Rare Book Monthly

Articles - January - 2004 Issue

Livres Anciens: An Exceptional Catalogue

[Briand]. Dictionaire des Alimens, Vins et Liquors,...


This year’s Chamonal Christmas Catalogue carries an implicit message of faith that the confidence that Mr. Chamonal places both in his presentation and in the material he presents are worth careful consideration and a place on the collector’s shelves. Certainly each item offered earns the continuing distinction of having been selected for participation. Let’s hope the market begins to more seriously capture this information and to include it as, in the years to come, these books come back to the market place.

This year’s Christmas presentation in eleven parts includes:
  1. Livres Precieux 1 to 41
  2. Litterature 42 to 116
  3. Gastronnomie 117 to 165
  4. Vin 166 to 200
  5. Medecine 201 to 241
  6. Sciences 242 to 299
  7. Varia 300 to 398
  8. La France 399 to 494
  9. Voyages avant 1800 495 to 548
  10. Voyages XIX siecle 1. 549 to 621
  11. Voyages XIX siecle 2. 622 to 676


To Monsieur Chamonal congratulations are in order.

Some examples:

Une importante compilation historique du XVIIIc siècle, avec une relation de Louisiane
518bis.   [LOUISIANE]
RECUEIL A, B, C. D (...) X, Y, Z, &. A Fontenoy, Luxembourg. Paris Bruxelles, etc., 1745-1762, 24 parties en 12 vol. in-12, bas, fauve marbrée, dos à nerfs, caissons ornés de fleurons, pièce de titre de maroquin rouge, roul. Sur les coupes, tr. Rouges [Rel. de l’époque], rest, lég., qq. cahiers bruins

  Barbier IV 49, Sabin 68417. Edition originale et série complète.

  Importante compilation de pièces historiques “fugitatives”, sur les sujets les plus divers. Elle a été publiée G.-L. Pérau, A.-G. Meusnier de Querlon, l’abbe B. Mercier Saint-Léger, l’abbé J. de La Porte, Et. De Barrazan et B.-C. Gaillard de Graville. “L’abbé de Saint-Léger n’est éditeur que du recueil C” [Barbier].

Rare Book Monthly

  • Fonsie Mealy’s
    Summer Rare Book
    & Collectors’ Sale
    July 30-31, 2024
    Fonsie Mealy’s, July 30-31: U.S. / European Shipping Archive 1800-1814. The Widow Bermingham & Sons Collection. €7,000 to €10,000.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, July 30-31: Bunreacht na hÉireann. Constitution of Ireland. An important copy of the First Printing of De Valera’s new Constitution, approved in 1938. Signed by the Constitution Cabinet. €7,000 to €9,000.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, July 30-31: A Rare Complete Run of the Cuala Press Broadsides. €7,000 to €9,000.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Summer Rare Book
    & Collectors’ Sale
    July 30-31, 2024
    Fonsie Mealy’s, July 30-31: Grose (Francis). The Antiquities of Ireland, 2vols. folio London (for S. Hooper) 1791. Magnificent Hand-Coloured Copy - Only 25 Copies. €3,000 to €5,000.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, July 30-31: Cantillon (Richard). Essai sur la Nature du Commerce en General, Traduit de l'Anglois, Sm. 8vo London (Fletcher Gyles) 1756. €3,000 to €4,000.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, July 30-31: Gregory, (Lady Augusta). Spreading the News: The Rising of the Moon: The Poorhouse (with Douglas Hyde). Being Vol. IX of the Abbey Theatre Series. €3,000 to €4,000.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Summer Rare Book
    & Collectors’ Sale
    July 30-31, 2024
    Fonsie Mealy’s, July 30-31: Lavery (Lady Hazel). A moving series of three A.L.S. and a Telegram to Gen. Eoin O'Duffy, July-August 1927, expressing her grief at the death of Kevin O'Higgins. €3,000 to €4,000.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, July 30-31: Dampier (Wm.) Nouveau Voyage Autour du Monde, ou l'on descrit en particulier l'Isthme de l'Amerique…, 2 vols. in one, Amsterdam, 1698. €800 to €1,200.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, July 30-31: Howell (James). Instructions for Forreine Travel Shewing by what Cours, and in what Compasse of Time…, London, 1642. €800 to €1,200.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Summer Rare Book
    & Collectors’ Sale
    July 30-31, 2024
    Fonsie Mealy’s, July 30-31: Rowling (J.K.) Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, 8vo, L. (Bloomsbury) 1999, First Edn., First Printing of Deluxe Collectors Edn. Signed. €800 to €1,200.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, July 30-31: James (Wm.) A Full and Correct Account of the Military Occurrences of The Late War Between Great Britain and The United States of America. 2 vols. Lond. 1818. €650 to €900.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, July 30-31: The Laws of the United States, Published by Authority, 3 vols. Philadelphia (Richard Folwell) 1796. €600 to €800.

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