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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: A SELECTED PORTION OF THE EXTENSIVE AND VALUABLE LIBRARY The Property of Derck Spence, Esq. Halsall House, Ormskirk, Lanes., FERN,
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- June 27, 1949 - June 27, 1949
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 103 | Britton (N., Lord) | Flora of Bermuda | GBP - | 2.50 | ||
| 104 | [Bronte (C.)] | Jane Eyre | 1847 |
GBP - | 8.00 | |
| 105 | [Bronte (C.)] | Villette | 1853 |
GBP - | 1.50 | |
| 106 | [Bronte (C.)] | The Professor | 1857 |
GBP - | 12.00 | |
| 107 | [Bronte (C.)] | The Professor | 1857 |
GBP - | 2.50 | |
| 108 | Bronte (C.) | Richard Coeur de Lion and Blondel | GBP - | 4.50 | ||
| 109 | Bronte (Emily) | Wuthering Heights | 1847 |
GBP - | 13.00 | |
| 110 | Brooke (Mrs.) | Juliet Grenville | GBP - | 4.00 | ||
| 111 | Brooke (Rubert) | Five Sonnets, wrappers | GBP - | 0.50 | ||
| 112 | Broughton (Rhoda) | Nancy | GBP - | 1.00 | ||
| 113 | Browning (E. B.) | An Essay on Mind | 1826 |
GBP - | 3.50 | |
| 114 | Browning (R.) | The Ring and the Book | 1868-9 |
GBP - | 2.00 | |
| 116 | Bruno (V.) | Teatro de Gl'Inventori di Tutte le Cose | 1603 |
GBP - | 2.00 | |
| 117 | Bryan (M.) | Dictionary of Painters and Engravers | 1909-10 |
GBP - | 16.00 | |
| 118 | Buchanan (F.) | journey from Madras | 1807 |
GBP - | 1.50 | |
| 119 | Buckley (W.) | Art of Glass | 1939 |
GBP - | 2.25 | |
| 120 | Bullen (F. T.) | Cruise of the "Cachalot" | 1898 |
GBP - | 1.75 | |
| 121 | Burlington Fine Arts Club | 1911 |
GBP - | 6.00 | ||
| 122 | Burnett (F. H.) | Little Lord Fauntleroy | GBP - | 2.00 | ||
| 123 | Burney (C.) | Account of the Musical Performances in Westminster-Abbey | 1785 |
GBP - | 1.50 | |
| 124 | Burns (R.) | Poetical Works | GBP - | 1.00 | ||
| 125 | Burton (Sir R. F.) | Works | GBP - | 4.00 | ||
| 126 | Burton (Sir R. F.) | The Blue Mountain | 1851 |
GBP - | 3.00 | |
| 127 | Burton (Sir R. F.) | Pilgrimage to El-Medinah and Mecaa | 1855-6 |
GBP - | 5.50 | |
| 128 | [Burton (Sir R. F.)] | Stone Talk | 1865 |
GBP - | 10.00 | |
| 129 | Burton (Sir R. F.) | The Kasidah of Haji Abdu Al-Yazdi | 1894 |
GBP - | 2.50 | |
| 130 | Burton (Sir R. F.) | Lake Regions of Central Africa | GBP - | 6.50 | ||
| 131 | Burton (Sir R. F.) | Ultima Thule | GBP - | 4.00 | ||
| 132 | Burton (Sir R. F.) | Mission to Gelele | GBP - | 4.00 | ||
| 133 | Burton (Sir R. F.) | Book of the Sword | GBP - | 4.00 | ||
| 134 | Bussy-Rabutin (R. Comte de) | The Amourous History of the' Gauls | 1725 |
GBP - | 2.00 | |
| 135 | Butler (Samuel) | Hudibras | 1822 |
GBP - | 3.50 | |
| 136 | Butler (S.) | Erewhon | 1872 |
GBP - | 4.50 | |
| 137 | T. Raven Hill and A. Galsworthy | Butterfly (The) | GBP - | 1.00 | ||
| 138 | Byron (Lord G. G.) | The Corsair | 1814 |
GBP - | 1.25 | |
| 139 | Byron (Lord) | Prisoner of Chilon | GBP - | 1.00 | ||
| 140 | Byron (Lord) | Sardanapalus | 1821 |
USD - | Not Sold | |
| 141 | Cabell (J. B.) | Something About Eve | GBP - | 1.75 | ||
| 142 | Caldecott (Ralph) | Picture Books and Books | GBP - | 1.50 | ||
| 143 | Cambridge History of English Literature | Cambridge | 1932 |
GBP - | 6.00 | |
| 144 | [Facsimile Reprints of Rare Books] | GBP - | 1.00 | |||
| 145 | Caracciolus, Robertus, de Licio | Quadragesimale de poenitentia | 1473 |
GBP - | 5.50 | |
| 146 | [Cavendish (George)] | Negotiations of Thomas Woolsey | 1641 |
GBP - | 2.50 | |
| 147 | Cervantes (M. de) | Dialogue between Scipio and Bergansa | 1787 |
GBP - | 1.50 | |
| 147A | Cervantes (M. de) | Don Quixote de la Mancha | 1819 |
GBP - | 2.75 | |
| 148 | Cescinsky (H.) and M. R. Webster | English Domestic Clocks | 1914 |
GBP - | 12.00 | |
| 149 | Cescinsky (H.) and E. R. Gribble | Early English Furniture and Woodwork | 1922 |
GBP - | 6.00 | |
| 150 | Cescinsky (H.) | English Furniture of the Eighteenth Century | GBP - | 13.00 | ||
| 151 | Cescinsky (H.) | Old English Master Clockmakers and Their Clocks | 1938 |
