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Fonsie Mealy’s
Chatsworth Summer Fine Art Sale
18th June 2025Fonsie Mealy, June 18: William IV, c1830, oversized slope-top Rosewood Davenport Desk, Attributed to Gillows of Lancaster. With Provenance to Oscar Wilde.Fonsie Mealy, June 18: William IV, c1830, oversized slope-top Rosewood Davenport Desk, Attributed to Gillows of Lancaster. With Provenance to Oscar Wilde.Fonsie Mealy, June 18: William IV, c1830, oversized slope-top Rosewood Davenport Desk, Attributed to Gillows of Lancaster. With Provenance to Oscar Wilde.Fonsie Mealy, June 18: French Bateau Bed, exhibition piece from the Exposition Universelle—The Paris World’s Fair, 1878. Third quarter of the 19th century. With Provenance to Oscar Wilde. -
Bonhams, June 16-24: KELMSCOTT PRESS. RUSKIN. The Nature of Gothic. 1892. $1,500 - $2,500Bonhams, June 16-24: ASHENDENE PRESS. The Wisdom of Jesus. 1932. $2,000 - $3,000Bonhams, June 16-24: CHARLOTTE BRONTE WRITES AS GOVERNESS. Autograph Letter Signed, 1851. $15,000 - $25,000Bonhams, June 16-24: FIRST AMERICAN EDITION OF WUTHERING HEIGHTS. BRONTE, Emily. New York, 1848. $3,000 - $5,000Bonhams, June 16-24: IAN FLEMING ASSOCIATION COPY. You Only Live Twice. London, 1964. $7,000 - $9,000Bonhams, June 16-24: DELUXE EDITION WITH ORIGINAL PAINTING. BUKOWSKI, Charles. War All the Time. 1984. $3,000 - $5,000Bonhams, June 16-24: EINSTEIN'S MOST POWERFUL STATEMENT ON THE ATOMIC BOMB. Original Typed Manuscript Signed, "On My Participation in the Atom Bomb Project," 1953. $100,000 - $150,000Bonhams, June 16-24: EINSTEIN ON SCIENCE, WAR AND MORALITY. Autograph Letter Signed, 1949. $20,000 - $30,000Bonhams, June 16-24: SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. WASHINGTON, George. Engraved document signed, 1786. $8,000 - $12,000Bonhams, June 16-24: AN EARLY CHINESE-MADE 34-STAR U.S. CONSULAR FLAG. $8,000 - $12,000Bonhams, June 16-24: SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH OF LINCOLN WITH HIS SON TAD. 1864. $60,000 - $90,000Bonhams, June 16-24: MALCOLM X WRITES FROM KENYA. Postcard signed, 1964. $4,000 - $6,000
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Old World Auctions (June 18): Lot 567. One of the Earliest & Most Desirable Printed Maps of Arabia - by Holle/Germanus (1482) Est. $55,000 - $65,000Old World Auctions (June 18): Lot 681. Zatta's Complete Atlas with 218 Maps in Full Contemporary Color (1779) Est. $27,500 - $35,000Old World Auctions (June 18): Lot 347. MacDonald Gill's Landmark "Wonderground Map" of London (1914) Est. $1,800 - $2,100Old World Auctions (June 18): Lot 1. Fries' "Modern" World Map with Portraits of Five Kings (1525) Est. $4,000 - $4,750Old World Auctions (June 18): Lot 539. Ortelius' Superb, Decorative Map of Cyprus in Full Contemporary Color (1573) Est. $1,100 - $1,400Old World Auctions (June 18): Lot 51. Mercator's Foundation Map for the Americas in Full Contemporary Color (1630) Est. $3,250 - $4,000Old World Auctions (June 18): Lot 667. Manuscript Bible Leaf with Image of Mary and Baby Jesus (1450) Est. $1,900 - $2,200Old World Auctions (June 18): Lot 226. "A Powerful Example of Color Used to Make a Point" (1895) Est. $400 - $600Old World Auctions (June 18): Lot 290. One of the Most Decorative Early Maps of South America - from Linschoten's "Itinerario" (1596) Est. $7,000 - $8,500Old World Auctions (June 18): Lot 62. Coronelli's Influential Map of North America with the Island of California (1688) Est. $10,000 - $12,000Old World Auctions (June 18): Lot 589. The First European-Printed Map of China - by Ortelius (1584) Est. $4,000 - $5,000
