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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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Dominic Winter Auctioneers
June 18 & 19
Printed Books & Maps, Children's & Illustrated Books, Modern First EditionsDominic Winter, June 18-19: World. Van Geelkercken (N.), Orbis Terrarum Descriptio Duobis..., circa 1618. £4,000-6,000.Dominic Winter, June 18-19: Moll (Herman). A New Exact Map of the Dominions of the King of Great Britain..., circa 1715. £2,000-3,000.Dominic Winter, June 18-19: Churchill (Winston S.). The World Crisis, 5 volumes bound in 6, 1st edition, 1923-31. £1,000-1,500Dominic Winter Auctioneers
June 18 & 19
Printed Books & Maps, Children's & Illustrated Books, Modern First EditionsDominic Winter, June 18-19: Darwin (Charles). On the Origin of Species, 2nd edition, 2nd issue, 1860. £1,500-2,000.Dominic Winter, June 18-19: Roberts (David). The Holy Land, 6 volumes in 3, 1st quarto ed, 1855-56. £1,500-2,000.Dominic Winter, June 18-19: Saint-Exupéry (Antoine de, 1900-1944). Pilote de guerre (Flight to Arras), 1942. £10,000-15,000.Dominic Winter Auctioneers
June 18 & 19
Printed Books & Maps, Children's & Illustrated Books, Modern First EditionsDominic Winter, June 18-19: Austen (Jane, 1775-1817). Signature, cut from a letter, no date. £7,000-10,000Dominic Winter, June 18-19: Huxley (Aldous). Brave New World, 1st edition, with wraparound band, 1932. £4,000-6,000Dominic Winter, June 18-19: Tolkien (J. R. R.) The Hobbit, 1st edition, 2nd impression, 1937. £3,000-5,000Dominic Winter Auctioneers
June 18 & 19
Printed Books & Maps, Children's & Illustrated Books, Modern First EditionsDominic Winter, June 18-19: Rackham (Arthur, 1867-1939). Princess by the Sea (from Irish Fairy Tales), circa 1920. £4,000-6,000Dominic Winter, June 18-19: Kelmscott Press. The Story of the Glittering Plain, Walter Crane's copy, 1894. £3,000-4,000Dominic Winter, June 18-19: King (Jessie Marion, 1875-1949). The Summer House, watercolour. £4,000-6,000 -
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: 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 406 | Horticultural Society of London Transactions | 1820-48 |
GBP - | 13.00 | ||
| 407 | Horticultural Society Transactions | 1812-20 |
GBP - | 2.50 | ||
| 408 | Housman (A. E.) | A Shropshire Lad | 1896 |
GBP - | 30.00 | |
| 409 | Howard (Edward) | The Usurper | 1668 |
GBP - | 5.00 | |
| 410 | Hudson (W. H.) | British Birds | GBP - | 2.50 | ||
| 411 | Hudson (W. H.) | Green Mansions | 1904 |
GBP - | 6.50 | |
| 412 | Hulme (F. E.) and S. Hibberd | Familiar Garden Flowers | GBP - | 4.50 | ||
| 413 | Hunt (J. H. L.) | Men, Women, and Books | 1847 |
GBP - | 5.50 | |
| 414 | Hunt (Leigh) | The Town | 1848 |
GBP - | 0.75 | |
| 415 | Humphreys (H. N.) | Masterpieces of the Early Printers and Engravers | 1870 |
GBP - | 3.00 | |
| 416 | Imperato (Ferrante) | Dell' historia naturale lib xxviii | Naples | 1599 |
GBP - | 5.50 |
| 417 | [Irving (W.)] | Bracebridge Hall by Geoffrey Crayon | 1822 |
GBP - | 0.50 | |
| 418 | James (Henry) | The American | GBP - | 10.00 | ||
| 419 | James (H.) | Princess Casamassima | GBP - | 14.00 | ||
