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Details of the auction are to be found at: http://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. Registration is easy and the site does not ask for too many personal details. This is their auction #69. It is now open for viewing with bidding starting tomorrow Thursday 30th August 2018 at 16.30 GMT and closing one week later on Thursday 6th September 2018 at 16.30 GMT (in both cases that being 6.30 pm local time here in SA). We have the following lots on offer: -------------------------------------- Lot 11 #26249 Barbara Lindop GERARD SEKOTO Copy No.16 of 50. Signed by Lindop and Sekoto. The 50 copies were printed for H.F. Oppenheimer for his own distribution. An extensive collection of the artist's work from around 1938 to the 1980s. Artist, now deceased, lived in exile in France for more than 40 years. 21pp autobiographical outline contributed by the painter. Overall an exceptional copy in original slipcase. Lot 223 #23196 C.G. Schillings MIT BLITZLICHT UND BUCHSE (With Flashlight and Rifle). Neue Beobachtugen Und Erlebnisse In Der Wildnis Inmitten Der Tierwelt Von Equatorial Ostafrika. Inscribed "Percy Fitzpatrick, Henley, July 05". This was Sir James Percy Fitzpatrick's own copy. Sir James Percy FitzPatrick, KCMG, known as Percy FitzPatrick, was a South African author, politician, mining financier and pioneer of the fruit industry. He authored the classic children's book, Jock of the Bushveld. As a politician, he defended British Imperial interests before and during the Anglo-Boer War. He was also responsible for the creation of the two minute silence observed on Armistice Day. Lot 224 #23922 (De Beers) HARRY OPPENHEIMER AND THE INDUSTRIAL DIAMOND DIVISION Copy No.20 of 100. "Presented To Mr Harry Frederick Oppenheimer On The Occasion Of the Seventieth Anniversary Of His Birth To Mark His 21st Year Of Leadership Of De Beers Industrial Diamond Division And As A Tribute From His Colleagues , Associates And Friends, In Grateful And Heartfelt Appreciation For The Direction He Has So Ably Provided With Benevolence, Imagination, Sound Judgment, Modesty, And For His Concern In Promoting Mutual Understanding Among His Fellow Men". Includes compliment slip from Harry Oppenheimer to Mrs A. Hall. Includes also stapled booklet "A Chance Discovery That Changed The Future Of The Country", from a speech by Mr H.F. Oppenheimer, with coloured photos, perhaps a reprint from a magazine article. Further includes "The International Diamond Industry", an address by Julian Ogilvie Thompson to the twelfth congress of the Council Of Mining and Metallurgical Institutions, Johannesburg, May 3 1982. Quarter leather over marbled paper covered boards. 39pp folio. No binder's ticket but likely a Peter Carstens binding. Lot 226 #21586 Leslie H. Brown et al. THE BIRDS OF AFRICA. Volumes I to VII. A full 7-volume set of this definitive work. arrangement is by order and not geographically. The Birds of Africa is a superb multi-contributor reference work, with encyclopaedic species texts, paintings of all species and numerous subspecies, hundreds of line drawings, detailed range maps, and bibliographies. Each volume contains an Introduction that brings the reader up to date with the latest developments in African ornithology, including the evolution and biogeography of African birds. Diagnoses of the families and genera, often with superspecies maps, are followed by the comprehensive species accounts themselves. These include descriptions of range and status, field characters, voice, general habits, food, and breeding habits. Full bibliographies, acoustic references, and indexes complete this scholarly work of reference. Note: Some of the volumes are still in print, each at a local retail price in excess of R4000.00 - this lot thus represents incredible value. Most volumes are unobtainable on the used-book market and full new sets are unobtainable. Lot 227 #26069 Tony Harris & Graeme Arnott. SHRIKES OF SOUTHERN AFRICA True Shrikes, Helmet-Shrikes, And Bush-Shrikes, Including The Batises And Black-Throated Wattle-Eye. Warm authorial inscription by Graeme Arnott on title page dd. 'Feb '9'. Lot 230 #26070 Leslie Brown & Dean Amadon EAGLES, HAWKS AND FALCONS OF THE WORLD. Volumes 1 & 2. An exhaustive work aiming to bring together all available knowledge on the diurnal birds of prey of the world. Covers such variables as range, voice, habits, food, breeding &c. All species illustrated. -------------------------------------- Any additional information, images, assistance, as required in connection with the above items and the bidding process can be provided on request - including p&p estimates for overseas clients. IMPORTANT: The items are on the auction and 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 wish to purchase an item at auction-level prices, please bid for it. The auction allows 'proxy bids' whereby it judiciously spends up to your maximum bid to stay just ahead of the other bidders - only as long as they do not have a proxy bid in excess of yours. If you are the only bidder then it will not exceed the reserve price until another bidder enters a higher bid. Speak to us if you are unsure on how to use this feature. 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