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Stephan Welz & Co.: Online Fine Art and Book Sale - Bidstart 5/16

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Auction Name Online Fine Art and Book Sale - Bidstart 5/16 Total Sales (ZAR) 92,967.00
Auction Date May 23, 2019 - May 23, 2019 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (ZAR) 76,500.00
Sale Number #52319 High Estimate of Lots Sold (ZAR) 110,900.00
Total Lots 235
Sold Lots 81 Low Estimate of All Lots (ZAR) 462,650.00
% of Lots Sold 34.47% High Estimate of All Lots (ZAR) 675,650.00
Unsold Lots 154 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 13.76%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
6 Bettie Cilliers-Barnard (South African 1914 - 2010)

SYMBOLES

ZAR 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 ZAR 9,120.00
249 Mandela, Nelson

LONG WALK TO FREEDOM, SIGNED

1994 ZAR 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 ZAR 9,120.00
301 Harmsen, F.

MAUD SUMNER - PAINTER AND POET

1992 ZAR 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 ZAR 9,120.00
220 Various

DONALD GREIG - SCULPTURE, SIGNED

2005 ZAR 300.00 - 400.00 ZAR 4,332.00
341 Williamson, S.

SOUTH AFRICAN ART NOW

2009 ZAR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 ZAR 4,332.00
73 Pieter van der Westhuizen (South African 1931 - 2008)

HUH!

ZAR 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 ZAR 3,420.00
168 Schoonraad, M. and Duminy, P. (compilers)

BATTISS 75

1981 ZAR 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 ZAR 2,850.00
277 Nel, P. G. (editor)

JH PIERNEEF - HIS LIFE AND WORK

1990 ZAR 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 ZAR 2,850.00
109 Max Pollak (Austrian/Chech 1886 - 1970)

KITTY DARLING

ZAR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 ZAR 2,280.00
110 Marianne Podlashuc (South Africa 1932 - 2004)

TWO FIGURES ON STAIRS

ZAR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 ZAR 2,280.00
204 de Jager, E. J.

IMAGES OF MAN - CONTEMPORARY SOUTH AFRICAN BLACK ART AND THE ARTISTS

1992 ZAR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 ZAR 2,280.00
169 Various

WALTER BATTISS: INVENTED MYSELF, BATTISS'S SCREENPRINTS and WALTER BATTISS: CATALOGUES, three in the lot

ZAR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 ZAR 1,824.00
37 Alice Goldin (South African 1925 - 2016)

AFTER SUNSET

1983 ZAR 1,500.00 - 2,200.00 ZAR 1,710.00
98 Hendrik Christiaan Niemann (South African 1941 - )

BLUE CLOWN

2017 ZAR 1,500.00 - 2,200.00 ZAR 1,710.00
218 Various

CAPE COUNTRY FURNITURE and CAPE ANTIQUE FURNITURE, two in the lot

ZAR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 ZAR 1,368.00
103 Tinus de Jongh (South African 1885 - 1942)

BERGVLIET AVENUE

ZAR 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 ZAR 1,140.00
188 Catherine, N. and Mackay, R.

