Rose City Book & Paper Fair
June 14-15, 2025
1000 NE Multnomah, Portland
ROSECITYBOOKFAIR.COM
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.
Fonsie Mealy’s
Chatsworth Summer Fine Art Sale
18th June 2025

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.
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Auction Reports


Auction Name	Rare Autographs, Books, Photos & Ephemera	Total Sales (USD)	1,032,662.00
Auction Date	April 23, 2025 - April 23, 2025	Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)	760,440.00
Sale Number	#42325	High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)	1,022,550.00
Total Lots	508
Sold Lots	489	Low Estimate of All Lots (USD)	1,777,740.00
% of Lots Sold	96.26%	High Estimate of All Lots (USD)	2,309,550.00
Unsold Lots	19	Total Sales as a % of High Est.	44.71%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
503	Einstein	Einstein, 3pp of Unified Field Theory Equations: "I want to try to show that a truly natural choice for field equations exists." He Formalizes His Final Approach, Association to Theory of Relativity	ca. 1940s	USD 80,000.00 - 120,000.00	USD 100,000.00
350	Marilyn Monroe's	Marilyn Monroe's Best Personally Owned & Annotated Script for Unfinished Last Film, "Something's Got to Give" (1962)	1962-02-12	USD 75,000.00 - 100,000.00	USD 68,750.00
73	Abraham Lincoln	Abraham Lincoln Full Bold Sig On Important Treasury Doc. The Day He Appointed Halleck to Lead the Army!	July 11, 1862	USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00	USD 28,125.00
66	Abraham Lincoln	Abraham Lincoln Rare Signed Check To Law Partner W.H. Herndon, Perhaps Unique as Such!	June 13, 1859	USD 20,000.00 - 25,000.00	USD 23,750.00
68	Lincoln	Lincoln Appointment for Cabinet Member With Largest, Boldest, Full Signature! Important Content: Detente with England	September 12, 1861	USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00	USD 22,500.00
505	Einstein	Einstein 1935 TLS, Hopes to Warn Non-Jews of "The true nature of the Hitler regime"	1935-03-01	USD 8,500.00 - 10,000.00	USD 21,250.00
437	Peter the Great	Peter the Great Congratulates Brother Frederick Wilhelm I On Birth of Son, Future King Frederick William II of Prussia	October 7, 1722	USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00	USD 20,480.00
318		1698 South Carolina Slavery Archive Huguenot Planters Earliest Rare Plat Maps for Plantations 41 Docs 107 pp. Most Colonial	ca. 1698-1835	USD 25,000.00 - 35,000.00	USD 20,000.00
26	James Garfield	James Garfield Letter as President on Executive Mansion Stationery! "regretting the embarrassments" Super Rare!	April 29, 1881	USD 7,000.00 - 10,000.00	USD 18,750.00
71	Lincoln	Lincoln Promotes Antietam Veteran Later Captured by Mosby's Rangers During 1864 Action of Mount Zion Church	March 10, 1863	USD 7,000.00 - 9,000.00	USD 18,750.00
303	John Hancock	Boldest 1782 John Hancock Signed Doc For Privateer Captured by British in a Bloody Cannon Battle!	May 13, 1782	USD 10,000.00 - 12,000.00	USD 18,750.00
72	Lincoln & Johnson	Lincoln & Johnson Signed Autograph Album (Beckett), Plus 10 Cabinet Members! 74 Signatures Total	ca. 1864-1867	USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00	USD 17,500.00
74		Asst. Sec. of War Testifies On Lincoln Assassination: "Booth tried to persuade him to shoot the President" - Includes Charge Of Johnson as Part of Plot & Impeachment, 32pp	May 30, 1867	USD 6,000.00 - 7,000.00	USD 17,500.00
501	Einstein; James Byrnes	Manhattan Project Period Security Check Signed by Einstein as a Reference, with James Byrnes Signed Copy of Famous Einstein Letter to Roosevelt	1944-03-03	USD 9,000.00 - 12,000.00	USD 16,250.00
463	Ayn Rand	Ayn Rand 8pp AMS for "Los Angeles Times" Sunday Column "War & Peace" - Copiously Edited, 900+ Words In Her Hand!	1962-06-12	USD 12,000.00 - 15,000.00	USD 15,000.00
464	Adam Smith	Adam Smith ALS While Revising "The Wealth of Nations" - A New Discovery Documenting Meeting with Influential Editor	December 21, 1786	USD 18,000.00 - 24,000.00	USD 15,000.00
346	Bruce Lee	Bruce Lee Signed Essay From High School Incl. 200 Words in His Hand, "man's ability to brave the dangers which confront him." Among Earliest Known Writing Examples- Beckett Authenticated	ca. late 1950s	USD 9,000.00 - 12,000.00	USD 13,750.00
408		Tokyo War Crimes Files of Prosecuting Attorney For POW Camp Atrocities, 500+ Pages, Unpublished Court Documents, Photos and More	1946-1947	USD 25,000.00 - 35,000.00	USD 13,750.00
351	Marilyn Monroe	Marilyn Monroe Note Thanking Airman for Lending His Jacket, "It kept me soooo warm"	ca. February 1954	USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00	USD 12,500.00
102		[Lincoln Assassination] ALS Regarding Ownership of the Pistol That Killed Lincoln	2002-02-14	USD 500.00 - 600.00	USD 10,625.00
70	Abraham Lincoln	Abraham Lincoln & Hannibal Hamlin Dual Signed Card, 1 of 1, Leaf Encapsulated, Stunning!	April 4, 1862	USD 10,000.00 - 12,000.00	USD 10,000.00
425	Winston Churchill	Winston Churchill TLS & Archive Re: German Surrender, U. S. and USSR, Fantastic!	December 18, 1953 - March 4, 1954	USD 8,000.00 - 9,000.00	USD 10,000.00
161	Truman	Dewey Defeats Truman! Large Truman Signed Photo, Most Iconic Newspaper Error of All Time, Attractively Framed	1956-08-12	USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00	USD 9,375.00
76	Abraham Lincoln	Abraham Lincoln Signed Document, He Fights For the Little Guy!	May 16, 1857	USD 4,000.00 - 5,000.00	USD 8,750.00
459	Margaret Mitchell	Margaret Mitchell Rare ALS to Her Editor as Epic Film "Gone With the Wind" Gains Heat "Forgive this scrawl. I haven't written a letter in long hand in years and I've almost forgotten how it's done."	1939-04-01	USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	USD 8,750.00

