AntiquarianAuctions.com: Antiquarian Book Auction, 126, Constantia
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- October 02, 2025 - October 02, 2025
| 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 |
![<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> ROALD AMUNDSEN: «Sydpolen» [ The South Pole] 1912. First edition in jackets and publisher's slip case.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/0a99416d-9c0f-4fa3-afdd-7532ca8a2b2c.jpg "<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> ROALD AMUNDSEN: «Sydpolen» [ The South Pole] 1912. First edition in jackets and publisher's slip case.")
![<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> AMUNDSEN & NANSEN: «Fram over Polhavet» [Farthest North] 1897. AMUNDSEN's COPY!](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/a077b4a5-0477-4c47-9847-0158cf045843.jpg "<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> AMUNDSEN & NANSEN: «Fram over Polhavet» [Farthest North] 1897. AMUNDSEN's COPY!")
![<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> ERNEST SHACKLETON [ed.]: «Aurora Australis» 1908. First edition. The NORWAY COPY.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/6363a735-e622-4d0a-852e-07cef58eccbe.jpg "<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> ERNEST SHACKLETON [ed.]: «Aurora Australis» 1908. First edition. The NORWAY COPY.")
![<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> SHACKLETON, BERNACCHI, CHERRY-GARRARD [ed.]: «The South Polar Times» I-III, 1902-1911.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/3ee16d5b-a2ec-4c03-aeb6-aa3fcfec3a5e.jpg "<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> SHACKLETON, BERNACCHI, CHERRY-GARRARD [ed.]: «The South Polar Times» I-III, 1902-1911.")
![<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> [WILLEM BARENTSZ & HENRY HUDSON] - SAEGHMAN: «Verhael van de vier eerste schip-vaerden […]», 1663.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/d5f50485-7faa-423f-af0c-803b964dd2ba.jpg "<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> [WILLEM BARENTSZ & HENRY HUDSON] - SAEGHMAN: «Verhael van de vier eerste schip-vaerden […]», 1663.")
![<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> TERRA NOVA EXPEDITION | LIEUTENANT HENRY ROBERTSON BOWERS: «At the South Pole.», Gelatin Silver Print. [10¾ x 15in. (27.2 x 38.1cm.) ].](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/fb024365-7d7a-4510-9859-9d26b5c266cf.jpg "<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> TERRA NOVA EXPEDITION | LIEUTENANT HENRY ROBERTSON BOWERS: «At the South Pole.», Gelatin Silver Print. [10¾ x 15in. (27.2 x 38.1cm.) ].")
![<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> PAUL GAIMARD: «Voyage de la Commision scientific du Nord, en Scandinavie, […]», c. 1842-46. ONLY HAND COLOURED COPY KNOWN WITH TWO ORIGINAL PAINTINGS BY BIARD.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/a7c0eda0-9d8b-43ac-a504-58923308d5a4.jpg "<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> PAUL GAIMARD: «Voyage de la Commision scientific du Nord, en Scandinavie, […]», c. 1842-46. ONLY HAND COLOURED COPY KNOWN WITH TWO ORIGINAL PAINTINGS BY BIARD.")
![<b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 11:</b> Darwin and Wallace. On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties..., [in:] <i>Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society,</i> Vol. III, No. 9., 1858, Darwin announces the theory of natural selection. £100,000 to £150,000.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/00d5fd41-2542-4a80-b119-4886d4b9925f.png "<b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 11:</b> Darwin and Wallace. On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties..., [in:] <i>Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society,</i> Vol. III, No. 9., 1858, Darwin announces the theory of natural selection. £100,000 to £150,000.")
