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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: 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 496 | John Bradshaw | Draft A. L. s | Whitehall | 4 October 1651 |
USD - | 140.00 |
| 497 | Oliver Cromwell | Doc. s. | Tydenham | 22 September 1652 |
USD - | 140.00 |
| 498 | strange (Sir Roger L | A. L. s. | USD - | 42.00 | ||
| 499 | "An Abstract of A Journal from England to Cadiz And from Thence to Divers Ports in the Mediterranean Sea" | 31 December 1694-20 October 1696 |
USD - | 252.00 | ||
| 500 | Edmund Curll | A. L. s. | USD - | 56.00 | ||
| 501 | John Churchill Marlborough | A. L. s | 4 February 1701-[02] |
USD - | 70.00 | |
| 502 | Henry Maundrell | A. L. s. | 22 December 1696 |
USD - | 78.40 | |
| 503 | Benjamin Jackson | A. L. s. | USD - | 134.00 | ||
| 504 | A Ls. s. from various Canadian statesmen | USD - | 56.00 | |||
| 505 | Joseph Stowe | A. L. s. | Barmudas | 3 January 1684 |
USD - | 33.60 |
| 506 | Etienne Hilaire | "Tableau des Singes Americains" | USD - | 50.40 | ||
| 507 | Sir Charles Lyell | A. L. s. | Frankfurt | 28 July [1857] |
USD - | 61.60 |
| 508 | Henry Smeathman | A. L. s. | USD - | 67.20 | ||
| 509 | [Napoleon I]-O'Meara Barry Edward | . L. s | 8 February 1826 |
USD - | 67.20 | |
| 510 | Napoleonic Wars | 1812 |
USD - | 89.60 | ||
| 511 | Napoleonic Wars | Riga | 17 September 1812 |
USD - | 22.40 | |
| 512 | Due de Reichstadi Napoleon II | "Un mot sur la Vie et la Mort du Due de Reichstadt" | USD - | 112.00 | ||
| 513 | Jean Jacques Dessalines | L. s. (as "General Division-naire") | 8 July 1802 |
USD - | 56.00 | |
| 514 | Charles Hector Estaing | L. s. (with a few words in his hand) | Port au Prince | 6 August 1764 |
USD - | 67.20 |
| 515 | Toussaint L'Ouverture | Wellington (Arthur, Duke of) A. L. s. | Paris | 12 October 1814 |
USD - | 28.00 |
| 516 | Haiti-Collection of correspondence and documents relating to legal proceedings and public affairs in Haiti | Haiti | 1780-1814 |
USD - | 98.00 | |
| 517 | Haiti-Correspondence addressed to M. Dubreuil de Fonreaux | USD - | 70.00 | |||
| 518 | Henri Christophe | L. s. (as General de Brigade) | USD - | 70.00 | ||
| 519 | French Colonies | USD - | 33.60 | |||
| 520 | Jan Christian Smuts | Interesting Early A. L. s. | Cambridge | 23 April 1893 |
USD - | 126.00 |
| 521 | Jan Christian Smuts | Series of 10 A. Ls. s. | USD - | 84.00 | ||
| 522 | David Garrick | A. L. s. | Adelphi | 1 February 1776 |
USD - | 448.00 |
| 523 | Pietro Nardini | A. L. s. | USD - | 56.00 | ||
| 524 | Richard Brinsley Sheridan | Very Fine and Long A. L. (imperfect at end) | [1775] |
USD - | 1,400.00 | |
| 525 | R. B. Sheridan | Two A. Ls. s. | USD - | 98.00 | ||
| 526 | Charles William Ward | Interesting Collection of autograph letters and drafts by him (with a few passages by his wife and his brother William) on family affairs | USD - | 70.00 | ||
| 527 | Charles William Ward and Linley (Jane Nash) | Long Series of some 234 A. Ls. s. exchanged between the two during the period of their engagement [May 1798] | [May 1798] - 20 August 1800 |
