Auction #130 Preview - All Lots

Lot 1

Barrow (Sir John) (1764-1848)

A LETTER AND A DRAFT OF INSTRUCTIONS, FOR YOUR GUIDANCE...TO THOMAS MACLEAR

To re-measure and extend the arc of meridian measured some 80 years earlier by Abbe N.L. De la Caille.

Lot 2

Clarke (Mrs Fred Clarke)

NATIVE LIFE IN WESTERN PONDOLAND (Important photographic record)

Title page: Album of Copyright Photographs by Mrs. Fred Clarke (Ethel Eugene Clarke, 1890–1948), with a photographic portrait of the author

Lot 3

Sutton (S. Jno.)

EXCEEDINGLY RARE STUDIO CARD BY S. JNO. SUTTON, UMTATA, TEMBULAND, DEPICTING PORTRAIT OF CHIEF KRELI - circa 1878

Lot 4

[Harris (Robert) Photographer]:

LARGE ALBUM OF PHOTOGRAPHS SPECIALLY PREPARED TO BE PRESENTED TO CHARLES REEKS

Chief Maintenance Inspector – Midland System Railways, Cape of Good Hope

Lot 5

Dapper (Olfert)

NAUKEURIGE BESCHRIJVINGE DER AFRIKAENSCHE GEWESTEN

Lot 6

Lodewijcksz (Willem)

PREMIER LIVRE DE L'HISTOIRE DE LA NAVIGATION AUX INDES ORIENTALES PAR LES HOLLANDOIS

A very rare original French edition published in 1598, the same year as the Dutch original and the Latin version. Only six copies, three of which are incomplete, are…

Lot 7

Olive Schreiner:

AUTOGRAPH LETTER

Written at Wagenaar's Kraal, Three Sister, June 5th, 1900

Lot 8

C.J.Rhodes signed manuscript document:

OFFICIAL CAPE COLONY GOVERNMENT COMMISSION DATED 13 NOVEMBER 1895

Appointing Doctor Thomas Nicolas German Te Water, a Member of the Honourable the Legislative Assembly, a delegate to a Customs Union Conference to be held in…

Lot 9

Autograph Letter:

CECIL JOHN RHODES (1853-1902)

Lot 10

Cabinet Photograph:

CECIL JOHN RHODES (1853-1902) (Signed)

Lot 11

Cartier-Bresson (Henri)

THE DECISIVE MOMENT

photography by Henri Cartier-Bresson

Lot 12

King (Stephen)

CARRIE (The first published work by Stephen King)

Lot 13

DE MUSSET (Alfret) - MERSON (Olivier) - GIRALDON (Adolphe)

LES NUITS

Les Nuits. La Nuit de mai – La Nuit de décembre – La Nuit d’Août – La nuit d’octobre.

Lot 14

Paspoort:

KONINGRIJK DER NEDERLANDEN

Departement van Marine. KORPS MARINIERS

Lot 15

VOC Document:

DEED OF SALE

Between Abraham Fleck and Hermanus Dempers