<center>Sotheby’s The Library of Henry Rogers Broughton, 2nd Baron Fairhaven Part II 29 November 2022

Sotheby’s, Nov. 29: Nicolas Robert. Florilegium, 15 very fine watercolours of flowers on vellum, 1643. £150,000 to £250,000.

Sotheby’s, Nov. 29: Chinese School. Dessins Originaux Chinois, 9 volumes, early nineteenth century. £60,000 to £90,000.

Sotheby’s, Nov. 29: Saverio Manetti. Storia naturale degli uccelli, Florence, 1767-1776, 5 vols, fine contemporary calf gilt. £60,000 to £80,000.

Sotheby’s, Nov. 29: Priscilla Bury. A Selection of Hexandrian Plants, London, 1831, modern red half morocco. £50,000 to £70,000.

Sotheby’s, Nov. 29: Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin. Icones plantarum rariorum, Vienna, 1781-[95], 3 vols, contemporary half calf. £30,000 to £50,000.
<center>Fonsie Mealy’s Christmas Rare Books & Collectors’ Sale 6th and 7th December

Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 6-7: The Corner-stone Document of Irish Freedom. 1916 PROCLAMATION OF THE IRISH REPUBLIC. £140,000 to £180,000.

Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 6-7: Joyce's Modern Masterpiece, in its one-and-hundredth Year. Joyce (James). Ulysses. Paris, Shakespeare & Co. 1922. £15,000 to £25,000.

Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 6-7:A Request from Mr. Joyce. Joyce (James). Autograph Letter Signed to 'Dear Mr [Thomas] Pugh,' dated 6.8.1934. £6,000 to £8,000.

<center>Fonsie Mealy’s Christmas Rare Books & Collectors’ Sale 6th and 7th December

Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 6-7: Dun Emer Press: Yeats (Wm. Butler). Stories of Red Hanrahan, 8vo Dundrum 1904. Signed by Author. £1,000 to £1,500.

Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 6-7: Binding: Specimens of Early English Poets, 8vo Lond. (For Edwards, Pall Mall) 1790. £500 to £700.

Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 6-7: Harry Clarke: Walter (L. D'O.) The Years at the Spring, An Anthology of Recent Poetry. 4to New York (Brentano's) 1920. Special signed limited edition. £1,500 to £2,000.

<center>Fonsie Mealy’s Christmas Rare Books & Collectors’ Sale 6th and 7th December

Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 6-7: Kipling (Rudyard). Works, including Writings, Novels, Poems etc. Bombay Edition, 31 vols. roy 8vo Lond. (MacMillan & Co.) 1913-1938. Signed by Author. £1,500 to £2,000.

Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 6-7: Dunraven (Edwin, Third Earl of). Notes on Irish Architecture, Ed. by Margaret Stokes, 2 vols. lg. folio Lond. 1875-1877. Castle Hackett copy. £1,500 to £2,400.

Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 6-7: Kirby (Wm.) & Spence (Wm.) An Introduction to Entomology, 4 vols. 8vo Lond. 1822. With hand-coloured plates. £200 to £300.

<center>Fonsie Mealy’s Christmas Rare Books & Collectors’ Sale 6th and 7th December

Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 6-7: Heaney (Seamus). Death of a Naturalist, 8vo Lond. (Faber & Faber) 1966 First Edition - Third Impression. Signed, & inscribed on title page 'Seamus Heaney’. £800 to £1,200.

Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 6-7: Glasgow Printing: Homer - Iliad and Odyssey, 4 vols. in 2, Glasgow (Robert & Andrew Foulis) 1756-1758. £1,0000 to £1,500.
<center>Forum Auctions Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper 1st December 2022

Forum, Dec. 1: Illuminated manuscript.- Psalter, Use of Liège, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum, Southern Netherlands (Liège), [c.1270]. £70,000 to £90,000.

Forum, Dec. 1: Troy.- Early English provenance.- Columna (Guido de). Historia destructionis Troiae, first edition, one of only four known books from this press, [The Netherlands, ?Utrecht], [c.1477-1479]. £25,000 to £35,000.

Forum, Dec. 1: Shute (John). The First and Chief Groundes of Architecture, first edition, 1563; bound with Palladio's Quattro Libri dell'Architettura, 1570. £20,000 to £30,000.

<center>Forum Auctions Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper 1st December 2022

Forum, Dec. 1: Martin (John). Paradise Lost: By John Milton, first edition in the original 12 parts, Imperial Quarto issue, Septimus Prowett, 1825-26. £12,000 to £16,000.

Forum, Dec. 1: Sagittarius and a medieval town scene with peat barges on a canal as merchants meet and talk and another man cuts wood, Netherlands or Western Germany [perhaps Cologne], 1460-70. £10,000 to £15,000.

Forum, Dec. 1: Stoker (Bram). Dracula, first edition, later issue, Graham Greene's copy, Westminster, Archibald Constable & Co., 1897. £8,000 to £12,000.

