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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: VALUABLE PRINTED BOOKS, MUSIC, AUTOGRAPH LETTERS AND HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS, WELLER,
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- December 15, 1964 - December 15, 1964
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 201 | Sir Thomas Lawrence | A. L. s. | 12 September 1815 |
USD - | 33.60 | |
| 202 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | A. L. s. | Cambridge | 16 November 1870 |
USD - | 61.60 |
| 203 | Thomas Babington Macaulay | A. L. s. | Albany | USD - | 61.60 | |
| 204 | Daniel Maclise | A series of about seventy A. Ls. s. | [c. 1845-69] |
USD - | 56.00 | |
| 205 | W. C. Macready | Two A. Ls | USD - | 61.60 | ||
| 206 | Empress Marie Louise | L. s. | USD - | 140.00 | ||
| 207 | Thomas Moore | A. L. s. | 7 November 1818 |
USD - | 42.00 | |
| 208 | Joachim Murat | Doc. s. "Joachim Napoleon" | Naples | 10 January 1809 |
USD - | 56.00 |
| 209 | Napoleon | Cairo | [29 July 1798] |
USD - | 61.60 | |
| 211 | Napoleon | Milan | [15 November 1798] |
USD - | 67.20 | |
| 212 | Napoleon | Cairo | [1 December 1799] |
USD - | 61.60 | |
| 213 | Napoleon | [7 March 1800] |
USD - | 78.40 | ||
| 214 | Napoleon | Paris | [29 December 1800] |
USD - | 84.00 | |
| 215 | Napoleon | Paris | [13 September 1802] |
USD - | 89.60 | |
| 216 | Napoleon | Paris | [13 September 1802] |
USD - | 70.00 | |
| 217 | Napoleon | USD - | 106.40 | |||
| 218 | Napoleon | Fontainebleau | 11 October 1810 |
USD - | 134.40 | |
| 219 | Napoleon | Moscow | 12 October 1812 |
USD - | 140.00 | |
| 220 | Napoleon | USD - | 448.00 | |||
| 221 | Horatio Nelson | Doc. s. "Horatio Nelson" | Antigua | 23 September 1785 |
USD - | 39.20 |
| 222 | Horatio Nelson | A. L. s. | 21 December 1795 |
USD - | Not Sold | |
| 223 | Horatio Nelson | Order s. "Horatio Nelson" | USD - | 182.00 | ||
| 224 | Horatio Nelson | A. L. s. "Nelson" | 30 March 1798 |
USD - | 134.40 | |
| 225 | Horatio Nelson | A. L. s | Naples | 6 December 1798 |
USD - | 238.00 |
| 226 | Horatio Nelson | A. L. s. "Nelson" | 20 May 1799 |
USD - | 61.60 | |
| 227 | Horatio Nelson | A. L. s. | Palermo | 19 November 1799 |
USD - | 126.00 |
| 228 | Horatio Nelson | A. L. s. | 6 April 1802 |
USD - | 126.00 | |
| 229 | Horatio Nelson | A. L. s. "Nelson & Bronte" | 20 June 1802 |
USD - | 70.00 | |
| 230 | Horatio Nelson | A. L. s. "Nelson & Bronte" | 8 April 1803 |
USD - | 61.60 | |
| 231 | Horatio Nelson | A. L. s. | 1 August 1803 |
USD - | 70.00 | |
| 232 | Horatio Nelson | A. L. s. "Nelson & Bronte" | 22 August 1803 |
USD - | 106.40 | |
| 233 | Horatio Nelson | A. L. s. "Nelson & Bronte" | 27 September 1803 |
USD - | 196.00 | |
| 234 | Horatio Nelson | Order s. "Nelson & Bronte" | 5 October 1803 |
USD - | 56.00 | |
| 235 | Horatio Nelson | A. L. s. | 10 October 1804 |
USD - | 78.40 | |
| 236 | Horatio Nelson | Order s. "Nelson & Bronte" | 14 September 1805 |
USD - | 33.60 | |
| 237 | Horatio Nelson | The armorial bearings of Lord Nelson | USD - | 252.00 | ||
| 238 | Horatio Nelson | A large collection of letters | USD - | 14.00 | ||
| 239 | Michel Ney | L. s. to General Dejean | Paris | 26 February 1804 |
USD - | 14.00 |
| 240 | Florence Nightingale | A fine A. L. s. | 26 June 1861 |
USD - | 117.60 | |
| 241 | Samuel Pepys | Warrant s. "S. Pepys" | 24 September 1665 |
USD - | 84.00 | |
| 242 | Sir Arthur Pinero | His House in Order | USD - | 308.00 | ||
| 243 | William Pitt | A. L. s. | July 13, [1779 ?] |
USD - | 70.00 | |
| 244 | Frederick Sleigh Roberts | A collection of twenty-five A. Ls. s. | 17 October 1901 - 20 November 1910 |
USD - | 22.40 | |
| 245 | John Ruskin | The holograph manuscript of a substantial part of "The Poetry of Architecture" | USD - | 672.00 | ||
| 246 | Sir Walter Scott | A. L. s. to Andrew Burnet | [c. 1821] |
USD - | 98.00 | |
| 247 | Sir Walter Scott | A. L. s. | USD - | 28.00 | ||
| 248 | Sir Walter Scott | A. L. s. | USD - | 56.00 | ||
| 249 | George Bernard Shaw | Two autograph postcards | USD - | 33.60 | ||
| 250 | Richard Brinsley Sheridan | A. L. s. | USD - | 50.40 | ||
| 251 | Robert Southey | A. L. s. | September 1786 |
USD - | 16.80 | |
| 252 | Robert Stephenson | A. L. s. | 21 June 1844 |
USD - | 39.20 | |
