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Auction Name Books - Internet Bidstart 5/30 Total Sales (USD) 35,306.00
Auction Date June 06, 2019 - June 06, 2019 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 36,355.00
Sale Number #75 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 43,630.00
Total Lots 479
Sold Lots 172 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 112,835.00
% of Lots Sold 35.91% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 135,170.00
Unsold Lots 307 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 26.12%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
335 [Austen (Jane)]

PRIDE AND PREJUDICE: A Novel (Third Edition 1817)

1817 USD 500.00 - 600.00 USD 5,040.00
232 R. W. Murray

The Diamond-Field Keepsake for 1873 AND South African Reminiscences.

USD 1,600.00 - 2,000.00 USD 1,500.00
7 Ian Fleming

LIVE AND LET DIE

1954 USD 2,000.00 - 2,200.00 USD 1,418.00
4 Knipe (J.A.)

GEOLOGICAL AND MINERALOGICAL MAP OF ENGLAND AND WALES

1840 USD 500.00 - 600.00 USD 1,050.00
11 Lyon (Captain George Francis)

A NARRATIVE OF TRAVELS IN NORTHERN AFRICA IN THE YEARS 1818,19 AND 20

1821 USD 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,000.00
295 Harris (William Cornwallis)

NARRATIVE OF AN EXPEDITION INTO SOUTHERN AFRICA DURING THE YEARS 1836, AND 1837

1838 USD 350.00 - 400.00 USD 840.00
239 Books of Zimbabwe

AFRICAN HUNTING REPRINT SERIES

1980 - 1995 USD 1,000.00 - 1,000.00 USD 800.00
19 Natal.

THE VISIT OF HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS PRINCE ALFRED TO THE COLONY OF NATAL.

[1860] USD 500.00 - 600.00 USD 704.00
128 A.M. Duggan-Cronin

THE BANTU TRIBES OF SOUTH AFRICA

1929 - 1941 USD 900.00 - 1,200.00 USD 600.00
266 Baines, Thomas, Frederick Courteney Selous (3), and 32 other authors

Rhdesiana Reprint Library (Gold Series, 1968 to 1974, complete in 36 volumes)

1968-1972 USD 400.00 - 650.00 USD 525.00
20 Thomas Williamson, F. W. Blagdon, and Charles Doyley (Illus.).

The European in India

1813 USD 600.00 - 700.00 USD 500.00
315 Ward, Rowland

Horn Measurements and Weights of the Great Game of the World

1892 USD 650.00 - 750.00 USD 473.00
75 Walter Battiss

The artists of the rocks

1948 USD 400.00 - 400.00 USD 427.00
15 Portrait Dr. James Barry

One of only three replicas of a miniature portrait of Dr. James Barry.

USD 300.00 - 350.00 USD 420.00
132 Genl. Ben Viljoen

My Reminiscences of the Anglo-Boer War - Signed by General Ben Viljoen & General Piet Cronje

1902 USD 650.00 - 650.00 USD 420.00
201 Leyland (J.)

ADVENTURES IN THE FAR INTERIOR OF SOUTH AFRICA

1866 USD 450.00 - 500.00 USD 400.00
135 Dr. Gustav Fritsch

Die Eingeborenen Sud-Afrika's (The ATLAS from the author's work 'The Natives of South Africa' published in 1872)

1872 USD 500.00 - 500.00 USD 350.00
182 Wagner (Percy A.)

THE GEOLOGY AND MINERAL INDUSTRY OF SOUTH-WEST AFRICA.

1916 USD 150.00 - 200.00 USD 326.00
83 Mining

The Gold Law of the South African Republic (1895)

1895 USD 150.00 - 150.00 USD 315.00
156 A.C. Braby (PTY.), LTD. ( Compilers.)

Braby's Commercial Directory of South, East and Central Africa. 1955.

1955 USD 150.00 - 200.00 USD 315.00
245 Cuthbert Collingwood

Rambles of a Naturalist on the Shores and Waters of the China Sea during a Voyage to China, Formosa, Borneo, Singapore,

USD 250.00 - 350.00 USD 315.00
263 Edward Fitzgerald - Illustrator Stephen Gooden

RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM - LIMITED DELUXE EDITION SIGNED BY STEPHEN GOODEN

1940 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 305.00
355 [Amery (L.S.) Editor]

THE TIMES HISTORY OF THE WAR IN SOUTH AFRICA 1899-1902

1900-1909 USD 400.00 - 500.00 USD 300.00
125 William Simpson

A Private Journal Kept During the Niger Expedition

1843 USD 700.00 - 1,100.00 USD 290.00
217 Benjamin Moodie.

ALS. DOCUMENT DISCUSSING PROSPECTS FOR A PROPOSED 'COLONY OF NATAL'.

