AntiquarianAuctions.com: Books, Maps and Photographs, 131, Constantia
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- May 28, 2026 - May 28, 2026
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 76 | Roberts Margaret | Indigenous Healing Plants |
N/A | Not Available | Not Sold | |
| 77 | Muller C. F. J.; Bulpin T. V. | A Pictorial History of the Great Trek; The Great Trek |
Cape Town; Cape Town | 1978; 1969 | Not Available | USD 80.50 |
| 78 | Pettman Charles | Africanderisms |
1913 | Not Available | USD 96.60 | |
| 79 | Batten Auriol | Flowers of Southern Africa |
N/A | USD 250.00 - 300.00 | USD 284.05 | |
| 80 | Fox F.W.; Young M.E.N. | Food from the Veld |
N/A | USD 50.00 - 60.00 | USD 46.00 | |
| 81 | Goldblatt Peter | The Woody Iridaceae |
N/A | USD 50.00 - 60.00 | USD 46.00 | |
| 82 | Bornman C.H. | Welwitschia |
N/A | USD 50.00 - 60.00 | USD 46.00 | |
| 83 | Burchell William J. | Travels in the Interior of Southern Africa |
N/A | USD 130.00 - 160.00 | USD 115.00 | |
| 84 | Fabian Anita | Transvaal Wild Flowers |
N/A | USD 125.00 - 150.00 | USD 144.90 | |
| 85 | Goldblatt P. | Gladiolus in Tropical Africa |
N/A | USD 50.00 - 60.00 | Not Sold | |
| 86 | Goldblatt P.; Manning J. | Gladiolus in Southern Africa |
1989; 1993; 1996 | USD 350.00 - 450.00 | USD 460.00 | |
| 87 | Lewis G. Joyce | The Genus Babiana |
N/A | USD 50.00 - 60.00 | USD 55.20 | |
| 88 | Masson Francis | Francis Masson's Account of Three Journeys |
1772-1775 | USD 50.00 - 60.00 | Not Sold | |
| 89 | Pearse G. | Eighteenth Century Architecture in South Africa |
1933 | USD 60.00 - 70.00 | Not Sold | |
| 90 | Reynolds Gilbert Westacott | The Aloes of South Africa |
N/A | USD 80.00 - 90.00 | Not Sold | |
| 91 | Reynolds Gilbert Westacott | The Aloes of Tropical Africa and Madagascar |
N/A | USD 60.00 - 70.00 | USD 46.00 | |
| 92 | Rowley Gordon | Pachypodium & Adenium |
N/A | USD 60.00 - 70.00 | USD 96.60 | |
| 93 | Tooley R.V. | Collectors' Guide to Maps of the African Continent and Southern Africa |
N/A | USD 50.00 - 60.00 | Not Sold | |
| 94 | Van der Walt J.J.A.; Vorster P.J.; Ward-Hilhorst Ellaphie | Pelargoniums of Southern Africa |
N/A | USD 250.00 - 300.00 | USD 341.55 | |
| 95 | Van Wyk P. | Trees of the Kruger National Park |
N/A | USD 60.00 - 80.00 | USD 66.70 | |
| 96 | Walker Joan | Wild Flowers of KwaZulu-Natal |
N/A | USD 80.00 - 90.00 | USD 57.50 | |
| 97 | Moffat Robert | The Matabele Journals of Robert Moffat 1829-1860 |
1829-1860 | USD 50.00 - 60.00 | USD 48.30 | |
| 98 | Watt J.M.; Breyer-Brandwijk M.G. | The Medicinal and Poisonous Plants of Southern Africa |
N/A | USD 50.00 - 60.00 | USD 46.00 | |
| 99 | Wicht Hein | The Indigenous Palms of Southern Africa |
N/A | USD 50.00 - 60.00 | USD 48.30 | |
| 100 | White A.C.; Sloane B.L. | The Stapelieae |
N/A | USD 100.00 - 125.00 | USD 127.65 |
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