NORMAN CATHERINE - LAST LETTERS FROM THE WILDERNESS

1978 ZAR 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 ZAR 1,140.00
196 Coetzer, W.H.

WH COETZER - 80, SIGNED

1980 ZAR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 ZAR 1,140.00
203 Weckesser, P. F.

GABRIEL DE JONGH - 6 APRIL 1913 - 11 MARCH 2004

2008 ZAR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 ZAR 1,140.00
222 Harrs, H.

HANNES HARRS - THREE BAKUBA COLLAGES

2000 ZAR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 ZAR 1,140.00
302 Eglington, C.

MAUD SUMNER

1973 ZAR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 ZAR 1,140.00
239 Magubane, P.

MAN OF THE PEOPLE - A PHOTOGRAPHIC TRIBUTE TO NELSON MANDELA, SIGNED

2008 ZAR 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 ZAR 1,083.00
167 Schoonraad, M. and Schoonraad, E.

BATTISS IN THE HADHRUMUT - SKETCHES OF SOUTHERN ARABIA

1981 ZAR 900.00 - 1,200.00 ZAR 1,026.00
208 Bull, M.

ABRAHAM DE SMIDT - 1829-1908 - ARTIST AND SURVEYOR-GENERAL OF THE CAPE COLONY

1981 ZAR 500.00 - 800.00 ZAR 969.00
299 Arnold, M.

IRMA STERN - A FEAST FOR THE EYE

1995 ZAR 800.00 - 1,000.00 ZAR 969.00
  • Doyle, May 1: Thomas Jefferson expresses fears of "a war of extermination" in Saint-Dominigue. $40,000 to $60,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An exceptional presentation copy of Fitzgerald's last book, in the first issue dust jacket. $25,000 to $35,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The rare first signed edition of Dorian Gray. $15,000 to $25,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The Prayer Book of Jehan Bernachier. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Doyle, May 1: Van Dyck's Icones Principum Virorum Doctorum. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The magnificent Cranach Hamlet in the deluxe binding by Dõrfner. $7,000 to $10,000.
    Doyle, May 1: A remarkable unpublished manuscript of a voyage to South America in 1759-1764. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Doyle, May 1: Bouchette's monumental and rare wall map of Lower Canada. $12,000 to $18,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An rare original 1837 abolitionist woodblock. $8,000 to $12,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An important manuscript breviary in Middle Dutch. $15,000 to $25,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An extraordinary Old Testament manuscript, circa 1250. $20,000 to $30,000.
  • Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Piccolomini's De La Sfera del Mondo (The Sphere of the World), 1540.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Vellutello's Commentary on Petrarch, With Map, 1525.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Finely Bound Definitive, Illustrated Edition of I Promessi Sposi, 1840.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Rare First Edition of John Milton's Latin Correspondence, 1674.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Giolito's Edition of Boccaccio's The Decamerone, with Bedford Binding, 1542.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of the First Biography of Marie of the Incarnation, with Rare Portrait, 1677.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Aldine Edition of Volume One of Cicero's Orationes, 1540.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Bonanni's Illustrated Costume Catalogue, with Complete Plates, 1711.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: An Important Incunable, the First Italian Edition of Josephus's De Bello Judaico, 1480.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Jacques Philippe d'Orville's Illustrated Book of the Ruins of Sicily, 1764.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: An Incunable from 1487, The Contemplative Life, with Early Manuscript.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Ignatius of Loyola's Exercitia Spiritualia, 1563.
  • Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 546. Christoph Jacob Trew. Plantae selectae, 1750-1773.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 70. Thomas Murner. Die Narren beschwerung. 1558.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 621. Michael Bernhard Valentini. Museum Museorum, 1714.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 545. Sander Reichenbachia. Orchids illustrated and described, 1888-1894.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1018. Marinetti, Boccioni, Pratella Futurism - Comprehensive collection of 35 Futurist manifestos, some of them exceptionally rare. 1909-1933.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 634. August Johann Rösel von Rosenhof. 3 Original Drawings, around 1740.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 671. Jacob / Picasso. Chronique des Temps, 1956.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1260. Mary Webb. Sarn. 1948. Lucie Weill Art Deco Binding.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 508. Felix Bonfils. 108 large-format photographs of Syria and Palestine.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 967. Dante Aligheri and Salvador Dali. Divina Commedia, 1963.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1316. Tolouse-Lautrec. Dessinateur. Duhayon binding, 1948.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1303. Regards sur Paris. Braque, Picasso, Masson, 1962.
  • Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: McCarthy (Cormac). Cities of the Plain, N.Y., 1998, First Edn., signed on hf. title; together with Uncorrected Proof and Uncorrected Advance Reading Copies, both signed by the Author. €800 to €1,000.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Stanihurst (Richard). De Rebus in Hibernia Gestis, Libri Quattuor, sm. 4to Antwerp (Christi. Plantium) 1584. First Edn. €525 to €750.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Fleischer (Nat.) Jack Dempsey The Idol of Fistiana, An Intimate Narrative, N.Y., 1929, First Edn. Signed on f.e.p. by Rocky Marciano. €400 to €600.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Smith - Classical Atlas, Lond., 1820. Bound with, Smiths New General Atlas .. Principal Empires, Kingdoms, & States throughout the World, Lond. 1822. €350 to €500.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Rare Auction Catalogues – 1856: Bindon Blood, of Ennis, Co. Clare: Sotheby & Wilkinson. €320 to €450.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: [Mavor (Wm.)] A General Collection of Voyages and Travels from the Discovery of America to the Commencement of the Nineteenth Century, 28 vols. (complete) Lond., 1810. €300 to €400.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Mc Carthy (Cormac). Outer Dark, N.Y. (Random House)1968, Signed by Mc Carthy. €250 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Three signed works by Ted Huges - Wodwo, 1967; Crow from the Life and Songs of the Crow, 1970; and Tales from Ovid, 1997. €200 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: The Garden. An Illustrated Weekly Journal of Horticulture in all its Branches, 7 vols. lg. 4to Lond. 1877-1880. With 127 colored plates. €200 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Procter (Richard A.) Saturn and its System: Containing Discussions of The Motion (Real and Apparent)…, Lond. 1865. First Edn. €160 to €220.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: [Ashe] St. George, Lord Bishop of Clogher, A Sermon Preached to the Protestants of Ireland, now in London,... Oct. 23, 1712, London 1712. Second Edn. €130 to €180.
  • Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Winston Churchill. The Second World War. Set of First-Edition Volumes. 6,000 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: A.A. Milne, Ernest H. Shepard. A Collection of The Pooh Books. Set of First-Editions. 18,600 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Salvador Dalí, Lewis Carroll. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Finely Bound and Signed Limited Edition. 15,000 USD
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    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ian Fleming. Live and Let Die. First Edition. 9,500 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter Series. Finely Bound First Printing Set of Complete Series. 5,650 USD
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