AntiquarianAuctions.com: Antiquarian Book Auction, 126, Constantia

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Auction Date: October 02, 2025 - October 02, 2025

Page Size: 293 items in 12 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1	Verhoeff (Pieter Willemszoon)	INDIAE ORIENTALIS PARS IX. HISTORICAM DESCRIPTIONEM	Frankfurt	1612	USD 4,000.00 - 5,000.00	Not Sold
2	Leo Africanus (Johannes)	DE TOTIUS AFRICAE DESCRIPTIONE LIBRI IX (1559)	Tiguri	1559	USD 1,000.00 - 1,250.00	Not Sold
3	Camoens (Luis de)	THE LUSIAD; OR THE DISCOVERY OF INDIA. AN EPIC POEM	London	1776	USD 350.00 - 450.00	Not Sold
4	Heylyn (Peter)	COSMOGRAPHIE, IN FOUR BOOKS. CONTAINING THE CHOROGRAPHIE AND HISTORIE OF THE WHOLE WORLD	London	1666	USD 600.00 - 700.00	Not Sold
5	Kolbe (Peter)	NAAUKEURIGE EN UITVOERIGE BESCHRYVING VAN DE KAAP DE GOEDE HOOP	Amsterdam	1727	USD 3,000.00 - 3,500.00	Not Sold
6	[Kolbe (Peter)]	NIEUWE ALGEMENE BESCHRYVING VAN DIE KAAP DE GOEDE HOOP			USD 1,250.00 - 1,500.00	Not Sold
7	Schouten (Wouter)	OOST-INDISCHE VOYAGIE	Amsterdam	1676	USD 1,300.00 - 1,600.00	Not Sold
8	Tirion (Isaak)	HEDENDAAGSCHE HISTORIE OF TEGENWOORDIGE STAAT VAN AFRIKA	Amsterdam	1763	USD 150.00 - 150.00	USD 115.00
9	Harris (William Cornwallis)	PORTRAITS OF THE GAME AND WILD ANIMALS OF SOUTHERN AFRICA	London	1840	USD 8,500.00 - 9,500.00	Not Sold
10	Ovington (John)	A VOYAGE TO SURATT, IN THE YEAR, 1689	London	1696	USD 2,250.00 - 2,500.00	USD 2,777.25
11	Van der Post (Laurens)	IN A PROVINCE - AND TWO OTHER IMPORTANT LAURENS VAN DER POST INSCRIBED ASSOCIATION COPIES	London	1934 - 1955	USD 3,000.00 - 3,000.00	Not Sold
12	One Who Has Visited The Fields	THE DIAMOND FIELDS OF SOUTH AFRICA; with Notes of Journey there and Homeward, & some things about Diamonds and other Jewels (1872)	New York	1872	USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	Not Sold
13	Worsfold (W. Basil)	THE UNION OF SOUTH AFRICA (1912) (Presentation copy)	London	1912	USD 500.00 - 700.00	USD 517.50
14	Bell (Frederick William)	THE SOUTH AFRICAN CONSPIRACY; OR, THE AIMS OF AFRIKANERDOM (1900) (Presentation copy)	London	1900	USD 400.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
15	Moorcraft (Paul L.)	CONTACT II : Struggle for Peace (1981) - LIMITED COLLECTORS' EDITION bound in ELEPHANT HIDE & with several IMPORTANT SIGNATURES	Johannesburg	1981	USD 1,500.00 - 1,500.00	USD 1,569.75
16	"A Planter" (attributed to Richard Wade Jenkins).	SPORT IN CEYLON	Colombo, Ceylon (Sri Lanka)	1888	USD 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
17	Boerhaave (Herman)	INDEX ALTER PLANTARUM QUAE IN HORTO ACADEMICO LUGDUNO-BATAVO ALUNTUR	Amsterdam	1727	USD 1,250.00 - 1,500.00	Not Sold
18	Tournefort (Joseph Pitton de)	INSTITUTIONES REI HERBARIAE	Paris	1700	USD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00	Not Sold
19	Carter (George)	A NARRATIVE OF THE LOSS OF THE GROSVENOR	London	1791	USD 300.00 - 350.00	USD 362.25
20	Bosman (Willem)	A NEW AND ACCURATE DESCRIPTION OF THE COAST OF GUINEA,	London	1721	USD 300.00 - 350.00	USD 332.35
21	Barrow (John)	TRAVELS INTO THE INTERIOR OF SOUTHERN AFRICA	London	1806	USD 700.00 - 800.00	USD 690.00
22	Reunert (Theodore)	DIAMONDS AND GOLD IN SOUTH AFRICA (1893)	London, Cape Town, Port Elizabeth and Johannesburg	1893	USD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00	Not Sold
23	Von Herausgegeben (Uli); Bahmann (Anka)	NAMIBIA - A MAGICAL WORLD OF PRECIOUS STONES AND CRYSTALS (2001)	Haltern	2001	USD 600.00 - 900.00	Not Sold
24	[edited by Dennis Edwards & Co.]	THE GOLD FIELDS OF SOUTH AFRICA (1890)			USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	Not Sold
25	Treue (Wilhelm)	THE HISTORY OF THE OTAVI MINING LTD. (1900--2000)	Eschborn	2000	USD 500.00 - 600.00	USD 460.00

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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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.
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.