• Swann, June 17: Lot 13: Arthur Rackham, Candlelight, pen and ink, circa 1900. Swann, June 17: Lot 13: Arthur Rackham, Candlelight, pen and ink, circa 1900.
    Swann, June 17: Lot 13: Arthur Rackham, Candlelight, pen and ink, circa 1900.
    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.
  • Bonhams, June 16-25: 15th-CENTURY TREATISE ON SYPHILIS. GRÜNPECK. 1496. $20,000 - $30,000
    Bonhams, June 16-25: THE NORMAN COPY OF BENIVIENI'S TREATISE ON PATHOLOGY. 1507. $12,000 - $18,000
    Bonhams, June 16-25: FRACASTORO. Syphilis sive Morbus Gallicus. 1530. $8,000 - $12,000
    Bonhams, June 16-25: THE FIRST PUBLISHED WORK ON SKIN DISEASES. MERCURIALIS. De morbis cutaneis... 1572. $10,000 - $15,000
    Bonhams, June 16-25: BIDLOO. Anatomia humani corporis... 1685. $6,000 - $9,000
    Bonhams, June 16-25: THE NORMAN COPY OF DOUGLASS'S EARLY AMERICAN WORK ON INNOCULATION AND SMALLPOX. 1722. $20,000 - $30,000
    Bonhams, June 16-25: LIND'S FIRST TREATISE ON SCURVY. 1753. $15,000 - $20,000
    Bonhams, June 16-25: RARE JENNER SIGNED CIRCULAR ON VACCINATION. 1821. $4,000 - $6,000
    Bonhams, June 16-25: MOST BEAUTIFUL OF MEDICAL ILLUSTRATIONS. BRIGHT. Reports of Medical Cases... 1827-1831. $10,000 - $15,000
    Bonhams, June 16-25: FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE PRESENTATION COPY TO HER MOTHER. 1860. $6,000 - $8,000
    Bonhams, June 16-25: LORENZO TRAVER'S MANUSCRIPT JOURNAL OF BURNSIDE'S NORTH CAROLINA EXPEDITION. TRAVER, Lorenzo. $2,000 - $3,000
    Bonhams, June 16-25: ONE OF THE EARLIEST PHOTOGRAPHIC BOOKS ON DERMATOLOGY. HARDY. Clinique Photographique... 1868. $3,000 - $5,000
  • Fonsie Mealy’sChatsworth Summer Fine Art Sale18th June 2025 Fonsie Mealy’sChatsworth Summer Fine Art Sale18th June 2025
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    18th June 2025
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    Chatsworth Summer Fine Art Sale
    18th June 2025
    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: 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 - $2,500
    Bonhams, June 16-24: ASHENDENE PRESS. The Wisdom of Jesus. 1932. $2,000 - $3,000
    Bonhams, June 16-24: CHARLOTTE BRONTE WRITES AS GOVERNESS. Autograph Letter Signed, 1851. $15,000 - $25,000
    Bonhams, June 16-24: FIRST AMERICAN EDITION OF WUTHERING HEIGHTS. BRONTE, Emily. New York, 1848. $3,000 - $5,000
    Bonhams, June 16-24: IAN FLEMING ASSOCIATION COPY. You Only Live Twice. London, 1964. $7,000 - $9,000
    Bonhams, June 16-24: DELUXE EDITION WITH ORIGINAL PAINTING. BUKOWSKI, Charles. War All the Time. 1984. $3,000 - $5,000
    Bonhams, 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 - $150,000
    Bonhams, June 16-24: EINSTEIN ON SCIENCE, WAR AND MORALITY. Autograph Letter Signed, 1949. $20,000 - $30,000
    Bonhams, June 16-24: SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. WASHINGTON, George. Engraved document signed, 1786. $8,000 - $12,000
    Bonhams, June 16-24: AN EARLY CHINESE-MADE 34-STAR U.S. CONSULAR FLAG. $8,000 - $12,000
    Bonhams, June 16-24: SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH OF LINCOLN WITH HIS SON TAD. 1864. $60,000 - $90,000
    Bonhams, June 16-24: MALCOLM X WRITES FROM KENYA. Postcard signed, 1964. $4,000 - $6,000

