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November 21, 2024 - November 21, 2024
Page Size: 442 items in 18 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
351 Brooks, Henry (author), and R. J. Mann (editor)

Natal; a History and Description of the Colony

London 1876 USD 150.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
352 Donaldson, Ken (editor and publisher)

Donaldson's South African Motor Routes 1924. Compiled for the Guidance of Motorists

Cape Town 1924 USD 100.00 - 100.00 USD 46.00
353 Musa B. Zimunya, Mary Fourie

1.) ZIMBABWE TAPESTRY and other poems (1963) - Signed 2.) MOPANI POETS vols 3 & 4 - Inscribed by Musa Zimunya to Faustin Charles

1963 & 1979 USD 60.00 - 60.00 Not Sold
354 Genl. Jan Smuts

DINNER MENU FOR A BANQUET GIVEN IN HONOUR OF GENERAL JAN SMUTS (1940) & UNVEILING OF GREY HIGH SCHOOL WAR MEMORIAL BY SMUTS (1948)

1940 & 1948 USD 90.00 - 90.00 Not Sold
355 Sulivan, Captain G. L.

Dhow Chasing in Zanzibar Waters and on the Eastern Coast of Africa.

London 1873 USD 250.00 - 75.00 USD 302.45
356 Delville Wood

South African Memorial Delville Wood (1914 -1916)

1926 USD 55.00 - 55.00 Not Sold
357 Office of The State Secretary Pretoria - possibly F.W.REITZ

HAND ADDRESSED STAMPED ENVELOPE ADDRESSED TO PAUL KRUGER IN 1899 FROM THE STATE SECRETARY'S OFFICE (LIKELY BYF.W.REITZ)

Pretoria 1899 USD 70.00 - 90.00 USD 85.10
358 Anton van Wouw

ANTON VAN WOUW - AUTOGRAPH LETTER

Not dated USD 120.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
359 Lub, J

IN EN OM DIE GOUDSTAD & HET ZWARTE GEVAAR

Pretoria Kaapstad Johannesburg USD 55.00 - 55.00 Not Sold
360 Barbara Buchanan & Alan F. Hattersley

PIONEER DAYS IN NATAL & THE STORY OF NATAL - PORTRAIT OF A COLONY

USD 55.00 - 55.00 USD 46.00
361 A. J. P. Opperman

THE BATTLE OF BLOOD RIVER (1982)

Roodepoort 1982 USD 60.00 - 60.00 USD 46.00
362 A.A. Cooper & D.E.G. Vieter

A CENTURY OF BROTHERHOOD 1895-1995

1995 USD 55.00 - 55.00 Not Sold
363 William Davis Robinson

Memoirs of the Mexican Revolution, Including a Narrative of the Expedition of General Xavier Mina (2 Vols.)

London 1821 USD 160.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
364 Various Authors

Lot of 3 German Books (Published 1840-1855)

Various 1840-1855 USD 75.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
365 Hrvoje Ostojic

Krugovi (Limited Edition, Inscribed by Author, with Typed Poem)

Johannesburg 1960 USD 150.00 - 185.00 Not Sold
366 Percy Bysshe Shelley

The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (Published 1829)

Paris 1829 USD 60.00 - 75.00 USD 57.50
367 Francois-Emmanuel D'Emskerque Toulongeon

Manuel du Museum Francais (Published 1803)

Paris & Strasbourg 1803 USD 60.00 - 75.00 Not Sold
368 Major N. N. E. Bray

A Paladin of Arabia: The Biography of Brevet Lieut.-Colonel G. E. Leachman of the Royal Sussex Regiment

London 1936 USD 65.00 - 80.00 USD 63.25
369 John Taylor ("Pondoro")

Big Game and Big Game Rifles

London 1948 USD 75.00 - 90.00 USD 74.75
370 Lawrence G. Green

Like Diamond Blazing

London 1967 USD 55.00 - 70.00 USD 123.05
371 Archibald R. Colquhoun

The Renascence of South Africa (Published 1900)

London 1900 USD 120.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
372 Author not Indicated

The Jews' Who's Who: Israelite Finance, Its Sinister Influence (Published 1921)

London 1921 USD 700.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
373 N. G. Dufief

Nature Displayed in her Mode of Teaching Language to Man (Published 1823)

London 1823 USD 200.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
374 Michael Symes

An Account of an Embassy to the Kingdom of Ava (First Edition, Published 1800)

London 1800 USD 1,800.00 - 2,000.00 Not Sold
375 South African Railways

THE 1947 ROYAL VISIT TO THE UNION OF SOUTH AFRICA (1947) - endpapers specially designed by J. H. PIERNEEF for this publication

Pretoria 1947 USD 140.00 - 140.00 USD 115.00
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