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Auction #135 begins on 12 Nov 2026

Auction #135 is scheduled to start on 12 November 2026 at 16:30 GMT.

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Lot 46

Meiring (Jane) Text, Caldwell ( Edmund) Illustrations:

JOCK - THE ART OF EDMUND CALDWELL (SUBSCRIBERS' EDITION - LIMITED TO 250 COPIES)

A fine example of Rhodesian book production from the Frank Read Press, which was located "in the middle of the African bush".

Lot 47

Burman (Jose)

1.) GREAT SHIPWRECKS OFF THE COAST OF SOUTHERN AFRICA (1967) & 2.) STRANGE SHIPWRECKS OF THE SOUTHERN SEAS (1968)

Lot 48

Addison (A. Christopher)

THE STORY OF THE "BIRKENHEAD" - A RECORD OF BRITISH HEROISM (1902)

Famous for the "Birkenhead drill" ("women and children first"), where soldiers stood fast on deck to allow families to escape onto lifeboats

Lot 49

Tooley (R. V.)

COLLECTORS' GUIDE TO THE MAPS OF THE AFRICAN CONTINENT AND SOUTHERN AFRICA (1969)

"The standard work on the subject"

Lot 50

Caldecott (A. F.)

THE GOVERNMENT AND CIVILIZATION OF THE NATIVE RACES OF SOUTH AFRICA (1884) - The Reverend Henry Tindall's copy

"being the prize essay for the Chancellor's Gold Medal, 1883."

Lot 51

Sampson (Victor)

THE RELATIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE CIVILIZED COMMUNITIES OF SOUTH AFRICA TO THE NATIVE RACES (1878)

"Chancellor's Prize Essay of the University of the Cape of Good Hope, 1877"

Lot 52

Oosthuizen (Pieter)

BOER WAR MEMORABILIA - THE COLLECTORS' GUIDE (1987)

Lot 53

Wills (W. D. & H. O.)

BRITISH COMMANDERS IN THE TRANSVAAL WAR, 1899-1900 [1900]

Lot 54

Pickard (A. B. de V.)

DIE NASIONALE PORTRET BOEK VAN WAKERS, LEIERS, STRYERS, EN LYERS (1917)

Contains 72 portraits of prominent Afrikaner nationalists

Lot 55

Kozaburo (Tamamura)

JAPANESE LACQUER photo album

Attributed to Tamamura Kozaburo. Includes fifty hand-coloured photographs

Lot 56

Mattise (Henri)

CINQUANTE DESSINS

Includes 10 original lithographs by the artist

Lot 57

Bulgakov (Mikhail)

THE MASTER AND MARGARITA

Lot 58

Church of England:

THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER

1781 edition

Lot 59

[McCully (Marilyn) Editor:]

PICASSO: PAINTER AND SCULPTOR IN CLAY

Published to mark the exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts, London (1998)

Lot 60

The Champion:

THE CHAMPION (1814)

Leather bound Includes an account of the fall of Bonaparte etc.

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