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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 - $65,000 Old World Auctions (June 18): Lot 567. One of the Earliest & Most Desirable Printed Maps of Arabia - by Holle/Germanus (1482) Est. $55,000 - $65,000
    Old World Auctions (June 18): Lot 567. One of the Earliest & Most Desirable Printed Maps of Arabia - by Holle/Germanus (1482) Est. $55,000 - $65,000
    Old World Auctions (June 18): Lot 567. One of the Earliest & Most Desirable Printed Maps of Arabia - by Holle/Germanus (1482) Est. $55,000 - $65,000
    Old World Auctions (June 18): Lot 681. Zatta's Complete Atlas with 218 Maps in Full Contemporary Color (1779) Est. $27,500 - $35,000
    Old World Auctions (June 18): Lot 347. MacDonald Gill's Landmark "Wonderground Map" of London (1914) Est. $1,800 - $2,100
    Old World Auctions (June 18): Lot 1. Fries' "Modern" World Map with Portraits of Five Kings (1525) Est. $4,000 - $4,750
    Old World Auctions (June 18): Lot 539. Ortelius' Superb, Decorative Map of Cyprus in Full Contemporary Color (1573) Est. $1,100 - $1,400
    Old World Auctions (June 18): Lot 51. Mercator's Foundation Map for the Americas in Full Contemporary Color (1630) Est. $3,250 - $4,000
    Old World Auctions (June 18): Lot 667. Manuscript Bible Leaf with Image of Mary and Baby Jesus (1450) Est. $1,900 - $2,200
    Old World Auctions (June 18): Lot 226. "A Powerful Example of Color Used to Make a Point" (1895) Est. $400 - $600
    Old World Auctions (June 18): Lot 290. One of the Most Decorative Early Maps of South America - from Linschoten's "Itinerario" (1596) Est. $7,000 - $8,500
    Old World Auctions (June 18): Lot 62. Coronelli's Influential Map of North America with the Island of California (1688) Est. $10,000 - $12,000
    Old World Auctions (June 18): Lot 589. The First European-Printed Map of China - by Ortelius (1584) Est. $4,000 - $5,000
  • Forum AuctionsA Sixth Selection of 16th and 17th Century English Books from the Fox Pointe Manor Library19th June 2025 Forum AuctionsA Sixth Selection of 16th and 17th Century English Books from the Fox Pointe Manor Library19th June 2025
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    A Sixth Selection of 16th and 17th Century English Books from the Fox Pointe Manor Library
    19th June 2025
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    A Sixth Selection of 16th and 17th Century English Books from the Fox Pointe Manor Library
    19th June 2025
    Forum, 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.
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    A Sixth Selection of 16th and 17th Century English Books from the Fox Pointe Manor Library
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    Forum, 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.
  • ALDE, June 18: CHAPPE D'AUTEROCHE (JEAN). Voyage en Sibérie fait par ordre du Roi en 1761 contenant les mœurs…, Paris, 1768. €4,000 to €5,000.
    ALDE, June 18: HENNEPIN (LOUIS). Description de la Louisiane nouvellement découverte au Sud-Ouest de la Nouvelle France…, Paris, 1688. €3,000 to €4,000.
    ALDE, June 18: LA BOULLAYE-LE GOUZ (FRANÇOIS DE). Les Voyages et Observations, Paris, 1653. €1,500 to €2,000.
    ALDE, June 18: LE BRUN (CORNELIS DE BRUYN DIT CORNEILLE). Voyage au Levant, c'est à dire dans les principaux endroits de l'Asie mineure..., Delft, 1700. €6,000 to €8,000.
    ALDE, June 18: SAINT-NON (J.-CL. RICHARD, ABBÉ DE). Voyage pittoresque ou description du royaume de Naples et de Sicile, Paris, 1781-1786. €3,500 to €5,000.
    ALDE, June 18: (CALVIN JEAN). SÉNÈQUE. Annei Senecae..., Paris, 1532. €2,000 to €3,000.
    ALDE, June 18: ADRIEN LE CHARTREUX. De remediis utriusque fortunæ, [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.
    ALDE, June 18: LACTANCE. De divinis institutionibus. De ira Dei. De opificio Dei. De phoenice carmen, Rome, 1468. €30,000 to €40,000.
    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.
    ALDE, June 18: POLITIEN (ANGE). Omnia opera, et alia quædam lectu Digna, Venise, 1498. €8,000 to €10,000.
    ALDE, June 18: SIDOINE APOLLINAIRE. Poema aureum ejusdemque Epistole, Milan, 1498. €3,000 to €4,000.

