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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 711 | Wilde (O.) | Lord Arthur Savile's Crime | GBP - | 6.00 | ||
| 712 | Wilkins (Bp. John) | Discovery of a World in the atoone | 1638 |
GBP - | 7.50 | |
| 713 | Wilkinson (H.) | Sketches of Scenery in the Basque Provinces of Spain | 1838 |
GBP - | 13.00 | |
| 714 | Wiliamson (Dr. G. C.) | Book of Famille Rose | GBP - | 8.00 | ||
| 715 | Willatott (Ellen) | The Genus Rosa | 1914 |
GBP - | 18.00 | |
| 716 | Wilson (E. H.) | Plant Hunting | GBP - | 7.50 | ||
| 717 | Wilson (E. H.) | Aristocrats of the Trees | Boston | 1930 |
GBP - | 0.50 |
| 718 | Wiss (M.) | The Family Robinson Crusoe | 1816 |
GBP - | 3.50 | |
| 719 | Wollstonecraft (Mary) | Original Stories from Real Life | 1791 |
GBP - | 4.50 | |
| 720 | Wordsworth (Wm.) | The Excursion | 1814 |
GBP - | 3.50 | |
| 721 | Wright (H. Myles) | Small Houses | 1937 |
GBP - | 0.50 | |
| 722 | Yellow Book (The) | 1894-7 |
GBP - | 5.50 | ||
| 723 | Year Books | GBP - | 380.00 | |||
| 724 | Young (Edward) | The Complaint | 1797 |
GBP - | 2.00 | |
| 725 | Young (E.) | The Complaint | 1797 |
GBP - | 2.75 | |
| 726 | Abbot (W. C.) | Bibliography of Oliver Cromwell, portrait | Cambridge, U.S.A. | 1929 |
GBP - | 4.00 |
| 727 | Arber (Prof. E.) | The Term Catalogues | 1903-6 |
GBP - | 7.50 | |
| 728 | Ashbee (H. S.) | An Iconography of Don Quixote | 1895 |
GBP - | 1.50 | |
| 729 | Descriptive Bibliography of Ashendene Press | 1935 |
GBP - | 22.00 | ||
| 730 | Beckford and Hamilton Libraries. Sale Catalogues | 1882-3 |
GBP - | 3.50 | ||
| 731 | Bibliographic Index | GBP - | 5.50 | |||
| 732 | Bibliographical Society | GBP - | 9.00 | |||
| 733 | Claudin (A.) | The First Paris Press | GBP - | 3.00 | ||
| 734 | Gibson (S.) | Early Oxford Bindings | GBP - | 2.25 | ||
| 735 | Bourdillon (F. W.) | Early Editions of The Roman de la Rose | GBP - | 4.00 | ||
| 736 | Esdaile (A.) | Bibliographical Society | GBP - | 7.00 | ||
| 737 | A. W. Pollard | Bibliographical Society | 1920-42 |
GBP - | 14.00 | |
| 738 | Osier (Sir Wm.) | Incunabula Medica | 1923 |
GBP - | 6.50 | |
| 739 | Pollard (A. W.) and G. R. Redgrave | Bibliographical Society | 1926 |
GBP - | 8.00 | |
| 740 | Plomer (H. R.) | Bibliographical Society. Dictionary of Booksellers and Printers | GBP - | 6.50 | ||
| 741 | McKerrow (R. B.) and F. S. Ferguson | Bibliographical Society | GBP - | 2.50 | ||
| 742 | Johnson (A. F.) | Engraved and Etched Title-pages | GBP - | 4.00 | ||
| 743 | Thomas (H.) | Early Spanish Bookbindings | 1939 |
GBP - | 2.75 | |
| 744 | Bibliographical Society (The) 1892-1942 | GBP - | 2.00 | |||
| 745 | Bibliotheca Lindesiana. Catalogue of the Library of the Earl of Crawford, | 1887-89 |
