Hello, We list below items that we have on antiquarianauctions.com auction No. #34.
Full descriptions with images and reserve pricing are given on the auction site. http://www.antiquarianauctions.com The auction is on preview now, full details are available once the auction opens for bidding. The auction commences on Thursday 17th April and finishes the following Thursday 24th April at 18.30 local time (16.30 GMT). You need to register to take part in the auction and either myself or antiquarianauctions.com will be pleased to assist you with the bidding process - which is actually simplicity in itself. If you can log in, you can bid. There is _no_ buyers premium payable on hammer prices (up to 25% on conventional auctions). The winning bid is the price that is paid (hopefully by you, but excluding p&p). -------------------------------------- Lot No.22 ALS to Benjamin Moodie dd 4th October 1851 SIGNED BY SIR HARRY SMITH with official Cape Colony embossed seal. This official letter appoints Benjamin Moodie as a Member of the Legislative Council of the Cape Colony. Couched in regal terms - "Her Majesty hath appointed and declared that there shall be within the Settlement a Council to be called the Legislative Council ...) Benjamin Moodie was appointed a Member of the Council "at Her Majesty's pleasure". Needless to say this is a unique item in the true meaning of the word. Harry Smith (Lieutenant General Sir Henry George Wakelyn Smith, 1st Baronet of Aliwal GCB (28 June 1787 – 12 October 1860) was then Governor of the Cape Colony. A transcription of this letter is available on request. ------------------------------------- Lot No.23 Thomas Pringle COPY OF AN ADDRESS RECOMMENDING THE INSTITUTION OF A LITERARY SOCIETY IN SOUTH AFRICA.Delivered At A Meeting Of A Few Gentlemen, Held At The House Of Messrs. Thompson And Pillars On Thursday, The 22nd July 1824. Thomas Pringle was then Secretary of his proposed Literary Society. The Address is followed by "Report Of The Committe Appointed For The Purpose Of Drawing Up Some Regulations For The South African Literary Society: Submitted To The Members Assembled On The 3d And 11th Of August 1824". There are also the Society's Rules, a List Of The Members, and an extract from the Minutes Of A Meeting held on the 11th August 1824 wherein the Committee "resolved unanimously, that His Excellency the Governor The Right Honourable Lord Charles Somerset, be requested to become the Patron ...". Printed by W. Bridekirk this may be the only copy of this item extant. Our searches have yielded no copies of this in local libraries, nor in the British Library. ------------------------------------- Lot No.24 Donald Moodie AN ENQUIRY INTO THE JUSTICE AND EXPEDIENCY OF COMPLETING THE PUBLICATION OF The Authentic Records Of The Colony Of The Cape Of Good Hope Relative To The Aboriginal Tribes. The document commences with the page "To The Right Honourable Lord John Russell". This is followed by "Memorandum For The Information Of Subscribers ..." (29pp), then the "Report Of The Committee To The Subscribers To The Fund ..." (8pp), then the Remarks Upon Some Of The Results Developed By The Publication Of A Portion Of The Cape Records ..." (48pp). Cape Town & London 1841. ------------------------------------- Lot No.25 John Fairbairn ALS to Benjamin Moodie dd. April 17th 1829. Postmarked Cape Town this was addressed to Benj. Moodie at his farm Groot Vader's Bosch in Swellendam. This is a general letter between friends. He gives all the current news which involves the imposition of import duties, Stockenstrom's departure to the frontier, clearing the neutral territory, Gaika, his memorial to the government concerning societies, an intended trip to Uitenhage & Grahams Town, comments upon a book by Cobbet on Indian corn, the benefits of rising early and other personal matters A transcription of this letter is available on request. ------------------------------------- Lot No.26 John Fairbairn AN HUMBLE DEPRECATION OF THE WRATH OF THE GREAT GOVERNMENT QUARTERLY REVIEW Autograph poem believed in the hand of John Fairbairn. This poem could have been intended to poke fun at the administration of the Cape, perhaps that of Lord Charles Somerset. undated & unsigned. A transcription of this writing is available on request. ------------------------------------- Lot 27. Thomas Pringle ALS to Benjamin Moodie. Two letters. one dated October 22 1824 from Pringle at Genadenthal? to Moodie at Bethelsdorp. the other dated Uitenhage January 1826 to Moodie at variously Swellendam & Cape Town. The first letter concerns small private issues whereby Moodie has undertaken to assist Pringle. The second letter is written only weeks before he left the Cape Colony for England. ... "enable me to leave this blessed colony". A transcription of these letters are available on request. ------------------------------------- Lot 28 Esme Burman ART & ARTISTS OF SOUTH AFRICA An Illustrated Biographical Dictionary And Historical Survey Of Painters, Sculptors & Graphic Artists Since 1875. Southern 1993 3rd edition ------------------------------------- Notes: We have full provenance for all items auctioned. Items on this auction are not available for pre-auction offers. Items unsold on the auction will be returned immediately to shop price on conclusion of the auction. 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