Sothebys: PRINTED BOOKS AND A FEW MANUSCRIPTS., 09Mar1936,

Auction Details

Auction Date
March 09, 1936 - March 09, 1936
Page Size: 621 items in 7 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
400 Dampier, W. A Collection of Voyages.

1729

GBP - 2.10
401 Muller, P.; Gallonius, Anton Tractatio Juridica de Jure Praegnantium.; De SS. Martyrum Cruciatibus. Jena, Rome

1732, 1694

GBP - 0.18
402 Mesmer, Dr. F. A.; Hempel, C. F. Mesmerismus.; Silten, Gebrauche... der Attenbu'rgischen Bauern. Berlin, Attenburg

1814, 1839

GBP - 1.10
403 Porta, J. B. Libri de re rustica.; Magiae Naturalis Libri Viginti. Venice, Frankfurt

1514, 1591

GBP - 2.02
404 Lawrence, T. E. Revolt in the Desert.

1927

GBP - 0.15
405 Cicero Opera. Leyden

1642

GBP - 2.00
406 Franck, Richard A Philosophical Treatise of the Original and Production of Things. John Gain

1687

GBP - 5.00
407 Floddan Field in Nine Fits.

1664

GBP - 1.05
408 Fletcher, John The Elder Brother.

1637

GBP - 1.05
409 Evelyn, J. The History of the Three late famous Imposters.

1669

GBP - 3.05
410 Rous, Francis Oile of Scorpions.

1624

GBP - 1.00
411 ENCHIRIDION PRECLARE ECCLESIE SARUM. Paris

1528

GBP - 35.00
412 Molloy, F. Lucerna Fidelium. Rome

1676

GBP - 1.10
413 SHAKESPEARE BIRTHDAY BOOK.

1875

GBP - 5.10
414 D. R. Strange and Prodigious Religions.

1685

GBP - 4.00
415 Wit, Jean de Grand Pensionnaire de Hollande. Memoires.

1709

GBP - 0.05
416 Book of Common Prayer.

1717

GBP - 1.10
417 Heures nouvelles dediees aux Dames de S. Cyr. Paris

1719

GBP - 1.00
418 Le Sage A. R. Le Bachelier de Salamanque. A Paris

1741

GBP - 2.10
419 Mahon Andrew The Art of Fencing, or the use of the small sword. London

1735

GBP - 1.08
420 Perazzo, J. B. Distichorum Centuriae XV.

1684

GBP - 0.10
421 Granada, F. Loys de La Guide des Pecheurs. A Paris

1583

GBP - 1.10
422 Booke of Common Prayer.

1631

GBP - 7.10
423 Coulon, Louis Les Rivieres de France.; Les Rivieres de France qui se jettent das la mer Mediterranee. A Paris

1644

GBP - 0.08
424 Grotius, Hugo Baptizatorum Puerorum Institutio: et Eucharistia.

1706

GBP - 0.05
425 Tractatus de. Cum tractatulo de meditatione cordis. Ulm

1487

GBP - 10.00
426 DANTE Divina Commedia.

1515

GBP - 3.10
427 Legh, Gerard The Accidens of Armory. London

1562

GBP - 0.10
428 Ras, Cesare L'Argute e Facete lettere di. In Paris

1584

GBP - 0.12
429 Exempla sacre scripture. Paris

circa 1500

GBP - 0.08
430 De, Ligny C. Fascimlus Florum Spiritualium.; Scriptores aliquot gnomici.; Les Ambassades ... du Cardinal du Perron. Bologna, Basel, Paris

1675, 1521, 1633

GBP - 0.05
431 Glauber, J. R. Furni Noir Philosophici. Amsterdam

1650-51

GBP - 0.16
432 Douglass, William A Summary...

1755

GBP - 1.00
433 Breviarium cum ritum alme ecclesie Augustensis. Venice

1518-19

GBP - 1.10
434 Castillon, A. Les Experiences Recreatives ou la physique en action, causeries familieres de jeunes enfants.

n. d.

GBP - 0.05
435 Euclid Elementorum Libri XV.; Petri Rami Professoris Regii Arithmeticae Libri duo. Paris

1574, 1581

GBP - 0.12
436 AL-JAZULI Dalail al Khairat.