USD - | 756.00 | |
| 528 | Ward Family | USD - | 50.40 | |||
| 529 | Hesther Lynch Piozzi, Mrs. Thrale | Autograph card | USD - | 140.00 | ||
| 530 | Edmund Burke | A. L. s. | 25 May 1779 |
USD - | 154.00 | |
| 531 | Charles James Fox | A. L. s. | USD - | 50.40 | ||
| 532 | William Pitt | A. L. s. | USD - | 44.80 | ||
| 533 | John Wesley | Interesting A. L. s. | London | 1 November 1784 |
USD - | 210.00 |
| 534 | Anglo-Spanish Relations | 1738 |
USD - | 112.00 | ||
| 535 | Jeremy Bentham | A. L. (unsigned) | 14 May 1808 |
USD - | 308.00 | |
| 536 | John Stuart Mill | The Autograph Manuscript of his "Speech delivered at the London Debating Society Tuesday 28th Feby | 28th Feby. 1826 |
USD - | 336.00 | |
| 537 | John Stuart Mill | The Autograph Manuscript | USD - | 126.00 | ||
| 538 | Sir Thomas Lawrence | Series of 9 A. Ls. s. | 1821-24 |
USD - | 336.00 | |
| 539 | Sir David Wilkie | A. L. s. | London | 15 July 1805 |
USD - | 392.00 |
| 540 | Sir David Wilkie | Three A. Ls. s. | USD - | 168.00 | ||
| 541 | Sir David Wilkie | Interesting Collection of 15 autograph drafts of letters by him to various correspondents | USD - | 336.00 | ||
| 542 | Sir David Wilkie | Interesting Collection of some 74 letters to him from various correspondents | USD - | 784.00 | ||
| 543 | Sir David Wilkie | Autograph Manuscript Pocket-Diaries for the years 1830 and 1832 containing notes of his professional and social engagements | USD - | 182.00 | ||
| 544 | Sir David Wilkie | Charter by the College of Arms granting Wilkie an augmentation to his hereditary coat-of-arms in commemoration of his appointments as Principal Portrait Painter in Ordinary to the King and His Majesty's Limner for Scotland | 18 May 1837 |
USD - | 182.00 | |
| 545 | General Charles GeorgeGordon | 4 A. Ls. s. | USD - | 39.20 | ||
| 546 | W. E. Gladstone | Interesting Series of 4 A. Ls | USD - | 61.60 | ||
| 547 | Sir James Paget | Interesting series of 8 A. Ls. s. | 21 February 1862-24 December 1862 |
USD - | 44.80 | |
| 548 | Karl Marx | Autograph Manuscript Notes for his book "Zur Kritik Des Politschen Oekonomie" | USD - | 840.00 | ||
| 549 | John Penn | A. L. s. | Stoke | 9 December 1800 |
USD - | 28.00 |
| 550 | Bernard Barton | A. L. s. (initials) | USD - | 22.40 | ||
| 551 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | A. L. s. | 14 November 1842 |
USD - | 154.00 | |
| 552 | Sarah Burney | A. L. s. | Chelsea | 29 June 1821 |
USD - | 33.60 |
| 553 | Thomas Carlyle | A. L. | Scotshrig | 3 October 1826 |
USD - | 50.40 |
| 554 | Hartley Coleridge | Autograph Manuscript of a Sonnet | USD - | 11.20 | ||
| 555 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | A. L. s. | Keswick | 20 May 1803 |
USD - | 126.00 |
| 556 | Charles Dickens | Series of 9 A. Ls. s. (signature cut from one letter) | USD - | 532.00 | ||
| 557 | George Meredith | Two A. Ls. s. | 21 November -13 December 1867 |
USD - | 106.40 | |
| 558 | Literary | USD - | 154.00 | |||
| 559 | Robert Browning | Three A. Ls. s. | Warwick Crescent | 14 January 1879 - 25 July 1881 |
USD - | 182.00 |