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Auction Details
- Auction Date
- January 01, 2011 - January 01, 2011
Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
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862 | Shepherd (Maj. W.) | Prairie Experiences in Handling Cattle and Sheep, | L. | 1884 |
EUR 80.00 - 120.00 | 72.00 |
863 | Oliphant (Laurence) | Narrative of The Earl of Elgin's Mission to China and Japan in the Years 1857, | Edin. | 1859 |
EUR 180.00 - 240.00 | Not Sold |
864 | Du Chaillu (Paul B.) | Explorations & Adventures in Equatorial Africa, | L. | 1861 |
EUR 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold |
865 | Herbert (Lady) | A Search after Sunshine or Algeria in 1871, | L. | 1872 |
EUR 130.00 - 180.00 | Not Sold |
866 | Byrd (Richard Evelyn) | Discovery. The Story of The Second Byrd Antaractic Expedition, | N.Y. | 1935 |
EUR 160.00 - 220.00 | 204.00 |
867 | Howard-Bury (Lt. Col. C.K.) | Mount Everest The Reconnaissance, 1921, | L. | 1922 |
EUR 180.00 - 250.00 | 360.00 |
868 | Peary (Rob. E.) | Nearest the Pole. A Narrative of the Polar Expedition of the Peary Arctic Club in the S.S. Roosevelt, 1905 - 1906. | L. | 1907 |
EUR 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold |
869 | Shackleton (E.H.) | The Heart of the Antarctic, 2 vols. | L. | 1909 |
EUR 250.00 - 350.00 | 630.00 |
870 | Little (W.J. Knox) | Sketches and Studies of South Africa, | L. | 1899 |
EUR 100.00 - 150.00 | 96.00 |
871 | Cumming (R. Gordon) | Fifty Years of a Hunters Life in South Africa, 2 vols. in one, Plts. & | L. | 1850 |
EUR 180.00 - 250.00 | 216.00 |
872 | Napier (Lt. Gen. C.J.) | Defects Civil and Military of the Indian Government, | L. | 1853 |
EUR 70.00 - 120.00 | Not Sold |
873 | Livingstone (David) | The Lost Journals ... in Central Africa, 2 vols. | L. | 1880 |
EUR 160.00 - 240.00 | 192.00 |
874 | Park (Mungo) | Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa, 2 vols. | L. | 1817 |
EUR 100.00 - 150.00 | 288.00 |
875 | Pritchard (W.T.) | Polynesian Reminiscences; or Life in The South Pacific Islands, | L. | 1866 |
EUR 75.00 - 120.00 | 90.00 |
876 | Kinloch (Col. Angus Airlie) | Large Game Shooting in Tibet, The Himalayas, and Northern India, | Calcutta | 1885 |
EUR 400.00 - 600.00 | 480.00 |
877 | Marcoy (Paul) | A Journey across South America, From the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean, 2 vols. | L. | 1872 |
EUR 300.00 - 400.00 | 336.00 |
878 | Salt (Henry) | A Voyage to Abyssinia, and Travels into the Interior of that Country. | L. | 1814 |
EUR 220.00 - 350.00 | 432.00 |
879 | Pickney (Lt. Col. N.) | Travels through The South of France and in the Interior of the Provinces of Provence and Languedoc, in the Years 1807 and 1808, | L. | 1809 |
EUR 250.00 - 350.00 | 288.00 |
880 | Robertson (Wm.) | The History of America, 2 vols. | D. | 1777 |
EUR 200.00 - 300.00 | 840.00 |
881 | Catlin (George) | Illustrations of the Manners, Customs and Conditions of the North American Indians, | L. | 1848 |
EUR 700.00 - 900.00 | Not Sold |
882 | Anderson (Chas. James) | Lake Ngami; or Explorations and Discoveries, ... of South Western Africa, | L. | 1866 |
EUR 280.00 - 350.00 | 312.00 |
883 | Mangin (Arthur) | The Desert World, (Edited & Enlarged English Edn. | L. | 1869 |
EUR 300.00 - 400.00 | Not Sold |
884 | Rice (Wm.) | Tiger Shooting in India | L. | 1857 |
