AntiquarianAuctions.com Auction #66 Running April 19-26
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Lot 1: South African Police The Nongqai 1907-1913 (Five volume set) Published: Pretoria, 1907-1913. Estimate: $3,000/3,500
The Nongqai was published over a span of 54 years. Although the oldest magazine in South Africa was the African Journal, published in February 1824, the Nongqai counts among the earliest magazines in South Africa Since its inception the SAP magazine underwent several changes of name, i.e. Nongqai, Justitia, SARP, (SAP), and ultimately Servamus.
Lot 7: VOC. Council of Policy Letter of Burghership (Vrybrief). Dated 10 November 1739 (Signed by Hendrik Swellengrebel) Estimate: $1,500/2,000
The document grants Johannes Nille from Nyburg, his freedom. He arrived in the Cape on the ship Noordwadd, in 1736 and was paid 14 guilders a month, employed by the DEIC. He was released from Company employment and given the status of burgher by the signing of this document at the Castle of Good Hope on 10 November 1739.
Lot 199: McClean (William) and others. Fine Boer War Autograph Correspondence, 1900 - 1901. Estimate: $1,000/1,500
An autograph Boer War correspondence/archive from Lieutenant William N. McClean, mainly to his father, the well-known Astronomer Frank McClean and including a few to Sir David Gill, Her Majesty’s Astronomer at the Cape.
Lot 165: “Bob” Remarkable Manuscript Diary of the Siege of Mafeking. Published: Mafeking, 1899 - 1900 Estimate: $2,000/2,500
A remarkable circa 15 thousand word diary/journal of the Siege and Relief of Mafeking written by a British soldier identified only as "Bob". Contained in 4 small notebooks measuring 16 x 10cms. and comprising 143 closely and neatly written pages in the form of letters to his parents in England.
Lot 220: Milbert (J.G.), Deltil (JJ) & Zuber (J.). Papier peint "West Point in New York" on a three-fold screen. Published: France, [19th-century]. Estimate: $3,000/5,000
Papier peint landscape scene of "West Point in New York", backed onto canvas and mounted on a three-fold screen. The set offered an idealized view of the United States under the leadership of Andrew Jackson, as conceived by its designer, Jean-Julien Deltil. He probably never visited the Americas, but did draw from a reliable eye-witness: the set was based on the views made on the spot by Jacques- Gérard Milbert.
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