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.
SD | Scandinavian Art & Rare Book Auctions
The Øiesvold Collection
June 14, 2025

SD | Scandinavian Art & Rare Book Auctions, June: 14: HIERONYMUS MÜNTZER (1437 – 1508): (Northern and Central Europe) No title recto. Nuremberg, 1493.

SD | Scandinavian Art & Rare Book Auctions, June: 14: SIGISMUND VON HERBERSTEIN (1486 – 1566): «Commentari della Moscovia et partmente della Russia.» Venice, 1550.

SD | Scandinavian Art & Rare Book Auctions, June: 14: SEBASTIAN MÜNSTER: «Cosmographiae universalis Lib. VI in quibus iuxta certioris […]» Basel, 1559.

SD | Scandinavian Art & Rare Book Auctions, June: 14: SEBASTIAN MÜNSTER: «Deerwunder und seltzame Thier / wie die in den Mitnächtigen Länder im Meer […]» Basel, c. 1550.

SD | Scandinavian Art & Rare Book Auctions, June: 14: WILLEM BARENTSZ (1550 – 97): «Deliniatio cartæ trium navigationum per Batavos, ad Septentrionalem plagem [...]» Amsterdam, 1598.
Sotheby's
Bibliothèque Jacques Dauchez - Autour de Dubuffet
5-19 June

Sotheby’s, June 5-19: Bissière, Roger. Cantique à notre frère soleil de saint François. 1954. 1,000 - 1,500 EUR

Sotheby’s, June 5-19: Céline, Louis-Ferdinand. La vie & l’œuvre de Philippe Ignace Semmelweis. 1924. Rare édition originale, avec envoi. Joint : La Quinine en thérapeutique, 1925. 4,000 - 6,000 EUR

Sotheby’s, June 5-19: Céline, Louis-Ferdinand. Mort à crédit. 1936. Édition originale. Bel exemplaire sur Hollande. 2,500 - 3,500 EUR

Sotheby's
Bibliothèque Jacques Dauchez - Autour de Dubuffet
5-19 June

Sotheby’s, June 5-19: Chillida, Eduardo ─ Emil Cioran. Face aux instants. 1985. Un des 100 exemplaires sur Arches. Eau-forte signée. 600 - 800 EUR

Sotheby’s, June 5-19: Dubuffet, Jean. Ler dla canpane. L’Art Brut, 1948. Édition originale. 3,000 - 5,000 EUR

Sotheby’s, June 5-19: Dubuffet, Jean. L'Herne Jean Dubuffet. 1973. Un des 100 exemplaires du tirage de luxe avec une sérigraphie originale en couleurs. 1,000 - 1,500 EUR
Finarte
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.

Finarte
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.

Finarte
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.

Finarte
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.
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 Auctions
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.

Forum Auctions
A Sixth Selection of 16th and 17th Century English Books from the Fox Pointe Manor Library
19th June 2025

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.