Hello. We have the following nine lots on auction. This auction opens for bidding tomorrow, Wednesday 18th August 2021 at 16.30 GMT (18.30 local time).
Mostly of African interest, but not all exclusively so. We have items of erotic interest on this same auction. Please email us if you are interested to receive details. ----------------------------------------- Lot 174 #28029 Hermann Jacobsen. A HANDBOOK OF SUCCULENT PLANTS. Descriptions, Synonyms And Cultural Details For Succulents Other Than Cactaceae. 3 volumes. Published: Blandford Press 1960 Volume 1 Abromeitella To Euphorbia. Volume 2 Ficus To Zygophyllum. Volume 3 Mesembryanthemums. A definitive work upon the succulents, providing a history of the genus, forms, uses, cultivation, and enumeration, followed by an exhaustive alphabetical listing of families and genera. 3 volumes with 1441pp total, illustrated b/w, 3 folding maps. 8vo. To see this item use this URL: https://tinyurl.com/zru2cmr3 Lot 248 #27933 Alan Elsdon. THE TALL ASSASSIN. The Darkest Political Murders Of The Old South Africa Publisher: Self 2011 The Tall Assassin tells of a reign of terror marked by several political murders in one man's zealous quest to combat communism. For many, General Hendrik van den Bergh was the most feared man in the old South Africa. He was the head of BOSS, the Bureau of State Security, and The Tall Assassin tells of his dealings. The book draws on facts, reconstructing likely scenarios where details were not obtainable. Van den Bergh, who was responsible for the arrest of Nelson Mandela, built a formidable intelligence network linking into MI5, the CIA, Mossad, and French and German intelligence agencies. According to this book, he may have been involved in the assassination of H.F. Verwoerd, the death of Nic Diederichs, Steve Biko's murder, as well as the murder of Anton Lubowski and Professor Johan Heyns. Two of the most infamous murders in which this book implicates the general are those of Dr Robert Smit and his wife in 1977. This murder mystery has never been solved, but here a compelling explanation is offered for the meaning of the mysterious words 'RAU TEM' painted on the Smits' kitchen wall. >From a meeting of minds in an internment camp at Koffiefontein, to the paranoid sixties, the tumultuous seventies and the Information Scandal that rocked the National Party establishment, The Tall Assassin paints a terrifying picture of ideology driving a regime's agents into a moral free fall. To see this book use this URL: https://tinyurl.com/zj8ycct9 Lot 256 #21817 Muriel Kavanagh. (as told by Frank Connock).WHEELS. The Frank Connock Story. Publisher: Juta 1958 Experiencing the 9th Frontier War, a champion cyclist, trekking by ox-wagon from the Cape to the Transvaal and to Mashonaland, making the first car trip from Durban to Cape Town via Johannesburg, and founding and retiring from his own motor retail outlet (Connocks), his active life spanned many tumultuous changes. Includes tipped-in 3pp personal letter from him to P. MacFarlane who has inscribed this his own book. Also newspaper clipping with photograph of show committee (appears to be cut from motor car supplement). To see this book use this URL: https://tinyurl.com/468pzu6s Lot 271 #27467 Rodger Commercial & Press Photos. GANDHI AND JINNAH Original photograph showing Gandhi & Jinnah walking side by side. Black & white single-weight bromide print, 207mm high x 162mm wider. Nice condition, well processed and no deterioration of the image. To see this book use this URL: https://tinyurl.com/yuxe2npw Lot 273 #25631 Margaret Harradine PORT ELIZABETH A Social Chronicle To The End Of 1945. Publisher: Waltons 1994 Author was the head Africana librarian in the Port Elizabeth City Libraries for many years. Contains a detailed chronology of events in Port Elizabeth from 1488 to 1945 with a brief biographical section relating to names mentioned in the former, photographs, maps, and a detailed index. Publication celebrates the 150th anniversary of the publisher. An excellent compendium with many illustrations. Not an easy item to find. To see this book use this URL: https://tinyurl.com/hp2y69hx Lot 274 #27520 Tom Swallow & Arthur H. Pill et al. FLYWHEEL Memories Of The Open Road. Publisher: Webb & Bower / Michael Joseph 1987. Inscribed on title page "Best Wishes, T. Swallow". A reproduction of motoring magazines produced during World War 2 by prisoners-of-war, as the Muhlberg Motor Club, Stalag IVB, Germany 1944-1945. Note that the Xmas issue for December 1944 under the article "Christmas Through The Empire" features an article by J. Will on motor racing experiences in South Africa over the Christmas and New Year holiday season at the Prince George circuit in East London. To see this book use this URL: https://tinyurl.com/uzy8uxde Lot 275 #27363 Norman Edwards. CADBURY ON THE GOLD COAST. A Brief Survey Of The Commercial And Social Activities Of Cadbury Brothers Limited ... Publisher: Cadbury, Bournville. Printed For Private Circulation 1955. "... (In Conjunction With J.S. Fry & Sons Ltd) In That Colony 1900-1954 (With A Note On Rowntree-Fry-Cadbury Activities In Nigeria)". This is a historical survey of the Company's operations in the Gold Coast Colony with information on both the company's operations, its staff, and the raw product. Various appendices and supplements. Printed green cloth board. roneoed foolscap 68pp +3pp +12pp original glossy photographic prints (32 scenes) and maps. To see this book use this URL: https://tinyurl.com/r9v995d9 Lot 277 #28068 Gary Kegel & Brian Bennett. SUNSET ON KYALAMI 1961-1971 Publisher: Genuine Classics 2007 Inscribed "Best Wishes" by both authors to front pastedown. Covers each individual race with entrants, results, and excellent colour photographs. A treasure of a book for the motor-racing enthusiast, an excellent production on gloss art paper, hardcover, well bound. To see this book use this URL: https://tinyurl.com/3crdpz3r Lot 278 #28069 Walter Thornbury. THE LIFE OF J.M.W. TURNER. Founded On Letters And Papers Furnished By His Friends And Fellow-Academicians Publisher: Chatto & Windus. A New Edition Revised And Mostly Rewritten Bound gilt device on green calf, 5 raised bands, marbled eps at rear only. 636pp illustrated coloured plates (facsimilied in colour from Turner's original drawing with tissue guards, and some b/w plates also. To see this book use this URL: https://tinyurl.com/hsybt89a ------------------------------------------- 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. You need to register as a seller to make a bid. Contact us if you have problems with this. 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. Note: 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. 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