Sothebys: Music, Continental Manuscripts and Printed Books, Science and Medicine including The Autograph Manuscript of Kafka's 'The Trial', FRANZ,

Auction Details

Auction Date
November 17, 1988 - November 17, 1988
Page Size: 492 items in 5 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
101 ANDREA PALLADIO I QUATTRO LIBRI DELE ARCHITETTURA Venice

1570 [but c.1771-1780]

GBP 400.00 - 500.00 1,045.00
102 KHRISTOFOR STEFANOVIC STEMATOGRAPHIA Vienna

1741

GBP 800.00 - 1,000.00 770.00
103 MATTHIAS ROHLFS SIEBENFACHER . . . BRAUNSCHWEIG-LuNEBURGISCHER STAATS-CALENDER . . . aufs 1765 Lauenburg

1765

USD 500.00 - 700.00 Not Sold
104 JEAN DUCHESNE aine MUSEE FRANcAIS Paris

1829-1830

GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 2,090.00
105 THEODOR HERZL DER JUDENSTAAT Leipzig & Vienna

1896

GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 990.00
106 HOMER Oxford

1800

GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 1,700.00
107 KARL MARX DAS KAPITAL Hamburg

1890-1894

USD 700.00 - 900.00 Not Sold
108 KARL MARX & FRIEDRICH ENGELS MANIFEST DER KOMMUNISTISCHEN PARTEI Liverpool Street

1848

GBP 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 22,000.00
109 PETRUS DE ARGELLATA CIRURGIA Venice

12 September 1499

GBP 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 3,740.00
110 BERNARD FOREST DE BELIDOR LA SCIENCE DES INGENIEURS dans la conduite des travaux de fortification et d'architecture civile Paris

1729

GBP 450.00 - 500.00 462.00
111 ROBERT BOYLE AN ESSAY OF THE GREAT EFFECTS OF EVEN LANGUID AND UNHEEDED MOTION

1685

GBP 450.00 - 550.00 880.00
112 ROBERT BOYLE MEMOIRS FOR THE NATURAL HISTORY OF HUMANE BLOOD

1684

GBP 600.00 - 800.00 1,650.00
113 SALOMON DE CAUS LES RAISONS DES FORCES MOUVANTES AVEC DIVERSES MACHINES TANT UTILLES QUE PLAISANTES Frankfurt

1615

GBP 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 3,960.00
114 WILLIAM COWPER THE ANATOMY OF HUMANE BODIES . . . containing many new Anatomical Discoveries Oxford

1698

GBP 600.00 - 700.00 825.00
115 ALEXANDER CUMMING THE ELEMENTS OF CLOCK AND WATCH-WORK

1888

USD 600.00 - 700.00 Not Sold
116 CHARLES DARWIN ON THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES by Means of Natural Selection John Murray

1859

USD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 Not Sold
117 DENIS DIDEROT & JEAN LE ROND D'ALEMBERT ENCYCLOPEDIE Geneva & Lyons

1777-1779, 1780-1781

USD 2,500.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
118 ALBRECHT DuRER INSTITUTIONES GEOMETRICAE Paris

1532

USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
119 ALBRECHT DuRER DELLA SIMMETRIA DEI CORPI HUMANI Venice

1591

GBP 500.00 - 700.00 550.00
120 MARIE DOMINIQUE JOSEPH ENGRAMELLE LA TONOTECHNIE OU L'ART DE NOTER LES CYLINDRES Paris

1775

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
121 NICCOLO FALCUCCI SERMONES MEDICINALES Venice

1490-1491

USD 2,500.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
122 Sir ALEXANDER FLEMING ON THE ANTIBACTERIAL ACTION OF CULTURES OF A PENICILLIUM Garrison-Morton

1933], 8vo, [1929]

USD 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
123 JOHANN RUDOLPH GLAUBER THE WORKS . . . containing Great Variety of Choice Secrets in Medicine and Alchymy