c.1834 USD 80.00 - 80.00 USD 279.00
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    19th Century Shop. Shakespeare’s Poems, first collected edition
    19th Century Shop. Walt Whitman portrait inscribed with a Leaves of Grass poem
    19th Century Shop. Major Elizabeth Barrett Browning manuscript notebook
    19th Century Shop. Spock's Baby Book, original MS
    19th Century Shop. Cellarius, Harmonia Macrocosmica, the great celestial atlas
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    Part IX
    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [RUTH, George Herman “Babe” (1895-1948)]. Signed photograph. Circa 1930s. 191 x 248 mm. $1,500 to $2,500.
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    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: ONE OF THE FIRST PRINTED ANNOUNCEMENTS OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. $4,000 to $6,000.
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    Part IX
    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: FIRST PRINTING OF LINCOLN’S IMMORTAL GETTYSBURG ADDRESS. $4,000 to $6,000.
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    Part IX
    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: NEWLY DISCOVERED FIRST PRINTING OF "WITH MALICE TOWARDS NONE... " FROM THE ONLY NEWSPAPER ACTUALLY ALLOWED TO PARTICIPATE IN LINCOLN’S SECOND INAUGURAL PROCESSION. $4,000 to $8,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: THE MOST IMPORTANT GEORGE WASHINGTON DOCUMENT IN PRIVATE HANDS; GEORGE WASHINGTON’S COMMISSION AS COMMANDER IN CHIEF, 1775, ONE OF ONLY TWO ORIGINALS. $150,000 to $250,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: A VERY RARE ACCOUNT OF BLACKBEARD’S DEATH AND ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT PIRATE ITEMS EXTANT. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Potter & Potter Auctions
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    Part IX
    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: EDISON, Thomas. Patent for Edison’s Improvements on the Electric-Light, No. 219,628. [Washington, D.C.: U.S. Patent Office], 16 September 1879. $2,000 to $3,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [VIETNAM WAR]. The original pen used by Secretary of State William P. Rogers to sign the Vietnam Peace Agreement, Paris, 27 January 1973. $10,000 to $15,000.
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    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: [Langland (William)]. The vision of Pierce Plowman, nowe the seconde time imprinted..., Roberte Crowley, 1550. £8,000 to £10,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: [Shakespeare (William)]. [Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies], second folio edition, [by Tho.Cotes, for Robert Allot], [1632]. £30,000 to £40,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Bible, Czech Biblia Bohemica, first complete Bible printed in the Czech vernacular, Prague, August 1488. £30,000 to £40,000.
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    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: Shabthai Tzvi.- Collection of four printed and illustrated broadsides detailing the appearance, rise and fall of the false messiah, Shabthai Tzvi, Augsburg, 1666-67. £40,000 to £60,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Leaf from the Beauvais Missal, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment, [Northern France (perhaps Beauvais or Amiens)], [fourteenth century (c.1310)]. £4,000 to £6,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Aubrey (John). [Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme], manuscript in English, Latin and Greek, [c. 1693]. £30,000 to £50,000.
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    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: Byron (George Gordon Noel, Lord). Poems on Various Occasions, first edition, Harriet Maltby's copy, Newark, Printed by S. & J. Ridge, 1807. £30,000 to £40,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Tolkien (J.R.R.) The Hobbit, first edition, second impression with dust-jacket, 1937 [but 1938]. £7,000 to £10,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Blake (William).- Thornton (Robert John). The Pastorals of Virgil, 2 vol., engraved plates by William Blake, 1821. £8,000 to £12,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: America.- Mount (William J.) & Thomas Page. The English Pilot…, [bound with] The Fourth Book, describing The West Indies Navigation from Hudson's-Bay to the River Amazones, 1721. £20,000 to £30,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Oldfield (Henry Ambrose), Rajman Singh Chitrakar & others. An album of 160 photographs and 13 original artworks, (1833-1919), [c. 1850s-1880s]. £20,000 to £30,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Audubon (John James) [and William MacGillivray]. Ornithological Biography…, 5 vol., first edition, presentation copy inscribed by Audubon, Edinburgh, 1831-49 [i.e. 1831-39]. £10,000 to £15,000.
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    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: ONLY KNOWN COPY OF THE ONLY BOOK BY THE REMARKABLE EVE ADAMS. $8,000 - $12,000
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