Leland Little: Important Single-Owner Collection Featuring Works by Andrew Wyeth. December 6, 2019

Leland Little, Dec. 6: Rembrandt van Rijn (Dutch, 1606–1669), Bearded Man in a Velvet Cap with a Jewel Clasp, 1637.

Leland Little, Dec. 6: Rembrandt van Rijn (Dutch, 1606–1669), Christ Before Pilate: Large Plate, 1635-1636.

Leland Little, Dec. 6: Andrew Wyeth (PA, 1917-2009), Breakup with bronze life casts of the artist's hands, 1994.

Leland Little, Dec. 6: Andrew Wyeth (PA, 1917-2009), In the Orchard Study, 1972.
Christie’s London, Dec. 11: SHAKESPEARE, William. Comedies, Histories and Tragedies. Published according to the true Originall Copies. The second Impression. London, 1632. £120,000 to £180,000.

Christie’s London, Dec. 11: [GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von (1749–1832)]. Das Römische Carneval. Berlin and Gotha, 1789. £20,000 to £30,000.

Christie’s London, Dec. 11: [SHAKESPEARE, William]. Manuscript part for a contemporary analogue to Henry IV, part I, n.p. [perhaps Oxford or London], n.d. [c.1580s – before c.1620]. £25,000 to £35,000.

Christie’s London, Dec. 11: GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von (1749–1832). Faust. Ein Fragment... Ächte Ausgabe. Leipzig: Georg Joachim Göschen, 1790. £3,000 to £5,000.

Christie’s London, Dec. 11: SHAKESPEARE, William. The Tragedy of Hamlet Prince of Denmark. As it is now Acted at his Highness the Duke of York's Theatre. London, 1683. £60,000 to £90,000.

Christie’s London, Dec. 11: [GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von (1749–1832)]. Die Leiden des jungen Werthers. Leipzig: Weygand, 1774. £15,000 to £20,000.

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Christie’s London, Dec. 11: ALBUM AMICORUM OF SCHELOMITH FLAUM. Autograph album containing drawings, autograph quotations and signatures from over 47 contributors, India, Europe, America, Israel and elsewhere, 1923–50. £40,000 to £60,000.

Christie’s London, Dec. 11: FLEMING, Ian (1908–1964). Live and Let Die. London: Jonathan Cape, 1954. £15,000 to £20,000.

Christie’s London, Dec. 11: HISTORY OF CINEMA. Animal Farm (1954), an animation archive from the Halas and Batchelor studios, [c.1954]. £20,000 to £30,000.

Christie’s London, Dec. 11: LE HAY, Jacques – [Charles de FERRIOL]. Recueil de Cent Estampes representant differentes Nations du Levant... Paris, 1714. [With:] Explication des cents Estampes. Paris, 1715. £25,000 to £35,000.

Christie’s London, Dec. 11: THE LAST JUDGEMENT, historiated initial 'A' on a leaf from an Antiphonal on vellum illuminated by Nikolaus Bertschi [Augsburg, first quarter 16th century]. £7,000 to £10,000.

Christie’s London, Dec. 11: VALTURIUS, Robertus (1413–1484). De re militari. [Verona:] Johannes Nicolai de Verona, 1472. £170,000 to £250,000.
Sotheby’s: English Literature, History, Children’s Books and Illustrations. Online now through December 10

Sotheby’s, now to Dec. 10: Adam Smith. The Wealth of Nations. First edition, 1776. £50,000 to £70,000.

Sotheby’s, now to Dec. 10: William Shakespeare. Comedies, Histories, Tragedies. 1632, the Second Folio. £70,000 to £100,000.

Sotheby’s, now to Dec. 10: The Saint Albans Chronicle.] Here begynneth a shorte & a breue table on these cronycles. Westminster : Wynkyn de Worde, 1497. £50,000 to £70,000.

Sotheby’s: English Literature, History, Children’s Books and Illustrations. Online now through December 10

Sotheby’s, now to Dec. 10: E.H. Shepherd. “A Very Grand Thing – The Trouble at Owl’s House”. Original ink and watercolour. £40,000 to £60,000.

Sotheby’s, now to Dec. 10: Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species. First edition, 1859. £15,000 to £20,000.