1689

GBP 700.00 - 900.00 1,100.00
124 JOANNES HERBINIUS DISSERTATIONES DE ADMIRANDIS MUNDI CATARACTIS SUPRA & SUBTERRANEIS Amsterdam

1678

USD 500.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
125 JOHANNES KEPLER SEU OPUS POSTHUMUM DE ASTRONOMIA LUNARI

1634

GBP 2,500.00 - 3,000.00 8,800.00
126 FORTUNIUS LICETUS Ex recensione Gerardi Blasii . . . Editio novissima Amsterdam

1665

GBP 500.00 - 600.00 550.00
127 ALLAIN MANESSON MALLET LA GEOMETRIE PRATIQUE Paris

1702

USD 1,200.00 - 1,400.00 Not Sold
128 PEHR LINDBERG ARCHITECTURA MECHANICA Amsterdam

1727

GBP 800.00 - 1,000.00 825.00
129 GIOVANNI BATTISTA MORGAGNI THE SEATS AND CAUSES OF DISEASES

1822

GBP 500.00 - 600.00 770.00
130 MUKHTAR IBN AL-HASAN TACUINI SANITATIS Elluchasem Elimithar ... de sex rebus non naturalibus . . . Albengnefit de virtutibus medicinarum & ciborum. Iac. Alkindus de rerum gradibus Strassburg

1531

GBP 1,800.00 - 2,000.00 1,760.00
131 CLAUDIUS PTOLEMAEUS CENTILOQUIUM CUM COMMENTO HALI Venice

15 January 1484

GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 4,620.00
132 CLAUDIUS PTOLEMAEUS ALMAGESTUM SEU MAGNAE CONSTRUCTIONIS MATHEMATICAE OPUS Venice

1528

GBP 700.00 - 900.00 1,100.00
133 EUCHARIUS ROESSLIN DER SCHWANNGEREN FRAWEN UND HEBAMMEN ROSEGARTTEN Augsburg

1528

GBP 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 7,700.00
134 CHRISTOPH ANDREAS SCHLuTER GRuNDLICHER UNTERRICHT VON HuTTE-WERKEN Brunswick

1738

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
135 KAZIMIERZ SIEMIENOWICZ THE GREAT ART OF ARTILLERY . . . translated from the French by George Shelvocke

1729

USD 600.00 - 650.00 Not Sold
136 STEPHEN SWITZER AN INTRODUCTION TO A GENERAL SYSTEM OF HYDROSTATICKS AND HYDRAULICKS

1729

USD 800.00 - 1,000.00 Not Sold
137 BERNARDINO TELESIO DE MARI Naples

1570

USD 500.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
138 ANDREAS VESALIUS DE HUMANI CORPORIS FABRICA LIBRI SEPTEM Venice

1568

GBP 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 2,200.00
139 GEORGIUS VALLA DE EXPETENDIS ET FUGIENDIS REBUS OPUS Venice

December 1501

GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 1,870.00
140 JOHANNES VESLING SYNTAGMA ANATOMICUM Padua

1647

GBP 400.00 - 600.00 440.00
141 THOMAS WILLIS PHARMACEUTICE RATIONALIS: or

1679-1681

GBP 800.00 - 1,000.00 2,640.00
142 FRANCIS BACON INSTAURATIO MAGNA [NOVUM ORGANUM]

1620

USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 Not Sold
143 CHARLES DARWIN ON THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES by Means of Natural Selection

1859

GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 2,750.00
144 RENE DESCARTES DE HOMINE FIGURIS et latinitate donatus a Florentio Schuyl Amsterdam

1663

GBP 500.00 - 700.00 1,045.00
145 GALILEO GALILEI DIALOGO . . . SOPRA I DUE MASSIMI SISTEMI DEL MONDO TOLEMAICO Florence

1632

GBP 2,500.00 - 3,000.00 2,750.00
146 GALILEO GALILEI DIMOSTRAZIONI MATEMATICHE Leiden

1638

GBP 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 3,300.00
147 EUCLID Venice

25 May 1482

USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 Not Sold
148 Sir ISAAC NEWTON ARITHMETICA UNIVERSALIS London

