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Bonhams, Jun 13 results: Darwin, Charles. On the Origin of Species. Presentation Copy. Sold for $500,075.

Bonhams, Jun 13 results: Darwin, Charles. Autograph Letter Signed, 3 pp, negotiating the 2nd American edition with Appleton. Sold for $21,325.

Bonhams, Jun 13 results: Hemingway, Ernest. Autograph Letter Signed, 8 pp, Paris, 1924, to his father discussing Bullfighting, Stories, and his new baby. Sold for $25,075.

Bonhams, Jun 13 results: Shakespeare, William. Corialanus. London, 1623. 1st printing [Extracted from the First Folio]. Sold for $50,075.

Bonhams, Jun 13 results: Swift, Jonathan. Gulliver's Travels. London, 1726. 1st edition, Teerink's A edition, fine, large copy. Sold for $21,325.

Bonhams, Jun 13 results: Fitzroy, Robert. Autograph Letter Signed to agent Thomas Stilwell, informing him of the progress of H.M.S. Beagle. Sold for $17,575.

<center>Bonhams Property from the Collection of Nicole and William R. Keck II

Bonhams, Jun 13 results: Shakespeare, William. Sonnets. 1901. 2 volumes. Printed on vellum and illuminated by Ross Turner, bound by Trautz-Bauzonnet. Sold for $13,825.

Bonhams, Jun 13 results: Beardsley, Aubrey. The Birth, Life, and Acts of King Arthur. 1893-94. 2 volumes. Contemporary painted vellum gilt by Chivers. Sold for $5,325.

Bonhams, Jun 13 results: Assisi, St. Francis. The Canticle of Brother Sun. Illuminated on vellum, for the Grolier Society. Sold for $7,575.

Bonhams, Jun 13 results: Proust, Marcel. Du coté de chez Swann. 1st edition, 1st issue. Inscribed by Proust. Sold for $8,825.

Bonhams, Jun 13 results: Rackham, Arthur. Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens. 1/500 copies signed by Rackham. Sold for $4,825.
Chiswick Auctions: Rowling (J.K). Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, FIRST EDITION, first issue, 1997. £15,000 to £20,000
Doyle, Travel & Sport in Africa from the Library of Arnold “Jake” Johnson: Online-Only Auction. Now through June 18

Doyle, Travel & Sport in Africa from the Library of Arnold “Jake” Johnson: MYERS, ARTHUR B.[OWEN] R.[ICHARDS] Life with the Hamran Arabs... $500 to $800

Doyle, Travel & Sport in Africa from the Library of Arnold “Jake” Johnson: LYELL, D. D. Nyasaland for the Hunter and Settler. $600 to $800

Doyle, Travel & Sport in Africa from the Library of Arnold “Jake” Johnson: JOHNSON, ISAAC CHARLES Sport on the Blue Nile… $600 to $900

Doyle, Travel & Sport in Africa from the Library of Arnold “Jake” Johnson: Online-Only Auction. Now through June 18

Doyle, Travel & Sport in Africa from the Library of Arnold “Jake” Johnson: BETHELL, ALFRED J. Notes on South African Hunting and Notes on a Ride to the Victoria Falls… $600 to $900

Doyle, Travel & Sport in Africa from the Library of Arnold “Jake” Johnson: BISHOP, B. F. Game & Visitor's Book. $500 to $800

Doyle, Travel & Sport in Africa from the Library of Arnold "Jake" Johnson: BYRON, EDMUND What We Did in South Africa in 1873. $600 to $900
<center>Sotheby’s Fine Books and Manuscripts Online Now through June 21

Sotheby’s Online, June 21: THOREAU, HENRY DAVID. Walden: or, Life in the Woods. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1854. $15,000 to $20,000

Sotheby’s Online, June 21: BUKOWSKI, CHARLES. Archive of Correspondence Addressed to Kay "Kaja" Johnson, Los Angeles, California: July – November 1961. $20,000 to $30,000

