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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: PRINTED BOOKS AND A FEW MANUSCRIPTS., 20Mar1939,
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- March 20, 1939 - March 20, 1939
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 305 | Kipling, Rudyard | Songs of the Sea | 1927 |
GBP - | 1.00 | |
| 306 | Lafenestre, G. | The Louvre: the Museum and the Master-pieces | Paris | GBP - | 0.10 | |
| 307 | Rooses, Max; Johnson, A. E.; Gallatin, A. E. | Fifty Masterpieces of Anthony van Dyck; The Russian Ballet; Art and the Great War | New York | 1919; 1900; 1913 |
GBP - | 0.05 |
| 308 | Bullen, H. L. | The Nuremberg Chronicle | San Francisco | 1930 |
GBP - | 2.15 |
| 309 | CATLIN, GEORGE | NORTH AMERICAN INDIAN PORTFOLIO | London | 1848 |
GBP - | 32.00 |
| 310 | Daly, Augustin | An International Match | 1888 |
GBP - | 0.10 | |
| 311 | HARRISON, GABRIEL | EDWIN FORREST | 1889 |
GBP - | 7.05 | |
| 312 | Harte, Bret | The Heathen Chinee | 1924 |
GBP - | 0.05 | |
| 313 | Killigrew, Thomas | Comedies and Tragedies | 1664 |
GBP - | 1.15 | |
| 314 | LAFONTAINE, J. DE | A COMPLETE SET OF THE 276 ENGRAVINGS by Le Mire | Paris | 1755-59 |
GBP - | 2.00 |
| 315 | M'KENNY, THOMAS, and James Hall | History of the Indian Tribes of North America | Philadelphia | 1838-44 |
GBP - | 23.00 |
| 316 | Powell, H. M. T. | The Santa Fé Trail to California; Journal and Drawings, edited by Douglas S. Watson | San Francisco | 1931; 1849-1852 |
GBP - | 2.00 |
| 317 | Shakespeare, William | Works | c.1870 |
GBP - | 1.05 | |
| 318 | SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM | COMEDIES | 1632 |
GBP - | 22.00 | |
| 319 | Wilkins, John | An Essay towards a Real Character and a Philosophical Language | 1668 |
GBP - | 0.18 | |
| 320 | Wouvermens, Ph. | Oeuvres Gravées d'après ses meilleurs Tableaux | 1737 |
GBP - | 2.02 | |
| 321 | Baker, George | The History and Antiquities of the County of Northampton | 1822-30 |
GBP - | 2.15 | |
| 322 | Bewick, Thomas | History of British Birds | Newcastle | 1797-1804-1821 |
GBP - | 1.10 |
| 323 | Bicknell, C. | Flowering Plants and Ferns of the Riviera | 1885 |
GBP - | 1.10 | |
| 324 | Boswell, James | Life of Johnson, edited by J. W. Croker | 1831 |
GBP - | 0.05 | |
| 325 | BRAUN, G. AND HOGENBURG F. | CIVITATES ORBIS TERRARUM | Cologne | 1612-18 |
GBP - | 16.00 |
| 326 | Browne, Sir Thomas | Pseudodoxia Epidemica | 1646 |
GBP - | 1.15 | |
| 327 | Camden, William | Britannia | 1722 |
GBP - | 1.18 | |
| 328 | Chauncy, Sir Henry | The Historical Antiquities of Hertfordshire | 1700 |
GBP - | 2.05 | |
| 329 | Darwin, Charles | On the Origin of Species | 1859 |
GBP - | 1.02 | |
| 330 | Dibdin, Thomas Frognall | The Bibliographical Decameron | 1817 |
GBP - | 3.03 | |
| 331 | Dibdin, T. F. | Bibliomania | 1842 |
GBP - | 1.02 | |
| 332 | Dibdin, T. F. | A Bibliographical Tour in France and Germany; A Bibliographical Tour in the Northern Counties; Large Paper | 1821; 1838 |
GBP - | 0.10 | |
| 333 | Doyley, Charles | The European in India | 1813 |
GBP - | 1.03 | |
| 334 | DRAYTON, MICHAEL | POLY-OLBION | 1613-22 |
