth The Story of an African Seaport. Being the History of the Port and Borough of Du Durban

1899

USD 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
266 Stalker, John, Ed. The Natal Carbineers. The History of the Regiment from Its Foundation, 15th Janu Pietermaritzburg

1912

USD 250.00 - 300.00 250.00
267 Rutherford, J. Sir George Grey, K.C.B., 1812-1898: a study in colonial government London

1961

USD 30.00 - 50.00 Not Sold
268 Davidson, Apollon & Filatova, Irina The Russians and the Anglo-Boer War, 1899-1902 Cape Town

1998

USD 30.00 - 40.00 Not Sold
269 Sandys, Celia Churchill wanted dead or alive London

1999

USD 30.00 - 40.00 25.00
270 Welsh, Frank A history of South Africa London

1998

USD 30.00 - 50.00 Not Sold
271 Prince Alfred The progress of his Royal Highness Prince Alfred Ernest Albert through the Cape Cape Town

1861

USD 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
272 Macmillan, Allister, compiler Durban past and present: historical, descriptive, commercial, industrial Durban

c. 1936

USD 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
273 Smurthwaite, David The Boer War, 1899-1902 London

1999

USD 35.00 - 50.00 Not Sold
274 Charles Chenevix Trench The Indian Army ( First 1988 ) London.

1988

USD 40.00 - 40.00 20.00
275 Michael Edwardes The Sahibs and the Lotus (First 1988 ) London.

1988

USD 70.00 - 70.00 Not Sold
276 Major-General J.G. Elliott The Frontier 1839-1947 ( First 1968 ) London.

1968

USD 40.00 - 40.00 20.00
277 Charles Chenevix Trench Viceroy's Agent ( First 1987 ) London.

1987

USD 40.00 - 40.00 Not Sold
278 Lt Col M A R Skinner Sworn To Die ( First 1984 ) New Delhi

1984

USD 100.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
279 C.H.T. MacFetridge and J.P. Warren Tales of the Mountain Gunners ( First 1973 ) Edinburgh

1973

USD 100.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
280 Ian Lyall Grant Burma: The Turning Point ( First 1993 ) Chichester, West Sussex

1993

USD 50.00 - 50.00 Not Sold
281 D.R. Forsyth The Medal Roll- South African War Medals 1877-1879 South Africa

1980

USD 400.00 - 400.00 284.00
282 Sonia Clarke Invasion of Zululand 1879 (First 1979 ) Johannesburg

1979

USD 350.00 - 350.00 200.00
283 Barbara Tyrrell Tribal Peoples of Southern Africa ( First 1968 ) Cape Town

1968

USD 60.00 - 60.00 Not Sold
284 J. L Smail With Sheild and Assegai ( First 1969 ) Cape Town

1969

USD 60.00 - 60.00 Not Sold
285 Sonia Clarke Zululand At War ( First 1984 ) SIGNED Johannesburg

1984

USD 200.00 - 200.00 158.00
286 Ralph Nevill British Military Prints London.

1909

USD 120.00 - 120.00 Not Sold
287 J. P. MacKinnon & S. H. Shadbolt The South African Campaign of 1879 London.

1973

USD 60.00 - 60.00 Not Sold
288 A. E. Haswell and N. P. Dawnay Military Drawings and Paintings in the Royal Collection london.

1966

USD 50.00 - 50.00 Not Sold
289 De LaCepede, M. Le Comte Histoire Naturelle Des Quadrupedes Ovipares, Serpents, Poissons Et Cetacees Paris

1825

USD 500.00 - 750.00 Not Sold
290 Sandburg, Carl Abraham Lincoln The War Years NY

1939

USD 600.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
291 Macaulay, T. Babington Essays, Critical And Miscellaneous Philadelphia

1850

USD 500.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
292 Vogel, Dr. E. Practical Pocket Book Of Photography London & Dublin

1903

USD 125.00 - 150.00 50.00
293 Woglom, Gilbert Totten Parakites NY

1896

USD 400.00 - 500.00 250.00
294 anon Bedtime Stories NY

1945

USD 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
295 Sutherland, Duchess Of (Editor) Wayfarer's Love Contributions From Living Poets Westminster

1904

USD 750.00 - 1,000.00 Not Sold
296 Franchere, Gabriel Journal Of A Voyage On The North West Coast Of North America During The Years 18 Toronto

1969

USD 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
297 Dubourdieu, John Statistical Survey Of The County Of Antrim Dublin

1812

USD 375.00 - 425.00 225.00
298 Jan Smuts Jan Smuts Poster 80th Birthday Wishes- RARE

USD 30.00 - 30.00 21.00
299 Liza Gillespie Innovative Threads- Fabric Art Cape Town

2006

USD 40.00 - 40.00 Not Sold
300 Larned, J.N. History Of Ready Reference Springfield

1894

USD 500.00 - 750.00 Not Sold
301 Clark, Hugh & Wormull, Thomas A Short and Easy Intrduction To Heraldry London & Dublin

1779

USD 150.00 - 200.00 84.00
302 Bradley, Cuthbert Fox-Hunting From Shire To Shire London & Dublin

1912

USD 125.00 - 175.00 Not Sold
303 Teaspoon SILVER GENTLEMAN IN KHAKI TEASPOON

USD 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
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