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Auction Name Rare Books - online 7/11 Total Sales (USD) 44,208.30
Auction Date July 18, 2024 - July 18, 2024 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 37,890.00
Sale Number #116 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 151,850.00
Total Lots 313
Sold Lots 126 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 99,365.00
% of Lots Sold 40.26% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 221,555.00
Unsold Lots 187 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 19.95%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1 Byrne (Oliver)

THE FIRST SIX BOOKS OF THE ELEMENTS OF EUCLID

1847 USD 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 9,358.70
13 Smith (Andrew)

ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE ZOOLOGY OF SOUTH AFRICA; (Rare in the original 28 parts)

1838-1849 USD 10,000.00 - 120,000.00 USD 9,200.00
8 Mandela (Nelson)

THE ILLUSTRATED LONG WALK TO FREEDOM (Limited edition)

1996 USD 2,500.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,012.50
45 Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer

THE WEDGWOOD COELACANTH COLLECTION OF MISS MARJORIE COURTENAY-LATIMER - DISCOVERER OF THE COELACANTH

USD 400.00 - 400.00 USD 1,449.00
74 Prisse d'Avennes (Achille Constant)

ORIENTAL ALBUM. CHARACTERS, COSTUMES, AND MODES OF LIFE IN THE VALLEY OF THE NILE

1851 USD 1,500.00 - 1,750.00 USD 1,437.50
2 [Transgenderism] Lyndsay (David) [Dods, Mary Diana]

DRAMAS OF THE ANCIENT WORLD

1822 USD 1,250.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,268.45
36 Gardner F. Williams

THE DIAMOND MINES OF SOUTH AFRICA (1902) - limited de luxe edition EX LIBRIS OTTO BEIT + OPPENHEIMER

1902 USD 1,300.00 - 1,300.00 USD 1,092.50
43 Sir James Edward Alexander

AN EXPEDITION OF DISCOVERY INTO THE INTERIOR OF AFRICA through the Countries of the NAMAQUAS, BOSCHMANS, and HILL DAMARAS (1838)

1838 USD 450.00 - 450.00 USD 627.90
10 Coex'ae Qgam:

QAUQAUA: A SAN FOLK STORY FROM BOTSWANA TOLD BY COEX'AE QGAM

1996 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 575.00
15 Galton (Francis)

THE NARRATIVE OF AN EXPLORER IN TROPICAL SOUTH AFRICA

1853 USD 700.00 - 800.00 USD 575.00
16 [Weinthal (Leo)]

THE STORY OF THE CAPE TO CAIRO RAILWAY AND RIVER ROUTE, FROM 1887 TO 1922

1922 -1924 USD 600.00 - 700.00 USD 575.00
259 Roosevelt , Eleanor

On My Own ( Double Signed )

1959 USD 350.00 - 450.00 USD 548.55
300 South West Africa

1.) SWA Tourist Guide (1971) 2.) THE BUSHMEN OF NAMIBIA (1990) 3.) TSAMMAS : Fruits of the Desert (1991)

1991 USD 80.00 - 90.00 USD 543.95
143 Rourke (John Patrick)

MIMETES an Illustrated account of Mimetes Salisbury & Orothamnus Pappe. Signed Numbered Limited Edition.208/500 copies

1982 USD 350.00 - 500.00 USD 483.00
5 Livingstone (David) & (Charles)

NARRATIVE OF AN EXPEDITION TO THE ZAMBEZI & ITS TRIBUTARIES

1865 USD 500.00 - 600.00 USD 460.00
85 Shelley (George Ernest)

THE BIRDS OF AFRICA

1896 - 1905 USD 600.00 - 700.00 USD 460.00
257 J.P. Fitzpatrick

The Transvaal from Within (Presentation Copy)

1899 USD 500.00 - 500.00 USD 399.05
47 Morris, Henry C

THE HISTORY OF COLONIZATION (2 Volumes)

1908 USD 80.00 - 80.00 USD 362.25
178 Cape Piscatorial Society

TROUT IN THE KLOOFS:

1962 USD 150.00 - 150.00 USD 362.25
298 Anon

Zulu Photograph Album with 36 Views.

1900-1965 USD 45.00 - 65.00 USD 302.45
123 J. S. Roberts

African Travel and Adventure

1874 USD 400.00 - 420.00 USD 296.70
147 De Klerk, (F.W.) [Signed]

THE LAST TREK, A NEW BEGINNING:

1998 USD 50.00 - 50.00 USD 288.65
3 Barrington (George)

AN ACCOUNT OF A VOYAGE TO NEW SOUTH WALES (Fabricated travels)

1803 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 287.50
12 [Corinth (Lovis)]

