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Swann, June 17: Lot 13: Arthur Rackham, Candlelight, pen and ink, circa 1900.Swann, June 17: Lot 28: Harold Von Schmidt, "I Asked Jim If He Wanted To Accompany Us To Teach The Hanneseys A Lesson.", oil on canvas, 1957.Swann, June 17: Lot 96: Arthur Szyk, Thumbelina, gouache and pencil, 1945.Swann, June 17: Lot 101: D.R. Sexton, The White Rabbit And Bill The Lizard, watercolor and gouache, 1932.Swann, June 17: Lot 127: Miguel Covarrubias, Bradypus Tridactilus. Three-Toed Sloth, gouache, circa 1953.Swann, June 17: Lot 132: William Pène Du Bois, 2 Illustrations: Balloon Merry Go Round On The Ground And In The Air, pen and ink and wash, 1947.Swann, June 17: Lot 137: Lee Lorenz, Confetti Hourglass, mixed media, 1973.Swann, June 17: Lot 181: Norman Rockwell, Portrait Of Floyd Jerome Patten (Editor At Boy's Life Magazine), charcoal, circa 1915.Swann, June 17: Lot 188: Ludwig Bemelmans, Rue De Buci, Paris, casein, watercolor, ink and gouache, 1955.Swann, June 17: Lot 263: Maurice Sendak, Sundance Childrens Theater Poster Preliminary Sketch, pencil, 1988.
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Bonhams, June 16-25: 15th-CENTURY TREATISE ON SYPHILIS. GRÜNPECK. 1496. $20,000 - $30,000Bonhams, June 16-25: THE NORMAN COPY OF BENIVIENI'S TREATISE ON PATHOLOGY. 1507. $12,000 - $18,000Bonhams, June 16-25: FRACASTORO. Syphilis sive Morbus Gallicus. 1530. $8,000 - $12,000Bonhams, June 16-25: THE FIRST PUBLISHED WORK ON SKIN DISEASES. MERCURIALIS. De morbis cutaneis... 1572. $10,000 - $15,000Bonhams, June 16-25: BIDLOO. Anatomia humani corporis... 1685. $6,000 - $9,000Bonhams, June 16-25: THE NORMAN COPY OF DOUGLASS'S EARLY AMERICAN WORK ON INNOCULATION AND SMALLPOX. 1722. $20,000 - $30,000Bonhams, June 16-25: LIND'S FIRST TREATISE ON SCURVY. 1753. $15,000 - $20,000Bonhams, June 16-25: RARE JENNER SIGNED CIRCULAR ON VACCINATION. 1821. $4,000 - $6,000Bonhams, June 16-25: MOST BEAUTIFUL OF MEDICAL ILLUSTRATIONS. BRIGHT. Reports of Medical Cases... 1827-1831. $10,000 - $15,000Bonhams, June 16-25: FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE PRESENTATION COPY TO HER MOTHER. 1860. $6,000 - $8,000Bonhams, June 16-25: LORENZO TRAVER'S MANUSCRIPT JOURNAL OF BURNSIDE'S NORTH CAROLINA EXPEDITION. TRAVER, Lorenzo. $2,000 - $3,000Bonhams, June 16-25: ONE OF THE EARLIEST PHOTOGRAPHIC BOOKS ON DERMATOLOGY. HARDY. Clinique Photographique... 1868. $3,000 - $5,000
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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
Sothebys: The Sporting Library of Edward Sands Litchfield, N07736,
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- November 29, 2001 - November 29, 2001
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 101 | Ronalds, Alfred | The Fly-Fisher's Entomology:... | Liverpool | 1913 |
USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | 5,100.00 |
| 102 | Roosevelt, Robert Barnwell | The personal outdoor sporting journals of Robert Barnwell Roosevelt. | Various places | 1860-1863, 1865-1866, 1876 |
USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | 13,200.00 |
| 103 | Roosevelt, Jr., Theodore and H.D. Minot | The Summer Birds of the Adirondacks in Franklin County, | N.p. [Salem] | N.d. [1877] |
USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | 4,800.00 |
| 104 | Roosevelt, Jr., Theodore | African Game Trails. An Account of the African Wanderings of an American Hunter Naturalist. | New York | 1910 |
USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | 9,000.00 |
| 105 | Ross, Alexander | The Fur Hunters of the Far West; a Narrative of Adventures in the Oregon and Rocky Mountains. | London | 1855 |
USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | 600.00 |
| 106 | Sage, Dean | The Ristogouche and Its Salmon Fishing. With a Chapter on Angling Literature. | Edinburgh | 1888 |
USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | 16,800.00 |
| 107 | [Sage, Rufus B.] | Scenes in the Rocky Mountains, and in Oregon, California, New Mexico, Texas, and the Grand Prairies; ... | Philadelphia | 1846 |
USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | 8,400.00 |
| 108 | Sandys, George | A group of 3 works in contemporary calf bindings, | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | 1,920.00 | ||
| 109 | Schwerdt, C. F. G. R. | Hunting, Hawking, Shooting, Illustrated in a Catalogue of Books, Manuscripts, Prints and Drawings. | London | 1928-37 |
USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 | 4,200.00 |
| 110 | Scotcher, George | The Fly Fisher's Legacy, ... | Chepstow | [ca. 1810] |
USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | 58,250.00 |
| 111 | Seccombe, Joseph | Business and Diversion Inoffensive to God, ... | Boston | 1743 |
USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | 21,450.00 |
| 112 | Seton, Ernest Thompson | Lives of Game Animals. | Garden City & New York | 1925-1928 |
USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | 3,300.00 |
| 113 | Sharpe, R. Bowdler | Monograph of the Paradiseidae, Or Birds of Paradise, and Ptilonorhynchidae, or Bower Birds. | London | 1891-(1898) |
USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 | 43,875.00 |
| 114 | Skues, G.E.M., and T. Donald Overfield | The Way of a Man with a Trout. | London & Tonbridge, | [1977] |
USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 | 6,600.00 |
| 115 | Smith, John | The True Art of Angling: ... | London | 1697 |
USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | 6,000.00 |
| 116 | [Sporting books] | USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | 6,600.00 | |||
| 117 | (Sporting Magazines) | USD 25,000.00 - 35,000.00 | 35,250.00 | |||
| 118 | The Sportsman's Companion, or an Essay on Shooting: ... | Burlington, N. J. | 1791 |
USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | 4,200.00 | |
| 119 | Strong, W. E. | A Trip to the Yellowstone National Park in July, August, and September, 1875. From the Journal of General W. E. Strong. | Washington | 1876 |
USD 500.00 - 1,000.00 | 14,400.00 |
| 120 | Surtees, Robert Smith | An assembled set of 8 sporting novels, | USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | 4,200.00 | ||
| 121 | Tarleton, Banastre | A History of the Campaigns of 1780 and 1781, in the Southern Provinces of North America. | London | 1787 |
USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | 2,160.00 |
| 122 | Taverner, Eric | Trout Fishing from all Angles. | London | 1929 |
USD 500.00 - 1,000.00 | 4,800.00 |
| 123 | Taverner, Eric, et al. | Salmon Fishing. | London | 1931 |
USD 500.00 - 1,000.00 | 3,600.00 |
| 124 | Taverner, John | Certaine Experiments Concerning Fish and Fruite. | London | 1600 |
USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 | 9,600.00 |
| 125 | (Texas) | A Visit to Texas: Being the Journal of a Traveller through those Parts Most interesting to American Settlers. | Cincinnati, 1847 New York | 1834 |
USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | 6,600.00 |
| 126 | Thornhill, Richard Badham | The Shooting Directory. | Cincinnati, 1847 London | 1804 |
USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | 1,680.00 |
| 127 | (Thorpe, Thomas Bangs) | "The Big Bear of Arkansas," in The Big Bear of Arkansas, and Other Tales Illustrative of Characters and Incidents in the South and South-West. | Cincinnati, 1847 Philadelphia | 1845 |
USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | 6,600.00 |
| 128 | [Tuttle, James H.]Wam-Dus-Ky. | A Descriptive Record of a Hunting Trip to North Dakota. | Cincinnati, 1847 Minneapolis | 1893 |
USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | 15,600.00 |
| 129 | (Walton, Isaak) | The Compleat Angler or the Contemplative Man's Recreation. Being a Discourse of Fish and Fishing. Not Unworthy the Perusal of Most Anglers. | Cincinnati, 1847 London | 1653 |
USD 70,000.00 - 100,000.00 | 81,250.00 |
| 130 | (Walton, Izaak, and Charles Cotton) | The Compleat Angler or the Contemplative Man's Recreation. Being a Discourse of Rivers, Fish-ponds, Fish, & Fishing. | Cincinnati, 1847 London | 1668 |
USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | 4,500.00 |
| 131 | Walton, Izaak, and Charles Cotton | The Complete Angler. | Cincinnati, 1847 London | 1823 |
USD 300.00 - 500.00 | 960.00 |
| 132 | Walton, Izaak, and Charles Cotton | The Complete Angler | Cincinnati, 1847 London | 1836 |
USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | 5,700.00 |
| 133 | Walton, Izaak, and Charles Cotton | The Complete Angler. | Cincinnati, New York and London: | 1847, 1847 |
USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | 3,900.00 |
| 134 | Walton, Izaak, and Charles Cotton | Der vollkommene Angler | 1859 |
USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 | 26,050.00 | |
| 135 | Walton, Izaak | The Compleat Angler. Cincinnati, 1847 | London | (1931) |
USD 500.00 - 1,000.00 | 1,080.00 |
| 136 | West, Leonard | The Natural Trout Fly and its Imitation: Being an Angler's Record of Insects seen at the Waterside and the Method of Making their Imitations. Cincinnati, 1847 | St. Helens | [1912] |
USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | 24,900.00 |
| 137 | (Western Trappers and Scouts) David H. Coyner. | The Lost Trappers; a Collection of Interesting Scenes and Events in the Rocky Mountains. | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | 9,600.00 | ||
| 138 | Wetzel, Charles | American Fishing Books. | Newark, Delaware | 1950 |
USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | 1,680.00 |
| 139 | Whitney, John | The Genteel Recreation: or, the Pleasure of Angling, a Poem. With a Dialogue between Piscator and Corydon. | London | 1700 |
USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | 28,350.00 |
| 140 | Williamson, Thomas, Captain, and Samuel Howitt | Field Sports of the East; being a Complete, Detailed, and Accurate Description of the Wild Sports of the East. | London | 1819 |
USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | 13,200.00 |
| 141 | Wilson, Alexander | American Ornithology; or, the Natural History of the Birds of the United States. | London & Edinburgh | 1832 |
USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | 3,600.00 |
| 142 | (Wyoming) | Diary of the Wyoming Bear Hunt. | [Brooklyn] | [ca 1914] |
USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | 19,150.00 |
| 143 | Zouch, Thomas | The Life of Issac Walton; including Notices of his Contemporaries. | London | 1823 |
USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | 11,400.00 |
![Forum, June 19: Euclid. The Elements of Geometrie, first edition in English of the first complete translation, [1570]. £20,000 to £30,000.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/dbc5286a-4210-44e3-bbf0-6031c1c49801.png "<b>Forum, June 19:</b> Euclid. <i>The Elements of Geometrie,</i> first edition in English of the first complete translation, [1570]. £20,000 to £30,000.")