| 253 | Robert Stevenson | A. L. s. | Edinburgh | 22 March 1850 |
USD - | 84.00 |
| 254 | Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Perigord | A. L. s. | USD - | 33.60 | ||
| 255 | Sir John Tenniel | Five A. Ls. s. | 9 August 1883 - 18 December 1889 |
USD - | 364.00 | |
| 256 | Alfred Tennyson | A. L. s. | 4 November 1874 |
USD - | 28.00 | |
| 257 | William Makepeace Thackeray | Auto | USD - | 140.00 | ||
| 258 | William Makepeace Thackeray | A. L. s. | USD - | 50.40 | ||
| 259 | William Makepeace Thackeray | A. L. s. | USD - | 182.00 | ||
| 260 | F. M. Arouet de Voltaire | A. L. s. "V" | USD - | 364.00 | ||
| 261 | Arthur Wellesley Wellington | L. s. | USD - | 28.00 | ||
| 262 | Arthur Wellesley Wellington | A. L. s. | USD - | 44.80 | ||
| 263 | William Wordsworth | L. s. | USD - | 140.00 | ||
| 264 | Adrianus Carthusiensis | Strassburg | c. 1472 |
USD - | 448.00 | |
| 265 | Andreas Alciatus | Parergon juris libri III | USD - | 168.00 | ||
| 266 | Nicolaus Perottus | Aldine Press | Venice | 1513 |
USD - | 36.40 |
| 267 | Anselmus (Archbishop of Canterbury) Opuscula | USD - | 98.00 | |||
| 268 | Antoninus Florentinus | Esslingen | [not after 1474] |
USD - | 504.00 | |
| 269 | Antoninus Florentinus | Lyons | 27 March 1512 |
USD - | 61.60 | |
| 270 | Saint Augustinus | Epistolae | Strassburg | 1471 |
USD - | 1,736.00 |
| 271 | Saint Augustinus | De trinitate | Strassburg | 1471 |
USD - | 280.00 |
| 272 | Saint Augustinus | De consensu evangelistarum | 12 April 1473 |
USD - | 476.00 | |
| 273 | Saint Augustinus | Confessiones | Cologne | 9 August 1482 |
USD - | 238.00 |
| 274 | Saint Augustinus | Opuscula plurima | Strassburg | 20 March 1489 |
USD - | 252.00 |
| 275 | Saint Augustinus | De civitate Dei cum commento Thomae Valois et Nicolai Trivet | USD - | 896.00 | ||
| 276 | Saint Augustinus | Expositio evangelii secundum Johannem | USD - | 1,120.00 | ||
| 277 | Saint Augustinus | De civitate Dei cum commento Thomae Valois et Nicolai Triveth | USD - | 616.00 | ||
| 278 | Saint Augustinus | In S. Pauli interpretatio [edited by Petrus Securibilis] | Paris | 28 November 1499 |
USD - | 420.00 |
| 279 | Saint Augustinus | Opuscula | Paris | 1502 |
USD - | 140.00 |
| 280 | Saint Augustinus | Sermonum opera | Hagenau | October 1521 |
USD - | 78.40 |
| 281 | Bartholomaeus Anglicus | Strassburg | 14 February 1485 |
USD - | 672.00 | |
| 282 | Saint Bernardus Claravallensis | Opuscula [edited by Theoph-ilus de Brixia and preceded by his Carmen de vita S. Bernardi] | Venice | 17 October 1495 |
USD - | 168.00 |
| 283 | Biblia cum glossa ordinaria Walafradi Strabonis aliorumque et interlinean Anselmi Laudunensis | Strassburg | 23 September 1481 |
USD - | 252.00 | |
| 284 | Saint Bona ventura | Quaestiones in IV Sententiarum a Johanne Beckenhaub emendatae | Nuremberg | 1500 |
USD - | 168.00 |
| 285 | Johannes Capreolus | Quaestiones in IV libros Sententiarum | Venice | 1483 |
USD - | 84.00 |
| 286 | Caterina da Siena | Bologna | c. 1475 |
USD - | 224.00 | |
| 287 | Marcus Tullius Cicero | De officiis | Venice | 1 June 1486 |
USD - | 364.00 |
| 288 | Dionysius Carthusianus | Cologne | 1542 |
USD - | 33.60 | |
| 289 | Duns Scotus | Venice | 1481 |
USD - | 476.00 | |
| 290 | Duns Scotus | Venice | 22-26 October 1506 |
USD - | 134.40 | |
| 291 | Gulielmus Durandus | Rationale divinorum officiorum [edited by Gabriele Bruno] | Venice | 8 December 1485 |
USD - | 308.00 |
| 292 | Thomas Fuller | Church History of Britain | USD - | 44.80 | ||
| 293 | Robert Gaguin | Compendium super Francorúum gestis | 1504-22 |
USD - | 126.00 | |
| 294 | Gregorius I (Pope) Epistolae | Augsburg | 1477 |
USD - | 672.00 | |
| 295 | Gregorius I (Pope) Dialogi | Basle | 1496 |
USD - | 182.00 | |
| 296 | regorius IX | Venice | 20 May 1514 |
USD - | 168.00 | |
| 297 | Felix Hemmerlin | Opuscula et tractatus | Strassburg | 13 August 1497 |
USD - | 672.00 |
| 298 | Saint Hieronymus | Epistolae [and other tracts] | Venice | 7 January, 12 July 1496 |
USD - | 210.00 |
| 299 | Saint Hieronymus | Commentaria in Bibliam | Venice | 25 August 1498 |
USD - | 140.00 |
| 300 | Homiliarius Doctorum | Speier | 7 September 1482 |
USD - | 1,064.00 | |
| 301 | Jacobus de Clusa | Blaubeuren | c. 1475-78 |
USD - | 420.00 |
![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.")