Sotheby’s Online, June 21: DICKENS, CHARLES, AND GEORGE CRUIKSHANK [ILLUSTRATOR]. Unpublished autograph letter signed, to Cruikshank, completed on the artist's proof, related to the publication of The Pic-Nic Papers. $7,000 to $10,000

<center>Sotheby’s Fine Books and Manuscripts Online Now through June 21

Sotheby’s Online, June 21: FEYNMAN, RICHARD. "Surely You’re Joking Mr. Feynman!" Adventures of a Curious Character. As Told to Ralph Leighton. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1985. $12,000 to $18,000

Sotheby’s Online, June 21: GERSHWIN, GEORGE. Autograph music manuscript of "Leavin’ for de Promise’ Lan’" from the opera Porgy and Bess, Act One Scene Two. $25,000 to $35,000

Sotheby’s Online, June 21: LINCOLN, ABRAHAM. Document signed ("Abraham Lincoln") as sixteenth president, being a military commission for Rufus H. Johnson. $8,000 to $10,000

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<center>Dominic Winter Auctioneers Printed Books, Maps & Documents, Children’s Books & Modern First Editions June 19/20 

Dominic Winter Auctioneers June 19/20: Cook, James. A Voyage towards the South Pole, 1st edition, 1777. Presentation copy to James Furneaux. £3,000 to £5,000

Dominic Winter Auctioneers June 19/20: Mathews, Gregory M. The Birds of Australia, 13 volumes, 1st edition, 1910-27. A fine set, with 600 hand-coloured lithographs. £3,000 to £5,000

Dominic Winter Auctioneers June 19/20: Shelley, George Ernest. Monograph of the Nectariniidae, 1st edition, 1876-80. With 121 hand-coloured lithographic plates by Keulemans. £2,000 to £3,000

<center>Dominic Winter Auctioneers Printed Books, Maps & Documents, Children’s Books & Modern First Editions June 19/20 

Dominic Winter Auctioneers June 19/20: Nostradamus, Michel de. The True Prophecies or Prognostications, 1st edition in English, 1672. £3,000 to £5,000

Dominic Winter Auctioneers June 19/20: Collodi, Carlo. Le Avventure di Pinocchio, 1st edition, 1883. Original cloth. £6,000 to £8,000

Dominic Winter Auctioneers June 19/20: Kelmscott Press. The Life and Death of Jason, 1895. One of 200 copies on paper. £2,000 to £3,000

<center>Dominic Winter Auctioneers Printed Books, Maps & Documents, Children’s Books & Modern First Editions June 19/20 

Dominic Winter Auctioneers June 19/20: Ambler, Eric. Uncommon Danger, 1st edition, 1937. With the dust jacket. £1,500 to £2,000

Dominic Winter Auctioneers June 19/20: Huxley, Aldous. Crome Yellow, 1st edition, 1921. Rare in the dust jacket. £2,000 to £3,000

Dominic Winter Auctioneers June 19/20: Isherwood, Christopher. Goodbye to Berlin, 1st edition, 1939. With the dust jacket, £1,000 to £1,500

<center>Dominic Winter Auctioneers Printed Books, Maps & Documents, Children’s Books & Modern First Editions June 19/20 

Dominic Winter Auctioneers June 19/20: Lewis, C. S. Autograph letter signed to Charles Jasper Sisson (1885-1966), 1937. £1,000 to £1,500

Dominic Winter Auctioneers June 19/20: Tolkien, J. R. R. The Lord of the Rings, 1956-7. Signed by Tolkien in each volume. £7,000 to £10,000

Dominic Winter Auctioneers June 19/20: Wells, H. G. The War of the Worlds, 1st edition, 1898. Inscribed by Wells with autograph self-portrait. £3,000 to £5,000
<center>Dominic Winter Auctioneers The Library and Picture Collection of the late Martin Woolf Orskey June 26

Dominic Winter Auctioneers June 26: Book of Hours. Illuminated manuscript, Flanders or northern France, c. 1450. With 12 full-page illuminated miniatures. £10,000 to £15,000

