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Source Title	The Catalogues of William Gowans
Description	William Gowans began as a New York book dealer around 1830 and continued until his death in 1870. Beginning about 1842 he began to issue catalogues once a year. They were at first relatively brief and simple but in time became more bibliographically complex and useful to the antiquarian. His best cataloguing efforts date from the mid 1850's and specifically from No. 14 on. A story about him can be found by searching GOWANS in the AE archives. This story appears in the July, 2004 issue of AE Monthly.
Scope of Text	There are in total 28 catalogues and they each contain from 200 to 500 items in formats of 40 and 52 pages. While Mr. Gowans cannot be easily compared to 20th century dealers, by the standards of the day, he was a formidable bookseller.
Total Records in AED	309

Chiswick Auctions: Books & Illustrated Art including Cartoons. March 28, 2019

Chiswick Auctions, Mar 28: Silver Binding.- [Torah], German 13 Loth silver binding, hinged clasp, 12mo, Sulzbach, 1805. £2,500 to £3,500.

Chiswick Auctions, Mar 28: Picasso (Pablo). Minotaure vaincu, plate 89 from La Suite Vollard, etching, dated 29 May 1933, pencil, plate 190 x 265 mm, Paris, A. Vollard, 1939. £5,000 to £6,000.

Chiswick Auctions, Mar 28: Dali (Salvador) & Alighieri (Dante). La Divina Commedia, 6 vols, NUMBER 478 of 2,900 copies, 100 numbered colour lithograph plates by Salvador Dalì, folio, Verona, 1963-1964. £3,000 to £4,000.

Chiswick Auctions: Books & Illustrated Art including Cartoons. March 28, 2019

Chiswick Auctions, Mar 28: Miniature Sepher Torah Nevi'im U'Kethuvim, prepared by Menachem M. Scholz, original cloth, housed within original gilt tooled metal case, with magnifying glass inset, 33x25 mm, Warsaw, c. 1880. £1,200 to £1,800.

Chiswick Auctions, Mar 28: Scarfe (Gerald). ‘Men of Snow’ [Tony Blair, William Hague & 'Robin' Cook], original ink, watercolour & gouache drawing, signed, 600 x 435 mm, n.d. with 2 others (3). £800 to £1,200

Chiswick Auctions, Mar 28: Francklyn (Gilbert), Paine (Thomas). Rights of Man…, FIRST EDITION [and] Rights of Man. Part the Second…, Printed for J. S. Jordan, 1791-92, [and 1 other]. £700 to £1,000

Chiswick Auctions: Books & Illustrated Art including Cartoons. March 28, 2019

Chiswick Auctions, Mar 28: Chagall (Marc). Le Jeu des Acrobates (Acrobats at Play), HORS COMMERCE PROOF, lithograph, from The Lithographs of Chagall, 320 x 240 mm, André Sauret, 1963. £1,800 to £2,200

Chiswick Auctions, Mar 28: [Harris (John)]. The History of The Old Woman who had Three Sons Jerry, James, and John…, 12mo, J. Harris, 1815. £200 to £300

Chiswick Auctions, Mar 28: Royal Binding.- Staël-Holstein (Germaine de). De la littèrature considerée dans ses rapports avec les institutions sociales…, 2 vols, second edition, Crapelet, Paris, [1801]. £400 to £600

Chiswick Auctions: Books & Illustrated Art including Cartoons. March 28, 2019

Chiswick Auctions, Mar 28: Ancient History.- La Baune (Jacques de). Panegyrici Veteres, Paris, 1676. [with] Wesseling (Petrus, ed.). Vetera Romanorum itineraria… £800 to £1,200

Chiswick Auctions, Mar 28: Edward (Gibbon). History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire… Multiple editions and languages [English and French]. £300 to £400

Chiswick Auctions, Mar 28: Curtis (William). Flora Londinensis, FIRST EDITION, 2 vols in 3. 119 hand-coloured plates of 454. £500 to £700
Bonhams, Mar 12: Walt Whitman. Leaves of Grass. First edition, first issue, SIGNED in block letters by Whitman. 1855. $200,000 to $300,000

Bonhams, Mar 12: Isaac Newton's copy of John Greave's Pyramidographia, London, 1646. $50,000 to $70,000

Bonhams, Mar 12: Colonel John Mosby. Robert E. Lee's autograph letter to Samuel Cooper reporting on Mosby's exploits, with Cooper's autograph note ordering his appointment to Major.