| 420 | Jefferies (Richard) | Bevis: The Story of a Boy | 1882 |
GBP - | 7.50 | |
| 421 | Jefferies (R.) | Hodge and His Masters | GBP - | 2.00 | ||
| 422 | Jefferies (R.) | Amaryllis at the Fair | GBP - | 2.25 | ||
| 423 | Johnson (S.) | The Rambler | 1752 |
GBP - | 3.00 | |
| 424 | Johnson (S.) | The Idler | 1761 |
GBP - | 3.00 | |
| 425 | Johnson (S.) | Johnsoniana: or a Supplement to Boswell | 1836 |
GBP - | 6.00 | |
| 426 | JOHNSON (S.) | VANITY OF HUMAN WISHES | 1749 |
GBP - | 50.00 | |
| 427 | Johnson (S.) | Dictionary of the English Language | 1755 |
GBP - | 13.00 | |
| 428 | Johnson (S.) | Preface to his Edition of Shakespeare's Plays | GBP - | 14.00 | ||
| 429 | Johnson (S.) | Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland | 1775 |
GBP - | 5.00 | |
| 430 | [Johnson (S.)] | The Convict's Address to His Unhappy Brethren | Newcastle | [1777] |
GBP - | 1.00 |
| 431 | Johnson (S.) | Prayers and Meditations | 1785 |
GBP - | 2.50 | |
| 432 | Kampen (Nicolas van) | Traite des Fleurs a Oignons | Haarlem | 1760 |
GBP - | 0.50 |
| 433 | Voragine (J. de) | Kelmscott Press | 1892 |
GBP - | 3.50 | |
| 434 | Tennyson (Lord) | Keimscott Press | 1893 |
GBP - | 2.00 | |
| 435 | Kelmscott Press | 1893 |
GBP - | 1.00 | ||
| 436 | Morris (W.) | Kelmscott Press | 1932 |
GBP - | 1.00 | |
| 437 | Orbeliani (S.) | Kelmscott Press | 1894 |
GBP - | 5.00 | |
| 438 | King (Wm.) | Chelsea Porcelain | 1922 |
GBP - | 3.00 | |
| 439 | Kingsley (C.) | The Water-Babies | 1863 |
GBP - | 4.50 | |
| 440 | Kingsley (C.) | Westward Ho! | GBP - | 5.50 | ||
| 441 | Kipling (R.) | Soldiers Three | Allahabad | 1888 |
GBP - | 5.50 |
| 442 | Kipling (R.) | Plain Tales from the Hills | Calcutta | 1888 |
GBP - | 5.00 |
| 443 | Kipling (R.) | In Black and White | Allahabad | [1888] |
GBP - | 4.00 |
| 444 | Kipling (R.) | The Phantom Rickshaw | Allahabad | [1889] |
GBP - | 4.50 |
| 445 | Kipling (R.) | Letters of Marque | Allahabad | 1891 |
GBP - | 1.00 |
| 446 | Kipling (R.) | Jungle Book | 1894-5 |
GBP - | 17.00 | |
| 447 | Kipling (R.) | Just So Stories | 1902 |
GBP - | 2.25 | |
| 448 | Kipling (R.) | Wee Willie Winkie | GBP - | 0.50 | ||
| 449 | Knight (T. A.) | Pomona Herefordiensis | 1811 |
GBP - | 11.00 | |
| 450 | Koran (The) Commonly called The Alcoran of Mohammed | 1734 |
GBP - | 3.00 | ||
| 451 | La Fontaine (J.) | Fables | 1931 |
GBP - | 8.00 | |
| 452 | Lamb (C.) | Works | 1818 |
GBP - | 6.00 | |
| 453 | [Lamb (C.)] | Book of Ranks and Dignities | [1805] |
GBP - | 1.00 | |
| 454 | Lamb (C.) | Adventures of Ulysses | 1808 |
GBP - | 1.00 | |
| 455 | Lamb (C.) | Elia | 1823 |
GBP - | 3.00 | |
| 456 | Lamb (C.) | Elia and The Last Essays of Elia | 1929 |
GBP - | 5.00 | |
| 457 | [Lamb (C.)] | Satan in Search of a Wife | 1831 |
GBP - | 3.50 | |
| 458 | Lands of Cazembe | GBP - | 0.50 | |||
| 459 | Laufer (B.) | Jade | Chicago | 1912 |
GBP - | 2.50 |
| 460 | Lauremberg (P.) | Horticultura | Frankfort | [1631] |
GBP - | 2.25 |
| 461 | Lauremberg (P.) | Horticultura libri II | GBP - | 1.50 | ||
| 462 | Laver (James) | History of British and American Etching | 1929 |
GBP - | 2.00 | |