<center>Forum Auctions Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper 1st December 2022

Forum, Dec. 1: Gillray (James). The Plumb-pudding in danger: -or- State Epicures taking un Petit Souper, etching with hand-colouring, 1805. £6,000 to £8,000.

Forum, Dec. 1: Darwin (Charles). Autograph Letter signed to his cousin Reginald Darwin, 1879, announcing his intention to have translated and add a preface to Ernst Krause's sketch of Dr Erasmus Darwin's life. £6,000 to £8,000.

Forum, Dec. 1: By the Congress of the United States of America. Manifesto. "These United States, having been driven to hostilities by the oppressive and tyrannous measures...,” bound with others, 1778. £6,000 to £8,000.

<center>Forum Auctions Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper 1st December 2022

Forum, Dec. 1: Polar.- Benham (Daniel). Sketch of the Life of Jan August Miertsching, Interpreter of the Esquimaux Language to the Arctic Expedition on Board H.M.S. "Investigator", Captain M'Clure, first edition, 1854. £5,000 to £7,000.

Forum, Dec. 1: Woman artist.- Unthank (Mary, née Williams). An album of 120 watercolours of views from Italy, Switzerland, France and England; with associated manuscript travel diary, 1860s-1870s. £4,000 to £6,000.

Forum, Dec. 1: Gill (Eric).- Chaucer (Geoffrey). Troilus and Criseyde, number 159 of 225 copies on hand-made paper, Golden Cockerel Press, 1927. £3,000 to £4,000.

Rare Book Monthly

Articles - February - 2013 Issue

Seven New Catalogues Up for Review

- by Michael Stillman

New catalogues under review.

This month we review seven new bookseller catalogues. The William Reese Company offers a selection of Western Americana. Gert Jan Bestebreurtje Rare Books presents material related to the Dutch East Indies. Anywhere in between can be represented by Voyager Books' selection of travel manuscripts and photography.

Aleph-Bet Books has a new collection of children's books. The Lawbook Exchange, naturally enough, features legal books, some serious, others sensational. Antiquates Fine and Rare Books offers antiquarian works, while Joe Rubinfine has a new collection of American historical documents.

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<center>19th Century Rare Book & Photograph Shop Catalogue 195 Magnificent Books & Manuscripts Free on request

19th Century Shop, Catalogue 195: Benjamin Franklin on Electricity. Inscribed presentation copy.

19th Century Shop, Catalogue 195: Frederick Douglass. Letter on civil war and the end of slavery.

19th Century Shop, Catalogue 195: Carleton Watkins. A major American West photo album.

19th Century Shop, Catalogue 195: Einstein. General Theory of Relativity inscribed by Einstein.

19th Century Shop, Catalogue 195: The Federalist. Rare deluxe thick-paper copy.

19th Century Shop, Catalogue 195: Emma Johnston. Archive of 350 salt prints by a Victorian female photographer.
Bonhams, Dec. 13: KEPLER INVESTIGATES PLANETARY MOTION. KEPLER, JOHANNES. 1571-1630. $400,000 to $600,000

Bonhams, Dec. 13: THE FINAL ILLUSTRATION OF POOH AND PIGLET IN THE HUNDRED ACRE WOOD. $250,000 to $350,000

Bonhams, Dec. 13: GUTENBERG BIBLE LEAF. $60,000 to $90,000

Bonhams, Dec. 13: ORTELIUS, ABRAHAM. 1527-1598. $20,000 to $30,000

Bonhams, Dec. 13: KNIGHT, HILARY. "Christmas Dinner at Maxime de la Falaise's" $4,000 to $6,000

Bonhams, Dec. 13: GERSHWIN WORKING MUSICAL MANUSCRIPT PAGE FROM OF THEE I SING. $3,000 to $5,000

Bonhams, Dec. 13: GILBERT, W.S. Original typed manuscript for The Story of the Mikado. $20,000 to $30,000

Bonhams, Dec. 13: FINAL TYPED MANUSCRIPT FOR V.C. ANDREWS CLASSIC FLOWERS IN THE ATTIC. $4,000 to $6,000

Bonhams, Dec. 13: ANNOTATED TYPESCRIPT DRAFT FOR KIPLING'S FINAL MOWGLI STORY. $20,000 to $30,000

Bonhams, Dec. 13: PRESENTATION COPY OF GUYS AND DOLLS. $12,000 to $18,000

Bonhams, Dec. 13: CHARLES DICKENS' CHINA INKWELL FEATURING A BEE READING, FROM GAD'S HILL. $6,000 to $8,000

Bonhams, Dec. 13: NELSON'S BATTLE PLAN FOR TRAFALGAR. $200,000 to $300,000
<center>Leland Little Auctions The Signature Winter Auction December 3, 2022

Leland Little, Dec. 3: Brinkley, Francis. The Art of Japan, Boston, 1897. The very rare complete Shogun edition. $4,000 to $8,000.

Leland Little, Dec. 3: Sun Tzu. Art Militaire des Chinois, ou recueil d'ancins traités sur la guerre composés avant l'ere chrétienne, par différents généraux chinois, Paris, 1772. First European edition. $2,000 to $4,000.