Bonhams, Mar 12: Gyula Halasz Brassai. Large archive of autograph and typed letters, over 260, to his family including his wife Gilberte, 1947-1978. $40,000 to $60,000

Bonhams, Mar 12: Archive of drawings and letters from Harper Lee to Charles Carruth, including an inscribed first edition of To Kill a Mockingbird. $20,000 to $30,000

Bonhams, Mar 11: VESALIUS, ANDREAS. 1514-1564. De humani corporis fabrica libri septem. Basel: Johannes Oporinus, June 1543. $300,000 to $500,000

Bonhams, Mar 11: HARVEY, WILLIAM. 1578-1657. De motu cordis & sanguinis in animalibus Anatomica Exercitatio. Leiden: Joannis Maire, 1639. $25,000 to $35,000

Bonhams, Mar 11: BERENGARIO DA CARPI, GIACOMO. 1460-1530. Isagogae breves perlucide ac uberrimae in Anatomiam humani corporis. Bologna: Benedictus Hectoris, 15 July 1523. $15,000 to $25,000

Bonhams NY, Mar 11: FRANKLIN, BENJAMIN. 1706-1790. Experiments and Observations on Electricity, made at Philadelphia in America… London, 1769. $10,000 to $15,000

Bonhams NY, Mar 11: BENIVIENI, ANTONIO. 1443-1502. De abditis nonnullis ac mirandis morborum et sanationum causis.Florence: Filippo Giunta, 1507. $8,000 to $12,000
Forum Auctions: Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper. March 28, 2019

Forum Auctions, Mar 28: Greco (Gioachino). Primo modo del gioco de Partito… Manuscript, France, 1624 or 1625. A collection of partiti, or 'chess problems' by one of the most important figures in the history of chess. £20,000 to £30,000.

Forum Auctions, Mar 28: Herodotus. Historiae, translated into Latin by Lorenzo Valla and edited by Antonio Mancinelli. Venice, 1494. £15,000 to £20,000.

Forum Auctions, Mar 28: Darwin (Charles). Autograph Letter signed to his cousin Reginald Darwin, Down, Beckenham, Kent, 27th March 1879. £12,000 to £18,000.

Forum Auctions: Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper. March 28, 2019

Forum Auctions, Mar 28: Nicolay (Nicolas de). The Navigations, peregrinations and voyages, made into Turkie, first edition in English, Imprinted at London by Thomas Dawson, 1585. £10,000 to £15,000.

Forum Auctions, Mar 28: Saint-Exupéry (Antoine de). The Little Prince, number 66 of 525 copies signed by the author, 1943. £8,000 to £12,000.

Forum Auctions, Mar 28: Catlin (George, 1796-1872). Tuch-ee, A Celebrated War Chief of the Cherokees, watercolour, [circa 1834]. £6,000 to £8,000.

Forum Auctions: Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper. March 28, 2019

Forum Auctions, Mar 28: Genetics.- A collection of c.300 pamphlets on genetics comprising many of the major contributions from the first half of the 20th century. £5,000 to £7,000.

Forum Auctions, Mar 28: India.- Rajasthan.- Kota School (probably late 18th c.). Elephant in a landscape with chains around his feet, brush and black ink with opaque pigments. £5,000 to £7,000.

