Fontein Books Richard Proctor-Sims
P O Box 193 Philippolis 9970
South Africa
051 773 0050/0486 or 0027 079 546 4032
Fontein's owner, Richard Proctor-Sims, is back from his long-enforced Covid-related stay in Italy only to find that we have lost our fontein email address; so please use [email protected] or the telephone numbers listed above
Our 47 lots on this auction include a wide range of subjects
They include 14 Botanical lots (reserves $40-$200); 8 Military and Naval ($40-$100); and 7 History (also $40-$100)
Other categories are Anglo-Boer War (2), Art and Art History (3), Biography (4), Ethnology (1), Genealogy (1), Government (1), Horsemanship (1), Mandela (1), Motoring (1), Ornithology (1), Shipping (1) and Topography (1)
Lots with the high reserves are:
#21 History of the Mackenzies with Genealogies of the Principal Families of the Name ($250)
#26 Dictionary of South African Biography (2 vols in English and 5 in Afrikaans) ($500)
#419 Francois le Vaillant, Voyageur en Afrique Australe (1781-4), et sa Collection de 165 Aquarelles (2-vol set number 343 of a limited edition of 500 copies) ($300)
Results Previous Auction
Lot 23
Reitz, Deneys; General J C Smuts (preface)
Commando. A Boer Journal of the Boer War (first edition, 1930)
Lot 27
Barclay, D (paintings), H M L Bolus (text), E J Steer (photographs)
A Book of South African Flowers, 1925. A First Book of South African Flowers, 1928. A Second Book of South African Flowers, 1936
Lot 50
Van der Walt, J J (author); Ellaphie Ward-Hilhorst (illustrator)
Pelargoniums of Southern Africa Vols 1 (1977) and 2 (1981)
Lot 52
Fabricius, Peter (Political Correspondent) and others
The Star, Johannesburg, 2 February 1990. "FW opens doors to freedom"; "Mandela to be set free soon"; "Executions halted"
Lot 55
Mossop, Dr E E, Member of the Van Riebeeck Society
Old Cape Highways (1927)
Lot 83
Hoare, Mike
Makoro. A Cry for Help
Lot 95
Churchill, Winston Spencer
London to Ladysmith via Pretoria (1900)
Lot 291
Leipoldt, Dr C Louis
Bushveld Doctor (rare first [1937] British edition in a good complete dustjacket)
Lot 296
Hilton-Barber, Brett (author): John Meyer (artist)
John Meyer
Lot 463
Callaway, Rev Canon, M D
Izinyanga Zokubula; Unkulunkulu, or the Tradition of Creation as existing among the Amazulu and other tribes of South Africa