| 560 | Charles Dickens | A. L. s. | 19 September 1868 |
USD - | 140.00 | |
| 561 | Charles Dickens | A. L. s. | USD - | 84.00 | ||
| 562 | Oliver Wendell Holmes | A. L. s. | USD - | 56.00 | ||
| 563 | Charles Kingsley | Three A. Ls. s. | 14 April 1867 - 30 April 1868 |
USD - | 42.00 | |
| 564 | Literary | USD - | 154.00 | |||
| 565 | John Poole | Series of 14 A. Ls. s. | USD - | 28.00 | ||
| 566 | William Stubbs | "Notes of a lecture delivered at Oriel Coll. by Bishop Stubbs when Regius Prof | [1866-84] |
USD - | 16.80 | |
| 567 | Laurence Durrell | Series of 4 typed Ls | France | 1 January 1958-[April 1958 |
USD - | 70.00 |
| 568 | Literary | USD - | 42.00 | |||
| 569 | Christina Rossetti | Four A. Ls. s. | USD - | 308.00 | ||
| 570 | John Ruskin | Characteristic series of 17 A. Ls. s. | Brantwood and Sandgate | January 1884 - May 1888 |
USD - | 476.00 |
| 571 | Marion H. Spielmann | An extensive and interesting collection of A. Ls. s. addressed to Spielmann | USD - | 1,344.00 | ||
| 572 | Algernon Charles Swinburne | Autograph Manuscript of his poem "The Jacobite's Farewell | USD - | 117.60 | ||
| 573 | TheodoreWatts-Dunton | Autograph Manuscripts of his sonnets | USD - | 98.00 | ||
| 574 | Walt Whitman | Two autograph postcards | USD - | 154.00 | ||
| 575 | William HarrisonAinsworth | May Fair | 1827 |
USD - | 154.00 | |
| 576 | William HarrisonAinsworth | The Constable of the Tower | 1861 |
USD - | 67.20 | |
| 577 | William HarrisonAinsworth | The Lord Mayor of London | Chapman & Hall | 1862 |
USD - | 72.80 |
| 578 | William Harrison Ainsworth | Cardinal Pole | Chapman & Hall | 1863 |
USD - | 44.80 |
| 579 | William Harrison Ainsworth | John Law: the Projector | Chapman & Hall | 1864 |
USD - | 50.40 |
| 580 | William Harrison Ainsworth | Merry England | 1874 |
USD - | 44.80 | |
| 581 | William HarrisonAinsworth | The Goldsmith's Wife | 1875 |
USD - | 78.40 | |
| 582 | William Harrison Ainsworth | Old Court | Chapman & Hall | 1867 |
USD - | 67.20 |
| 583 | William Harrison Ainsworth | Beau Nash | Routledge | [1879] |
USD - | 61.60 |
| 584 | William Harrison Ainsworth | Stanley Brereton | Routledge | [1881] |
USD - | 89.60 |
| 585 | W. Harrison Ainsworth | The Tower of London | USD - | 44.80 | ||
| 586 | W. Harrison Ainsworth | Saint James's: or the Court of Queen Anne | USD - | 100.80 | ||
| 587 | W. Harrison Ainsworth | The Tower of London | USD - | 67.20 | ||
| 588 | W. Harrison Ainsworth | The Constable de Bourbon | USD - | 95.20 | ||
| 589 | W. Harrison Ainsworth | The Leaguer of Lathom | USD - | 95.20 | ||
| 590 | Thomas Bewick | The Fables of Aesop and others | USD - | 95.20 | ||
| 591 | Richard Blome | Britannia | 1673 |
USD - | 336.00 | |
| 592 | Book of Common Prayer | Oxford | 1718 |
USD - | 28.00 | |
| 593 | William Burton | Description of Leicestershire | [1622] |
USD - | 84.00 | |
| 594 | T.T. Bury | Fantascope | 1833 |
USD - | 117.60 | |
| 595 | Samuel Butler | Hudibras | USD - | 44.80 |
![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.")
![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.")