Forum Auctions, Mar 28: Commelin (Caspar). Horti medici Amstelaedamensis plantae rariores et exoticae, first edition, 48 finely hand-coloured engraved plates, Leiden, F.Haringh, 1706. £4,000 to £6,000.

Forum Auctions: Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper. March 28, 2019

Forum Auctions, Mar 28: Plague-water and cookery & medical recipes.- Jackson (Mrs Sarah). Medical and cookery recipes, manuscript in several hands, title and 134pp., 1688-1755. £4,000 to £6,000.

Forum Auctions, Mar 28: Vernet (After Joseph, 1714-1789). [Vues des ports de France], sixteen plates (of 18), etchings and engravings by Charles Nicolas Cochin fils and Jacques Philippe Le Bas, [c.1760-1780]. £4,000 to £6,000.

Forum Auctions, Mar 28: Detmold (Edward Julius, 1883-1957). Parrots and Butterflies, watercolour. £2,500 to £3,500.
Koller Auctions: Books & Autographs. March 26, 2019

Koller Auctions, Mar 26: Jacques Gamelin. Nouveau recueil d'osteologie et de myologie, dessine d'apres nature... 2 parts in 1 vol., large folio, 82 copper plates. CHF 12,000 to 18,000

Koller Auctions, Mar 26: Melchior Pfintzing. Die geverlicheiten und einsteils geschichten des loblichen streytparen... 118 woodcut engravings, first edition. CHF 30,000 to 50,000

Koller Auctions, Mar 26: Book of hours. Handwritten Latin text on vellum. With 17 large miniatures, Flanders, c.1460. CHF 70,000 to 90,000

Koller Auctions, Mar 26: Maria Sibylla Merian. Dissertatio de generatione et metamorphosibus insectorum Surinamensium, 72 copper plates, Den Haag, 1726. CHF 60,000 to 90,000
Swann Auction Galleries, Mar 28: The Negro Travelers' Green Book, edited by Victor H. Green, New York, 1958. $2,500 to $3,500.

Swann Auction Galleries, Mar 28: Phillis Wheatley, Poems on Various Subjects, Religious & Moral, London, 1773. $15,000 to $25,000.

Swann Auction Galleries, Mar 28: David Ruggles, The Mirror of Liberty, first issue of the first magazine edited by an African American, New York, 1838. $8,000 to $12,000.

Swann Auction Galleries, Mar 28: Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun, draft typescript, inscribed by the playwright, circa 1958. $3,000 to $4,000.

Swann Auction Galleries, Mar 28: Pair of letterpress broadsides for Ira Aldridge’s historic first 2 performances at London’s Theatre Royal, 1833. $10,000 to $15,000.

Swann Auction Galleries, Mar 28: Archive of letters to John Augustine Washington III at Mount Vernon, many of which discuss the lives of enslaved persons, 1837-61. $20,000 to $30,000.

Swann Auction Galleries, Mar 28: Important archive of letters and photographs of Charles White and his spouse, Frances B. White, 1956-60. $4,000 to $6,000.

Swann Auction Galleries, Mar 28: Papers of educator Sister Makinya Sibeko-Kouate, one of the leading popularizers of Kwanzaa, 1940-1975. $6,000 to $9,000.

Swann Auction Galleries, Mar 28: Stock certificate of the Negro Factories Corporation, signed by Marcus Garvey, 1920. $3,000 to $4,000.

Swann Auction Galleries, Mar 28: Benjamin Banneker, Bannaker’s Maryland . . . Almanack and Ephemeris, for the Year of our Lord 1796, Baltimore, 1795. $15,000 to $25,000.

Swann Auction Galleries, Mar 28: Frederick Douglass, previously unknown carte-de-visite by Samuel M. Fassett, Washington DC, 1878. $3,000 to $4,000.

Swann Auction Galleries, Mar 28: First Annual Report of the New York Committee of Vigilance, New York, 1837. $3,000 to $4,000.

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