<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.

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

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.
Swann Auction Galleries Dec 17: Currier & Ives, The Mississippi in Time of Peace, hand-colored lithograph, 1865. $6,000 to $9,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Dec 17: Hartmann Schedel, Liber Cronicarum..., Nuremberg, 1493. $40,000 to $60,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Dec 17: Claudius Ptolemaeus, Geographicae Enarrationis Libri Octo, Lyons, 1535. $20,000 to $25,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Dec 17: Thomas Jefferys, The American Atlas, London, 1776-77. $10,000 to $15,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Dec 17: John Speed, A Prospect of the Most Famous Parts of the World, 20 miniature maps, London, 1665. $2,000 to $3,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Dec 17: Biblia Das ist: Die Gantze Heilige Schrifft Durch D. Martin Luther Verteutscht, illustrated cartographic Bible, Basel, 1665. $1,500 to $2,500.

Swann Auction Galleries Dec 17: Early Hawaiian-language school geography, Lahainaluna Seminary, 1840. $2,500 to $3,500.

Swann Auction Galleries Dec 17: Cornelis de Jode, Africae Vera Forma, et Situs, Antwerp, 1593. $4,000 to $6,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Dec 17: Maria Vincenzo Coronelli, America Settentrionale Colle Nuove Scoperte Sin All Anno, Venice, 1688. $7,000 to $10,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Dec 17: Johann Christoph Volkamer, Nürnbergische Hesperides, Nuremberg, 1708-1714. $12,000 to $18,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Dec 17: Johann Bayer, Uranometria, Omnium Asterismorum Continens Schemata..., 51 celestial charts, c. 1603. $5,000 to $7,500.

Swann Auction Galleries Dec 17: Manuscript map of Commodore Perry’s Black Ship squadron at Edo Bay, with manuscript sketchbook, ink & watercolor, Japan, c. 1853. $2,500 to $3,500.
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.

Christies: Shakespeare and Goethe: Masterpieces of European Literature from the Schøyen Collection, 17705, London - King Street