GBP - 0.10
437 Boyle, Hon. R. Some Considerations touching the Usefulnesse of Experimental Natural Philosophy. Oxford

1664-71

GBP - 5.00
438 HOURS. USE OF ROUEN.

GBP - 6.00
439 Miniature Books.

GBP - 1.01
440 Sallust Opera; Book of Common Prayer. Paris

1672, 1662

GBP - 0.05
441 Atkins, J. Tradesmen's Tokens of the Eighteenth Century.

1892

GBP - 0.05
442 Hort's Easy Course of Domestic Education.

1822

GBP - 1.15
443 HOURS OF THE VIRGIN.

GBP - 15.00
444 Wilmer, D.; Perceval, M. Early English Glass.; The Glass Collector.

1911, n. d.

GBP - 0.18
445 Real Life in London.

1821-22

GBP - 2.10
446 COMBE, WILLIAM The Three Tours of Dr. Syntax.

1813-20-21

GBP - 7.05
447 Combe, Wm. History of Johnny Quae Genus.

1822

GBP - 1.01
448 CARLYLE, THOMAS A Collection of upwards of 300 volumes from the Library of the late David Alec Wilson.

GBP - 3.10
449 Durer, Albrecht The Little Passion.

circa 1600

GBP - Not Sold
450 Churchyard Thomas Churchyard's Challenge.

1593

GBP - 6.05
451 Bible; Bible Latin.; English. Paris

1545, 1599

GBP - 0.12
452 Heronis Mechanici Liber de Machinis Bellicis. Venetiis

1572

GBP - 6.15
453 MERCURIUS, AULICUS A Duirnell, communicating the intelligence and affairs of the Court to the rest of the Kingdome. Oxford

Jan. 1--Dec. 30, 1642

GBP - 11.00
454 Heylyn, Peter A full relation of two Journeys.

1656

GBP - 3.10
455 DESCARTES, Renatus PRINCIPIA PHILOSOPHIAE. Amstelodami

1644

GBP - 3.05
456 HOFMAN, T. Portraits historiques des hommes illustres de Dannemark.

1746

GBP - 4.10
457 Nider, Johannes Preceptorium. Nurnberg

1496

GBP - 3.15
458 MYREOUR FOR MAGISTRATES.

1563

GBP - 3.00
459 NEW TESTAMENT, TYNDALE'S VERSION.

n. d., 1566

GBP - 3.00
460 Le Prince Etchings of Russian subjects.

GBP - 0.18
461 Jews The Most Strange & Wonderful Predictions of Cleombrotus.

1663

GBP - 1.02
462 Fox, George A Visitation to the Jews.

1656

GBP - 1.10
463 Gregorius, Nazianzenus St. in Julianum Invectivae duae.

1610

GBP - 3.00
464 GOWRIE CONSPIRACY.

1606

GBP - 1.10
465 Coryate, T. Coryats Crudities.

1611

GBP - 6.05
466 NEW TESTAMENT, English.

1631-32

GBP - 1.10
467 Elizabeth, Cary, Lady Life and Death of Lady Falkland.

circa 1640

GBP - 3.05
468 D. J. THE KNAVE IN GRAINE.

1640

GBP - 3.15
469 Dove, John The Conversion of Salomon.

1613

GBP - 0.10
470 Raleigh, Sir Walter; I. G. The Perogative of Parliament in England.; The Doctrine of the Church of England.

1640, 1642

GBP - 3.00
471 NAPIER, JOHN A PLAINE DISCOVERY. Edinburgh

1611

GBP - 1.00
472 Oates, T. The Picture of the Late King James drawn to the Life. Richard Baldwin

1696

GBP - 0.15
473 Tournal des Demoiselles.

1856-61 and 1874

GBP - 2.12
474 Illustrations and Engravings by Collaert Strada.

GBP - 2.10
475 Waldschmiedt, W. V. Kurze and Grundliche Beschreibung derer Aloen insgemein Insonderheit aber derer Americanischen.

1705

GBP - 0.05
476 Machiavelli, Nicolo Tutte le Opere.

1550

GBP - Not Sold
477 Hulsius, L. Erste Schiffart Kurtze warhafftige Beschreibung der newen Reyse... Numberg

1599

GBP - 0.15
478 Halle, J. S. Die Tabaksmanufactur oder die vollstandige Oekonomie des Tabaksbaues. Berlin

1788

GBP - 1.00
479 BLACKSTONE, WILLIAM Commentaries on the Laws of England. Oxford

1765-9

GBP - 15.00
480 Bentley, R. Designs for six Poems.