GBP - | 5.05 | |
| 335 | Dugdale, Sir William | The Antiquities of Warwickshire | 1656 |
GBP - | 1.18 | |
| 336 | Dugdale, Sir William, and Roger Dodsworth | Monasticon Anglicanum | 1655-61-73 |
GBP - | 0.10 | |
| 337 | Filhol, Antoine Michel, and Joseph Lavallée | Galerie du Musée Napoléon | Paris | 1804-15 |
GBP - | 0.10 |
| 338 | Froissart, Sir John | Chronicles | 1855 |
GBP - | 4.00 | |
| 339 | Holbein, Hans | Portraits of Illustrious Personages of the Court of Henry VIII | 1828 |
GBP - | 4.04 | |
| 340 | Kip, I. | Britannia Illustrata | 1707 |
GBP - | 0.10 | |
| 341 | Lamb, Lady Caroline | Verses from Glenarvon | 1819 |
GBP - | 1.15 | |
| 342 | Levaillant, François | Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux d'Afrique | Paris | 1799 |
GBP - | 2.08 |
| 343 | LEVAILLANT, FRANÇOIS | Histoire Naturelle d'une partie d'Oiseaux Nouveaux et Rares de l'Amérique et des Indes | Paris | 1801 |
GBP - | 5.00 |
| 344 | Loudon, Mrs. | The Ladies Flower Garden | 1840 |
GBP - | 3.10 | |
| 345 | Markham, Francis | The Booke of Honour | 1625 |
GBP - | 1.08 | |
| 346 | Mayer, Luigi | A Selection of the most interesting of Sir Robert Ainslie's Collection of Views in Turkey | 1812 |
GBP - | 1.15 | |
| 347 | Morris, F. O. | History of British Birds; The Nests and Eggs of British Birds | 1851-57; 1853-56 |
GBP - | 1.12 | |
| 348 | Nash, Treadway | Collections for the History of Worcestershire | 1781-82-99 |
GBP - | 1.00 | |
| 349 | Original Water-Colour Drawings of English, Scottish, Welsh and Italian Scenery | c. 1833-95 |
GBP - | 5.10 | ||
| 350 | Petrarch, Francesco; Zincgrefius, I. G. | Sonetti; Emblematum Ethico-Politicorum Centuria | Venice; Heidelberg | 1541; 1664 |
GBP - | 0.10 |
| 351 | PYNE, W. H. | THE HISTORY OF THE ROYAL RESIDENCES of Windsor Castle | 1819 |
GBP - | 19.10 | |
| 352 | Redouté, P. J. and C. A. Thory | Les Roses | 1835 |
GBP - | 15.10 | |
| 353 | Robson, George Fennell | Scenery of the Grampian Mountains | 1819 |
GBP - | 2.05 | |
| 354 | SCHEDEL, HARTMANN | DAS BUCH DER CHRONIKEN UND GESCHICHTEN | Nuremberg | 23rd Dec., 1493 |
GBP - | 15.00 |
| 355 | Shaw, Stebbing | The History and Antiquities of Staffordshire | 1798-1801 |
GBP - | 5.00 | |
| 356 | Shaw, Stebbing | The History and Antiquities of Staffordshire | 1798-1801 |
GBP - | Not Sold | |
| 357 | SIMEONI, GABRIELLO | LE IMPRESSE HEROICHE ET MORALI | Lyons | 1539 |
GBP - | 5.00 |
| 358 | Sotheby, Samuel Leigh | Principia Typographica | 1858 |
GBP - | 1.18 | |
| 359 | Spenser, Edmund | Works | 1679 |
GBP - | 1.04 | |
| 360 | THORNTON, R. J. | THE TEMPLE OF FLORA | 1812 |
GBP - | 8.15 | |
| 361 | Walpole, Horace | The Royal and Noble Authors of England | 1806 |
GBP - | 0.16 | |
| 362 | AUSTEN, Jane | Novels | 193[?] |
GBP - | 2.00 | |
| 363 | Browning, R. | Poetical Works | 1888-94 |
GBP - | 1.15 | |
| 364 | Burns, R. | Poems Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect | Edinburgh | 1787 |
GBP - | 1.05 |
| 365 | Chaucer, G. | Works | Oxford | 1894-97 |
GBP - | 3.03 |
| 366 | Chippendale, T. | The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director | 1762 |
GBP - | 24.00 | |
