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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. -
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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
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A Sixth Selection of 16th and 17th Century English Books from the Fox Pointe Manor Library
19th June 2025Forum, June 19: Euclid. The Elements of Geometrie, first edition in English of the first complete translation, [1570]. £20,000 to £30,000.Forum, June 19: Nicolay (Nicolas de). The Navigations, peregrinations and voyages, made into Turkie, first edition in English, 1585. £10,000 to £15,000.Forum, June 19: Shakespeare source book.- Montemayor (Jorge de). Diana of George of Montemayor, first edition in English, 1598. £6,000 to £8,000.Forum, June 19: Livius (Titus). The Romane Historie, first edition in English, translated by Philemon Holland, Adam Islip, 1600. £6,000 to £8,000.Forum Auctions
A Sixth Selection of 16th and 17th Century English Books from the Fox Pointe Manor Library
19th June 2025Forum, June 19: Robert Molesworth's copy.- Montaigne (Michel de). The Essayes Or Morall, Politike and Millitarie Discourses, first edition in English, 1603. £10,000 to £15,000.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.Forum, June 19: Boyle (Robert). Medicina Hydrostatica: or, Hydrostaticks Applyed to the Materia Medica, first edition, for Samuel Smith, 1690. £2,500 to £3,500.Forum, June 19: Locke (John). An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding in Four Books, first edition, second issue, 1690. £8,00 to £12,000.
Sothebys: PRINTED BOOKS., 29Jul1935,
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- July 29, 1935 - July 29, 1935
Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
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101 | Johnson, Samuel | Works. | 1792 |
GBP - | Not Sold | |
102 | Thackeray, W. M.; Reade, C.; Mayhew, A. | Henry Esmond.; Christie Johnstone.; Paved with Gold.; Comic History of Rome. | 1852, 1853, 1858, n.d. |
GBP - | 0.12 | |
103 | Thackeray, W. M.; Dickens, C.; Seymour, R. | Vanity Fair.; Martin Chuzzlewit.; Humorous Sketches. | 1848, 1844, 1846 |
GBP - | 0.18 | |
104 | Meredith, G.; Dodgson, C. L.; Dickens, C.; Rogers, S.; Rosetti, D. G. | Poems and Lyrics.; Sylvie & Bruno.; The Cricket on the Hearth.; Human Life.; Works. | 1883, 1889, 1846, 1819, 1890 |
GBP - | 0.14 | |
105 | Tomlinson, H. M. | All Our Yesterdays. | 1930 |
GBP - | 0.12 | |
106 | Vanbrugh, Sir J.; Swinburne, A. C. | Works.; Bothwell.; Good Words. | 1893, 1871, 1880 |
GBP - | 0.05 | |
107 | Fancy (The) or True Sportsman's Guide. | 1826 |
GBP - | 1.15 | ||
108 | Ruskin, J. | The Seven Lamps of Architecture. | 1849 |
GBP - | Not Sold | |
109 | Parker, J. H. | Glossary of Terms used in Architecture.; The New Gresham Encyclopaedia. | 1850, 1922-4 |
GBP - | 0.05 | |
110 | Dekker, T.; Lancey, J. | Present State of the Stage (The).; The Tryal of Colley Gibber for writing... An Apology for his Life.; Epistle from the Bottle Conjurors unto the Gothamites.; Satan turned Moralist.; Account of the Burning of the Nightingale Brig. | 1753, 1740, n.d., 1740, 1754 |
GBP - | 3.05 | |
111 | Wellington (Duke of) Dispatches.; Marlborough (Duke of) Letters and Dispatches. | 1844-7, 1845 |
GBP - | 0.05 | ||
112 | Richardson, S. | Complete Novels. | Heinemann | 1902 |
GBP - | 2.10 |
113 | Fielding, H. | Complete Works. | Heinemann | 1903 |
GBP - | 2.05 |
114 | Sowerby J. | English Botany. | 1877-86 |
GBP - | 3.03 | |
115 | Pratt, A.; Yarrell, W. | Flowering Plants of Great Britain.; British Birds. | Warne | n.d., 1871-85 |
GBP - | 1.00 |
116 | Funnell, W. | Voyage round the World. | W. Botham | 1707 |
GBP - | 3.10 |
117 | Admiralty Office. | 1816 |
GBP - | 2.00 | ||
