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Auction Date
November 13, 2025 - November 13, 2025
Page Size: 301 items in 13 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1 Leo Africanus (Johannes)

A GEOGRAPHICAL HISTORIE OF AFRICA

London 1600 USD 12,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 11,500.00
2 Dutch East India Company Ships Medical reports:

ZIEKTEN AAN BOORD DE UITVARENDE SCHEPEN NAAR INDIE 1774-1783

1791 USD 7,000.00 - 8,000.00 Not Sold
3 Crawford, A.B. (editor and publisher)

THE TRISTAN TIMES

Tristan da Cunha, South Atlantic Ocean 1943 USD 4,500.00 - 4,500.00 USD 1,725.00
4 Wright (The Rev. William)

SLAVERY AT THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE

London 1831 USD 900.00 - 1,000.00 Not Sold
5 [Colenso (Bishop John William ) Translator:]

IZENZO ZABAPOSTOLI ABANGCWELE [1858] - an original printing from Ekukhanyeni Mission Station, Natal

Natal [1858] USD 1,500.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,207.50
6 Kaempfer (Engelbert)

AMOENITATUM EXOTICARUM POLITICO-PHYSICO-MEDICARUM FASCICULI V,

Lemgoviae Lemgo 1712 USD 6,000.00 - 7,000.00 Not Sold
7 [BRINK, Carl Frederick]

NIEUWSTE EN BEKNOPTE BESCHRYVING VAN DE KAAP DER GOEDE-HOPE;

Amsterdam 1778 USD 1,800.00 - 2,200.00 USD 1,725.00
8 Barrow (John)

A VOYAGE TO COCHINCHINA IN THE YEARS 1792 & 1793:

London 1806 USD 1,250.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
9 Bouchenroeder (Baron B. F. Von)

REIZE IN DE BINNENLANDEN VAN ZUID-AFRIKA. GEDAAN IN DEN JARE 1803

Amsterdam & den Haag 1806 USD 700.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
10 Gray (Thomas)

ODES

Strawberry Hill / London 1757 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
11 Doyle (Arthur Conan)

THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES (1901-1902)

London 1901 & 1902 USD 750.00 - 750.00 Not Sold
12 De Launay (Louis)

THE DIAMONDS OF THE CAPE (1897)

Paris 1897 USD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
13 Sparrman (Anders)

A VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD

London 1944 USD 200.00 - 250.00 USD 230.00
14 Stavorinus (Johan Splinter)

REIZE VAN ZEELAND OVER DE KAAP DE GOEDE HOOP, NAAR BATAVIA, BANTAM, BENGALEN, ENZ

Leiden 1793 USD 500.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
15 Prior (James)

VOYAGE ALONG THE EASTERN COAST OF AFRICA, TO MOSAMBIQUE, JOHANNA, AND QUILOA; TO ST. HELENA

London 1819 USD 200.00 - 250.00 USD 172.50
16 Paterson (Lieutenant William)

A NARRATIVE OF FOUR JOURNEYS INTO THE COUNTRY OF THE HOTTENTOTS AND CAFFRARIA

London 1789 USD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 USD 2,052.75
17 Leyland (J.)

ADVENTURES IN THE FAR INTERIOR OF SOUTH AFRICA

London 1866 USD 400.00 - 500.00 USD 399.05
18 Graham (Maria)

JOURNAL OF A RESIDENCE IN INDIA

Edinburgh & London 1812 USD 250.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
19 Fernyhough (Thomas)

MILITARY MEMOIRS OF FOUR BROTHERS (1829) - author's inscription & with notes indicating this was working copy for another edition

London 1829 USD 800.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
20 Paton (Alan)

CRY, THE BELOVED COUNTRY (1948) - SIGNED

London 1948 USD 650.00 - 650.00 USD 1,872.20
21 [Richardson (John F.), van Velden (Nelia), Davidson (Anthony D.) (compilers)]

SURVIVAL: WILDLIFE ENCOUNTERS - OUT OF AFRICA (1990) - limited collectors' edition

Gaborone, Botswana 1990 USD 240.00 - 240.00 Not Sold
22 de Dree (Stephane)

VOYAGE AUX MINES DE DIAMANTS DANS LE SUD DE L'AFRIQUE 1872-1877 [1878]

[1878] USD 90.00 - 90.00 USD 80.50
23 Chilvers (Hedley A.)

THE STORY OF DE BEERS (1939)

London 1939 USD 90.00 - 90.00 USD 69.00
24 Taylor (The Rev. Isaac)

SCENES IN AFRICA, FOR THE AMUSEMENT AND INSTRUCTION OF LITTLE TARRY-AT-HOME TRAVELLERS (1820)

London 1820 USD 90.00 - 90.00 USD 103.50
25 Ivanoff (Victor)

DIE TWEEDE WERELD-OORLOG IN SPOTPRENTE "The Second World War in Cartoons" (1946)

Johannesburg 1946 USD 140.00 - 140.00 Not Sold
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