1775

GBP - 0.12
481 Billings, R. W.; Keysler, J. G. Baronial and Ecclesiastical Antiquities of Scotland.; Travels through Germany.

1855, 1756-57

GBP - 0.05
482 Psyche or The Legend of Love, and other Poems.

1811-21

GBP - 0.10
483 Freemasonry Document on vellum concerning the erection of Argyle's Lodge.

GBP - 0.10
484 Thornton, Col. T.; Dering, C. Sporting Tour through the Northern Parts of England.; Historical Account of Nottingham.

1804, 1751

GBP - 0.10
485 Lory, J. and J. and F. Schoberl Picturesque Tour from Geneva to Milan by way of the Simplon.

1820

GBP - 1.00
486 Fielding, T. H. Picturesque Description of The River Wye.

1841

GBP - 3.05
487 Williamson, Capt. T. and S. Howitt Oriental Field Sports.

1819

GBP - 1.00
488 Howitt, Samuel Foreign Field Sports.

1819

GBP - 9.00
489 Bunbury, H. W. An Academy for Grown Horsemen.

1812

GBP - 4.00
490 Beattie Wm.; Cervantes M. de Switzerland; Don Quixote.

1836, n. d.

GBP - 0.10
491 De Fonblanque, E. B. Annals of the House of Percy.

1887

GBP - 1.10
492 Encyclopaedia of Sport.

1897-98

GBP - Not Sold
493 Aldam, W. H. A Quaint Treatise on "Flees, and the Art of Artvfichall Flee Making".

1876

GBP - 3.10
494 Hervieu, P. Flirt. Paris

1890

GBP - 0.12
495 Paracelsus; Boernaave H.; Gravesande, W. J. Opera; Methodus Studii Medici; Physices Elementa Mathematica. Leyden

1603-5, 1751, 1720-1

GBP - 3.00
496 Converse, C. A.; Gillman, A. W. Some of the Ancestors and Descendants of Samuel Converse.; Searches into the History of the Gillman Family. Boston, Mass.

1905, 1906, 1895

GBP - 2.00
497 Lea, J. H. and G. H. Lea; Burke, H. F. The Ancestry and Posterity of John Lea cloth.; Pedigree of the Family of Darwin. Philadelphia

1906, 1888, 1890

GBP - 2.05
498 Selden, John; Moule T.; Humphreys, A. L. Titles of Honour.; Bibliotheca Heraldica Magnae Bntanniae.; Handbook of County Bibliography.

1631, 1822, 1917

GBP - 2.05
499 Versailles, Palace, Museum, Gardens.; Rivista del Collegio Araldico.