| 367 | Dobson, A.; Cory, W.; Crane, W. | The Ballad of Beau Brocade; Ionica; Renascence | 1892; 1891 |
GBP - | 1.00 | |
| 368 | Dodgson, C. L. | Alice's Adventures Under Ground | 1886 |
GBP - | 1.00 | |
| 369 | Dodgson, C.; Burne-Jones, E.; Kingsley, C.; Andersen, H. | The Etchings of Charles Meryon; The Beginning of the World; The Heroes; Stories | 1912; 1893; 1921; 1902 |
GBP - | 1.12 | |
| 370 | Carlyle, T. | Sartor Resartus | 1907 |
GBP - | 4.10 | |
| 371 | Milton, J. | Areopagitica | 1907 |
GBP - | 3.00 | |
| 372 | Dumas, A. | Works | 1893 |
GBP - | 1.00 | |
| 373 | Eragny Press; Essex House Press; Hymn of Bardaisan | 1907; 1899 |
GBP - | 0.10 | ||
| 374 | Bunyan, J. | The Pilgrim's Progress | 1899 |
GBP - | 1.12 | |
| 375 | Shakespeare, W. | Poems | 1899 |
GBP - | 2.05 | |
| 376 | Gray, T. | Elegy written in a Country Church Yard | 1900 |
GBP - | 3.10 | |
| 377 | Thomas Hoby | Essex House Press | 1900 |
GBP - | 2.15 | |
| 378 | Whitman, W. | President Lincoln's Funeral Hymn | 1900 |
GBP - | 2.05 | |
| 379 | Keats, J. | Eve of St. Agnes | 1900 |
GBP - | 3.10 | |
| 380 | Spenser, E. | Epithalamium | 1901 |
GBP - | 3.00 | |
| 381 | Penn, W.; Woolman, J. | Some Fruits of Solitude; Journal of Life and Travels in the Service of the Gospel | 1901 |
GBP - | 2.10 | |
| 382 | Erasmus D. | Essex House Press; Praise of Folly | 1902; 1901 |
GBP - | 1.00 | |
| 383 | Keats, J. | The Keats Letters | 1914 |
GBP - | 1.15 | |
| 384 | MORRIS, WILLIAM | The Story of the Glittering Plain | 1891 |
GBP - | 3.05 | |
| 385 | Morris, W. | Poems by the Way | 1891 |
GBP - | 2.00 | |
| 386 | Blunt, W. S. | The Love-Lyrics and Songs of Proteus | 1892 |
GBP - | 2.00 | |
| 387 | Ruskin, John | The Nature of Gothic | 1892 |
GBP - | 2.00 | |
| 388 | Morris, W. | The Defence of Guenevere | 1892 |
GBP - | 2.00 | |
| 389 | Morris, W. | A Dream of John Ball and A King's Lesson | 1892 |
GBP - | 2.05 | |
| 390 | VORAGINE, JACOBUS DE | The Golden Legend | 1892 |
GBP - | 4.05 | |
| 391 | LEPEVRE, RAOUL | The Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye, translated by W. Caxton | 1892 |
GBP - | 6.00 | |
| 392 | Mackail, J. W. | Biblia Innocentium | 1892 |
GBP - | 1.10 | |
| 393 | CAXTON, W. | The History of Reynard the Foxe | 1892 |
GBP - | 4.05 | |
| 394 | Shakespeare, W. | The Poems, edited by P. S. Ellis | 1893 |
GBP - | 4.00 | |
| 395 | Morris, W. | News from Nowhere | 1892 [issued 1893] |
GBP - | 2.15 | |
| 396 | F. S. Ellis | Order of Chivalry | 1892-3 |
GBP - | 2.00 | |
| 397 | Cavendish, George | The Life of Thomas Wolsey | 1893 |
GBP - | 3.15 | |
| 398 | H. H. Sparling | History | 1893 |
GBP - | 5.15 | |
| 399 | MORE, SIR THOMAS | Utopia, edited by F. S. Ellis | 1893 |
GBP - | 6.15 | |
| 400 | Tennyson, Alfred, Lord | Maud | 1893 |
GBP - | 1.00 | |
| 401 | Morris, W. | Gothic Architecture | 1893 |
GBP - | 0.05 | |
| 402 | MEINHOLD, WILHELM | Sidonia the Sorceress, translated by Lady Wilde | 1893 |
GBP - | 3.05 | |
| 403 | ROSSETTI, D. G. | Ballads and Narrative Poems | 1893 |
GBP - | 2.05 | |
| 404 | ROSSETTI, D. G. | Sonnets and Lyrical Poems | 1894 |
GBP - | 1.10 |
![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.")