GBP - | 1.50 | |
| 152 | Cherry-Garrard (A.) | The Worst Journey in the World | GBP - | 8.00 | ||
| 153 | Chatterton (T.) | Miscellanies in Prose and Verse | GBP - | 2.00 | ||
| 154 | Chesterfield (Philip Stanhope, Earl of) | Miscellaneous Works | 1778 |
GBP - | 0.50 | |
| 155 | Chinese Art | 1936 |
GBP - | 6.00 | ||
| 156 | Morant (G. Soulie de) | Chinese Art | GBP - | 6.00 | ||
| 157 | Cibber (Colley) | Apology for the Life of | 1740 |
GBP - | 5.50 | |
| 158 | CLEMENS V | Constitutiones cum apparatu Joannis Andreae | Strassburg | 1471 |
GBP - | 50.00 |
| 159 | Cobbett (Wm.) | Rural Rides | 1830 |
GBP - | 18.00 | |
| 160 | Cobbett (Wm.) | Rural Rides | 1930 |
GBP - | 9.00 | |
| 161 | Cobden-Sanderson (T. J.) | Journals | 1926 |
GBP - | 2.00 | |
| 162 | Collins (W. Wilkie) | The Frozen Deep | GBP - | 3.00 | ||
| 163 | Combe (W.) | English Dance of Death | 1815-16 |
GBP - | 6.00 | |
| 164 | [Combe (Wm.)] | The Grand Master or Adventures of Qui Hi | 1816 |
GBP - | 3.50 | |
| 165 | Combe (Wm.) | Tours of Doctor Syntax [First, Second and Third] | GBP - | 4.00 | ||
| 166 | Congreve (Wm.) | Works | 1710 |
GBP - | 7.00 | |
| 167 | Conrad (Joseph) | Almayer's Folly | 1895 |
GBP - | 3.00 | |
| 168 | Conrad (J.) | An Outcast of the Islands | 1895 |
GBP - | 1.00 | |
| 169 | Conrad (J.) | Tales of Unrest | 1898 |
GBP - | 1.00 | |
| 170 | Conrad (J.) | Lord Jim | GBP - | 2.00 | ||
| 171 | Conrad (J.) | Nostromo | GBP - | 2.00 | ||
| 172 | Conrad (J.) | Arrow of Gold | GBP - | 1.50 | ||
| 173 | Conway (M. D.) | Barons of the Potomack and the Rappahannock | 1929 |
GBP - | 2.25 | |
| 174 | Cook (Capt. James) | Voyages in the Southern Hemisphere | 1773 |
GBP - | 5.00 | |
| 175 | Corot (J. B. C.) | Paintings and Drawings | 1929 |
GBP - | 2.50 | |
| 176 | Coryate (T.) | Coryat's Crudities | Glasgow | 1905 |
GBP - | 1.00 |
| 177 | Costume. Military Costume of Europe | 1812 |
GBP - | 10.00 | ||
| 178 | Crane (Walter) | Slate and Pencil-vania | GBP - | 1.25 | ||
| 179 | Crane (W.) | Legends for Lionel | GBP - | 3.00 | ||
| 180 | Crouse (Russel) | Mr. Currier and Mr. Ives | New York | 1930 |
GBP - | 2.50 |
| 181 | Cuming (E. D.) | British Sport | 1909 |
GBP - | 1.50 | |
| 182 | CURTIS (WM.) | BOTANICAL MAGAZINE | 1787-1872 |
GBP - | 36.00 | |
| 183 | Cyclopaedia of Botany | 1829 |
GBP - | 2.50 | ||
| 184 | Daniel (Samuel) | Civile Wares betweene the Howses of Lancaster and Yorke | 1609 |
GBP - | 2.00 | |
| 185 | D[aniel (S.[amuel]) | The Collection of the History of England | 1621 |
GBP - | 0.75 | |
| 186 | D'Arblay (F.) | The Wanderer | 1814 |
GBP - | 2.00 | |
| 187 | D'Ardenne de Tizac (H.) | Animals in Chinese Art | GBP - | 8.00 | ||
| 188 | D'Ardenne de Tizac (H.) | La Sculpture Chinoise | GBP - | 3.50 | ||
| 189 | Darwin (C.) | On The Origin of Species | 1859 |
GBP - | 9.50 | |
| 190 | Darwin (C.) | Variation of Animals and Plants | 1868 |
GBP - | 0.50 | |
| 191 | Darwin (C.) | On the Various Contrivances by which Orchids are Fertilized by Insects | GBP - | 2.25 | ||
| 192 | Davenport (C.) | Roger Payne | 1929 |
GBP - | 8.50 | |
| 193 | De Foe (D.) | The Consolidator: or Memoirs of Sundry Transactions from the World in the Moon | 1705 |
GBP - | 1.25 | |
| 194 | Defoe (D.) | The Consolidator | 1705 |
GBP - | 0.50 | |
| 194A | [Defoe (D.)] | Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe | 1719 |
GBP - | 22.00 | |
| 195 | [Defoe (Daniel)] | The Fortunate Mistress | 1724 |
GBP - | 70.00 | |
| 196 | De Foe (D.) | A New Voyage Round the World | 1725 |
GBP - | 3.00 | |
| 197 | Defoe (D.) | Tour Thro' Great Britain | 1869 |
GBP - | 5.50 | |
| 198 | [De La Mare (W.)] | Songs of Childhood by Walter Ramal | 1902 |
GBP - | 7.00 | |
| 199 | De La Mare (W.) | Peacock Pie | GBP - | 2.00 | ||
| 200 | Machiavelli (N.) | De La Mare Press | 1929 |
GBP - | 8.00 | |
| 201 | De Quincey (Thomas) | Confessions of an English Opium-Eater | 1822 |
GBP - | 16.00 |
![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.")
