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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
Sothebys: The Medical Library of Warren G. Smirl, M.D., S.C., 4662,
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- November 11, 1994 - November 11, 1994
Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | ADAMS (GEORGE) | Micrographia Illustrata | 1771 |
GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | 460.00 | |
2 | ADDISON (THOMAS) | Anaemia | USD 400.00 - 500.00 | Not Sold | ||
3 | ALBINUS (BERNHARDUS SIEGFRIED) | The Explanation of Albinus's Anatomical Figures of the Human Skeleton and Muscles | 1754 |
GBP 200.00 - 250.00 | 253.00 | |
4 | ALBINUS (BERNHARDUS SIEGFRIED) | EXPLICATIO TABULARUM ANATOMICARUM BARTHOLOMAEI EUSTACHII | Leiden | 1744 |
USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | Not Sold |
5 | ALBINUS (BERNHARDUS SIEGFRIED) | TABULAE SCELETI ET MUSCULORUM CORPORIS HUMANI | Leiden | 1747 |
GBP 4,000.00 - 4,500.00 | 7,475.00 |
6 | ALBINUS (BERNHARDUS SIEGFRIED) | The Anatomy of Painting | 1769 |
USD 300.00 - 400.00 | Not Sold | |
7 | ALBINUS (BERNHARDUS SIEGFRIED) | Historia musculorum hominis | Frankfurt and Leipzig | 1784 |
USD 200.00 - 250.00 | Not Sold |
8 | ALBERTUS MAGNUS | EIN NEWER ALBERTUS MAGNUS | Augsburg | 571 |
GBP 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 | 2,990.00 |
9 | ALGHISI (TOMMASO) | Litotomia ovvero del cavar la pietra | Florence | 1707 |
GBP 700.00 - 900.00 | 1,092.00 |
10 | ALIBERT (JEAN LOUIS) | Monographie des dermatoses ou precis theorique et pratique des maladies de la peau | Paris | 1835 |
GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | 322.00 |
11 | ALIBERT (JEAN LOUIS) | Clinica del Parigino spedale di S. Luigi | Venice | 1835 |
USD 500.00 - 600.00 | Not Sold |
12 | ARNOLD (FRIEDRICH) | Icones nervorum capitis | Zurich | [1835] |
GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | 230.00 |
13 | AVICENNA | Venice | 1562 |
GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | 1,150.00 | |
14 | BAGLIVI (GIORGIO) | De praxi medica | Leiden | 1700 |
GBP 250.00 - 300.00 | 230.00 |
15 | BAKER (HENRY) | Of Microscopes and the Discoveries made thereby | 1785 |
GBP 200.00 - 250.00 | 172.00 | |
16 | BAKER (HENRY) | The Microscope made Easy | 1744 |
GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | 184.00 | |
17 | BANTING (Sir FREDERICK GRANT) AND CHARLES HERBERT BEST | The Internal Secretion of the Pancreas | GBP 300.00 - 500.00 | 552.00 | ||
18 | BAILLIE (MATTHEW) | The Morbid Anatomy of some of the most Important Parts of the Human Body | 1793 |
GBP 500.00 - 600.00 | 805.00 | |
19 | BAILLIE (MATTHEW) | A Series of Engravings accompanied with Explanations | 1812 |
GBP 500.00 - 700.00 | 920.00 | |
20 | BARD (SAMUEL) | A Compendium of the Theory anc Practice of Midwifery | New York | 1808 |
GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | 920.00 |
21 | BARTHOLIN (THOMAS) | Anatome quartum renovata | Lyons | 1677 |
USD 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold |
22 | BARRE (A.P.) & JEAN-BAPTISTE LOUIS LETELLIER | GRAPHOTOMIE HUMAINE | Paris | 1826 |
GBP 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 | 3,220.00 |
23 | BARTISCH (GEORG) | DAS IST | Dresden | 1583 |
GBP 9,000.00 - 12,000.00 | 15,525.00 |
24 | BASKIN (LEONARD) | Ars anatomica | New York | 1972 |
GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | 115.00 |
25 | BAUHIN (CASPAR) | THEATRUM ANATOMICUM | Frankfurt | 1600 |
GBP 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 | 920.00 |
26 | BARTLETT (ELISHA) | The History | Philadelphia | 1847 |
USD 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold |
27 | BATEMAN (THOMAS) | Delineations of Cutaneous Diseases | 1828 |
USD 500.00 - 700.00 | Not Sold | |
28 | BATEMAN (THOMAS) | Delineations of Cutaneous Diseases | 1840 |
GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | 287.00 | |
29 | BEAUMONT (WILLIAM) | Experiments and Observations on the Gastric Juice | Pittsburgh | 1833 |
GBP 400.00 - 500.00 | 575.00 |
30 | BELL (BENJAMIN) | A Treatise on the Theory and Management of Ulcers | GBP 200.00 - 250.00 | 172.00 | ||
31 | BELL (ANDREW) | Anatomia Britannica | Edinburgh | 1798 |
GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 | 977.00 |
32 | BELL (Sir CHARLES) | On the Nerves of the Face | 1864 |
GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | 299.00 | |
33 | BELL (Sir CHARLES) | ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE GREAT OPERATIONS OF SURGERY | 1821 |
GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | 1,150.00 | |
34 | BELL (Sir CHARLES) | Engravings from Specimens of Morbid Parts | 1813 |
GBP 400.00 - 500.00 | 345.00 | |
35 | BELL (Sir CHARLES) | A System of Operative Surgery | 1814 |
USD 200.00 - 250.00 | Not Sold | |
36 | BELL (Sir CHARLES) | THE ANATOMY OF THE BRAIN | GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | 1,955.00 | ||
37 | BELL (Sir CHARLES) | Engravings of the Arteries | 1806 |
USD 250.00 - 350.00 | Not Sold | |
38 | BELL (JOHN AND Sir CHARLES) | The Anatomy of the Human Body | 1868 |
GBP 250.00 - 350.00 | 437.00 | |
39 | BELL (JOHN) | Engravings | Edinburgh | 1794 |
GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | 414.00 |
40 | BERENGARIO DA CARPI | ANATOMIA CARPI | Venice | 1535 |
GBP 3,000.00 - 3,500.00 | 4,140.00 |
41 | BERNARD (CLAUDE) | Introduction a l'etude de la medecine experimentale | GBP 700.00 - 800.00 | 690.00 | ||
42 | BERNARD (CLAUDE) & CHARLES HUETTE | Precis iconographique de medecine operatoire et d'anatomie chirurgicale | Paris | 1853 |
GBP 300.00 - 350.00 | 368.00 |
43 | BERRETTINI (PIETRO) | called PIETRO DA CORTONA | Rome | 1788 |
GBP 3,500.00 - 4,000.00 | 5,405.00 |
44 | BICHAT (XAVIER) | Anatomie generale | Paris | 1801 |
GBP 400.00 - 500.00 | 414.00 |
45 | BIGELOW (HENRY JACOB) | INSENSIBILITY DURING SURGICAL OPERATIONS PRODUCED BY INHALATION | Boston | 1847 |
GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | 1,725.00 |
46 | BIGELOW (HENRY JACOB) | Surgical Operations performed during Insensibility | 1847 |
GBP 500.00 - 700.00 | 460.00 | |
47 | BIGELOW (HENRY JACOB) | Ether and Chloroform | c.1873 |
GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | 414.00 | |
48 | BIGELOW (JACOB) | AMERICAN MEDICAL BOTANY | Boston | 1817-1820 |
GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | 1,035.00 |
49 | BOUCHARDON (EDME) | L'anatomie necessaire pour l'usage du dessein | Paris | GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | 115.00 | |
50 | BIDLOO (GOVARD) | ANATOMIA HUMANI CORPORIS | Amsterdam | 1685 |
GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | 5,060.00 |