DAS BUCH JUDITH, In der Ubersetzung von Martin Luther

1910 USD 350.00 - 450.00 USD 287.50
77 Baldwin (William Charles)

AFRICAN HUNTING FROM NATAL TO THE ZAMBESI

1863 USD 250.00 - 300.00 USD 286.35
  • Bonhams, now to Oct. 24: CATESBY, MARK. 1683-1749. The Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands. $100,000 - $150,000
    Bonhams, now to Oct. 24: AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES. 1785-1851. The Birds of America, from Drawings Made in the United States and their Territories. $30,000 - $50,000
    Bonhams, now to Oct. 24: ADAMS ON HIS PEAR TREES AND A LOST PORTRAIT BY SALEM ARTIST HANNAH CROWNINSHIELD. ADAMS, JOHN. 1735-1826. $10,000 - $15,000
    Bonhams, now to Oct. 24: EARLIEST MAP DEVOTED TO NORTH AMERICA. FORLANI, PAULO. fl.1560-1571. $20,000 - $30,000
    Bonhams, now to Oct. 24: HAMILTON DEFENDS THE CONSTITUTION. HAMILTON, ALEXANDER. 1757-1804. $20,000 - $30,000
    Bonhams, now to Oct. 24: NO TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION BROADSIDE. Boston, September 14, 1768. $5,000 - $8,000
    Bonhams, now to Oct. 23: ONE OF THE EARLIEST ILLUSTRATIONS OF A SURGICAL PROCEDURE. BARTHOLOMAEUS ANGLICUS. $10,000 - $15,000
    Bonhams, now to Oct. 23: RICHARD FEYNMAN'S ANNOTATED COPY, WITH TWO EARLY FEYNMAN AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPTS. $15,000 - $25,000
    Bonhams, now to Oct. 23: THE FOUNDATIONS OF MODERN COMPUTING. TURING, ALAN MATHISON. 1912-1954. $30,000 - $50,000
    Bonhams, now to Oct. 23: FINE OIL PORTRAIT OF ALBERT EINSTEIN BY EUGEN SPIRO. $40,000 - $60,000
    Bonhams, now to Oct. 23: PENICILLIN MOLD MEDALLION INSCRIBED BY ALEXANDER FLEMING. FLEMING, ALEXANDER. 1881-1955. $30,000 - $50,000
    Bonhams, now to Oct. 23: APPLE "TWIGGY" MACINTOSH PROTOTYPE USED IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF DEMONSTRATION SOFTWARE. $80,000 - $120,000
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    October 17th, 2024
    One of a Kind Collectibles, Oct. 17: Abraham Lincoln Signed Letter on Executive Mansion Stationary To Secretary of The Navy re: Appointment for Naval Academy!
    One of a Kind Collectibles, Oct. 17: Extremely Rare Ben Franklin Printed: Considerations on Keeping Negroes...Part Second. 1762.
    One of a Kind Collectibles, Oct. 17: An impressively extra-illustrated copy; Including an Original leaf from Shakespeare’s 1623 First Folio!
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    October 17th, 2024
    One of a Kind Collectibles, Oct. 17: Rarest Naval Autograph James Lawrence “Don’t give up the ship On " U.S. Ship Hornet June 19th 1812.
    One of a Kind Collectibles, Oct. 17: Oversize Ernest Hemingway Signed Photo with long Inscription about Drinking Wine to his dear friend and Secretary Roberto Herrera.
    One of a Kind Collectibles, Oct. 17: VOLTAIRE Signed Receipt about a partial payment of debt for the Duke of Wuerttemberg.
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    October 17th, 2024
    One of a Kind Collectibles, Oct. 17: [Maps] Gio. Ant. Magnini, Italia, 1620.
    One of a Kind Collectibles, Oct. 17: LAWMAN SALOON JUDGE ROY BEAN Signed Legal Document 1895-RARE!
    One of a Kind Collectibles, Oct. 17: Autograph Album with James Garfield as President, Chester A. Aurthur as VP, William T. Sherman, Burnside, P.T. Barnum and many more!
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    October 17th, 2024
    One of a Kind Collectibles, Oct. 17: Thomas Jefferson and James Madison Signed Four Language Ship's Paper.
    One of a Kind Collectibles, Oct. 17: Hector Berlioz Autograph Musical Quotation Signed.
    One of a Kind Collectibles, Oct. 17: Important Memorandum the Day after Gettysburg July 5th, 1863 where Lincoln asks all Department Heads of the cabinet to meet him at the Executive Mansion.
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  • Sotheby’s
    Bibliotheca Brookeriana:
    A Renaissance Library. The Aldine Collection D-M
    18 October 2024
    Sotheby’s, Oct. 18: Herodianus Syrus, Herodiani Historiarum, Venice, Heirs of Aldo & Torresano, 1524, Parisian binding for Jean Grolier by Jean Picard, ca. 1540
    Sotheby’s, Oct. 18: Musaeus, Opusculum de Herone et Leandro, Venice, Aldo, 1495 (Greek text), interleaved with 1497–1498 (Latin text), English olive morocco by Charles Lewis, the Botfield copy
    Sotheby’s, Oct. 18: Horatius Flaccus, Horatius, Venice, Aldo, 1501, Bolognese brown goatskin (between 1501 and 1503), arms of Mino Rossi and illuminated initials throughout
    Sotheby’s, Oct. 18: Lucretius, De rerum natura, Venice, Aldo, 1500, English early eighteenth-century red morocco, the Fletcher copy
    Sotheby’s, Oct. 18: Dante, Le terze rime, Venice, Aldo, 1502, illuminated, contemporary Bolognese morocco binding
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