1707

GBP 500.00 - 700.00 880.00
149 Sir ISAAC NEWTON OPTICKS: OR

1704

GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 2,860.00
150 BLAISE PASCAL LETTRES DE A. DETTONVILLE CONTENANT QUELQUES-UNES DE SES INVENTIONS DE GEOMETRIE Paris

1659

GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 6,820.00
151 JOSEPH PRIESTLEY THE HISTORY AND PRESENT STATE OF ELECTRICITY

1767

GBP 800.00 - 1,000.00 770.00
152 ALEXANDER I St Petersburg

15 January 1808

GBP 400.00 - 500.00 385.00
153 HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN AUTOGRAPH QUATRAIN

GBP 500.00 - 600.00 528.00
154 HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN AUTOGAPH LETTER SIGNED ("H.C.Andersen") Aalborg

28 July 1859

GBP 500.00 - 600.00 462.00
155 HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED ("H.C.Andersen") Copenhagen

7 February 1862

GBP 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 1,210.00
156 ART

GBP 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 1,320.00
157 AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN EMPIRE

GBP 400.00 - 450.00 462.00
158 HONORE DE BALZAC AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED ("de Balzac")

GBP 500.00 - 700.00 880.00
159 BERLIN-AKADEMIE DER KuNSTE PAPERS relating to the work of the Academy at the beginning of the twentieth century

GBP 400.00 - 450.00 1,045.00
160 OTTO VON BISMARCK AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED ("von Bismarck") Berlin

25 September 1849

GBP 500.00 - 600.00 440.00
161 LOUIS BLANC AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED ("Louis Blanc")

1872 and 1875

GBP 400.00 - 450.00 3,850.00
162 GEBHARD LEBERECHT BLuCHER , Marshal Two AUTOGRAPH LETTERS SIGNED ("Blucher") Stargard

23 August 1811 and 13 February 1817

GBP 400.00 - 500.00 770.00
163 BONAPARTE FAMILY

1800 to 1822

GBP 400.00 - 500.00 660.00
164 BONAPARTE FAMILY. COLLECTION OF LETTERS by Napoleon III (four letters, dating from different periods in his career: 1840

GBP 500.00 - 600.00 440.00
165 JORGE LUIS BORGES AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT OF BORGES'S INTRODUCTION TO JULIO NOE'S "ANTOLOGiA DE LA POESiA ARGENTINA MODERNA"

1926

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
166 BERTOLT BRECHT THE AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT OF HIS 'ORATORIUM'

1916-1917

USD 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 Not Sold
167 BERTOLT BRECHT AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT OF HIS POEM 'LIED DER MuDEN EMPORER' Zwinger

22 February 1918

GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 2,090.00
168 BERTOLT BRECHT AUTOGRAPH POEM beginning "Mein Herz ist voller Glut

GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 3,080.00
169 BERTOLT BRECHT AUTOGRAPH POEM ENTITLED 'DIE MANNER DER SEE'

1916

GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 3,740.00
170 BERTOLT BRECHT AUTOGRAPH POEM beginning "Bonnie Mac Sorel freite . . . "

GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 3,960.00
171 BERTOLT BRECHT AUTOGRAPH POEM ENTITLED 'PSALM II'

GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 2,420.00
172 BERTOLT BRECHT AUTOGRAPH POEM ENTITLED 'DER TOTENPFLUG'

GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 4,180.00
173 BERTOLT BRECHT AUTOGRAPH POEM ENTITLED 'TANZLIED'

GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 1,760.00
174 BERTOLT BRECHT AUTOGRAPH POEM beginning "Seine Musse zu geniessen . . . "

1920-1923

GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 2,090.00
175 BERTOLT BRECHT AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT OF HIS POEM 'PSALM' (untitled herein)

1917-1919

GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 2,200.00
176 BERTOLT BRECHT AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT OF HIS POEM 'DAS LIED VON DER WOLKE DER NACHT'

1913-1926

GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 1,760.00
177 BERTOLT BRECHT AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT OF HIS POEM 'NORDLANDSAGE' (here entitled 'Nordlandschaft')

1913-1926

GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 1,210.00
178 BERTOLT BRECHT AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT OF HIS POEM 'TOD IM WALD'

GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 3,300.00
179 BERTOLT BRECHT TYPESCRIPTS OF THREE OF HIS POEMS

1913-1926

GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 1,320.00
180 BERTOLT BRECHT TYPESCRIPT POEM ENTITLED 'DIE LEGENDE VOM TOTEN SOLDATEN'

GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 2,200.00
181 BERTOLT BRECHT GROUP OF FOUR EARLY POEMS BY BRECHT

GBP 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 1,430.00
182 LEOPOLD VON BUCH AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED ("Leopold von Buch") Berlin

11 December 1836

USD 600.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
183 FRANCIS CARCO THE AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT OF 'POUR FAIRE SUITE A LA BOHEME ET MON COEUR'

USD 400.00 - 450.00 Not Sold
184 LAZARE CARNOT AUTOGRAPH RETAINED DRAFT LETTER SIGNED Paris

8 November 1794

USD 500.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
185 CHARLES THE BOLD (1433-1477, last Duke of Burgundy) LETTER SIGNED ("Charles") Nuyss "[Neuss]

10 October 1474

GBP 800.00 - 1,000.00 2,860.00
186 GUSTAVE COURBET AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED ("Gustave Courbet")

GBP 400.00 - 450.00 140.00
187 CHARLES DE GAULLE CORRECTED TYPESCRIPT OF THE RADIO BROADCAST IN WHICH DE GAULLE

17 November 1945

USD 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 Not Sold
188 FEODOR DOSTOEVSKY AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED

3 March 1876

GBP 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 11,550.00
189 ALFRED DREYFUS AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED ("A. Dreyfus") Paris

1 July 1912

GBP 500.00 - 600.00 770.00
190 [DREYFUS AFFAIR] FOUR AUTOGRAPH LETTERS SIGNED BY TWO OF THE PRINCIPAL APOLOGISTS OF CAPTAIN DREYFUS

1883

USD 400.00 - 450.00 Not Sold
191 ANNETTE VON DROSTE-HuLSHOFF AUTOGRAPH VERSES written on the verso of the fly-leaf of her Gedichte (Cotta, Stuttgart and Tubingen, 1844) Meersburg am Bodensee

15 January 1848

GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 3,080.00
192 ALBERT EINSTEIN ENGRAVED PORTRAIT OF EINSTEIN BY JOHN PHILIPP

1929

GBP 3,000.00 - 3,500.00 3,300.00
193 ALBERT EINSTEIN THREE TYPED LETTERS SIGNED ("A. Einstein") Princeton

16 May to 2 August 1944

GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 2,420.00
194 ALBERT EINSTEIN IMPORTANT LETTER SIGNED ("A. Einstein") Princeton

28 December 1935

GBP 2,500.00 - 3,000.00 4,180.00
195 ALBERT EINSTEIN AUTOGRAPH SENTIMENT on the difference between the sexes

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 1,210.00
196 MAX EITINGON Two LETTERS SIGNED ("M. Eitingon") Jerusalem

12 December 1938 and 17 July 1941

USD 400.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
197 EUROPEAN ROYALTY

GBP 800.00 - 1,000.00 1,210.00
198 THEODOR FONTANE AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED ("Th. Fontane")

GBP 500.00 - 600.00 550.00
199 UGO FOSCOLO AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED ("H. Foscolo")

1816

GBP 800.00 - 1,000.00 1,430.00
200 JOSEPH FOUCHE AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED ("Le duc d'otrante") Paris

