AntiquarianAuctions.com: Antiquarian Book Auction, 126, Constantia

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Auction Report
Auction Date
October 02, 2025 - October 02, 2025
Page Size: 293 items in 12 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1 Verhoeff (Pieter Willemszoon)

INDIAE ORIENTALIS PARS IX. HISTORICAM DESCRIPTIONEM

Frankfurt 1612 USD 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 Not Sold
2 Leo Africanus (Johannes)

DE TOTIUS AFRICAE DESCRIPTIONE LIBRI IX (1559)

Tiguri 1559 USD 1,000.00 - 1,250.00 Not Sold
3 Camoens (Luis de)

THE LUSIAD; OR THE DISCOVERY OF INDIA. AN EPIC POEM

London 1776 USD 350.00 - 450.00 Not Sold
4 Heylyn (Peter)

COSMOGRAPHIE, IN FOUR BOOKS. CONTAINING THE CHOROGRAPHIE AND HISTORIE OF THE WHOLE WORLD

London 1666 USD 600.00 - 700.00 Not Sold
5 Kolbe (Peter)

NAAUKEURIGE EN UITVOERIGE BESCHRYVING VAN DE KAAP DE GOEDE HOOP

Amsterdam 1727 USD 3,000.00 - 3,500.00 Not Sold
6 [Kolbe (Peter)]

NIEUWE ALGEMENE BESCHRYVING VAN DIE KAAP DE GOEDE HOOP

USD 1,250.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
7 Schouten (Wouter)

OOST-INDISCHE VOYAGIE

Amsterdam 1676 USD 1,300.00 - 1,600.00 Not Sold
8 Tirion (Isaak)

HEDENDAAGSCHE HISTORIE OF TEGENWOORDIGE STAAT VAN AFRIKA

Amsterdam 1763 USD 150.00 - 150.00 USD 115.00
9 Harris (William Cornwallis)

PORTRAITS OF THE GAME AND WILD ANIMALS OF SOUTHERN AFRICA

London 1840 USD 8,500.00 - 9,500.00 Not Sold
10 Ovington (John)

A VOYAGE TO SURATT, IN THE YEAR, 1689

London 1696 USD 2,250.00 - 2,500.00 USD 2,777.25
11 Van der Post (Laurens)

IN A PROVINCE - AND TWO OTHER IMPORTANT LAURENS VAN DER POST INSCRIBED ASSOCIATION COPIES

London 1934 - 1955 USD 3,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
12 One Who Has Visited The Fields

THE DIAMOND FIELDS OF SOUTH AFRICA; with Notes of Journey there and Homeward, & some things about Diamonds and other Jewels (1872)

New York 1872 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 Not Sold
13 Worsfold (W. Basil)

THE UNION OF SOUTH AFRICA (1912) (Presentation copy)

London 1912 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 517.50
14 Bell (Frederick William)

THE SOUTH AFRICAN CONSPIRACY; OR, THE AIMS OF AFRIKANERDOM (1900) (Presentation copy)

London 1900 USD 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
15 Moorcraft (Paul L.)

CONTACT II : Struggle for Peace (1981) - LIMITED COLLECTORS' EDITION bound in ELEPHANT HIDE & with several IMPORTANT SIGNATURES

Johannesburg 1981 USD 1,500.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,569.75
16 "A Planter" (attributed to Richard Wade Jenkins).

SPORT IN CEYLON

Colombo, Ceylon (Sri Lanka) 1888 USD 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
17 Boerhaave (Herman)

INDEX ALTER PLANTARUM QUAE IN HORTO ACADEMICO LUGDUNO-BATAVO ALUNTUR

Amsterdam 1727 USD 1,250.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
18 Tournefort (Joseph Pitton de)

INSTITUTIONES REI HERBARIAE

Paris 1700 USD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
19 Carter (George)

A NARRATIVE OF THE LOSS OF THE GROSVENOR

London 1791 USD 300.00 - 350.00 USD 362.25
20 Bosman (Willem)

A NEW AND ACCURATE DESCRIPTION OF THE COAST OF GUINEA,

London 1721 USD 300.00 - 350.00 USD 332.35
21 Barrow (John)

TRAVELS INTO THE INTERIOR OF SOUTHERN AFRICA

London 1806 USD 700.00 - 800.00 USD 690.00
22 Reunert (Theodore)

DIAMONDS AND GOLD IN SOUTH AFRICA (1893)

London, Cape Town, Port Elizabeth and Johannesburg 1893 USD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
23 Von Herausgegeben (Uli); Bahmann (Anka)

NAMIBIA - A MAGICAL WORLD OF PRECIOUS STONES AND CRYSTALS (2001)

Haltern 2001 USD 600.00 - 900.00 Not Sold
24 [edited by Dennis Edwards & Co.]

THE GOLD FIELDS OF SOUTH AFRICA (1890)

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
25 Treue (Wilhelm)

THE HISTORY OF THE OTAVI MINING LTD. (1900--2000)

Eschborn 2000 USD 500.00 - 600.00 USD 460.00
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