GBP - | 1.50 | ||
| 746 | Book-Auction Records | GBP - | 22.00 | |||
| 747 | edited by D. Flower and A. J. A. Symons | Book-Collectors Quarterly (The) | 1930-35 |
GBP - | 3.50 | |
| 748 | edited by H. B. Wheatley | Book-Lover's Library | 1886-98 |
GBP - | 3.00 | |
| 748A | edited by H. B. Wheatley | British Museum. Remarkable Bindings in the B.M., | 1889 |
GBP - | 4.00 | |
| 749 | British Museum. Catalogue of Printed Books | 1892 |
GBP - | 1.00 | ||
| 750 | Catalogue of the Fifty Manuscripts and Printed Books Bequeathed by Alfred H. Huth | 1912 |
GBP - | 1.00 | ||
| 750A | British Museum Catalogue of Printed Books in the XVth Century | 1908-35 |
GBP - | 72.00 | ||
| 751 | British Museum. Short-title Catalogue of Books printed in France ... | GBP - | 3.50 | |||
| 752 | Britwell Handlist (The) | 1933 |
GBP - | 2.00 | ||
| 753 | Brotherton Library (The) | Leeds | 1931 |
GBP - | 1.50 | |
| 754 | Bouchot (Henri) | The Book : Its Printers, Illustrators, and Binders, facsimiles | 1890 |
GBP - | 2.75 | |
| 754A | Brunet (J. C.) | Manuel du Libraire | Paris | 1842-44 |
GBP - | 4.00 |
| 755 | Brussel (T. R.) | Anglo-American First Editions | 1935-6 |
GBP - | 3.00 | |
| 756 | Cannon (C. L.) | American Book Collectors and Collecting | GBP - | 5.50 | ||
| 757 | Quaritch (B.) | Catalogues | GBP - | 2.50 | ||
| 758 | Hoym (Cte de) | Catalogues | GBP - | 15.00 | ||
| 759 | Printed Books in the Library of The Duke of Portland, | GBP - | 9.00 | |||
| 760 | National Library of Wales, Manuscripts and Rare Books Exhibited | GBP - | 4.00 | |||
| 761 | Catalogues. Maggs Bros | GBP - | 4.00 | |||
| 762 | Hoepli (U.) | Catalogues | GBP - | 2.25 | ||
| 763 | Catalogues. Pickering and Chatto | GBP - | 4.00 | |||
| 764 | Chaucer (G.) | The Ellesmere Chaucer | Manchester | 1911 |
GBP - | 22.00 |
| 765 | Clark (J. W.) | The Care of Books | GBP - | 7.00 | ||
| 766 | Cohn (A. M.) | George Cruikshank a Catalogue Raisonne | 1924 |
GBP - | 3.50 | |
| 767 | Collier (J. P.) | Bibliographical and Critical Account of the Rarest Books in the English Language | GBP - | 9.00 | ||
| 768 | Copinger (W. A.) | Incunabula Biblica or The First Half Century of the Latin Bible | 1892 |
GBP - | 14.00 | |
| 769 | Corson (J. C.) | Bibliography of Sir Walter Scott | GBP - | 1.75 | ||
| 770 | Cross (W. L.) | History of Henry Fielding | New Haven | 1918 |
GBP - | 7.00 |
| 771 | Cross (W. L.) | Life and Times of Laurence Sterme | New Haven | 1925 |
GBP - | 2.50 |
| 772 | Daniel (C. H. O.) | Daniel Press | Oxford | 1921 |
GBP - | 1.75 |
| 773 | Danielson (H.) | Bibliographies of atodern Authors | GBP - | 1.00 | ||
| 774 | Davenport (C.) | Thomas Berthelet | GBP - | 6.00 | ||
| 775 | De Bure (G. F.) | Bibliographie Instructive | Paris | 1763-9 |
GBP - | 3.00 |