9 August 1815

GBP 400.00 - 450.00 275.00
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    Forum, June 19: Euclid. The Elements of Geometrie, first edition in English of the first complete translation, [1570]. £20,000 to £30,000.
    Forum, June 19: Nicolay (Nicolas de). The Navigations, peregrinations and voyages, made into Turkie, first edition in English, 1585. £10,000 to £15,000.
    Forum, June 19: Shakespeare source book.- Montemayor (Jorge de). Diana of George of Montemayor, first edition in English, 1598. £6,000 to £8,000.
    Forum, June 19: Livius (Titus). The Romane Historie, first edition in English, translated by Philemon Holland, Adam Islip, 1600. £6,000 to £8,000.
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    Forum, June 19: Robert Molesworth's copy.- Montaigne (Michel de). The Essayes Or Morall, Politike and Millitarie Discourses, first edition in English, 1603. £10,000 to £15,000.
    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.
    Forum, June 19: Boyle (Robert). Medicina Hydrostatica: or, Hydrostaticks Applyed to the Materia Medica, first edition, for Samuel Smith, 1690. £2,500 to £3,500.
    Forum, June 19: Locke (John). An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding in Four Books, first edition, second issue, 1690. £8,00 to £12,000.
  • ALDE, June 18: CHAPPE D'AUTEROCHE (JEAN). Voyage en Sibérie fait par ordre du Roi en 1761 contenant les mœurs…, Paris, 1768. €4,000 to €5,000.
    ALDE, June 18: HENNEPIN (LOUIS). Description de la Louisiane nouvellement découverte au Sud-Ouest de la Nouvelle France…, Paris, 1688. €3,000 to €4,000.
    ALDE, June 18: LA BOULLAYE-LE GOUZ (FRANÇOIS DE). Les Voyages et Observations, Paris, 1653. €1,500 to €2,000.
    ALDE, June 18: LE BRUN (CORNELIS DE BRUYN DIT CORNEILLE). Voyage au Levant, c'est à dire dans les principaux endroits de l'Asie mineure..., Delft, 1700. €6,000 to €8,000.
    ALDE, June 18: SAINT-NON (J.-CL. RICHARD, ABBÉ DE). Voyage pittoresque ou description du royaume de Naples et de Sicile, Paris, 1781-1786. €3,500 to €5,000.
    ALDE, June 18: (CALVIN JEAN). SÉNÈQUE. Annei Senecae..., Paris, 1532. €2,000 to €3,000.
    ALDE, June 18: ADRIEN LE CHARTREUX. De remediis utriusque fortunæ, [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.
    ALDE, June 18: LACTANCE. De divinis institutionibus. De ira Dei. De opificio Dei. De phoenice carmen, Rome, 1468. €30,000 to €40,000.
    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.
    ALDE, June 18: POLITIEN (ANGE). Omnia opera, et alia quædam lectu Digna, Venise, 1498. €8,000 to €10,000.
    ALDE, June 18: SIDOINE APOLLINAIRE. Poema aureum ejusdemque Epistole, Milan, 1498. €3,000 to €4,000.
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    Bibliothèque Jacques Dauchez - Autour de Dubuffet
    5-19 June
    Sotheby’s, June 5-19: Bissière, Roger. Cantique à notre frère soleil de saint François. 1954. 1,000 - 1,500 EUR
    Sotheby’s, June 5-19: Céline, Louis-Ferdinand. La vie & l’œuvre de Philippe Ignace Semmelweis. 1924. Rare édition originale, avec envoi. Joint : La Quinine en thérapeutique, 1925. 4,000 - 6,000 EUR
    Sotheby’s, June 5-19: Céline, Louis-Ferdinand. Mort à crédit. 1936. Édition originale. Bel exemplaire sur Hollande. 2,500 - 3,500 EUR
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    Bibliothèque Jacques Dauchez - Autour de Dubuffet
    5-19 June
    Sotheby’s, June 5-19: Chillida, Eduardo ─ Emil Cioran. Face aux instants. 1985. Un des 100 exemplaires sur Arches. Eau-forte signée. 600 - 800 EUR
    Sotheby’s, June 5-19: Dubuffet, Jean. Ler dla canpane. L’Art Brut, 1948. Édition originale. 3,000 - 5,000 EUR
    Sotheby’s, June 5-19: Dubuffet, Jean. L'Herne Jean Dubuffet. 1973. Un des 100 exemplaires du tirage de luxe avec une sérigraphie originale en couleurs. 1,000 - 1,500 EUR
