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Auction #124 - All Lots

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Lot 1

Alberti (Lodewyk)

DE KAFFERS AAN DE ZUIDKUST VAN AFRIKA

(The first ethnographic monograph. Scarce with album of four fine hand coloured plates)

Lot 2

Baines (Thomas)

THE VICTORIA FALLS ZAMBESI RIVER

Sketched on the Spot by Thomas Baines, F.R.G.S., (During the Journey of J. Chapman & T. Baines), 11 Views of the Victoria Falls, the Zambesi River and the Gorges,…

Lot 3

Solinus (Gaius Julius)

C. IVLII SOLINI POLYHISTOR, RERVM TOTO ORBE MEMORABILIUM THESAURUS LOCUPLETISSIMUS.

hvis ob argvmenti similitvdinem Pomponii Melae De Situ Orbis Libros Tres fide Diligentiaqve summa recognitis, adiunximus. Accesserunt his praeter noua scholia ...

Lot 4

Haldeman (Dr. J. N.)

THE INTERNATIONAL CONSPIRACY TO ESTABLISH A WORLD DICTATORSHIP AND THE MENACE TO SOUTH AFRICA (1960)

ELON MUSK'S GRANDFATHER'S SELF-PUBLISHED WORK

Lot 5

Goldie (Fay) & Haldeman (Dr. J. N.)

LOST CITY OF THE KALAHARI - INCLUDES ELON MUSK'S GRANDFATHER'S OWN ACCOUNT OF HIS SEARCH FOR THE LOST CITY

Lot 6

Breuil (Henri)

BEYOND THE BOUNDS OF HISTORY - Scenes from the Old Stone Age (1949) - foreword by General Jan Smuts

Contains an ORIGINAL COLOUR SKETCH by the author and is INSCRIBED to fellow archaeologist C. van Riet Lowe

Lot 7

Wolf (Joseph)

A SERIES OF THIRTEEN PENCIL SKETCHES

Prepared as the illustrations for Gordon Cummings' Five Years Of A Hunter's Life In The Far Interior Or South Africa, which was published in two volumes, London 1850

Lot 8

[Kounin (I.I.) Editor:]

EIGHTY FIVE YEARS OF THE SHANGHAI VOLUNTEER CORPS

Illustrations by A. Yaron

Lot 9

Ten Rhyne (William)

SCHEDIASMA DE POMONTORIO BONAE SPEI EJUSVE TRACTUS INCOLIS HOTTENTOTTIS (Early account of the Cape 1686)

accurante, brevesque notas attente Henr. Screta S. a Zavorziz

Lot 10

Praagh (L. V.)

THE TRANSVAAL AND ITS MINES (1906)

The Encyclopedic History of the Transvaal.

Lot 11

Reunert (Theodore)

DIAMONDS AND GOLD IN SOUTH AFRICA (1893)

Scarce first edition.

Lot 12

Jansen (E.)

CONCEPTS ABOUT DIAMOND SCIENCE AND DIAMOND PROCESSING (1923)

One of the only 25 copies of this work printed on hand-made paper, numbered and provided with the author's signature (this copy is numbered as "4").

Lot 13

Williams (Gardner F.)

THE DIAMOND MINES OF SOUTH AFRICA (Special Author's Signed Edition)

By Gardner F. Williams, M.A., General Manager of De Beers Consolidated Mines, Ltd.

Lot 14

Chilvers (Hedley A.)

THE STORY OF DE BEERS

With Some Notes on the Company's Financial, Farming, Railway and Industrial Activities in Africa. And some Introductory Chapters on the River Diggings and Early…

Lot 15

Bowler (Thomas W.)

PICTORIAL ALBUM OF CAPE TOWN

With Views of Simon's Town, Port Elizabeth, and Graham's Town


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