EUR 300.00 - 400.00 | 720.00 |
885 | Box: Poetry: Good collection of approx. 14 attractive leather bound vols. mostly of poetry | EUR 120.00 - 180.00 | 312.00 | |||
886 | Box: Children's interest: The Church Missionary Juvenile Instructor, Vol. IV, 1845 - 1863 | EUR 150.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold | |||
887 | Landor (Walter Savage) | Pericles and Aspasia, 2 vols. | L. | 1836 |
EUR 250.00 - 350.00 | Not Sold |
888 | Elzevir Press: Cluverius (Ph.) | Introductionis in Universam Geographicam. Ed. by P. Bertius 2 | Amsterdam (Ex Officina Elzeviriana) | 1672 |
EUR 200.00 - 300.00 | 192.00 |
889 | Novels: [James (G.P.R.)] | The Gipsy: A Tale, 3 vols. | L. | 1835 |
EUR 150.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold |
890 | Novels: James (G.P.R.) | Arabella Stuart. A Romance from English History, 3 vols | L. | 1844 |
EUR 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold |
891 | Novels: Scott (Sir W.) | Roy Roy, 3 vols. | Edin. | 1818 |
EUR 150.00 - 220.00 | Not Sold |
892 | Bindings: Thevet (A.) | Histoire de Plus Illustres et Scavans Hommes de Leurs Siecles, Vol. 8 only, | Paris | 1680 |
EUR 180.00 - 250.00 | Not Sold |
893 | Dickens (Charles) | Pictures from Italy | L. (Bradbury & Evans) | 1846 |
EUR 140.00 - 200.00 | 168.00 |
894 | Arnold (Matthew) | Poems, 2 vols. | L. | 1877 |
EUR 300.00 - 400.00 | Not Sold |
895 | Arnold (Matthew) | Poems, 3 vols. | L. | 1905 |
EUR 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold |
896 | Arnold (Matthew) | Mixed Essays, | L. | 1879 |
EUR 150.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold |
897 | Hallam (Arthur Henry) | Remains in Verse and Prose, | [L.] | 1853 |
EUR 200.00 - 300.00 | 1,320.00 |
898 | Taylor (Henry) | Edwin the Fair. An Historical Drama, | L. | 1842 |
EUR 300.00 - 400.00 | 630.00 |
899 | Coleridge (Sara) | Phantasmion, | L. (Wm. Pickering) | 1837 |
EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | 5,160.00 |
900 | Bindings: La Roche Poucauld - | La Roche Poucauld - Maximes | L. | 1902 |
EUR 150.00 - 200.00 | 240.00 |
901 | Potter (Beatrix) | The Tailor of Gloucester, | L. | 1903 |
EUR 250.00 - 350.00 | 348.00 |
902 | Juvenalia: Moncrieff (W.T.) | Old Booty! A Serio-comic Sailor's Tale, | L. (Wm. Kidd) | 1830 |
EUR 180.00 - 250.00 | 288.00 |
903 | de Marcilly (M. Guillot) | Relation Historique et Theologique d'un Voyage en Holland, et autres Provinces des Pays-Bas, | Paris | 1719 |
EUR 150.00 - 200.00 | 168.00 |
904 | Browning (Robert) | Men and Women, 2 vols. | L. (Chapman & Hall) | 1855 |
EUR 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold |
905 | Prior (Matthew) | Miscellaneous Works | D. (S. Powell) | 1739 |
EUR 180.00 - 220.00 | 240.00 |
906 | Marshall (W.G.) | Through America; or, Nine Months in the United States | L. | 1882 |
EUR 80.00 - 120.00 | Not Sold |
907 | Conway (Derwent) | Solitary Walks Through Many Lands, 2 vols. | L. | 1828 |
EUR 100.00 - 150.00 | Not Sold |
908 | Stevenson (Rob. Louis) | Catriona A Sequel to "Kidnapped" | L. | 1893 |
EUR 120.00 - 160.00 | 120.00 |
909 | Eliot (T.S.) | Four Quartet: East Coker; Little Gidding; The Dry Salvages, & Burnt Norton, 4 vols. | L. | 1941 |
EUR 140.00 - 200.00 | 432.00 |
910 | Rennie (Rev. R.) | Essays on the Natural History and Origin of Peat Moss, | Edin. | 1807 |
EUR 150.00 - 200.00 | 144.00 |
911 | Smith (George) | Essay on the Construction of Cottages, suited for the Dwellings of the Labouring Classes, | Glasgow | 1834 |
