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Stephan Welz & Co.: Books, Fine Art Prints

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Auction Name Books, Fine Art Prints Total Sales (ZAR) 328,662.00
Auction Date November 26, 2019 - November 26, 2019 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (ZAR) 271,950.00
Sale Number #112319 High Estimate of Lots Sold (ZAR) 383,700.00
Total Lots 154
Sold Lots 74 Low Estimate of All Lots (ZAR) 429,850.00
% of Lots Sold 48.05% High Estimate of All Lots (ZAR) 612,400.00
Unsold Lots 80 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 53.67%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
508 William Joseph Kentridge (South African 1955 - )

TYPEWRITER

ZAR 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 ZAR 28,500.00
510 Jacob Hendrik Pierneef (South African 1886 - 1957)

STORM CLOUDS, SPRINGBOKVLAKTE

1928 ZAR 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 ZAR 27,360.00
512 Jacob Hendrik Pierneef (South African 1886 - 1957)

MIMOSA, NORTHERN TRANSVAAL

1928 ZAR 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 ZAR 27,360.00
511 Jacob Hendrik Pierneef (South African 1886 - 1957)

WILDE SERING, TVL

1928 ZAR 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 ZAR 25,080.00
313

NEWTONS NEW IMPROVED CELESTIAL GLOBE

1818 ZAR 25,000.00 - 45,000.00 ZAR 22,800.00
509 Jacob Hendrik Pierneef (South African 1886 - 1957)

HUIS IN AAND

1928 ZAR 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 ZAR 22,800.00
546 Salvador Dali (Spanish 1904 - 1989)

UNIVERSAL MAN

ZAR 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 ZAR 13,680.00
513 Norman Clive Catherine (South African 1949 - )

CONSULTATION

1992 ZAR 12,000.00 - 16,000.00 ZAR 12,540.00
514 Norman Clive Catherine (South African 1949 - )

PING PONG

1993 ZAR 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 ZAR 11,970.00
159 Fleming, Ian

YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE (SECOND STATE), GOLDFINGER, FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE, THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN, REPRINTS: ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE, CASINO ROYALE, DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER

1957-69. ZAR 2,000.00 - 2,400.00 ZAR 7,410.00
130 Beardsley, Aubrey

ILLUSTRATIONS TO SALOME

1904 ZAR 9,000.00 - 12,000.00 ZAR 6,840.00
234 Various Authors

ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA (35 VOLS WITH PUBLISHER'S CUSTOM BUILT CASE)

1875-1902 ZAR 9,000.00 - 12,000.00 ZAR 6,840.00
468 Jean-Pierre Yvaral (French 1934 - 2002)

QUADRATURE

ZAR 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 ZAR 6,840.00
470 Karel Anthony Nel (South African 1955 - )

IN-TACT

1986 ZAR 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 ZAR 6,840.00
435 Jean Max Friedrich Welz (South African 1900 - 1975)

JEAN WELZ 1975, PORTFOLIO

1975 ZAR 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 ZAR 5,700.00
434 Gregoire Johannes Boonzaier (South African 1909 - 2005)

TOWN SQUARE and STREET SCENE, MALAY QUARTER

1979 ZAR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 ZAR 5,130.00
236 Various Authors

DIRECTOR'S COLLECTION (4 VOLS. AND 3 PORTFOLIOS OF PRINTS)

1989-1993 ZAR 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 ZAR 4,560.00
490 Gregoire Johannes Boonzaier (South African 1909 - 2005)

MAN ON A DONKEY WAGON, TOWN SQUARE and OLD TOWN ROAD

1978 and 1979 ZAR 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 ZAR 4,332.00
491 Gregoire Johannes Boonzaier (South African 1909 - 2005)

TREES AND MOUNTAINS and HOUSES BETWEEN TREES,

1978 ZAR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 ZAR 3,990.00
492 Gregoire Johannes Boonzaier (South African 1909 - 2005)

SUNFLOWERS and TREE IN THE VELD

1978 ZAR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 ZAR 3,876.00
200 Palmer, Eve and Pitman, Norah

TREES OF SOUTHERN AFRICA COVERING ALL KNOWN INDIGENOUS SPECIES IN THE REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA, SOUTHWEST AFRICA, BOTSWANA, LESOTHO & SWAZILAND (3 VOLUMES)

1972 ZAR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 ZAR 3,648.00
432 Gregoire Johannes Boonzaier (South African 1909 - 2005)

STREET SCENE and BUSY MORNING DISTRICT SIX

ZAR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 ZAR 3,648.00
127 Ballen, Roger

PLATTELAND: IMAGES FROM RURAL SOUTH AFRICA

1994 ZAR 3,000.00 - 3,500.00 ZAR 3,420.00
137 Bisset, Major General, C. B.

SPORT AND WAR, OR RECOLLECTIONS OF FIGHTING AND HUNTING IN SOUTH AFRICA FROM THE YEARS 1834 TO 1867

ZAR 3,500.00 - 4,500.00 ZAR 3,192.00
132 Beardsley, Aubrey

A BOOK OF FIFTY DRAWING, AND A SECOND BOOK OF FIFTY DRAWINGS

1897-1899 ZAR 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 ZAR 2,964.00
  • 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.
  • 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
    Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    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
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell to Arms. First Edition, First Printing. 4,200 USD
  • 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.
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