| 463 | Lawrence (H. W.) and B. L. Dighton | French Line Engravers | GBP - | 4.00 | ||
| 464 | Lawrence (T. E.) | Revolt in the Desert | 1927 |
GBP - | 3.00 | |
| 465 | Lee (S.) | Life of William Shakespeare | GBP - | 1.00 | ||
| 466 | Leonardo Da Vinci | Notebooks | GBP - | 3.50 | ||
| 467 | Leonardus Aretinus (Brunus) | Historia Florentina [translated into Italian by Donato Acciaioli] | Venice | 1476 |
GBP - | 16.00 |
| 468 | Leurich (Mlld. de) | Entertaining Travels | GBP - | 2.50 | ||
| 469 | Lewis (Sinclair) | Main Street | New York | GBP - | 1.25 | |
| 470 | LIBELLUS SOPHISTARU AD USU OXONIENZ | April 15th, 1510 |
GBP - | 250.00 | ||
| 471 | Aesop. | Fables | Oxford | 1933 |
GBP - | 4.00 |
| 472 | Lindsay (P.) | Morgan in Jamaica | GBP - | 1.50 | ||
| 473 | Longfellow (H. W.) | The Song of Hiawatha | Boston | 1855 |
GBP - | 5.50 |
| 474 | Longfellow (H. W.) | Tales of a Wayside Inn | Boston | 1863 |
GBP - | 0.50 |
| 475 | Longhurst (M. H.) | English Ivories | 1926 |
GBP - | 1.50 | |
| 476 | Lutyens (E. L.) | Houses and Gardens | 1913 |
GBP - | 0.50 | |
| 477 | Lydgate (J.) | The Horse | Cambridge | 1906 |
GBP - | 0.50 |
| 478 | Lytton (E. B.) | The Last Days of Pompeii | 1834 |
GBP - | 2.25 | |
| 479 | MacKenna (F. Severne) | Cookworthy's Plymouth and Bristol Porcelain | 1946 |
GBP - | 1.50 | |
| 480 | Rev. Montague Summers | Malleus Maleficarum | 1928 |
GBP - | 3.00 | |
| 481 | Malory (Sir T.) | Le Morte Darthur | 1893-4 |
GBP - | 4.50 | |
| 482 | Mansfield (K.) | The Doves Nest | GBP - | 2.00 | ||
| 483 | Marbecke (John) | The Lyves of holy Sainctes | 1574 |
GBP - | 8.50 | |
| 484 | Marguerite de Valois | The Heptamaron | 1894 |
GBP - | 1.00 | |
| 485 | Marryat (Capt. F.) | Poor Jack | GBP - | 1.50 | ||
| 486 | Martinus Strepus Polonus | Sermones de Tempore et de Sanctis | Strassburg | 1488 |
GBP - | 13.00 |
| 487 | Masefield (J.) | The Country Scene | 1937 |
GBP - | 0.50 | |
| 488 | Maund (B.) | Botanic Garden | 1825-32 |
GBP - | 6.50 | |
| 489 | Maugham (W. Somerset) | Of Human Bondage | 1915 |
GBP - | 12.00 | |
| 490 | Meehan (J. F.) | Famous Houses of Bath | GBP - | 2.25 | ||
| 491 | Mercatus (M.) | Metallotheca | Rome | 1719 |
GBP - | 7.00 |
| 492 | Meredith (G.) | The Tale of Chloe | GBP - | 0.50 | ||
| 493 | Mew (Egan) | Battersea Enamels | GBP - | 2.25 | ||
| 494 | Michel (E.) | Flemish Painting in the XVIIth Century | 1939 |
GBP - | 1.25 | |
| 496 | Miller (P.) | The Gardeners Dictionary | Paris | 1548 |
GBP - | 1.00 |
| 497 | Milton (J.) | Paradise Lost | 1674 |
GBP - | 6.00 | |
| 498 | Milton (John) | Paradise Regained A Poem | 1671 |
GBP - | 19.00 | |
| 499 | Miner (H. S.) | Orchids | 1885 |
GBP - | 5.50 | |
| 500 | Miyoshi (M.) | Iris Laevigate Fisch | GBP - | 5.50 | ||
| 502 | Montaigne (M. de) | Essayes | 1613 |
GBP - | 4.50 | |
| 503 | Moore (G.) | Flowers of Passion | 1878 |
GBP - | 5.00 | |
| 504 | Moore (G.) | A Mere Accident | GBP - | 0.50 | ||
| 505 | Moore (G.) | Mike Fletcher | 1889 |
GBP - | 1.25 | |
| 506 | Moore (G.) | Vain Fortune | 1890 |
GBP - | 0.50 | |
| 507 | Moore (G.) | Impressions and Opinions | GBP - | 1.00 |
![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.")
