Hello, We have put the following 8 items on auction. Note the last item, a signed copy of Nelson Mandela's LONG WALK TO FREEDOM at an especially low price.
Details of the auction are to be found at: www.antiquarianauctions.com Visit this site for fuller descriptions and images. You need to register to take part in the auction and 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. This is their auction #54 which runs from 6th October at 16.30 GMT until 13th October at 16.30 GMT. The Preview starts this Friday 23rd October. We have the following items on offer: Lot 70 #25089 Colin Coetzee. FORTS OF THE EASTERN CAPE. $200.00 Copy No.33. Signed by Author and dated 31/8/1995 This is an extensive scholarly work detailing the location, construction, and history of forts, fortifications, posts, bridges, prisons, earthworks. watchtowers, guard houses, hospitals, cemeteries, signal towers, roads etc. Effectively all British military works & structures built in the Eastern Cape during the 19thC are detailed here Illustrated with coloured photographs, maps, plans, sketches. Numerous appendices, extensive list of sources. A major work on South African military history. Gilt title decorated red cloth boards. 695pp illustrated colour. 4to. Lot 34. #24558 BLACK AND WHITE (BUDGET) $50.00 3 volumes of this weekly magazine, devoted to the Boer War. Extensively illustrated. Black and White Publishing Company, (14 October 1899 to June 30 1900). 3 volumes bound original green half calf over textured boards. all edges marbled. Lot 27 #24470 Walter Battis. TRANSVAAL KLOOF $250.00 An early etching 163mm x 149mm impressed onto 203mm x 160mm thin card Signed 'W.W. Battiss 1929'. At this time Battis was probably in Rustenburg. Lot 26 #24469 Walter Battiss. FOOK ISLAND BANKNOTE $200.00 Pencil design on thin card for Fook Island 2 Aks banknote. 128mm x 72mm.undated. The design features various pictorial elements, and the border is made up of fooklore wording "fly to Fook Island on an albatross, come away by dolphin ...". Wording on rear reads "Prof. Walter Battis. Pretoria" in matching style to that of signature on lot 27. Lot 22 #22160 Major-General Francis W. Stubbs HISTORY OF THE ORGANIZATION, EQUIPMENT, AND WAR SERVICES OF THE REGIMENT OF BENGAL ARTILLERY. $200.00 Henry S. King (Vols. 1 $ 2. & W.H. Allen (Vol. 3)., London., 1877, 1877, 1895. Authors own copies with his bookplate to Volume 1 and the following inscription ffep: "Private copy for information and additions". The neat correctional and informational annotations throughout the three volumes are in the same hand, and appeared in a later printing. There are tipped-in new handwritten paragraphs, tables, appendices, etc. Scarce anyway, this is a unique set. Handwriting verified. Lot 21 #24559 Barnabas Shaw MEMORIALS OF SOUTHERN AFRICA. $200.00 Mason, Hamilton & Adams. and Thomas Riley. London 1841. Combines a history of the country with accounts of the Author's travels and work as a Weslyan missionary in Namaqualand, Damaraland, Bechuanaland, the Cape, also throughout Albany and Kaffraria. Includes much other information, including a brief account of the missionary William Threllfall who was murdered in Namaqualand, 1825. Lot 20 #24840 Constantinus Tischendorf VETUS TESTAMENTUM $45.00 … Emendatius Edidit, Argumenta Et Locos Novi Testamenti Parallelos Notavit, Omnem Lectionis Varietatum Codicum Vetustissimorum Alexandrini, Ephraemi Syri, Friderico-Augustani Subjunxit, Prolegomenis Et Epilegomenis Instruxit. Editio Quarta. Identidem Emandata, Prolegomenis Passimque Etiam Commentariis Ex Codice Sinaitico Aliisque Auctis. 2 volumes. half leather over marbled boards. 5 raised bands, gilt on black title label. 616pp & cxii + 682pp. 8vo. Lot 19 #22793 Nelson Mandela LONG WALK TO FREEDOM $750.00 Little, Brown & Company, London, 1994 Gilt on quarter black leather over green cloth boards top edge gilt, 630pages, illustrated, 8vo., excellent custom dark green leather slipcase. No dust wrapper as issued. Copy No.445 of 1000. Signed by Nelson Mandela. Note that this limited edition with the publisher's limitation page automatically carries an authentic Mandela signature. There is no need for so-called 'authentication certificates' as offered with many of the standard editions purportedly signed by Mandela. This is a genuine Mandela signature, there is no way it could be otherwise. Please note: The items are on the auction, no pre-auction offers will be considered. Items will, if unsold, revert to our normal listed price and no post-auction offers will be considered. Successful bidding! e&oe. descriptions on antiquarianauctions.com take precedence over the above. Best Regards Ian Balchin -- Fables Bookshop (Proprietor: Ian Balchin) Est. 1990 119 High Street, Grahamstown, 6139, South Africa. 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