Auction Details

Auction Date: 12/11/2019 - 12/11/2019

Page Size: 79 items in 4 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
101	[SHAKESPEARE, William].	Manuscript part for a contemporary analogue to Henry IV, part I,	Oxford or London,	n.d. c.1580s-before c.1620.	GBP 25,000.00 - 35,000.00	Unknown
102	SHAKESPEARE, William (1564-1616)	The Late, and much admired play, called Pericles, Prince of Tyre.	London	1619	GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00	Unknown
103	SHAKESPEARE, William (1564-1616)	The Comedie of Errors extracted from: Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies.	London	1623	GBP 12,000.00 - 18,000.00	Unknown
104	SHAKESPEARE, William (1564-1616)	Comedies, Histories and Tragedies. Published according to the true Originall Copies.	London:	1632	GBP 120,000.00 - 180,000.00	Unknown
105	SHAKESPEARE, William (1564-1616) & John FLETCHER (1579-1625)	The Two Noble Kinsmen: presented at the Blackfriers by the Kings Maiesties servants, with great applause.	London	1634	GBP 22,000.00 - 28,000.00	Unknown
106	[SHAKESPEARE, William (1564-1616)] – DAVENANT, Sir William (1606-1668) and John DRYDEN (1631-1700)	The Tempest, or the Enchanted Island. A comedy as it is now acted at His Highness the Duke of York's Theatre.	London	1676	GBP 2,500.00 - 3,500.00	Unknown
107	[SHAKESPEARE, William (1564-1616)] – SEDLEY, Charles (1639-1701)	Antony and Cleopatra: A Tragedy. As it is Acted at the Dukes Theatre.	London	1677	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	Unknown
108	[SHAKESPEARE, William (1564-1616)] – DRYDEN, John (1631-1700)	Troilus and Cressida, or, Truth Found too Late. A Tragedy as it is Acted at the Dukes Theatre.	London	1679	GBP 700.00 - 1,000.00	Unknown
109	[SHAKESPEARE, William (1564-1616)] – CROWN[E], John (1641-1712)	Henry the Sixth, The First Part. With the Murder of Humphrey Duke of Glocester. As it was Acted at the Dukes Theatre. – Henry the Sixth, The Second Part. Or the Misery of Civil War.	London	1681	GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Unknown
110	SHAKESPEARE, William (1564-1616)	The Tragedy of Hamlet Prince of Denmark. As it is now Acted at his Highness the Duke of York's Theatre.	London	1683	GBP 60,000.00 - 90,000.00	Unknown
111	[SHAKESPEARE, William (1564-1616)] – TATE, Nahum (1652-1715)	The History of King Lear. Acted at the Duke's Theatre. Reviv'd with alterations. By N. Tate.	London	1681	GBP 5,000.00 - 8,000.00	Unknown
112	SHAKESPEARE, William (1564-1616)	Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies. Published according to the true Original Copies. Unto which is added, Seven Plays, never before Printed in Folio.	London:	1685	GBP 50,000.00 - 80,000.00	Unknown
113	SHAKESPEARE, William (1564-1616)	The Tragedy of Hamlet Prince of Denmark. As it is now Acted at the Theatre Royal, by their Majesties Servants.	London	1695	GBP 8,000.00 - 12,000.00	Unknown
114	[SHAKESPEARE, William (1564-1616)] – SHADWELL, Thomas (1642-1692)	The History of Timon of Athens, the Man-Hater. As it is acted at the Duke’s Theatre.	London	1688	GBP 500.00 - 800.00	Unknown
115	SHAKESPEARE, William (1564-1616)	The Tragedy of Hamlet Prince of Denmark. As it is now acted by Her Majesties Servants.	London	1703	GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	Unknown
116	SHAKESPEARE, William (1564-1616) [and John FLETCHER (1579-1625)] – THEOBALD, Lewis (1688-1744)	Double Falshood; or, The Distrest Lovers. A Play, As it is Acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane.	London	1728	GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	Unknown
117	SHAKESPEARE, William (1564-1616)	Six plays in one volume.	London	1777-1780.	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	Unknown
118	SHAKESPEARE, William (1564-1616)	The Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare.	Philadelphia	1795-1796.	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	Unknown
119	SHAKESPEARE, William (1564-1616)	The Dramatic Works of Shakespeare revised by George Steevens.	London	1802	GBP 2,500.00 - 3,500.00	Unknown
120	[SHAKESPEARE, William] – William Henry IRELAND (1775-1835)	Autograph manuscripts, in his own hand and that of 'William Shakespeare',		1797	GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	Unknown
121	[SHAKESPEARE, William – Sir Thomas PHILLIPPS (1792-1872)].	A collection of manuscript notes and printed pedigree documents for the families of Shakespeare and Phillipps, c.1854-c.1864.		c.1854-c.1864.	GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	Unknown
122	SHAKESPEARE, William (1564-1616)	Original Leaves from the First Four Folios of the Plays of William Shakespeare, 1623, 1632, 1663, 1685.	San Francisco	1935	GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Unknown
123	[GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832)].	Von Deutscher Baukunst.	Frankfurt	1773 but 1772.	GBP 12,000.00 - 18,000.00	Unknown
124	GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832)	Götz von Berlichingen mit der eisernen Hand. Ein Schauspiel.	Darmstadt	1773	GBP 7,000.00 - 10,000.00	Unknown
125	[GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832)].	Götz von Berlichingen mit der eisernen Hand. Ein Schauspiel.	No place	1773	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	Unknown

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.
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.
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.
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.

<center>Dominic Winter Auctioneers Printed Books, Maps & Autographs December 11, 2019

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.

<center>Dominic Winter Auctioneers Printed Books, Maps & Autographs December 11, 2019

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.

<center>Dominic Winter Auctioneers Printed Books, Maps & Autographs December 11, 2019

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

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