Fontein Books Richard Proctor-Sims
P O Box 193 Philippolis 9970
South Africa
fontein@wol.co.za
051 773 0050/048 079 546 4032
Fontein's owner, Richard Proctor-Sims, remains stranded in Italy by Covid-19, but can be reached on WhatsApp +27 79 023 1842 with any enquiries about the 30 lots on the current auction
Fontein Books has been a publisher and bookseller for some forty years, and has been an Antiquarian Auctions seller since the first auction some ten years ago. Our shop is an 1881 Victorian house in Philippolis - the first settlement (1822) in South Africa north of the Orange River
We also now have some books in Johannesburg (telephones +27 79 546 4032 / + 27 11 783 6577)
You are invited to visit our bookshop or to contact us if you would like to sell us books or for us to sell books for you on these auctions
Lots in auction #88
Lot 152
Clancy, Tom [Thomas L Clancy Jr)
Without Remorse (first impression)
Lot 163
Monick, Stanley (author); Christine Heseltine and L E Joubert (maps & illustrations)
A Bugle Calls. The Story of the Witwatersrand Rifles and its Predecessors 1899-1987
Lot 165
Juta, Rene, and W Westhoven
The Cape Peninsula (1910)
Lot 168
Vedder, Dr H
Das Alte Suedwestafrika [The Old South West Africa] (1934)
Lot 173
Mutwa, Vusamazulu C
Africa Is My Witness
Lot 177
Ogilvie, Grania; assisted by Carol Graff
The Dictionary of South African Painters and Sculptors, Including Namibia
Lot 178
Graaff, G de (author); R A R Black (photographer)
The Rodents of Southern Africa
Lot 180
Keath, Michael
Herbert Baker. Architecture and Idealism. 1. 1892-1913. The South African Years
Lot 184
Van der Westhuizen, Gert and Erika
Guide to the Anglo-Boer War in the Eastern Transvaal. 1899-1902. 100 Years
Lot 497
Livingstone, David
Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa (1874)
Lot 498
Stanley, Henry M
In Darkest Africa or the Quest, Rescue and Retreat of Emin, Governor of Equatoria (2 vols,1890)
Lot 508
Bird, John (late of the Civil Service, Natal)
Annals of Natal. 1495 to 1845 (first edition, 2 vols)
Lot 509
Lock, Ron, & Peter Quantrill (compilers); Prince Mangosotho Buthelezi (introduction)
Zulu Victory. The Epic of Isandlhwana and the Cover-Up
Lot 521
Hancock, W Keith
Smuts (2 vols) 1. The Sanguine Years 1870-1919 2, The Fields of Force 1919-1950
Lot 523
Stevenson-Hamilton, Lieut-Col J
South African Eden. From Sabi Game Reserve to Kruger National Park (1938)