118 | Shaw, G. B.; Wells, H. G.; Conrad, J. | The Quintessence of Ibsenism.; History of Mr. Polly.; Tales of Hearsay. | 1891, 1910, 1925 |
GBP - | 0.05 | |
119 | Kipling, R.; Galsworthy, J. | Kim.; The Dark Flower. | 1901, 1913 |
GBP - | 0.10 | |
120 | Shelley, P. B. | Prometheus Unbound.; Shelley Memorials. | 1820, 1859 |
GBP - | 1.10 | |
121 | Peacock, T. L. | The Genius of the Thames. | 1810 |
GBP - | 0.08 | |
122 | Swift, J. | The Story of the Injured Lady. | 1746 |
GBP - | 0.05 | |
123 | Dodgson, C. L.; Trollope, A.; Lever, C. | The Hunting of the Snark.; Mr. Scarborough's Family.; Confessions of Harry Lorrequer. | 1876, 1883, 1839 |
GBP - | 0.10 | |
124 | Moore, G. | Aphrodite in Aulis. | 1930 |
GBP - | 1.04 | |
125 | MILTON, J. | PARADISE REGAIN'D... TO which is added Samson Agonistes. | 1671 |
GBP - | 12.10 | |
126 | Amman, J. | Bibliorum utriusque Testamenti Icones. | Frankfort a M. | 1571 |
GBP - | 2.10 |
127 | Bunyan, J. | The Holy War. | 1684 |
GBP - | 8.00 | |
128 | Rogers, S. | Poems. | 1834 |
GBP - | 1.05 | |
129 | Dickens, C. | The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. | 1837 |
GBP - | 1.15 | |
130 | Defoe, D. | A Tour through Great Britain. | 1724-25-27 |
GBP - | 3.05 | |
131 | Guicciardini, F. | Description of the Low countreys. | 1593 |
GBP - | 3.00 | |
132 | Pollock, Sir P. and F. W. Maitland | History of English Law. | 1898 |
GBP - | 1.10 | |
133 | MERRICK, LEONARD | Works. | 1918-27 |
GBP - | 3.00 | |
134 | Hardy, T. | Tess of the D'Urbervilles. | 1926 |
GBP - | 2.10 | |
135 | Milne, A. A. | When I was very young. | New York | 1930 |
GBP - | 0.12 |
136 | Milne, A. A. | Winnie-the-Pooh with decorations by Ernest H. Shepard. | 1926 |
GBP - | 1.04 | |
137 | Galsworthy, J. | Plays. | 1929 |
GBP - | 1.10 | |
138 | Galsworthy, John | Verses new and old.; A Modern Comedy. | 1926, 1929 |
GBP - | 3.00 | |
139 | Moore, G. | A Mere Accident. | 1887 |
GBP - | 0.18 | |
140 | RAWSTORNE, L. | GAMONIA: OR THE ART OF PRESERVING GAME. | 1837 |
GBP - | 11.00 | |
141 | Alter Reading--Alter Berneval. | 1921-22 |
GBP - | 0.10 | ||
142 | Alter Reading--After Berneval.; The Smile of the Sphinx. | 1921-22, 1920 |
GBP - | 0.05 | ||
143 | Carpenter, E. | An Unknown People. | GBP - | 0.10 | ||
144 | The Hymn of Bardaisan.; The Picture of Kebes the Theban. | 1899, 1906 |
GBP - | 0.14 | ||
145 | Woolman, J. | Journal. | 1901 |
GBP - | 1.05 | |
146 | Ashbee, C. R. | American Sheaves and English Seed Corn. | 1901 |
GBP - | 0.18 | |
147 | Whitman, W. | President Lincoln's Funeral Hymn. | 1900 1901 |
GBP - | 2.15 | |
148 | Ausgewaehlte Lieder Heine's. | 1903 |
GBP - | 0.10 | ||
149 | Ashbee, C. R. | A Bibliography of the Essex House Press. | 1904 |
GBP - | 0.10 | |
150 | Fisher, J. | A Mornynge Remembrance. | 1906 |
GBP - | 0.15 | |
151 | Ramage, A.; Morris, W. | An Essay on Dr. Johnson.; Some Hints on Pattern Designing. | 1906, 1899 |
GBP - | 0.05 | |
152 | Kipling, R. | Kim. | 1901 |
GBP - | 1.18 | |
153 | Shaw, G. B. | Three Plays for Puritans. | 1901 |
GBP - | 0.15 | |
154 | Shaw, G. B. | Man and Superman. | 1903 |
GBP - | 1.05 | |
155 | Shaw, G. B. | John Bull's Other Island. | 1907 |
GBP - | 0.12 | |
156 | Sowerby, J. F.; Trevelyan, G. M.; Luke, H. C. | British Wild Flowers.; History of England.; Anatolica. | 1894, 1927, 1924 |
GBP - | 1.02 | |
157 | Tennyson, Alfred, Lord; Keats, J.; Ralston | Enoch Arden.; Poems.; Krilof and his Fables. | 1864, 1896, 1869 |
GBP - | 1.00 | |
158 | Ashbee, C. R. | Where the Great City stands.; A Few Chapters in Workshop Reconstruction.; Transactions of the Guild and School of Handicraft. | 1917, 1894, 1890 |
GBP - | 0.05 | |
159 | Ashbee, C. R. | Jerusalem. | 1918-22 |
GBP - | 0.05 | |
160 | Ashbee, C. R. | Peckover: The Abbotscourt Papers. | 1932 |
GBP - | 0.10 | |
161 | Ashbee, C. R. | Last Records of a Cotswold Community. | 1904 |
GBP - | 1.00 | |
162 | Ashbee, C. R.; Bishop, G. | Conradin.; May-Day Interlude. | 1908, 1904 |
