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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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Forum Auctions
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.
Rare Book Monthly
Book Catalogue Reviews - March - 2007 Issue
Texas and Ranching from Maggie Lambeth Rare Books
By Michael Stillman
The latest catalogue to arrive from Maggie Lambeth Rare Books, Maps and Prints, of Blanco, Texas, is entitled Texas and Ranching. Those two go together like Texas and oil. You either raise cattle or pump oil in Texas, or at least that's what you did in the old days. Times have changed. Oil no longer dominates the economy, most Texans live in sprawling metropolises like Dallas and Houston, and the big businesses in Texas have names like Dell and Halliburton. Still, vast areas of the state remain lightly populated, unsuited for much except running cattle. Ranching may no longer be the occupation of most Texans, but it does still dominate much of its landscape. For those with an interest in Texas and ranching, and its associated cast of characters -- cowboys, cowgirls, and those who owned ranches bigger than most cities, Maggie Lambeth has a catalogue of books you won't want to miss. Let's take a look inside.
The Johnson Ranch was not the largest of Texas ranches, but it is one of the best known. That is because it not only produced cattle, but U.S. President Lyndon Johnson as well. Johnson certainly fit the image of "large as Texas," a wheeler-dealer of legendary proportions, who rose to lead the Senate, was selected by JFK to be his running mate, and succeeded to the presidency when the latter was assassinated. Item 203 is A Family Album, written by Rebekah Baines Johnson, the President's mother. This was actually something of a scrapbook Mrs. Johnson kept of the family and their notable son, which was published in 1965, seven years after her death. The Johnsons were not wealthy ranchers, but a family that scraped by in the then rural Hill Country of Texas, long before it became some of the most highly desirable residential real estate in the state. Priced at $25.
Here is another famed Texas politician, from an earlier age, who made it almost as far as LBJ. John Nance Garner, aka "Cactus Jack," was first elected to the House of Representatives in 1902, and was elevated to Speaker in 1931. He was a major contender for the Democratic presidential nomination in the year this book was published (1932), but when it became evident the nomination would go to Roosevelt, he accepted the calling for vice-president. However, by the time of Roosevelt's second term, Garner began to split with him on numerous issues, and unsuccessfully opposed FDR for the presidency in 1940. The result was that he retired from politics, and was no longer his successor when Roosevelt died in office a few years later. Garner is best remembered for his classic description of the vice-presidency -- "not worth a bucket of warm piss." In Garner's case that was probably correct, though that would not be true for FDR's third vice-president, Harry Truman. Item 136 is The Speaker of the House; The Romantic Story of John N. Garner, by George Rothwell Brown. $25.
Item 40 is the story of a pioneering woman, A Bride on the Old Chisholm Trail in 1886. Author Mary Taylor Bunton convinced her husband to allow her to accompany him on a cattle drive along the Chisholm Trail, an unheard of idea at the time. Mrs. Bunton was given a buggy to ride, but even so it was a dangerous and exciting journey, one few women were ever allowed to make. At the time, the Chisholm Trail was used to drive cattle from southern Texas to stockyards in Kansas, where their value per head was much higher. Mrs. Bunton published the story of her ride many years later, in 1939, long after local railroads had replaced the old trail for moving cattle. $85.