Dominic Winter Auctioneers June 26: Zahrawi, Abu’-Qasim, al- (c. 936-1013). Albucasis chirurgicorum omnium, Strasbourg, 1532. The first comprehensive illustrated treatise on surgery. £3,000 to £5,000

Dominic Winter Auctioneers June 26: Milles, Thomas. The Custumers Alphabet and Primer, 1608. Gilt supralibros of 17th-century English bibliophile Edward Gwynn. £2,000 to £3,000

<center>Dominic Winter Auctioneers The Library and Picture Collection of the late Martin Woolf Orskey June 26

Dominic Winter Auctioneers June 26: Guillemeau, Jacques. Child-Birth or, the Happy Deliverie of Women, 1st edition in English, 1612. The second midwifery manual printed in English. £1,500 to £2,000

Dominic Winter Auctioneers June 26: Rabisha, William. The Whole Body of Cookery Dissected, 1st edition, 1661. Rare. Five copies in libraries. £2,000 to £3,000

Dominic Winter Auctioneers June 26: Royal binding. An Abridgment of the English Military Discipline, 1678. Contemporary red goatskin gilt by Samuel Mearne for Charles II (1630-1865). £1,500 to £2,000

<center>Dominic Winter Auctioneers The Library and Picture Collection of the late Martin Woolf Orskey June 26

Dominic Winter Auctioneers June 26: Pallavicino, Ferrante. The Whores Rhetorick, 1st edition in English, 1683. Rare anti-Jesuit satire. £2,000 to £3,000

Dominic Winter Auctioneers June 26: Swift, Jonathan. The Benefit of Farting, 1st London edition, 1722. Teerink 19. £2,000 to £3,000

Dominic Winter Auctioneers June 26: Edwards, George. Natural History of Uncommon Birds [and] Gleanings of Natural History, 7 volumes, 1743-64. Contemporary tree calf, 362 hand-coloured engraved plates. £8,000 to £12,000

<center>Dominic Winter Auctioneers The Library and Picture Collection of the late Martin Woolf Orskey June 26

Dominic Winter Auctioneers June 26: Campbell, Patrick. Travels in the Interior Inhabited Parts of North America, 1st edition, 1793. Howes C101; Sabin 10264. Uncut in original boards. £5,000 to £8,000

Dominic Winter Auctioneers June 26: Hearne, Samuel. A Journey from Prince of Wales's Fort in Hudson's Bay, to the Northern Ocean, 1st edition, 1795. Sabin 31181. Large-paper copy. £2,000 to £3,000

Dominic Winter Auctioneers June 26: Edgeworth, Maria. The Match Girl, A Novel, 1808. £1,000 to £1,500
Swann Auction Galleries June 20: NYC pride parade photos by Hank O’Neal, annotated on verso by Allen Ginsberg, 1970s. Pictured is Marsha P. Johnson. $70,000 to $100,000.

Swann Auction Galleries June 20: David Wojnarowicz, Neon Dancer, postcard signed to Jim Fouratt, 1982. $5,000 to $8,000.

Swann Auction Galleries June 20: Personal papers of Candy Darling, New York, circa 1950s-1973. $20,000 to $30,000.

Swann Auction Galleries June 20: Walt Whitman, Memoranda of the War, Remembrance Copy, inscribed to Peter Doyle, from “the author with his love,” Camden, 1875-76. $50,000 to $75,000.

Swann Auction Galleries June 20: Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People, first edition, signed, London, 1899. $50,000 to $70,000.

Swann Auction Galleries June 20: James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room, first edition, presentation copy, New York, 1956. $1,800 to $2,500.

Swann Auction Galleries June 20: JEB (Joan E. Biren), Ginger and Catherine, silver print, 1972. $700 to $1,000.

Swann Auction Galleries June 20: Su Negrin, Gay Liberation, photograph by Peter Hujar, poster published by Times Change Press, 1970. $400 to $600.

Swann Auction Galleries June 20: Harvey Milk, Autograph Letter Signed, as acting Mayor of San Francisco, March 7, 1978. $4,000 to $6,000.