| 776 | Dibdin (T. F.) | The Bibliographical Decameron | 1817 |
GBP - | 13.00 | |
| 777 | Dibdin (T. F.) | Typographical Antiquities | 1810-19 |
GBP - | 8.50 | |
| 777A | Dibdin (T. F.) | Bibliographical Tour in France and Germany | 1821 |
GBP - | 1.50 | |
| 778 | Dibdin (Rev. T. F.) | The Library Companion | 1824 |
GBP - | 1.25 | |
| 778A | Dibdin (Rev. T. F.) | Bibliographical Tour in France and Germany | GBP - | 2.00 | ||
| 779 | Eckel (J. C.) | Prime Pickwicks in Parts | GBP - | 2.50 | ||
| 780 | Eckel (J. C.) | First Editions of Charles Dickens | 1932 |
GBP - | 2.50 | |
| 780A | Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke | Leipzig | 1925-38 |
GBP - | 15.00 | |
| 780B | Gibson Craig Library | June, 1887-Nov., 1888 |
GBP - | 2.00 | ||
| 781 | Gosse (P.) | My Private Library | U.S.A. | 1936 |
GBP - | 1.75 |
| 782 | Grolier Club | GBP - | 3.50 | |||
| 783 | Gumucian et Cie. Catalogue de Reliures du XVe au XIXe Siecle | Paris | GBP - | 3.00 | ||
| 783A | Halkett (S.) and J. JLaing | Dictionary of Anonyatous and Pseudonyatous English Literature | 1926-34 |
GBP - | 8.50 | |
| 784 | Hatton (T.) and A. H. Cleaver | Bibliography of the Periodical Works of Charles Dickens | 1933 |
GBP - | 3.00 | |
| 785 | Hazen (A. T.) | Bibliography of The Strawberry Hill Press | New Haven | 1942 |
GBP - | 2.50 |
| 786 | Hazen (A. T.) | Bibliography of The Strawberry Hill Press | New Haven | 1942 |
GBP - | 2.25 |
| 787 | Heber (Richard) | Bibliotheca Heberiana | 1834-37 |
GBP - | 19.00 | |
| 788 | Hill (N.) | Guillaume de Guileville's Le Pelerinage de l'Homme | GBP - | 0.50 | ||
| 789 | Historia Literaria | 1731-2 |
GBP - | 2.50 | ||
| 789A | Hobson (G. D.) | Thirty Bindings | 1926 |
GBP - | 1.50 | |
| 789B | Hobson (G. D.) | Maioli | 1926 |
GBP - | 3.50 | |
| 790 | Hodgkin (J. E.) | Rariora | 1902 |
GBP - | 4.00 | |
| 791 | Humphreys (H. N.) | History of the Art of Printing | 1867 |
GBP - | 4.50 | |
| 792 | Humphreys (H. N.) | Masterpieces of Early Printers and Engravers | 1870 |
GBP - | 2.50 | |
| 793 | Huth (Henry) | Illustrated Sale Catalogues of Printed Books | 1911-20 |
GBP - | 10.00 | |
| 794 | Imprint (The) | 1913 |
GBP - | 3.50 | ||
| 795 | Jackson (Holbrook) | The Annatomy of Bibliomania | 1930 |
GBP - | 5.00 | |
| 796 | Jacobi (C. T.) | Gesta Typographica or a Medley for Printers and Others | 1897 |
GBP - | 1.25 | |
| 797 | James (Philip) | Children's Books of Yesterday | GBP - | 1.75 | ||
| 798 | Johnson (J.) | Typographia or the Printers Instructor | GBP - | 6.00 | ||
| 799 | Junk (W.) | Rara Historico-Naturalia et Mathematica | Berlin | 1900-36 |
GBP - | 6.00 |
| 800 | Keynes (G.) | Bibliography of Dr. John Donne | GBP - | 3.00 |
![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.")