Leland Little, Dec. 3: First English Translation, St. Augustine's Of the Citie of God: With the Learned Comments of Io. Lod. Vives…, London, 1610. $2,500 to $3,500.

<center>Leland Little Auctions The Signature Winter Auction December 3, 2022

Leland Little, Dec. 3: Philipp Franz von Siebold (1796-1866). Five Nippon Folios on Japan, 1832 [and] later 19th century [and] 1931. $1,000 to $2,000.

Leland Little, Dec. 3: Mason (George Henry). The Punishments of China, Illustrated by Twenty-Two Engravings: with Explanations in English and French, London, 1808/1817. $800 to $1,200.

Leland Little, Dec. 3: Hobbes, Thomas (of Malmesbury). Leviathan, or the Matter, Form, and Power of a Common-wealth Ecclesiastical and Civil, London, “1651,” ca. 1680. $800 to $1,200.
<center>Swann Auction Galleries Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books December 8, 2022

Swann December 8: Friedrich Justin Bertuch, Bilderbuch für Kinder, Weimar, 1792, 1798, 1802, 1805, 1822. $1,200 to $1,800.

Swann December 8: Sebastian Münster, Novae Insulae XXVI Nova Tabula, Basel, 1552. $2,500 to $3,500.

Swann December 8: Sebastian Münster & Hans Holbein, Typus Cosmographicus Universales, Basel, 1532. $7,000 to $10,000.

Swann December 8: Franz Unger, Die Urwelt in Ihren Verschiedenen Bildungsperioden, 16 tinted lithographed plates, Weigel, 1858. $1,000 to $1,500.

Swann December 8: Charles Varle, Wiliam Warner & Andrew Hanna, Plan of the City of Environs of Baltimore, Baltimore, 1801. $8,000 to $12,000.
<center>Gonnelli Auction House HISTORICAL PHOTOGRAPHS “From the grand Tour in Italy to the journey to the East” 1st of December 2022

Gonnelli Dec. 1st: Fratelli Alinari, Alphonse Bernoud, Album with 15 photographs of Florence and Siena, 1860 - 1865. Starting Price: €1.500,00.

Gonnelli Dec. 1st: Fratelli Alinari, Lucca. Church of San Michele, 1856. Starting Price: €1.500,00.

Gonnelli Dec. 1st: Tommaso Cuccioni, Roma. Colosseo, 1854 - 1855. Starting Price: €800,00.

Gonnelli Dec. 1st: Antonio Fortunato Perini, Venezia. Ca’ D’Oro, 1853 – 1855. Starting Price: €1.000,00.

Gonnelli Dec. 1st: Lot of 51 photographs by Studio Incorpora: landscapes and views of Sicily, 1885 - 1890. Starting price: €1.200,00.

Gonnelli Dec. 1st: Lehnert & Landrock. View of the Tunisian desert, 1904 - 1914. Starting price: €300,00.

Gonnelli Dec. 1st: Lehnert & Landrock. Tunisia. Night landscape with nomads at the shores of a lake. Starting price: €400,00.

Gonnelli Dec. 1st: Vittorio Sella, Aiguille du Midi, from the Col du Midi, 1881. Starting price: €1.000,00.

Gonnelli Dec. 1st: Fratelli Alinari. Florence. Giotto's Bell Tower, 1858 - 1860. Starting price: €1.500,00.
ALDE, Dec. 6: PRINCE, RICHARD (1949). Adult Comedy Action Drama, Zürich-Berlin-New York, 1995. €14,000 to €15,000.

ALDE, Dec. 6: AVEDON, RICHARD (1923-2004). An Autobiography, New York, Rando, House, 1993. €2,500 to €3,000.

ALDE, Dec. 6: GRINDAT, HENRIETTE (1923-1986), ALBERT-EDGAR YERSIN (1905-1984) AND FRANCIS PONGE (1899-1988). A la rêveuse matière, Lausanne, 1963. €4,500 to €5,000.

ALDE, Dec. 6: GRINDAT, HENRIËTTE (1923-1986), ALBERT CAMUS (1913-1960) AND RENÉ CHAR (1907-1988). Postérité du soleil, Genève, 1965. €2,200 to €2,500.

ALDE, Dec. 6: GROEBLI, RENÉ (1927). Die Muschel...hommage au féminin…, Zurich, 1984. €2,200 to €2,500.

ALDE, Dec. 6: KLEIN, WILLIAM (1928-2022). Tokyo, Paris, 1964. €500 to €600.

ALDE, Dec. 6: KURATA, SEIJI (1945-2020). Flash up. Street Photo Random Tokyo 1975-1979, Tokyo, 1980. €500 to €600.

ALDE, Dec. 6: MCGINLEY, RYAN (1977). The kids are alright, 2000. €6,000 to €6,500.

ALDE, Dec. 6: SHERIF, MAURICE (1951). Lumière Métallique, Paris, 2008. €400 to €500.

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