![Forum, June 19: Shakespeare (William). The Tempest [&] The Two Gentlemen of Verona, from the Second Folio, [Printed by Thomas Cotes], 1632. £4,000 to £6,000.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/655b361c-71c7-48ba-9455-09c14e8c7494.png "<b>Forum, June 19:</b> Shakespeare (William). <i>The Tempest</i> [&] <i>The Two Gentlemen of Verona,</i> from the <i>Second Folio,</i> [Printed by Thomas Cotes], 1632. £4,000 to £6,000.")
![ALDE, June 18: ADRIEN LE CHARTREUX. De remediis utriusque fortunæ, [Cologne, vers 1470]. €5,000 to €6,000.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/16cfdea8-0749-44a9-b801-b991dc2eaa21.jpg "<b>ALDE, June 18:</b> ADRIEN LE CHARTREUX. <i>De remediis utriusque fortunæ,</i> [Cologne, vers 1470]. €5,000 to €6,000.")
![ALDE, June 18: GAZA (THÉODORE). [...] Introductivæ grammatices libri quatuor. Ejusdem de mensibus opusculum sanequampulchrum, Venise, 1495. €8,000 to €10,000.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/46e14fa0-19d2-42b7-9994-312d5ae3df4d.jpg "<b>ALDE, June 18:</b> GAZA (THÉODORE). <i>[...] Introductivæ grammatices libri quatuor. Ejusdem de mensibus opusculum sanequampulchrum,</i> Venise, 1495. €8,000 to €10,000.")
![ALDE, June 18: LUTHER (MARTIN). Der Erste [– Achte und letze] Teil aller Bücher und Schrifften des thewren, seligen Mans Doct. Mart. Lutheri, Iéna, 1555-1568. €5,000 to €6,000.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/13d0418d-fffb-4841-9721-851464785bd9.jpg "<b>ALDE, June 18:</b> LUTHER (MARTIN). <i>Der Erste [– Achte und letze] Teil aller Bücher und Schrifften des thewren, seligen Mans Doct. Mart. Lutheri,</i> Iéna, 1555-1568. €5,000 to €6,000.")
![Finarte, June 24-25: ALIGHIERI, DANTE. La Commedia [Commento di Christophorus Landinus]. Aggiunta: Marsilius Ficinus, Ad Dantem gratulatio [in latino e Italiano], 1487. €40,000 to €60,000.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/4ee20109-25f3-42e8-93ab-bd4c8e17093a.png "<b>Finarte, June 24-25:</b> ALIGHIERI, DANTE. <i>La Commedia [Commento di Christophorus Landinus]. Aggiunta: Marsilius Ficinus, Ad Dantem gratulatio [in latino e Italiano],</i> 1487. €40,000 to €60,000.")
![Finarte, June 24-25: BANDELLO, MATTEO. La prima [-quarta] parte de le nouelle del Bandello, 1554. €7,000 to €9,000.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/5adfdf34-8a9a-47e5-9288-5e65dac5ce79.png "<b>Finarte, June 24-25:</b> BANDELLO, MATTEO. <i>La prima [-quarta] parte de le nouelle del Bandello,</i> 1554. €7,000 to €9,000.")
![Finarte, June 24-25: FESTE - COPPOLA, GIOVANNI CARLO. Le nozze degli Dei, favola [...] rappresentata in musica in Firenze…, 1637. €6,000 to €8,000.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/9a1b8605-a566-4fb7-8a4c-5fb72ac539bc.png "<b>Finarte, June 24-25:</b> FESTE - COPPOLA, GIOVANNI CARLO. <i>Le nozze degli Dei, favola [...] rappresentata in musica in Firenze…,</i> 1637. €6,000 to €8,000.")