n. d., 1903

GBP - 0.10
  • Swann, June 17: Lot 13: Arthur Rackham, Candlelight, pen and ink, circa 1900. Swann, June 17: Lot 13: Arthur Rackham, Candlelight, pen and ink, circa 1900.
    Swann, June 17: Lot 13: Arthur Rackham, Candlelight, pen and ink, circa 1900.
    Swann, June 17: Lot 13: Arthur Rackham, Candlelight, pen and ink, circa 1900.
    Swann, June 17: Lot 28: Harold Von Schmidt, "I Asked Jim If He Wanted To Accompany Us To Teach The Hanneseys A Lesson.", oil on canvas, 1957.
    Swann, June 17: Lot 96: Arthur Szyk, Thumbelina, gouache and pencil, 1945.
    Swann, June 17: Lot 101: D.R. Sexton, The White Rabbit And Bill The Lizard, watercolor and gouache, 1932.
    Swann, June 17: Lot 127: Miguel Covarrubias, Bradypus Tridactilus. Three-Toed Sloth, gouache, circa 1953.
    Swann, June 17: Lot 132: William Pène Du Bois, 2 Illustrations: Balloon Merry Go Round On The Ground And In The Air, pen and ink and wash, 1947.
    Swann, June 17: Lot 137: Lee Lorenz, Confetti Hourglass, mixed media, 1973.
    Swann, June 17: Lot 181: Norman Rockwell, Portrait Of Floyd Jerome Patten (Editor At Boy's Life Magazine), charcoal, circa 1915.
    Swann, June 17: Lot 188: Ludwig Bemelmans, Rue De Buci, Paris, casein, watercolor, ink and gouache, 1955.
    Swann, June 17: Lot 263: Maurice Sendak, Sundance Childrens Theater Poster Preliminary Sketch, pencil, 1988.
  • Bonhams, June 16-25: 15th-CENTURY TREATISE ON SYPHILIS. GRÜNPECK. 1496. $20,000 - $30,000
    Bonhams, June 16-25: THE NORMAN COPY OF BENIVIENI'S TREATISE ON PATHOLOGY. 1507. $12,000 - $18,000
    Bonhams, June 16-25: FRACASTORO. Syphilis sive Morbus Gallicus. 1530. $8,000 - $12,000
    Bonhams, June 16-25: THE FIRST PUBLISHED WORK ON SKIN DISEASES. MERCURIALIS. De morbis cutaneis... 1572. $10,000 - $15,000
    Bonhams, June 16-25: BIDLOO. Anatomia humani corporis... 1685. $6,000 - $9,000
    Bonhams, June 16-25: THE NORMAN COPY OF DOUGLASS'S EARLY AMERICAN WORK ON INNOCULATION AND SMALLPOX. 1722. $20,000 - $30,000
    Bonhams, June 16-25: LIND'S FIRST TREATISE ON SCURVY. 1753. $15,000 - $20,000
    Bonhams, June 16-25: RARE JENNER SIGNED CIRCULAR ON VACCINATION. 1821. $4,000 - $6,000
    Bonhams, June 16-25: MOST BEAUTIFUL OF MEDICAL ILLUSTRATIONS. BRIGHT. Reports of Medical Cases... 1827-1831. $10,000 - $15,000
    Bonhams, June 16-25: FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE PRESENTATION COPY TO HER MOTHER. 1860. $6,000 - $8,000
    Bonhams, June 16-25: LORENZO TRAVER'S MANUSCRIPT JOURNAL OF BURNSIDE'S NORTH CAROLINA EXPEDITION. TRAVER, Lorenzo. $2,000 - $3,000
    Bonhams, June 16-25: ONE OF THE EARLIEST PHOTOGRAPHIC BOOKS ON DERMATOLOGY. HARDY. Clinique Photographique... 1868. $3,000 - $5,000
  • Dominic Winter AuctioneersJune 18 & 19Printed Books & Maps, Children's & Illustrated Books, Modern First Editions Dominic Winter AuctioneersJune 18 & 19Printed Books & Maps, Children's & Illustrated Books, Modern First Editions
    Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    June 18 & 19
    Printed Books & Maps, Children's & Illustrated Books, Modern First Editions
    Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    June 18 & 19
    Printed Books & Maps, Children's & Illustrated Books, Modern First Editions
    Dominic 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. £1,000-1,500
    Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    June 18 & 19
    Printed Books & Maps, Children's & Illustrated Books, Modern First Editions
    Dominic 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 Editions
    Dominic Winter, June 18-19: Austen (Jane, 1775-1817). Signature, cut from a letter, no date. £7,000-10,000
    Dominic Winter, June 18-19: Huxley (Aldous). Brave New World, 1st edition, with wraparound band, 1932. £4,000-6,000
    Dominic Winter, June 18-19: Tolkien (J. R. R.) The Hobbit, 1st edition, 2nd impression, 1937. £3,000-5,000
    Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    June 18 & 19
    Printed Books & Maps, Children's & Illustrated Books, Modern First Editions
    Dominic Winter, June 18-19: Rackham (Arthur, 1867-1939). Princess by the Sea (from Irish Fairy Tales), circa 1920. £4,000-6,000
    Dominic Winter, June 18-19: Kelmscott Press. The Story of the Glittering Plain, Walter Crane's copy, 1894. £3,000-4,000
