Forum Auctions
A Sixth Selection of 16th and 17th Century English Books from the Fox Pointe Manor Library
19th June 2025

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.

Forum Auctions
A Sixth Selection of 16th and 17th Century English Books from the Fox Pointe Manor Library
19th June 2025

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.
Sotheby's
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

Sotheby's
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
Finarte
Books, Autographs & Prints
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.

Finarte
Books, Autographs & Prints
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.

Finarte
Books, Autographs & Prints
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.

Finarte
Books, Autographs & Prints
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.

Sothebys: VALUABLE PRINTED BOOKS, MUSIC, AUTOGRAPH LETTERS AND HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS, WELLER,

Auction Details

Auction Date: December 15, 1964 - December 15, 1964

Page Size: 959 items in 10 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
101	J. Whitcomb Riley	Afterwhiles	Indianapolis	1888	USD -	33.60
102	Samuel Rogers	Poems		1816	USD -	84.00
103	M. C. Salaman	The etchings of Sir Francis Seymour Haden		1923	USD -	2.80
104	Richard Sharp	Letters and essays in prose and verse		1834	USD -	11.20
105	Samuel Shelley	A collection of about one hundred drawings by Samuel Shelley (1750-1808)			USD -	616.00
106	Walter Sichel	Emma Lady Hamilton		1905	USD -	84.00
107	Sir John Skelton	Charles I		1898	USD -	22.40
108		Stefano Abbate		1719	USD -	106.40
109	Bernhard Tauchnilz	Five Centuries of the English language and literature	Leipzig	1860	USD -	19.60
110	Sir John Tenniel	A small sketch-book containing drawings of figures in costume			USD -	140.00
111	Sir John Tenniel	Two drawings for "Punch" cartoons			USD -	19.60
112	William Makepeace Thackeray	Fourteen pen and pencil drawings			USD -	896.00
113	W. M. Thackeray	The Paris Sketch-Book		1840	USD -	42.00
114	W. M. Thackeray	The Irish Sketch-Book			USD -	47.60
115	W. M. Thackeray	The Newcomes		1853-54	USD -	72.80
116	W. M. Thackeray	The Virginians		1857-59	USD -	67.20
117	W. M. Thackeray	The Adventures of Philip		1862	USD -	36.40
118		Victoria (Queen) More leaves from the journal in the Highlands		1883	USD -	33.60
119	Arthur Waugh	A hundred years of publishing		1930	USD -	11.20
120	Greville Worthington	A bibliography of the Waverley Novels			USD -	44.80
121	W. Harrison Ainsworth	A. L. s.			USD -	19.60
122	Hans Andersen	A. L. s. from Mathilde Orsted			USD -	89.60
123	Marguerite Blessington	The Follies of Fashion			USD -	1,540.00
124	Elisa Bonaparte	Two A. Ls			USD -	168.00
125	Elisa Bonaparte	A. L. s.			USD -	117.60
126	Joseph Bonaparte	L. s.			USD -	39.20
127	Pauline Bonaparte	A. L. s.			USD -	126.00
128	James Boswell	A. L. s.			USD -	448.00
129	Patrick Bronte	A. L. s.			USD -	224.00
130	Robert Browning	A. L. s.			USD -	84.00
131	Sir Henry Bunbury	Memorandum of what passed at the Conference which Admiral Lord Keith and myself held with Napoleon Bonaparte			USD -	39.20
132	R. W. Buss	A. L. s.			USD -	61.60
133	Thomas Carlyle	A. L. s.			USD -	134.40
134	Sir George Cockburn	Record of his service			USD -	19.60
135	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	A. L. s.			USD -	224.00
136		Collection of A. Ls. s. mostly addressed to Edmund Evans			USD -	210.00
137		Collection of about seventy-five A. Ls. s. from Edmund Kean			USD -	140.00
138	Cuthbert Collingwood	L. s.			USD -	14.00
139	William Cowper	A. L. s.			USD -	308.00
140	Walter Crane	Three A. Ls. s			USD -	238.00
141	George Cruikshank	A. L. s.			USD -	33.60