51 | BLAINE (DELABERE) | Canine Pathology | 1817 |
USD 200.00 - 250.00 | Not Sold | |
52 | BOURGERY (MARC JEAN) | TRAITE COMPLET DE L'ANATOMIE DE L'HOMME | Paris | 1831-1854 |
GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | 5,520.00 |
53 | BILLROTH (CHRISTIAN ALBERT THEODOR) | DIE ALLGEMEINE CHIRURGISCHE PATHOLOGIE UND THERAPIE | Berlin | 1863 |
GBP 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 | 1,495.00 |
54 | Boivin (MARIE A.V.) | MEMORIAL DE L'ART DES ACCOUCHEMENTS | Paris | 1812 |
GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | 2,760.00 |
55 | BOYLE (ROBERT) | A Disquisition about the Final Causes of Natural Things | 1688 |
GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | 920.00 | |
56 | BRAMWELL (Sir BYROM) | Adas of Clinical Medicine | Edinburgh | 1892-1896 |
GBP 250.00 - 300.00 | 483.00 |
57 | BRIGHT (RICHARD) AND THOMAS ADDISON | ELEMENTS OF THE PRACTICE OF MEDICINE | GBP 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 | 2,185.00 | ||
58 | BRIGHT (RICHARD) | REPORTS OF MEDICAL CASES | 1827 |
GBP 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 | 7,475.00 | |
59 | BRIGHT (TIMOTHY) | A Treatise of Melancholy | 1613 |
GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | 1,035.00 | |
60 | BROWNE (JOHN) | Myographia nova sive musculorum omnium | Amsterdam | 1694 |
GBP 500.00 - 700.00 | 747.00 |
61 | BROWNE (JOHN) | Myographia nova | 1698 |
GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 | 920.00 | |
62 | BROWNE (Sir THOMAS) | Religio Medici | GBP 250.00 - 350.00 | 299.00 | ||
63 | BROWNE (Sir THOMAS) | Certain Miscellany Tracts | 1756 |
GBP 250.00 - 350.00 | 552.00 | |
64 | BROWNE (Sir THOMAS) | Works | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | 345.00 | ||
65 | [BROWNE (Sir THOMAS)] | A Tryal of Witches | 1682 |
GBP 400.00 - 500.00 | 598.00 | |
66 | BROWNE (Sir THOMAS) | Works | 1686 |
GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | 184.00 | |
67 | BROWNE (Sir THOMAS) | Religio Medici | 1682 |
GBP 250.00 - 350.00 | 368.00 | |
68 | BROWNE (Sir THOMAS) | Christian Morals | 1716 |
GBP 250.00 - 350.00 | 368.00 | |
69 | BROWNE (Sir THOMAS) | Pseudodoxia Epidemica | 1672 |
GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | 437.00 | |
70 | BUONANNI (FILIPPO) | Observationes circa viventia | Rome | 1691 |
GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | 747.00 |
71 | [BURTON (ROBERT)] | The Anatomy of Melancholy | 1676 |
GBP 200.00 - 250.00 | 287.00 | |
72 | CARSWELL (Sir ROBERT) | PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY | 1838 |
GBP 3,000.00 - 3,500.00 | 3,680.00 | |
73 | CALDANI (LEOPOLDO MARCO ANTONIO AND FLORIANO) | ICONES ANATOMICAE | GBP 2,500.00 - 3,000.00 | 3,680.00 | ||
74 | CASSERIUS (JULIUS) | DE VOCIS AUDITUSQUE ORGANIS HISTORIA ANATOMICA | Ferrara | 1600 [-1601] |
GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | 4,830.00 |
75 | CELSUS (AULUS AURELIUS CORNELIUS) | DE RE MEDICA libri octo | USD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 | Not Sold | ||
76 | CHESELDEN (WILLIAM) | OSTEOGRAPHIA | 1733 |
GBP 3,500.00 - 4,500.00 | 8,970.00 | |
77 | CAZENAVE (PIERRE LOUIS ALPHEE) | LECONS SUR LES MALADIES DE LA PEAU | Paris | 1856 |
GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | 1,265.00 |