    Dominic Winter, June 18-19: King (Jessie Marion, 1875-1949). The Summer House, watercolour. £4,000-6,000
  • Fonsie Mealy’sChatsworth Summer Fine Art Sale18th June 2025 Fonsie Mealy’sChatsworth Summer Fine Art Sale18th June 2025
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    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: 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 - $2,500
    Bonhams, June 16-24: ASHENDENE PRESS. The Wisdom of Jesus. 1932. $2,000 - $3,000
    Bonhams, June 16-24: CHARLOTTE BRONTE WRITES AS GOVERNESS. Autograph Letter Signed, 1851. $15,000 - $25,000
    Bonhams, June 16-24: FIRST AMERICAN EDITION OF WUTHERING HEIGHTS. BRONTE, Emily. New York, 1848. $3,000 - $5,000
    Bonhams, June 16-24: IAN FLEMING ASSOCIATION COPY. You Only Live Twice. London, 1964. $7,000 - $9,000
    Bonhams, June 16-24: DELUXE EDITION WITH ORIGINAL PAINTING. BUKOWSKI, Charles. War All the Time. 1984. $3,000 - $5,000
    Bonhams, 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 - $150,000
    Bonhams, June 16-24: EINSTEIN ON SCIENCE, WAR AND MORALITY. Autograph Letter Signed, 1949. $20,000 - $30,000
    Bonhams, June 16-24: SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. WASHINGTON, George. Engraved document signed, 1786. $8,000 - $12,000
    Bonhams, June 16-24: AN EARLY CHINESE-MADE 34-STAR U.S. CONSULAR FLAG. $8,000 - $12,000
    Bonhams, June 16-24: SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH OF LINCOLN WITH HIS SON TAD. 1864. $60,000 - $90,000
    Bonhams, June 16-24: MALCOLM X WRITES FROM KENYA. Postcard signed, 1964. $4,000 - $6,000
  • Sotheby’sNew York Book Week12-26 June Sotheby’sNew York Book Week12-26 June
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    Sotheby’s, June 25: Theocritus. Theocriti Eclogae triginta, Venice, Aldo Manuzio, February 1495/1496. 220,000 - 280,000 USD
    Sotheby’s, June 26: Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby, 1925. 40,000 - 60,000 USD
    Sotheby’s, June 26: Blake, William. Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Printed ca. 1381-1832. 400,000 - 600,000 USD
    Sotheby’s, June 26: Lincoln, Abraham. Thirteenth Amendment, signed by Abraham Lincoln. 8,000,000 - 12,000,000 USD
    Sotheby’s, June 26: Galieli, Galileo. First Edition of the Foundation of Modern Astronomy, 1610. 300,000 - 400,000 USD
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    Books, Autographs & Prints
    June 24 & 25, 2025
    Finarte, June 24-25: ALIGHIERI, DANTE / LANDINO, CRISTOFORO. Comento di Christophoro Landino Fiorentino sopra la Comedia di Danthe Alighieri poeta fiorentino, 1481. €40,000 to €50,000.
    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.
    Finarte, June 24-25: ALIGHIERI, DANTE. Il Convivio, 1490. €20,000 to €25,000.
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    Books, Autographs & Prints
    June 24 & 25, 2025
    Finarte, June 24-25: BANDELLO, MATTEO. La prima [-quarta] parte de le nouelle del Bandello, 1554. €7,000 to €9,000.
    Finarte, June 24-25: LEGATURA – PLUTARCO. Le vies des hommes illustres, grecs et romaines translates, 1567. €10,000 to €12,000.
    Finarte, June 24-25: TOLOMEO, CLAUDIO. Ptolemeo La Geografia di Claudio Ptolemeo Alessandrino, Con alcuni comenti…, 1548. €4,000 to €6,000.
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    Books, Autographs & Prints
    June 24 & 25, 2025
    Finarte, June 24-25: FESTE - COPPOLA, GIOVANNI CARLO. Le nozze degli Dei, favola [...] rappresentata in musica in Firenze…, 1637. €6,000 to €8,000.
    Finarte, June 24-25: SPINOZA, BARUCH. Opera posthuma, 1677. €8,000 to €12,000.
    Finarte, June 24-25: PUSHKIN, ALEXANDER. Borus Godunov, 1831. €30,000 to €50,000.
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    Books, Autographs & Prints
    June 24 & 25, 2025
    Finarte, June 24-25: LIBRO D'ARTISTA - LECUIRE, PIERRE. Ballets-minute, 1954. €35,000 to €40,000.
    Finarte, June 24-25: LIBRO D'ARTISTA - MAJAKOVSKIJ, VLADIMIR / LISSITZKY, LAZAR MARKOVICH. Dlia Golosa, 1923. €7,000 to €10,000.
    Finarte, June 24-25: LIBRO D'ARTISTA - MATISSE, HENRI / MONTHERLANT, HENRY DE. Pasiphaé. Chant de Minos., 1944. €22,000 to €24,000.