142	George Cruikshank	A. L. s.			USD -	168.00
143	Charles Dickens	A. L. s.			USD -	252.00
144	Charles Dickens	A. L. s.			USD -	117.60
145	Charles Dickens	An early A. L. s.			USD -	61.60
146	Charles Dickens	Two A. Ls. s.			USD -	168.00
147	Charles Dickens	A fine A. L. s.			USD -	280.00
148	Charles Dickens	Autograph Draft			USD -	308.00
149	Charles Dickens	Three A. Ls. s.			USD -	210.00
150	Charles Dickens	The tenancy agreement			USD -	840.00
151	Charles Dickens	A. L. s.			USD -	84.00
152	Charles Dickens	A. L. s.			USD -	210.00
153	Charles Dickens	Four A. Ls. s.			USD -	364.00
154	Charles Dickens	A. L. s.	Genoa	5 June 1845	USD -	84.00
155	Charles Dickens	A. L. s.			USD -	70.00
156	Charles Dickens	Holograph manuscript of a Play Bill for performances of "The Merry Wives of Windsor"			USD -	728.00
157	Charles Dickens	Five autograph cheques			USD -	61.60
158	Charles Dickens	A. L. s.		18 April 1852	USD -	84.00
159	Charles Dickens	A. L. s.		9 February 1853	USD -	84.00
160	Charles Dickens	A. L. s.		4 July 1856	USD -	70.00
161	Charles Dickens	A. L. s.			USD -	78.40
162	Charles Dickens	A. L. s.		4 October 1862	USD -	154.00
163	Charles Dickens	A. L. s.			USD -	140.00
164	Charles Dickens	A. L. s. "your faithful admirer			USD -	117.60
165	Charles Dickens	A. L. s.			USD -	210.00
166	Charles Dickens	L. s.			USD -	140.00
167	Charles Dickens	A. L. s.		6 July 1865	USD -	182.00
168	Charles Dickens	A. L. s.			USD -	78.40
169	Charles Dickens	A. L. s.		11 June 1868	USD -	70.00
170	Charles Dickens	A. L. s.	Edinburgh	11 December 1868	USD -	112.00
171	Charles Dickens	A. L. s.	Manchester	7 May 1869	USD -	140.00
172	Charles Dickens	Account Book of W. S. Trood for Ale			USD -	56.00
173	Charles Dickens	A collection of letters and documents relating to the Royal General Theatrical Fund Association			USD -	1,064.00
174		Dickens Family		1871-95	USD -	182.00
175	Benjamin Disraeli	A series of seven A. Ls. s. (some signed "D")			USD -	98.00
176	Richard Doyle	Three A. Ls s.			USD -	78.40
177	Sir Gilbert Elliot	A. L. s.			USD -	14.00
178	John Forster	A. L. s.			USD -	98.00
179	John Forster	A series of forty A. Ls. s.			USD -	106.40
180	John Forster	A collection of letters addressed to John Forster or Mrs. Forster			USD -	98.00
181	David Garrick	MS. copy of his poem "Ode to the Siroccho wind"			USD -	154.00
182	David Garrick	A. L. s.	Hampton	May 19, 1772	USD -	154.00
183	Sir William Schwenck Gilbert	Two A. Ls. s.			USD -	140.00
184	Sir William S. Gilbert	A. L. s.			USD -	182.00
185	Kate Greenaway	Two A. Ls. s.			USD -	126.00
186	Emma Hamilton	A. L. s.	Norfolk	30 August [1808]	USD -	126.00
187	Bret Harte	Receipt s.			USD -	134.40
188	Sir Henry Irving	Nine A. Ls. s.			USD -	70.00
189	Sir Henry Irving	Ten A. Ls		1882-95	USD -	56.00
190	Sir Henry Irving	A series of eleven A. Ls. s.			USD -	Not Sold
191	Sir Henry Irving	Fragments of a draft of a play in the hand of Sir Henry Irving			USD -	39.20
192		James I		10 January 1613	USD -	70.00
193	William Juxon	L. s. "Guil		15 October 1636	USD -	22.40
194	Charles Kean	Seven A. Ls		1862	USD -	14.00
195	Charles Kingsley	A. L. s.		3 October 1855	USD -	126.00
196	Charles Kingsley	Three A. Ls. s.			USD -	112.00
197	Charles Kingsley	A. L. s.		27 January 1857	USD -	126.00
198	Rudyard Kipling	A. L. s.		[? c. 1890]	USD -	28.00
199	Walter Savage Landor	A. L.			USD -	140.00
200	Walter Savage Landor	Auto			USD -	112.00

Fonsie Mealy’s
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
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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 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
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