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Source Title	Woolley and Wallis
Description	Woolley and Wallis is one of the U.K.'s most successful regional auction houses. Established in 1884, the house is located in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England. Among its accomplishments is a record price for a U.K. regional auction, a Chinese jade carving that sold for £3.4 million. Woolley and Wallis describe their specialties as "most areas of fine art, including antique furniture and works of art, clocks and scientific instruments, ceramics, glass and Asian works of art, oil paintings, watercolours, prints and books, silver, jewellery, spoons and 20th century design." The firm is also engaged in the real estate business. Woolley and Wallis hosts two dedicated book auctions per year.
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Total Records in AED	1128

<center>Bonhams Fine Books and Manuscripts New York | June 11, 2019

Bonhams, Jun 11: Faulkner, William. The Sound and the Fury. New York: Jonathan Cape, [1929]. First edition in dust jacket. $4,000 to $6,000

Bonhams, Jun 11: Trautz-Bauzonnet bindery. Shakespeare, William. Sonnets. 1901. 2 volumes. Printed on vellum and illuminated by Ross Turner. $8,000 to $12,000

Bonhams, Jun 11: Thompson, Kay. Eloise at Christmastime. New York: Random House, [1958]. First edition. In custom binding by Asprey. $800 to $1,200

<center>Bonhams Fine Books and Manuscripts New York | June 11, 2019

Bonhams, Jun 11: Beardsley, Aubrey. The Birth, Life, and Acts of King Arthur. 1893-94. 2 volumes. Contemporary painted vellum gilt by Chivers. $2,000 to $3,000

Bonhams, Jun 11: Assisi, St. Francis. The Canticle of Brother Sun. Illuminated on vellum, for the Grolier Society. $6,000 to $9,000

Bonhams, Jun 11: Taylor, Deems. Walt Disney’s Fantasia. New York: 1940. In custom binding by Asprey. $2,000 to $3,000
Swann Auction Galleries May 14: William Shakespeare, Shakespeare’s Sonnets, In Two Parts, limited Saint Dunstan edition, Oxford University Press, 1901. $6,000 to $9,000.

Swann Auction Galleries May 14: Benjamin Graham & David L. Dodd, Security Analysis, first edition, inscribed by Graham to a Wall Street trader, NY, 1934. $18,000 to $25,000.

Swann Auction Galleries May 14: Ian Fleming, Goldfinger, first edition, inscribed to Sir Henry Cotton, MBE, London, 1959. $12,000 to $18,000.

Swann Auction Galleries May 14: Ian Fleming, The Man with the Golden Gun, first edition, first state with the dust jacket, London, 1965. $6,000 to $9,000.

Swann Auction Galleries May 14: Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out, first American edition of the author’s first book, in rare dust jacket, NY, 1920. $2,000 to $3,000.

Swann Auction Galleries May 14: Gabriel García Márquez, Cien años de soledad, Buenos Aires, 1967. $2,000 to $3,000.

Swann Auction Galleries May 14: Mary Mapes Dodge, Along the Way, first edition, author’s copy, annotated in her hand, NY, 1879. $1,800 to $2,500.

Swann Auction Galleries May 14: The Dial: A Monthly Magazine for Literature, Philosophy and Religion, first edition, Ralph Waldo Emerson’s copy, Cincinnati, 1860. $2,500 to $3,500.

Swann Auction Galleries May 14: Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera, first American edition, first printing, New York, 1911. $12,000 to $18,000.

Swann Auction Galleries May 14: Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, signed, Camden, 1876. $4,000 to $6,000.
Leslie Hindman Auctioneers: Fine Books and Manuscripts. May 1, 2019

Leslie Hindman, May 1: WRIGHT, Wilbur -- WRIGHT, Orville. Photograph signed. 128 x 177 mm, black and white. Taken for Collier's Weekly by James H. ("Jimmy") Hare. $8,000 to $12,000

Leslie Hindman, May 1: WRIGHT, Wilbur -- WRIGHT, Orville. Typed document signed, New York, NY, 18 November 1909. A founding document in the history of aviation: the certificate of incorporation for the Wright Company. $20,000 to $30,000

Leslie Hindman, May 1: LINCOLN, Mary Todd. Personal monogrammed handkerchief. Square linen handkerchief, silk border, "ML" monogram to one corner, 11 1/8 x 11 1/4 in. $1,000 to $1,500

Leslie Hindman Auctioneers: Fine Books and Manuscripts. May 1, 2019

Leslie Hindman, May 1: TRUMAN, Harry S. Broadside signed, as President, 8 May 1945. Truman's V-E Day proclamation. $4,000 to $6,000

Leslie Hindman, May 1: WASHINGTON, Martha Dandridge Custis, First Lady. Autograph free frank signed on integral cover sheet. One of four surviving free franks by Martha Washington. $30,000 to $40,000

Leslie Hindman, May 1: DALI, Salvador, illustrator. -- DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge. Alice in Wonderland. New York: W.U.C.U.A. and Maecenas Press - Random House, 1969. Limited edition, signed by Dali. $3,000 to $4,000

Leslie Hindman Auctioneers: Fine Books and Manuscripts. May 1, 2019

Leslie Hindman, May 1: CHURCHILL, Winston Spencer. Lord Randolph Churchill. London: Macmillan and Co., 1906. First edition, presentation copy to his valet, inscribed. $5,000 to $7,000

Leslie Hindman, May 1: DICKENS, Charles. Great Expectations. London: Chapman and Hall, 1861. First edition, 3 vols. Vol. I second issue, vol. II first issue, vol. III third issue. $4,000 to $6,000

Leslie Hindman, May 1: DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge ("Lewis Carroll"). Sylvie and Bruno. -Sylvie and Bruno Concluded. London: Macmillan, 1889, 1893. First editions, inscribed presentation copies. 2 works in 2 vols. $1,000 to $1,500

Leslie Hindman Auctioneers: Fine Books and Manuscripts. May 1, 2019

Leslie Hindman, May 1: KEULEN, Gerard van. Nieuwe Wassende Graaden Paskaart Vertoonende alle de Bekende Zeekusten en… [Amsterdam, ca 1720]. Important 18th century world map depicting California as an island. $6,000 to $8,000

Leslie Hindman, May 1: ALHAZEN [Abu 'Ali al-Hasan ibn al-Hasan ibn al-Haytham]. Opticae thesaurus. Translated from Arabic into Latin. First edition of Alhazen’s classic work on optics and vision. $18,000 to $25,000

Leslie Hindman, May 1: GALILEI, Galileo. Systema cosmicum... in quo quatuor dialogis… Translated from Italian by Matthias Bernegger. Strasbourg: D. Hauttius for the Elzevirs [at Leiden], 1635. First Latin edition. $6,000 to $8,000

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