EUR 180.00 - 250.00 | 312.00 |
912 | Shelley (Percy Bysshe) | Prometheus Unbound, A Lyrical Drama. In Four Acts with other Poems. | L. (C. & J. Ollier) | 1820 |
EUR 800.00 - 1,200.00 | 720.00 |
913 | Spencer (Edmund) | The Shepherd's Calendar, Containing Twelve Aeglogues, Proportionable to the Twelve Months, | L. | 1732 |
EUR 120.00 - 180.00 | Not Sold |
914 | [Whitman (W.)] Rosetti (Wm. M.)ed. | Poems by Walt Whitman, | L. | 1908 |
EUR 150.00 - 200.00 | 1,440.00 |
915 | Patterson (A.J.) | The Magyars: Their Country and Institution, 2 vols. | L. | 1869 |
EUR 100.00 - 150.00 | Not Sold |
916 | Binding: [Wordsworth (Wm)] Arnold (Mathew)ed. | Poems of Wordsworth, | L. | 1879 |
EUR 250.00 - 350.00 | 288.00 |
917 | [Dodgson (Chas. L.)] 'Lewis Carroll' | [Dodgson (Chas. L.)] 'Lewis Carroll' Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, | L. | 1867 |
EUR 220.00 - 350.00 | 168.00 |
918 | Ellis (George) | Ellis (George) Specimens of Early English Metrical Romances, 3 vols. | L. | 1805 |
EUR 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold |
919 | Lawrence (D.H.) | Sons and Lovers, | L. (Duckworth) | 1913 |
EUR 200.00 - 300.00 | 264.00 |
920 | Burke (Edmund) | Reflections on the Revolution in France, | L. | 1790 |
EUR 140.00 - 200.00 | 216.00 |
921 | Finden (Ed.) Engraver, | Illustrations of Byron, 2 vols. (no titles) | L. | 1832 |
EUR 200.00 - 300.00 | 360.00 |
922 | James (Wm.) | A Full and Correct Account of the Military Occurances of the Late War between Britain and The United States of America, 2 vols. | L. | 1818 |
EUR 300.00 - 400.00 | Not Sold |
923 | Lubbock (Rt. Hon. Sir J.) | Pre-Historic Times, as Illustrated by Ancient Remains and the Manners and Customs of Modern Savages. | L. | 1890 |
EUR 130.00 - 180.00 | Not Sold |
924 | Montagu (Lord Rob.) | Naval Architecture: A Treatise on Ship Building and The Rig of Clippers, sm. 8vo L. 1852. Second, cloth gilt; Low (Chas. R.) Maritime Discovery: 2 vols. | L. | 1881 |
EUR 100.00 - 150.00 | 72.00 |
925 | Byron (Alfred Lord) | The Giaour, A Fragment of a Turkish Tale. | L. (Printed by T. Davison, Whitefriars for John Murray, Albemarle-Street) | 1813 |
EUR 450.00 - 650.00 | Not Sold |
926 | Dickens (Charles) | The Mystery of Edwin Drood, | L. (Chapman & Hall) | 1870 |
EUR 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold |
927 | Beckford (Peter) | Thoughts upon Hunting, In A Series of Familiar Letters to a Friend. | 1784 |
EUR 100.00 - 150.00 | Not Sold | |
928 | Beveregium (Wm.) | Institutionum Chronologicarum Libri II, Una cum totidem Arithmetices Chronologicae Libellis. Editio altera, priori emendatior. | L. (S. Roycroft...) | 1705 |
EUR 280.00 - 350.00 | Not Sold |
929 | Stack (Rev. John)F.T.C.D. | A Short System of Optics, Principally Designed for The Use of the Undergraduates in the University of Dublin. | D. (Wm. Mc Kenzie) | 1793 |
EUR 180.00 - 250.00 | 456.00 |
930 | Conrad (Joseph) | The Rover, | L. (Fisher Unwin) | 1923 |
EUR 250.00 - 350.00 | Not Sold |
931 | Stevenson (Rob. L.) | The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Races, | L. (Cassell & Co.) | 1888 |
EUR 180.00 - 250.00 | Not Sold |
932 | Gibbings (Rob.) | Lovely is The Lee,** Till I End My Song, | L. | 1945 |
EUR 100.00 - 150.00 | 216.00 |
933 | Wood (James) | The Elements of Algebra Designed for the Use of Students in the University, | Cambridge | 1820 |
EUR 100.00 - 150.00 | 96.00 |
934 | Travel: Bell (John) | Travels from St. Petersburgh in Russia to various Parts of Asia, | Edin. | 1806 |
