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Fontein Books
| Address: | 27 Voortrekker Street, Philippolis 9970 |
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| Contact Person: | Richard Proctor-Sims | ||
| Country of Origin | South Africa | ||
| Email: | fontein@wol.co.za | ||
| Trade Association: | AA Approved | ||
| Additional Info: | Fontein Books has for several years participated in Antiquarian Auctions and its predecessor. It specialises in historical and contemporary books on the Free State and Northern Karoo, and is also an active buyer and seller on commission in these and other fields. Fontein's owner, Richard Proctor-Sims, was an editor, writer and small publisher until 2005, when he moved from Johannesburg to Philippolis, the first settlement (1822) north of the Gariep or Orange River, where he opened his first physical bookshop (to which buyers and sellers are welcome), with reasonable holdings in Africana, both Anglo-Boer wars, biography, history, military history, natural history and travel. He regularly visits Bloemfontein, Johannesburg, Pretoria, Port Elizabeth and Cape Town and offers to deliver heavy or valuable books or sets to these cities on such visits. Richard Proctor-Sims retains the copyright of Fontein's Antiquarian Auction descriptions and these may not be reproduced without permission and acknowledgment. | ||
Results in Auction #18
| Lot | Author | Title | Hammer Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| 97 | Anon | South African Field Force Casualty List 1899-1902 (1973) | $75 |
| 101 | Bennett, Ernest N | With Methuen's Column on an Ambulance Train (1900) | $150 |
| 104 | Byron, Captain (ed) | The Grouse. South Africa. January 14th 1901 | $400 |
| 107 | Doyle, Arthur Conan | The Great Boer War (1900) | $105 |
| 126 | Wilson, H W | After Pretoria. The Guerilla War (2 vols; [1902]) | $150 |
| 175 | Cape Times | The Relief of Ladysmith and Other War News. In Cape Times Weekend Edition 23 May 1900 | $100 |
| 176 | Bradlow, Frank R (chairman, John and Charles Bell Heritage Trust) | Charles Davidson Bell. Hunting Sketches. Hunting the Rhinoceros (1984) | $100 |
| 183 | Mossop, E E | The Journals of Wikar, Coetse [Jansz] and W van Reenen (1935) | $50 |
| 186 | South African Library (Robinson and others, editors) | A South African Bibliography to 1925, Supplement and Indexes (English and Afrikaans; 6 vols; 1979-1997) | $250 |
| 191 | Meiring, Hannes (artist) with text by G-M van der Waal and Wilhelm Grutter, in cooperation with Anna Jonker | Early Johannesburg. Its Buildings and its People (1986) | $35 |
| 494 | Tas, Adam to Alan Paton | VRS Fine Second Series 1-40 (1970-2009) | $750 |