78 | CHARCOT (JEAN-MARTIN) | Lecons sur les localisations dans les maladies du cerveau et de la moelle epiniere faites a la faculte de medecine de Paris | Paris | 1876-1880 |
USD 200.00 - 250.00 | Not Sold |
79 | CLOQUET (JULES GERMAIN) | ANATOMIE DE L'HOMME | Paris | 1821-1831 |
USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | Not Sold |
80 | COLLINS (SAMUEL) | A SYSTEME OF ANATOMY | 1685 |
GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | 1,150.00 | |
81 | CHAIN (ERNEST BORIS), HOWARD WALTER FLOREY, and others | Penicillin as a Chemotherapeutic Agent | 24 August 1940 |
USD 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold | |
82 | COLOMBO (MATTEO REALDO) | De re anatomica libri XV | Frankfurt | 1593 |
GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | 483.00 |
83 | COLUMNA (AEGIDIUS) | Expositio super libros posteriorum Aristotelis cum textu eiusdem | Venice | 29 December 1495 |
GBP 700.00 - 900.00 | 862.00 |
84 | COOKE (JAMES) | Mellificium chirurgiae | 1685 |
GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | 299.00 | |
85 | COOPER (SAMUEL) | A Dictionary of Practical Surgery | USD 300.00 - 400.00 | Not Sold | ||
86 | COOPER (Sir ASTLEY PASTON) | Illustrations of the Diseases of the Breast | 1829 |
GBP 600.00 - 700.00 | 1,092.00 | |
87 | COOPER (Sir ASTLEY PASTON) | ON THE ANATOMY OF THE BREAST | 1840 |
GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | 1,495.00 | |
88 | COOPER (Sir ASTLEY PASTON) | A Series of Lectures on the most approved Principles and Practice of Modern Surgery | 1821 |
USD 200.00 - 250.00 | Not Sold | |
89 | COOPER (Sir ASTLEY PASTON) | THE ANATOMY AND SURGICAL TREATMENT OF INGUINAL AND CONGENITAL HERNIA [THE ANATOMY AND SURGICAL TREATMENT OF CRURAL AND UMBILICAL HERNIA] | 1804- 1807 |
GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | 1,150.00 | |
90 | COOPER (Sir ASTLEY PASTON) | An engraved certificate | GBP 200.00 - 250.00 | 483.00 | ||
91 | COOPER (Sir ASTLEY PASTON) | A Treatise on Dislocations and Fractures of the Joints | 1829 |
GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | 241.00 | |
92 | COOPER (Sir ASTLEY PASTON) | Observations on the Structure and Diseases of the Testis | 1841 |
USD 250.00 - 350.00 | Not Sold | |
93 | CORNARO (LUIGI) and others | The Immortal Mentor | Philadelphia | 1796 |
GBP 200.00 - 250.00 | 172.00 |
94 | CORVISART (JEAN NICOIAS) | Essai sur les maladies et les lesions organiques du coeur de des gros vaisseaux | GBP 200.00 - 250.00 | 172.00 | ||
95 | COURCELLES (DAVID CORNELIS DE) | Icones musculorum capitis | Leiden | 1743 |
GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | 862.00 |
96 | COWPER (WILLIAM) | MYOTOMIA REFORMATS OR AN ANATOMICAL TREATISE ON THE MUSCLES OF THE HUMAN BODY | 1724 |
GBP 3,000.00 - 3,500.00 | 3,910.00 | |
97 | CRUIKSHANK (WILLIAM CUMBERLAND) | The Anatomy of the Absorbing Vessels of the Human Body | 1786 |
GBP 700.00 - 900.00 | 1,265.00 | |
98 | CRUWILHIER (JEAN) | ANATOMIA PATOLOGICA DEL CORPO UMANO | Florence | 1838-1841-1843 |
GBP 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 | 1,725.00 |
99 | Cox (WILLIAM SANDS) | A Memoir on Amputation of the Thigh | 1845 |
GBP 200.00 - 250.00 | 460.00 | |
100 | CROCE (GIOVANNI ANDREA DELLA) | CIRUGIA UNIVERSALE E PERFETTA DI TUTTE LE PARTI PERTINENTI ALL'OTTIMO CHIRURGO | Venice | 1605 |
GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | 2,760.00 |