GBP - | 0.10 | |
163 | Castiglione, B. | The Courtyer done into Englyshe by T. Hoby. | 1900 |
GBP - | 2.08 | |
164 | Tomkinson, G. S.; Whistler | Select Bibliography of Modern Presses.; The Gentle Art of Making Enemies. | 1928, 1904 |
GBP - | 0.15 | |
165 | Wilde, O. | The Happy Prince. | 1888 |
GBP - | 1.02 | |
166 | Wilde, O. | A House of Pomegranates. | 1891 |
GBP - | 1.04 | |
167 | The Praise of Folie, woodcuts. | 1901 |
GBP - | 1.10 | ||
168 | The Psalter from Cranmer's Bible. | 1902 |
GBP - | 1.10 | ||
169 | Shelley, P. B. | Prometheus Unbound. | 1904 |
GBP - | 1.15 | |
170 | A Kempis. The Imitation of Christ. | 1904 |
GBP - | 1.12 | ||
171 | Ashbee, C. R. | Modern English Silverwork. | 1909 |
GBP - | 1.00 | |
172 | CHILD, F. J. | THE ENGLISH AND SCOTTISH POPULAR BALLADS. | Cambridge, Mass. | n.d. |
GBP - | 20.10 |
173 | Tomkinson, B. S. | Bibliography of the principal modern Presses. | 1928 |
GBP - | 0.05 | |
174 | Hobson, G. D. | Thirty Bindings selected from the First Edition Club's Seventh Exhibition. | 1926 |
GBP - | 0.05 | |
175 | Hobson, G. D. | Maioli, Canevari. | 1926 |
GBP - | 0.10 | |
176 | Plomer, H. R. | English Printers' Ornaments.; Wynkyn de Worde and his contem poraries. | 1924, 1925 |
GBP - | 0.14 | |
177 | Johnson, A. F.; Lyell, J. P. R. | One hundred title-pages 1500-1800.; Early Book-Illustration in Spain. | 1928, 1926 |
GBP - | 1.12 | |
178 | Jonston, Joh. Aberdonensis | Inscriptiones Historicae Regum Scotorum, continuata Annorum Serie a Fergusio ad nostra tempora. | Edemb. | 1602 |
GBP - | 4.00 |
179 | Beardsley, Aubrey | Uncollected Works. | 1925 |
GBP - | 0.12 | |
180 | Walton, I. and C. Cotton; Surtees, R. S. | The Complete Angler with notes by Sir A. Nicolas.; Jorrocks' Jaunts and Jollities. | 1860, 1869 |
GBP - | 1.00 | |
181 | Morris, F. O. | Picturesque Views of Seats of Noblemen and Gentlemen. | Leeds | n.d. |
GBP - | 1.06 |
182 | Howard, H. E. | The British Warblers. | 1907-14 |
GBP - | 1.10 | |
183 | Sloane, W. M. | Life of Napoleon. | New York | 1906 |
GBP - | 0.14 |
184 | Fairbairn, James | Book of Crests of the Families of Great Britain and Ireland. | 1905 |
GBP - | 2.08 | |
185 | Nicolas, Sir N. H. | History of the Orders of Knighthood of the British Empire. | 1842 |
GBP - | 0.18 | |
186 | Heraldry. Catton, C.; De Magny, M. le Mis | The English Peerage.; Traite de la Science des Armoiries. | 1790, n.d. |
GBP - | 0.10 | |
187 | Nicholson, George | Illustrated Dictionary of Gardening. | n.d. and 1901 |
GBP - | 2.18 | |
188 | Phelps, W.; Fenwick, G. L.; Gary, John | History and Antiquities of Somersetshire.; History of Chester.; New Map of England and Wales. | Chester | 1839, 1896, 1794 |
GBP - | 0.14 |
189 | Vyse, Howard | Operations carried on at the Pyramids of Gizeh. | 1840-42 |
GBP - | 1.10 | |
190 | Judicature in Parliament. | late 11th century |
GBP - | 0.12 | ||
191 | Barrie, J. M. | Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens. | 1906 |
GBP - | 0.10 | |
192 | P. J. Furnivall | A Royal historie of the excellent knight Generides. | 1865 |
GBP - | 5.15 | |
193 | World, The | By Adam Fitz-Adam Horace Walpole and Others. | 1753-56 |
GBP - | 2.10 | |
194 | Johnson, Samuel | The Rambler. | 1750-52 |
GBP - | 4.05 | |
195 | Gillray, James; Royston, Viscount | Caricatures, parts I-V and VII.; Cassandra. | Cambridge | n.d., 1806 |
GBP - | 1.15 |
196 | Forty-nine coloured plates of Danish Costume. | Copenhagen | c. 1820 |
GBP - | 8.10 | |
197 | Alciatus, A.; Gould, R. F. | Emblemata.; History of Free masonry. | Patavii | 1661, n.d. |
GBP - | 0.05 |
198 | SELDEX SOCIETY PUBLICATIONS. | 1887-1934 |
GBP - | 34.00 | ||
199 | Dymock, Cressy; Hartlib, S. | An Invention of Engines of Motion.; The Reformed Husband-Man. | 1651, 1651 |
GBP - | 8.00 | |
200 | Sedley, Sir Charles | Antony and Cleopatra [altered from Shakespeare]. | 1677 |
GBP - | 2.15 |