Swann Auction Galleries May 23: Lester Beall, Rural Electrification Administration, 1939. $20,000 to $30,000.

Swann Auction Galleries June 20: Gerda Wegener, Two Women in a Window, watercolor, chalk & wash, circa 1920. $15,000 to $25,000.

Swann Auction Galleries June 20: Jean Cocteau, original sketchbook, Le Mystère et Antigone, including sketches of his lover Jean Desbordes, 1932. $30,000 to $40,000.

Swann Auction Galleries June 20: Djuna Barnes, Ladies Almanack . . . Written & Illustrated by A Lady of Fashion, limited edition, signed & inscribed to her literary executor, 1928. $10,000 to $15,000.
Fonsie Mealy Auctioneers: Rare Book & Collectible Sale. June 18, 2019

Fonsie Mealy Auctioneers, June 18: Joyce (James). Ulysses. Shakespeare and Company, Paris 1922, First Edition, No. 30 of 100 copies. Signed by Joyce and printed on fine Dutch handmade paper. €70,000 to €90,000

Fonsie Mealy Auctioneers, June 18: A very important collection of accounts, draft statements, ledgers etc., from the archive of Domhnall Ua Conchubhair [O’Connor] [1872-1935]. €15,000 to €20,000

Fonsie Mealy Auctioneers, June 18: Joyce (James). De Honni-Soit a Mal-y-Chance. Mesures, 15 Janvier 1936. [French translation of Joyce’s essay from a banned writer to a banned signer, a tribute to John Sullivan]. €7,000 to €10,000

Fonsie Mealy Auctioneers: Rare Book & Collectible Sale. June 18, 2019

Fonsie Mealy Auctioneers, June 18: Joyce (James). Finnegans Wake, 8vo L. (Faber & Faber) 1939, Signed and Limited 21 (450) Copies. €1,500 to €2,000

Fonsie Mealy Auctioneers, June 18: Swift (Jonathan). The Works of J.S. D.D., D.S.P.D., Vol. I – Vol. XVIII, together 18 vols. Faulkner’s Edition of Swift – Lord Orrery’s Copy. €1,000 to €1,500

Fonsie Mealy Auctioneers, June 18: Eyzinger (Michael). Ad Leonis Belgici Topographicam atque Historicam Descriptionem, 2 vols.in one, [Cologne] 1586. Excessively rare 16th century work with 162 double page engravings. €1,000 to €1,500

Fonsie Mealy Auctioneers: Rare Book & Collectible Sale. June 18, 2019

Fonsie Mealy Auctioneers, June 18: Yeats (W.B.). The Dublin University Review, issue for June 1886, containing the first printing of Yeats’ poem “Mosada” at pp. 473-483. €800 to €1,200

Fonsie Mealy Auctioneers, June 18: Heaney (Seamus) & O’Neill (T.) Columcille The Scribe, Single m/ss on vellum, R.I.A. 2004, #95 (of 100) copies. €800 to €1,000

Fonsie Mealy Auctioneers, June 18: Bonaparte (Napoleon). A French Republic Brevet (Republique Francaise) Department of War manuscript and printed document appointing Gaspard Bourves to Captain. Signed. €600 to €700

Fonsie Mealy Auctioneers: Rare Book & Collectible Sale. June 18, 2019

Fonsie Mealy Auctioneers, June 18: Irish Broadsides Ballads: A folio Album containing approx. 70 Dublin printed broadside ballads, mostly by Brereton, Lr. Exchange St., and with wd. cut illus. at head. €400 to €600

Fonsie Mealy Auctioneers, June 18: Anon. The State of Irish Affairs, For the Honourable Members of the Houses of Parliament…. 4to Lond. (G. Miller) 1645. €300 to €400

Fonsie Mealy Auctioneers, June 18: [Graham (Doctor James)]. A Lecture on the Generation Increase and Improvement of the Human Species…, 8vo L. (M. Smith) [c. 1784]. €200 to €300