AntiquarianAuctions.com: Rare Books - online 4/11, 114, Constantia

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Auction Date
April 18, 2024 - April 18, 2024
Page Size: 411 items in 17 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
351 Douglas Blackburn

A BURGHER QUIXOTE (1903) - inscribed by the author

Edinburgh and London 1903 USD 130.00 - 130.00 Not Sold
352 Mursalo, T A

IN SEARCH OF A BETTER LIFE - A Story of Croatian Settlers in Southern Africa

1981 USD 55.00 - 55.00 Not Sold
353 Campbell (Rev. Dr.)

RAMBLES IN SOUTH AFRICA - THE CAPE, NATAL & TRANSVAAL

Marshall 1891 USD 65.00 - 65.00 Not Sold
354 Sylvia BEACH (1887-1962)

Shakespeare and Company

New York 1959 USD 120.00 - 180.00 USD 93.15
355 Martinus Theunis Steyn

CHEQUE SIGNED BY THE SIXTH & LAST PRESIDENT OF THE LAST PRESIDENT OF THE ORANGE FREE STATE REPUBLIC

USD 120.00 - 120.00 Not Sold
356 Botha, Graham

COLLECTION OF GRAHAM BOTHA PUBLICATIONS

USD 100.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
357 [Daniel Defoe] Written by Himself.

The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

Holborn Hill ca. 1840s USD 280.00 - 320.00 Not Sold
358 Hall, A.L.

THE GEOLOGY OF THE BARBERTON GOLD MINING DISTRICT

Pretoria 1918 USD 55.00 - 55.00 Not Sold
359 Hloben, Paul

STEAM ENCOUNTERS

Bryanston 2011 USD 55.00 - 55.00 Not Sold
360 William Shakespeare, L. I. Coertze (trans.), Maud Sumner (illustr.)

HAMLET PRINS VAN DENEMARKE (1945) - first Afrikaans translation of Shakespeare's HAMLET with 6 illustrations by Maud Sumner

Kaapstad 1945 USD 60.00 - 60.00 Not Sold
361 Q. Horatii Flacci (Horace), The Rev. Mr. Hurd (ed.)

EPISTOLAE AD PISONES, ET AUGUSTUM (1776) - with an English commentary and notes

The Strand & Cambridge 1776 USD 70.00 - 70.00 Not Sold
362 Obholzer (A.M.), Baraitser (M.) & Malherbe (W.D.)

THE CAPE HOUSE AND ITS INTERIOR

Stellembosch 1985 USD 120.00 - 120.00 Not Sold
363 H. C. V. Leibbrandt (Keeper of the Archives)

PRECIS OF THE ARCHIVES OF THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. REQUESTEN (Memorials) 1715-1806.

Cape Town 1905 & 1906 USD 75.00 - 75.00 Not Sold
364 Baines (Thomas)

THE GOLD REGIONS OF SOUTH EAST AFRICA

London 1877 USD 220.00 - 220.00 Not Sold
365 Pearse (Henry H.S.) Editor:

THE HISTORY OF LUMSDEN'S HORSE (Presentation Copy)

London 1903 USD 250.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
366 Baines (Thomas)

EXPLORATIONS IN SOUTH-WEST AFRICA

London 1864 USD 450.00 - 450.00 Not Sold
367 Ridsdale (Benjamin)

SCENES AND ADVENTURES IN GREAT NAMAQUALAND

London 1883 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 230.00
368 J. R. F. Handley

HISTORIC OVERVIEW OF THE WITWATERSRAND GOLDFIELDS - LIMITED EDITION SIGNED

Howick 2004 USD 60.00 - 60.00 Not Sold
369 Anna Smith

JOHANNESBURG STREET NAMES

Cape Town 1971 USD 85.00 - 85.00 Not Sold
370 Michael Charles Reidy

The Admission of Slaves and 'Prize Slaves' Into the Cape Colony, 1797-1818

N/A 1997 USD 65.00 - 75.00 Not Sold
371 J. Tyrwhitt, et al.

The Heart of the City: Towards the Humanisation of Urban Life

London 1952 USD 80.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
372 Elizabeth Nel

Mr. Churchill's Secretary (First Edition, Inscribed by Author, With Handwritten Card and Newspaper Clippings)

London 1958 USD 180.00 - 250.00 USD 193.20
373 Roald Dahl

The Gremlins, from the Walt Disney Production: A Royal Air Force Story (Author's First Book)

London 1943 USD 450.00 - 550.00 Not Sold
374 Vladimir Jabotinsky

Samson the Nazarite (First English Edition, 1930)

London 1930 USD 80.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
375 Anthony Buckeridge

Jennings' Little Hut (First Edition, 1951)

London 1951 USD 75.00 - 90.00 Not Sold
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