Sotheby’s, now to Dec. 10: William Blake. Illustrations of the Book of Job. 1825 [but 1826]. £10,000 to £15,000.
Bonhams, Dec. 5: SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM. Macbeth: A Tragedy. London, 1673. FIRST SEPARATE AND FIRST QUARTO EDITION. THE CHARLTON HESTON COPY. $80,000 to $120,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 5: HEMINGWAY, ERNEST. In Our Time. Paris, 1924. FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY. $20,000 to $30,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 5: HAWTHORNE, NATHANIEL. Fanshawe, A Tale. Boston, 1828. FIRST EDITION OF AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK. $20,000 to $30,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 5: THOREAU, HENRY DAVID. Walden; Or, Life in the Woods. Boston, 1854. FINE COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION. $10,000 to $15,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 5: SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM. Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies. London, 1685. THE FOURTH FOLIO, Brewster/Bentley issue. $20,000 to $30,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 5: STEIG, WILLIAM. Original maquette and 58 finished drawings for The Agony in the Kindergarten, one of Steig's most important books. $10,000 to $15,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 5: VERNE, JULES. A Journey to the Centre of the Earth. New York & London, 1872. FIRST EDITION, RARE AMERICAN ISSUE, with Scribner & Welford cancel title. $5,000 to $8,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 5: KING, STEPHEN. Carrie. New York, 1974. INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION, OF AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK. $1,200 to $1,800.

Bonhams, Dec. 4: APPLE MACINTOSH PROTOTYPE. 1983. The earliest known Macintosh with "Twiggy" drive, one of only two known working machines. $120,000 to $180,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 4: PLATO. Timaeus [AND] Critias [from Ficini's 1484 Opera]. A LANDMARK OF SCIENTIFIC THOUGHT. $80,000 to $120,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 4: LOVELACE, AUGUSTA ADA. Sketch of the Analytical Engine Invented by Charles Babbage Esq. London, 1843. FIRST EDITION, JOURNAL ISSUE, MOST IMPORTANT PAPER IN EARLY DIGITAL COMPUTING. $15,000 to $20,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 4: APPLE-1 COMPUTER. Signed by Steve Wozniak, used in development of Apple II. $200,000 to $300,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 4: DARWIN, CHARLES. 1809-1882. On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection. London, 1859. FIRST EDITION. $80,000 to $120,000.
Swann Auction Galleries Dec 10: Dr. Seuss, pen, ink & watercolor, calendar illustration, Thomas D. Murphy Company, 1937. $10,000 to $15,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Dec 10: Georges Lepape, Sur la Terrasse, gouache & pencil, cover for Vogue, 1930. $8,000 to $12,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Dec 10: Charles Dana Gibson, The Coming Game, Yale vs. Vassar, pen & ink, for Life magazine, 1895. $2,000 to $3,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Dec 10: H.A. Rey, color pencil, charcoal, watercolor & gouache, for Rafi et les 9 singes, 1939. $10,000 to $15,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Dec 10: Ernest H. Shepard, pen & ink, for Kenneth Grahame’s Bertie’s Escapade, 1949. $10,000 to $15,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Dec 10: Charles Schulz, The Biggest Star Measured So Far, ink & wash, original Peanuts cartoon, published 1961. $8,000 to $12,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Dec 10: Saul Steinberg, 12 Biographies, A to B, pen & ink with collage, final illustration in his book The Labyrinth, 1960. $12,000 to $18,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Dec 10: Jo Mielziner, A Streetcar Named Desire, watercolor, graphite & gouache, first color study for the award-winning 1947 production. $7,000 to $10,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Dec 10: Charles Addams, Nevermore, watercolor & ink, for The New Yorker, 1973. $12,000 to $18,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Dec 10: James Montgomery Flagg, I Should Worry, watercolor, gouache & graphite, cover for Judge magazine, 1914. $5,000 to $7,500.

Swann Auction Galleries Dec 10: Edward Gorey, Swan Lake, Hunters/Siegfried, Van Rothbart, watercolor, pen & ink, costume designs, 1975. $8,000 to $12,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Dec 10: Ludwig Bemelmans, Sketch for Madeline, gouache & ink. $6,000 to $9,000.
Christie’s London, Dec. 11: AN EARLY DUTCH POCKET GLOBE ATTRIBUTED TO WILLEM BLAEU, AFTER C.1618. £70,000 to £100,000.

Christie’s London, Dec. 11: BLAEU, Johannes (1596-1673). £50,000 to £70,000.

Christie’s London, Dec. 11: BLAEU, Johannes. Theatrum Statuum Regiae Celsitudinis Sabaudiae Ducis, Pedemontii principis, ... pars prima, exhibens Pedemontium ... Amsterdam, 1682. £70,000 to £100,000.

Christie’s London, Dec. 11: DUDLEY, Sir Robert, self-styled Duke of Northumberland and Earl of Warwick. Arcano del Mare. Florence, 1661. £500,000 to £700,000.

Christie’s London, Dec. 11: The Mainz Psalter: Psalterium Benedictinum cum canticis et hymnis, for Bursfeld use. [Mainz:] Johann Fust and Peter Schoeffer, 29 August 1459. £5,000 to £10,000.
<center>Dominic Winter Auctioneers Printed Books, Maps & Autographs December 11, 2019

Dominic Winter, Dec. 11: Melville (Herman). White Jacket; or, the World in a Man-of-War, 1st edition, London, 1850. £10,000 to £15,000.

