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 Books has no fewer than 101 lots on auction #77, representing 139 books. This is a record for us since these auctions began some ten years ago.

Botanical book collectors will have a wid choice - 50 lots, followed by ornithology (with 20 lots) and natural history (18 lots). A few other categories are repesented by one or more lots - architecture, art, ethnology, history, shipping, Rhodesiana and transport.

Fontein was established more than forty years ago as a publisher and bookseller. Our current physical bookshop is located in an 1881 Victorian house in Philippolis, which was the first settlement (1822) in Southern Africa north of the Gariep or Orange (with the exception of Maputo, which goes back to the Portuguese occupation in the 15the century). We also now have some books in Johannesburg (telephones +27 79 546 4032 / + 27 11 783 6577).

A higher proportion of usual of our lots on #77 are in fine, mint or new condition - mainly because one of our seller is emigrating "without having had time even to open some of my books". 

Please email or phone if you'd like a description amplified or have a specific query. 

Successful bidders in South Africa buyers usually pay by eft and those elsewhere in the world by credit card.