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Auction Name Antiquarian Book Sale - bidstart 4/13 Total Sales (USD) 20,401.00
Auction Date April 20, 2023 - April 20, 2023 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 18,820.00
Sale Number #106 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 21,860.00
Total Lots 383
Sold Lots 88.0 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 87,655.00
% of Lots Sold 22.98% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 99,784.00
Unsold Lots 295 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 20.45%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
7 Rose Deep Limited

CHINESE LABOUR - RECORD OF SERVICE

1906 USD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 USD 2,415.00
3 Political History.

COLLECTION OF POSTERS.

USD 2,500.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,300.00
5 Jessen (Burchard Heinrich)

W. N. MCMILLAN'S EXPEDITIONS AND BIG GAME HUNTING IN SUDAN, ABYSSINIA & BRITISH EAST AFRICA

1906 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 1,150.00
317 Foran, Major W. Robert

Kill: Or Be Killed (1st edition in original binding)

1933 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 1,147.70
10 Roberts (Dr. Austin)

THE BIRDS OF SOUTH AFRICA (Subscribers' Edition signed by the author and artist)

1940 USD 700.00 - 800.00 USD 985.55
246 South Africa.

DEBATES OF THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY – Hansard (Signed by Mandela)

1994 USD 150.00 - 200.00 USD 631.35
374 Robert Harris

SOUTH AFRICA - illustrated by a Series of one hundred and four permanent Photographs (1888)

1888 USD 600.00 - 600.00 USD 603.75
14 Reed Massengill, & Ken Furtado. (Ed. Dian Hanson)

QUAINTANCE

2010 USD 800.00 - 800.00 USD 575.00
209 Botha, Louis

Boer delegate (Coenraad Birkenstock) Vereeniging Peace Treaty Pass - Signed by General Louis Botha

1902 USD 120.00 - 120.00 USD 555.45
76 Stein (Marc Aurel)

RUINS OF DESERT CATHAY

1912 USD 400.00 - 500.00 USD 402.50
81 South Africa.

Constitutional Assembly. CONSTITUTION OF THE REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA BILL,1996 (Signed)

1993 USD 200.00 - 250.00 USD 379.50
177 H.C.M. Austen

SEA FIGHTS AND CORSAIRS OF THE INDIAN OCEAN

1934 USD 350.00 - 350.00 USD 350.75
256 Graham (Maria)

JOURNAL OF A RESIDENCE IN INDIA

USD 400.00 - 500.00 USD 345.00
157 Captain James Wilson

A MISSIONARY VOYAGE TO THE SOUTHERN PACIFIC OCEAN PERFORMED IN THE YEARS 1796, 1797, 1798 IN THE SHIP DUFF

1799 USD 500.00 - 550.00 USD 302.45
365 Nyasaland (Malawi)

3 x NYASALAND PROTECTORATE BLUE BOOKS for the Years 1913, 1922 & 1924

1924 USD 300.00 - 300.00 USD 287.50
290 Rhodesiana

SPECIAL REPORT of THE RHODESIA BROKEN HILL DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, LIMITED. (1927)

1927 USD 450.00 - 450.00 USD 253.00
72 Huish (Robert)

THE TRAVELS OF RICHARD AND JOHN LANDER,

1836 USD 250.00 - 300.00 USD 230.00
111 Henry H. Methuen

LIFE IN THE WILDERNESS; OR, WANDERINGS IN SOUTH AFRICA (1846)

1846 USD 240.00 - 240.00 USD 230.00
118 Walter H. Wills & J. Hall (editors)

Bulawayo Up-To-Date. Being a general sketch of Rhodesia (1899)

1899 USD 250.00 - 250.00 USD 230.00
275 Brown, Robert

THE STORY OF AFRICA AND ITS EXPLORERS - 4 VOLUMES

1892 - 1895 USD 125.00 - 125.00 USD 211.60
289 Rhodesiana

WANKIE COLLIERY

1930 USD 350.00 - 350.00 USD 201.25
320 HEWETT, Sir John Prescott (1854-1941)

Jungle Trails in Northern India

1938 USD 150.00 - 250.00 USD 190.90
95 Gargett (Valerie)

THE BLACK EAGLE (Collector's Edition signed by the author)

1990 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 181.70
113 Alan George Sumner Gibson (1856 - 1922)

BETWEEN CAPE TOWN AND LOANDA - A Record of Two Journeys in South West Africa (1905)

1905 USD 180.00 - 180.00 USD 181.70
134 Sampson

THE WHITE-FACED HUTS - Witchcraft in the Transkei

1969 USD 65.00 - 65.00 USD 181.70
  • Sotheby’s
    Year in Review
    Sotheby’s Year in Review: A Rare Hebrew Bible with Micrographic Masorah. Sold: 1,514,000 USD
    Sotheby’s Year in Review: "The Freedman's Primer.” Sold: 241,300 USD
    Sotheby’s Year in Review: Smith, William. "The Map that Changed the World." Sold: 139,700 USD
    Sotheby’s Year in Review: Psalter, C13th. Illuminated Psalter. Sold: 330,200 GBP
    Sotheby’s Year in Review: Lincoln, Abraham. The abolition of slavery. Sold: 13,697,500 USD
    Sotheby’s Year in Review: Vergilius. Opera, Venice, Aldo Manuzio, 1501. Sold: 1,041,400 USD
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