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AntiquarianAuctions.com - Auction 135: Highlights include Hortus Sanitatis, an early Latin natural history encyclopaedia documenting species from the natural word, their medicinal uses and modes of preparation. Also, on offer the 1520 first edition of Johannes Boemus’s Repertorium Librorum Trium, recognised as the first systematic ethnographic work.

South African history features prominently with The Times of Spitzkop, an 1897 goldfields camp newspaper offering a rare glimpse into life during the Transvaal gold rush.