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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 1

Hortus sanitatis:

DE HERBIS, DE ANIMALIBUS REPTILIBUS, DE AUIBUS VOLATILIBUS, 'Perhaps the most important medical woodcut book printed before 1500'

DE PISCIBUS NATATILIBUS, DE LAPIDIBUS IN TERRA VENIS NASCĒTIBUS, DE URINIS EARUM SPECIEBUS, TABULA MEDICINALIS CUM DIRECTORIO, GENERALI PER OMNES TRACTATUS

Lot 2

Boemus [böhm], (Johannes) (C.1485-1535)

REPERTORIUM LIBRORUM TRIUM IOANNIS BOEMI DE OMNIUM GENTIUM RITIBUS. ITEM INDEX RERUM SCITU DIGNIORUM IN EOSDEM

OMNIVM GENTIUM MORES LEGES ET RITUS EX MVLTIS CLARISSIMIS RERVM SCRIPTORIBUS, a Ioanne Boemo Aubano Sacerdote Teutonicæ Militiæ deuoto nuper collectos: & in libros…

Lot 3

Transvaal Gold Fields Camp Newspaper:

THE TIMES OF SPITZKOP

No.23981 - Published every Saturday containing all News - Vol VI. Price One Shilling. Spitzkop, Saturday, October 30 - 1897

Lot 4

Royal Tour:

ROYAL TOUR OF SOUTH AFRICA

A photograph album of the Royal Tour of King George VI & family, 1947

Lot 5

Mandela (Nelson)

THE ILLUSTRATED LONG WALK TO FREEDOM (Limited edition)

The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela

Lot 6

ACKERMANN (Rudolph), publisher

CHARACTERISTIC PORTRAITS OF THE VARIOUS TRIBES OF COSSACKS ATTACHED TO THE ALLIED ARMIES IN THE CAMPAIGN OF 1815

Taken From Life at Paris; And Accompanied by Historical Particulars, and Authentic Descriptions of Their Manners, Costume, &c.

Lot 7

Smith (Andrew)

ANDREW SMITH'S ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE ZOOLOGY OF SOUTH AFRICA - VOLUME 2 AVES

Lot 8

Greig (G.)

THE SOUTH AFRICAN COMMERCIAL ADVERTISER, Numbers 1-18 (1824)

Lot 9

O.F.S. Information Commission:

THE WAR BETWEEN GREAT BRITAIN AND THE REPUBLICS. THE BOER SIDE

A Record of all Telegrams Issued for Public Information by the O.F.S. Information Commission, from the Commencement of Hostilities up to the occupation of…

Lot 10

Doyle (Sir Arthur Conan)

THE BRITISH CAMPAIGNS IN EUROPE 1914-1918 (Presentation copy from the author)

Lot 11

Davis (Alexander)

DAVIS' BULAWAYO DIRECTORY AND HANDBOOK OF MATABELELAND 1895-1896 (First Edition)

This is not a facsimile copy.

Lot 12

Tindall (The Rev. Henry)

A GRAMMAR AND VOCABULARY OF THE NAMAQUA-HOTTENTOT LANGUAGE (1857) - former copy of W. R. Morrison

This title was published at Cape Governor Sir George Grey's expense. The first book to be published on the Hottentot language.

Lot 13

[Krönlein (J. G. ) Editor:]

!ASA TESTAMENS SIDA !KHŪB TSĨ HUI-AOB YESUB XRISTUB DIS

The New Testament In The Nama-language

Lot 14

District of Swellendam. Land Grant:

SIR BENJAMIN D'URBAN, ORIGINAL LAND GRANT

Lot 15

Cape of Good Hope Land Grant

TAMBOERSKLOOF 1890

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