EUR 150.00 - 200.00 | 144.00 |
935 | Brasey (Lady) | 14,000 Miles in the 'Sunbeam' in 1883, | L. | 1885 |
EUR 120.00 - 180.00 | 132.00 |
936 | Lord (W.B.) & Baines (T.) | Shifts and Expedients of Camp Life | L. | 1871 |
EUR 160.00 - 220.00 | Not Sold |
937 | Hilda Cowham's Blacklegs and Others, | L. | 1911 |
EUR 180.00 - 280.00 | 192.00 | |
938 | Byron (Ld. Geo. Gordon) | Marino Faliero, Doge of Venice... The Prophecy of Dante, A Poem, | L. | 1821 |
EUR 200.00 - 300.00 | 216.00 |
939 | Hayes (A.A.) | New Colorado and The Santa Fe Trail, | L. | 1881 |
EUR 150.00 - 200.00 | 192.00 |
940 | Muir (Sir Wm.) | The Life of Mohammad, | Edin. | 1923 |
EUR 75.00 - 125.00 | 84.00 |
941 | Temple (Sir Richard) | Journals kept in Hyderabad Kashmir, Sikkim and Nepal, 2 vols. | L. | 1887 |
EUR 120.00 - 180.00 | 132.00 |
942 | India: Arnold (E.L.) | On the Indian Hills, 2 vols. | L. | 1881 |
EUR 180.00 - 250.00 | 180.00 |
943 | Hardy (Thomas) | Jude the Obscure | L. (Osgood Mc Ilvaine) | 1896 |
EUR 150.00 - 200.00 | 156.00 |
944 | Anon. The Humble Addresse Both of Church and Poore, to the Sacred Majestie of Great Britaines Monarch, For a just redress of the uniting of Churches, and the ruine of Hospitals. Sm. 4to [L.] 1641. | [L.] | 1641 |
EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | 2,640.00 | |
945 | Vivian (H.) | Tunisia and the Modern Barbary Pirates, | L. | 1899 |
EUR 100.00 - 150.00 | 108.00 |
946 | Crane (Walter)illus. | The Baby's Opera, | L. | 1877 |
EUR 150.00 - 220.00 | 288.00 |
947 | Patoun (Archibald) | A Complete Treatise of Practical Navigation, | L. | 1762 |
EUR 150.00 - 200.00 | 144.00 |
948 | Bruce - | Memoirs of Peter Henry Bruce, Esq. | D. | 1783 |
EUR 140.00 - 200.00 | 120.00 |
949 | Moffat (Robert) | Mission Labours and Scenes in Southern Africa, | L. | 1842 |
EUR 120.00 - 170.00 | 144.00 |
950 | Crane (Walter) illus. | Flora's Feast A Masque of Flowers, | L. (Cassell & Co.) | 1889 |
EUR 220.00 - 320.00 | 360.00 |
951 | Crane (Walter) illus. Parry (Judge) | Don Quixote of the Mancha, | L. (Blackie & Son) | 1900 |
EUR 140.00 - 200.00 | 216.00 |
952 | Inscribed by Leigh Hunt, Wm. Wordsworth, Drayton (Michael) | The Battaile of Agincourt, | L. | 1627 |
EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | 1,440.00 |
953 | Prichard (J. Cowles) | The Natural History of Man, | L. | 1848 |
EUR 500.00 - 750.00 | 660.00 |
954 | The Book of Common Prayer | Cambridge (John Baskerville) | 1760 |
EUR 400.00 - 600.00 | 420.00 | |
955 | : Stephanus (H.) | Sophoelis Tragoediae Septem, Una cum omnibus Graecis Scholiis & cum Latinis Joach. Camerarii, | [Paris]? | 1568 |
EUR 175.00 - 250.00 | 456.00 |
956 | Bound by Zaehnsdorf Tennyson (A.) | The Works of Alfred Tennyson Poet Laureate, | L. | 1878 |
EUR 600.00 - 800.00 | 600.00 |
957 | Wooster (David) | Alpine Plants,.... The Most Striking and Beautiful of the Alpine Flowers. | L. | 1872 |
EUR 200.00 - 300.00 | 408.00 |
958 | Habricht (T. publisher) | Neuestes Panorama des Rheins von Coln bis Mainz, | EUR 150.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold | ||
959 | Livingstone - | The Life and Explorations of David Livingstone, L.L.D.,Frontis add. | L. | EUR 100.00 - 150.00 | Not Sold | |
960 | [Bacon Sir (Francis) 1561 - 1626] | The Historie of the Reigne of King Henry The Seventh | L. | 1629 |
EUR 100.00 - 150.00 | Not Sold |
961 | Black (A. & C.)Publishers: Butler (Lady Elizabeth) illus. | Letters from the Holy Land, | L. | 1903 |
EUR 180.00 - 250.00 | 240.00 |