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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 #59 which runs from 25th May 2017 at 16.30 GMT until 1st June at 16.30 GMT. The Preview is now open. We have the following items on offer: Lot 128 #16535 Basil Worsfold LORD MILNER'S WORK IN SOUTH AFRICA. John Murray. London 1906 1st edition. $40.00 reserve "Containing Hitherto Unpublished Information". A contemporary and hagiographic biography of this controversial figure. Revered in his day, modern sentiment is critical of his aims and role in provoking the Boer War to gain control over the Transvaal Republic using the Uitlander issue. Lot 130 #24910 Captain S.E. St Leger. WAR SKETCHES IN COLOUR A&C. Black. London November 1903 1st edition. $45.00 reserve Colonel Stratford St Leger served with Colonel Alderson's Mounted Infantry, and the 66 full-page illustrations alone are 66 reasons to own this book. The majority feature horses, and many of the sketches were published in the 'Black & White' weekly. His text deals with events from the siege and relief of Kimberley, Sanna's Post, Klipriversberg. A chapter relates 'Life on commando' as related to the author by an anonymous burgher. Lot 132 #24420 Johannes Meintjes.Tafelberg. THE COMMANDANT GENERAL Cape Town 1971 1st edition. $40.00 reserve Still the definitive biography of a Boer War hero. Lot 133 #24457 Johannes Meintjes. GENERAL LOUIS BOTHA Cassell. London 1970 1st edition. $50.00 reserve A biography of one of South Africa's most able generals in the Boer War. As premier of the Transvaal and later of the Union of South Africa he was a controversial character and made many enemies through his support for Britain in 1914 which resulted in the Maritz, or Afrikaner, rebellion. Lot 172 #17760 Major F.B. Adler. THE HISTORY OF THE TRANSVAAL HORSE ARTILLERY Speciality Press. Johannesburg 1927. $95.00 reserve Formed March 1904, the unit saw action in the Natal Rebelliion, the German South West Africa campaign, and in the european theatre of the first World War. Author was Officer Commanding THA. Extensive appendices including Rolls of Honour. Lot 173 #11750 Roald Amundsen & Lincoln Ellsworth. THE FIRST FLIGHT ACROSS THE POLAR SEA Hutchinson. London nd (c.1927). $50.00 reserve This 1925 flight was undertaken in the Italian dirigible N1 rechristened as Norge. The flight reached latitude 88° North. Lot 174 #24267 P.P. Howell. A MANUAL OF NUER LAW International African Institute / Oxford University Press 1970 reprint. $40.00 reserve Intended for colonial administrators, and written by a member of the Sudan Political Service, it also includes a summary account of the history and social organisation of the Nuer, and a descriptive analysis of their customary practices concerning homicide, blood-feuds, marriage and divorce. Cites numerous court cases. Foreword by E.E. Evans-Pritchard. Lot 175 #24456 Eric Rosenthal. GENERAL DE WET Simondium. Cape Town 1968 2nd edition. $40.00 reserve This edition contains additional material and illustrations not in the Dassie and Unie-Volkspers editions of the same title. The only English biography of this famous Boer General. Lot 177 #24614 Sir George Arthur. LIFE OF LORD KITCHENER Macmillan. London 1920 1st edition. $75.00 reserve Chapter 23 in Vol. 1 through to Chapter 56 in Vol. 2 deal with the Boer War. Lot 179 #24622 Sir George Douglas. THE LIFE OF MAJOR-GENERAL WAUCHOPE Hodder and Stoughton. London 1904 1st edition. $40.00 reserve Chapter VII "Transvaal Campaign ..." , Chapter XIII "The Boer War - Extracts From Letters - Magersfontein - Death And Burial - Conclusion". There is a memorial at the site of his death. Any additional information, images, assistance, in connection with the above items and the bidding process provided with pleasure on request. Please note: The items are on the auction, no pre-auction offers will be considered. Items will, if unsold, revert to our previous listed price and no post-auction offers will be considered. If you want the item at auction-level prices, please bid for it. Bidding opens: 25 May 2017 16:30 GMT Bidding closes: 1 June 2017 16:30 GMT Successful bidding! e&oe. descriptions and prices on antiquarianauctions.com take precedence over the above. 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