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    June 24 & 25, 2025
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    June 24 & 25, 2025
    Finarte, June 24-25: ALIGHIERI, DANTE / LANDINO, CRISTOFORO. Comento di Christophoro Landino Fiorentino sopra la Comedia di Danthe Alighieri poeta fiorentino, 1481. €40,000 to €50,000.
    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.
    Finarte, June 24-25: ALIGHIERI, DANTE. Il Convivio, 1490. €20,000 to €25,000.
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    June 24 & 25, 2025
    Finarte, June 24-25: BANDELLO, MATTEO. La prima [-quarta] parte de le nouelle del Bandello, 1554. €7,000 to €9,000.
    Finarte, June 24-25: LEGATURA – PLUTARCO. Le vies des hommes illustres, grecs et romaines translates, 1567. €10,000 to €12,000.
    Finarte, June 24-25: TOLOMEO, CLAUDIO. Ptolemeo La Geografia di Claudio Ptolemeo Alessandrino, Con alcuni comenti…, 1548. €4,000 to €6,000.
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    June 24 & 25, 2025
    Finarte, June 24-25: FESTE - COPPOLA, GIOVANNI CARLO. Le nozze degli Dei, favola [...] rappresentata in musica in Firenze…, 1637. €6,000 to €8,000.
    Finarte, June 24-25: SPINOZA, BARUCH. Opera posthuma, 1677. €8,000 to €12,000.
    Finarte, June 24-25: PUSHKIN, ALEXANDER. Borus Godunov, 1831. €30,000 to €50,000.
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    June 24 & 25, 2025
    Finarte, June 24-25: LIBRO D'ARTISTA - LECUIRE, PIERRE. Ballets-minute, 1954. €35,000 to €40,000.
    Finarte, June 24-25: LIBRO D'ARTISTA - MAJAKOVSKIJ, VLADIMIR / LISSITZKY, LAZAR MARKOVICH. Dlia Golosa, 1923. €7,000 to €10,000.
    Finarte, June 24-25: LIBRO D'ARTISTA - MATISSE, HENRI / MONTHERLANT, HENRY DE. Pasiphaé. Chant de Minos., 1944. €22,000 to €24,000.
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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 - $65,000 Old World Auctions (June 18): Lot 567. One of the Earliest & Most Desirable Printed Maps of Arabia - by Holle/Germanus (1482) Est. $55,000 - $65,000
    Old World Auctions (June 18): Lot 567. One of the Earliest & Most Desirable Printed Maps of Arabia - by Holle/Germanus (1482) Est. $55,000 - $65,000
    Old World Auctions (June 18): Lot 567. One of the Earliest & Most Desirable Printed Maps of Arabia - by Holle/Germanus (1482) Est. $55,000 - $65,000
    Old World Auctions (June 18): Lot 681. Zatta's Complete Atlas with 218 Maps in Full Contemporary Color (1779) Est. $27,500 - $35,000
    Old World Auctions (June 18): Lot 347. MacDonald Gill's Landmark "Wonderground Map" of London (1914) Est. $1,800 - $2,100
    Old World Auctions (June 18): Lot 1. Fries' "Modern" World Map with Portraits of Five Kings (1525) Est. $4,000 - $4,750
    Old World Auctions (June 18): Lot 539. Ortelius' Superb, Decorative Map of Cyprus in Full Contemporary Color (1573) Est. $1,100 - $1,400
    Old World Auctions (June 18): Lot 51. Mercator's Foundation Map for the Americas in Full Contemporary Color (1630) Est. $3,250 - $4,000
    Old World Auctions (June 18): Lot 667. Manuscript Bible Leaf with Image of Mary and Baby Jesus (1450) Est. $1,900 - $2,200
    Old World Auctions (June 18): Lot 226. "A Powerful Example of Color Used to Make a Point" (1895) Est. $400 - $600
    Old World Auctions (June 18): Lot 290. One of the Most Decorative Early Maps of South America - from Linschoten's "Itinerario" (1596) Est. $7,000 - $8,500
    Old World Auctions (June 18): Lot 62. Coronelli's Influential Map of North America with the Island of California (1688) Est. $10,000 - $12,000
    Old World Auctions (June 18): Lot 589. The First European-Printed Map of China - by Ortelius (1584) Est. $4,000 - $5,000