Dominic Winter, Dec. 11: Bracton (Henry de). De legibus et consuetudinibus Angliae, 1st edition, 1569. Ex libris Sir Daniel Dun (c.1545-1617). £3,000 to £5,000.

Dominic Winter, Dec. 11: Edgar (Thomas). The Lawes Resolutions of Womens Rights, 1st edition, 1632. £2,000 to £3,000.

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Dominic Winter, Dec. 11: Donne (John). Poems, 3rd edition, 1639. Ex libris Sir Geoffrey Keynes (1887-1982). £2,000 to £3,000.

Dominic Winter, Dec. 11: Mandeville (Bernard). The Fable of the Bees, 1st edition, 1714. Rare inspiration for the Wealth of Nations. £2,000 to £3,000.

Dominic Winter, Dec. 11: Honter (Johannes, & others). De Cosmographiae rudimentis, Basel, 1561. Ex libris Georg Joachim Rheticus (1514-1574). £5,000 to £8,000.

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Dominic Winter, Dec. 11: Lincoln (Abraham). Military commission signed, Washington, 1864, and related documents. £3,000 to £5,000.

Dominic Winter, Dec. 11: Faraday (Michael). Iron filings diagram on waxed blue paper, c.1850. £500 to £800.

Dominic Winter, Dec. 11: Felixmüller (Conrad). ABC, 1st edition, Dresden, 1925. One of 10 hand-coloured copies. Ex libris Eduard Rosenbaum (1887-1979). £3,000 to £5,000.

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Dominic Winter, Dec. 11: Kelmscott Press. The Order of Chivalry, 1893. One of 225 copies; presentation copy from Sydney Cockerell. £800 to £1,200.

Dominic Winter, Dec. 11: Joyce (James). Anna Livia Plurabelle, 1st edition, New York, 1928. One of 50 special copies on green paper. £1,000 to £1,500

Dominic Winter, Dec. 11: Orwell (George). Homage to Catalonia, 1st edition, 1938. £2,500 to £3,300
<center>Fonsie Mealy Auctioneers Rare Books & Literature Sale December 10, 2019

Fonsie Mealy, Dec. 10: Archive of almost 500 Quaker letters written between leading members of the Society of Friends in Ireland between about 1770 and 1830. €10,000 to €15,000.

Fonsie Mealy, Dec. 10: Heraldic Grants to the Delaval Family of Northumberland Manuscripts: 9 May 1761. Patent of Stephen Martin Leake. €2,000 to €3,000.

Fonsie Mealy, Dec. 10: Unique Manuscript – Miniature Book by Seamus Heaney. Holograph manuscript copy by Heaney of his poem Mad Sweeney’s Praise of Trees. €2,000 to €3,000.

<center>Fonsie Mealy Auctioneers Rare Books & Literature Sale December 10, 2019

Fonsie Mealy, Dec. 10: Yeats, Mangan and John McCall, with an ALS Yeats [W.B.]. The Wanderings of Ossian and other Poems. London, 1889. €2,000 to €3,000.

Fonsie Mealy, Dec. 10: Heaney (Seamus). Toome, illustrated by Jane Proctor. National College of Art and Design 1980. Extremely rare Heaney title limited to 15 copies. €1,500 to €2,000.

Fonsie Mealy, Dec. 10: Young (Ella). Celtic Wonder Tales, illustrated by Maud Gonne (four colour plates and other decorations). 1910. Signed by Gonne with an original sketch. €1,000 to €1,500.

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Fonsie Mealy, Dec. 10: The Yeats Brothers “Jack & William” Yeats (Jack B.) RHA (1839-1922). An attractive small pencil portrait of his son Jack Yeats, aged perhaps 10-12, drawing of a bearded man on rear [with] a second drawing. €1,000 to €1500.

Fonsie Mealy, Dec. 10: 18th c. Manuscript Volumes on French Peerage Manuscript: “Recueil de tous les actes concernant les Ducs & Pairs de France… Depuis l’an 900 jusqu’en 1660.” €1,500 to €2,000.

Fonsie Mealy, Dec. 10: Churchill (Winston Spencer). The River War, An Historical Account of The Reconquest of the Soudan. 2 vols. roy 8vo L. 1899. First Edn. €800 to €1200.

<center>Fonsie Mealy Auctioneers Rare Books & Literature Sale December 10, 2019

Fonsie Mealy, Dec. 10: Important Scientific Association Presentation Copy - Tyndall (John). Heat considered as A Mode of Motion… 1863. €600 to €800.

Fonsie Mealy, Dec. 10: Receipt Signed by Chippewa Chiefs Document dated 24 May 1845 signed by five “Chippewa chiefs on the River Thames.” €400 to €600.

Fonsie Mealy, Dec. 10: Bury (Lady Charlotte). The Three Great Sanctuaries of Tuscany, Valombrosa, Camaldoli, Laverna. Lg. oblong folio L. (J. Murray) 1833. First Edn. €250 to €350.

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