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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

Il Ponte Casa d’Aste: Books and Manuscripts. January 22, 2019

Il Ponte Casa d’Aste, Jan 22: [MAGGIOLO, Vesconte] Carta nautica manoscritta, bottega di Vesconte Maggiolo. Italy, c.1550. Previously unknown extraordinary portolan chart. €50,000 to 80,000

Il Ponte Casa d’Aste, Jan 22: LA PÉROUSE, Jean-François. Voyage de la Pérouse autour du monde. Paris: L'Imprimerie de la République, 1797. €6,000 to 9,000

Il Ponte Casa d’Aste, Jan 22: PEREA Y ROJAS, Daniel. The preparatory watercolours to the renown album A Los Toros. €4,000 to 6,000

Il Ponte Casa d’Aste: Books and Manuscripts. January 22, 2019

Il Ponte Casa d’Aste, Jan 22: MELA, Pomponio. Cosmographia, sive De situ orbis. Venice, 1478 [Bound with] DIONISIO il Periegeta. De situ orbis… Venice, 1478. €6,000 to 9,000

Il Ponte Casa d’Aste, Jan 22: DE FELICE, Fortunato Bartolomeo. Encyclopedie, ou dictionnaire universel raisonne des connoissances humaines. Yverdon, 1770-1780. €4,000 to 6,000

Il Ponte Casa d’Aste, Jan 22: VECELLIO, Cesare. De gli habiti antichi et moderni di diverse parti del mondo. Venice: Damian Zenaro, 1590. €3,000 to 5,000

Il Ponte Casa d’Aste: Books and Manuscripts. January 22, 2019

Il Ponte Casa d’Aste, Jan 22: FALDA, Giovanni Battista; SPECCHI, Alessandro. Il nuovo teatro delle fabriche… [bound with] ll quarto libro del nuovo teatro delli palazzi in prospettiva di Roma moderna. 1665-1699. €4,000 to 6,000

Il Ponte Casa d’Aste, Jan 22: FALDA Giovan Battista. Le fontane di Roma nelle piazze e luoghi pubblici della citta - Le fontane delle ville di Frascati nel Tusculano… Rome, [1691]. €2,000 to 3,000

Il Ponte Casa d’Aste, Jan 22: FERRERIO, Pietro & Giovanni Battista FALDA. Palazzi di Roma de piu celebri architetti disegnati… [1655 – 1677]. €2,500 to 3,000

Il Ponte Casa d’Aste: Books and Manuscripts. January 22, 2019

Il Ponte Casa d’Aste, Jan 22: VON JACQUIN, Joseph Franz. Eclogae graminum rariorum. Vienna: Strauss Sommer, 1813-1844. €2,000 to 3,000

Il Ponte Casa d’Aste, Jan 22: Prayer book according to the synagogical Ashkenazy rite in an elegant and precious silver binding. €3,000 to 5,000

Il Ponte Casa d’Aste, Jan 22: BOCCACCIO, Giovanni. Ameto. Venice: Nicolo Zoppino, 1524. €3,000 to 5,000
Bonhams New York: Fine Books and Manuscripts Including the World of Hilary Knight. December 5, 2018

Bonhams, Dec 5: KNIGHT, HILARY. The Original Portrait of Eloise that Hung at the Plaza Hotel. $100,000 to 150,000

Bonhams, Dec 5: WARHOL, ANDY. "Iced Lemon Delight," an Original Watercolor Presented to Hilary Knight's cat, Phoebe $8,000 to 12,000

Bonhams, Dec 5: SENDAK, MAURICE. Where the Wild Things Are. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED with drawing to Hilary Knight in the month following publication. $10,000 to 15,000

Bonhams New York: Fine Books and Manuscripts Including the World of Hilary Knight. December 5, 2018

Bonhams, Dec 5: NOLAND, KENNETH. Original circle painting, untitled, acrylic and ink on cloth, for cover of monograph $8,000 to 12,000

Bonhams, Dec 5: TOULOUSE-LAUTREC. Histoires Naturelles, 1899. With 22 original lithographs. $10,000 to 15,000

Bonhams, Dec 5: SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM. A Collection of Poems, [1711]. The first authoritative and complete collected Sonnets.$15,000 to 20,000

Bonhams New York: Fine Books and Manuscripts Including the World of Hilary Knight. December 5, 2018

Bonhams, Dec 5: LONDON, JACK. The Call of the Wild. 1903. First edition, first state jacket. $2,000 to 3,000

Bonhams, Dec 5: FROST, ROBERT. Autograph Manuscript of "Build Soil," 12 pp, 1932-1936. $15,000 to 20,000

Bonhams, Dec 5: GOULD, GLENN. Glenn Gould's extensively annotated copy of Bach's Goldberg Variations $100,000 to 150,000

Bonhams New York: Fine Books and Manuscripts Including the World of Hilary Knight. December 5, 2018

Bonhams, Dec 5: PLATH, SYLVIA. EARLY Autograph Letter Signed, about her beginnings as a writer, Northampton, MA, 1951. $7,000 to 10,000

Bonhams, Dec 5: HOUDINI, HARRY. A collection of 11 cast iron shackle and lock items from Houdini's personal collection. $20,000 to 30,000

Bonhams, Dec 5: M4 ENGIMA MACHINE, with very rare RARE HYDRA KEY ENVELOPE. $400,000 to 600,000
19th Century Shop: Charles Darwin on sexuality and the transmission of hereditary characteristics: Autograph Letter Signed to Lawson Tait. Down, 17 January [1877].

19th Century Shop: MILTON, JOHN. Paradise Lost. A Poem written in ten books. London: 1667. A very rare example with the contemporary binding untouched and with a 1667 title page.

19th Century Shop: Hamilton secures the ratification of the Constitution: The Debates and Proceedings of the Convention of the State of New-York, assembled at Poughkeespsie, on the 17th June, 1788.

19th Century Shop: The social contract “Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains”: ROUSSEAU, JEAN-JACQUES. Principes du Droit Politique [Du Contract Social]. Amsterdam: Michel Rey, 1762

19th Century Shop: “The first English textbook on geometrical land-measurement and surveying”: BENESE, RICHARD. This Boke Sheweth the Maner of Measurynge All Maner of Lande…
Shapero Rare Books: Fine Illustrated Books. 50 illustrated works across a range of subjects.

Shapero Rare Books: Present Perfect. Books & works on paper including Literature, Children’s & Illustrated, Sports & Pastimes, Modern Prints and more.

Shapero Rare Books: The House of Romanov, marking the centenary of the tragic demise of the Romanov dynasty.

Shapero Rare Books: CHAGALL & GOGOL. Les âmes mortes, 1948. Chagall’s first major illustrated book.

Shapero Rare Books: GUSTAV KLIMT, eine nachlese, 1931. An important early monograph on Klimt.

Shapero Rare Books: ELLIOT. Birds of North America, 1866. One of 200 2 vols sets, folio.

Shapero Rare Books: PURCHAS. His Pilgrimes/Pilgrimage, 1625-26. 5 vols. Probably the greatest collection of voyages ever published.

Shapero Rare Books: HUXLEY. Brave New World, 1932. Exceptionally fine first edition.

Shapero Rare Books: KELMSCOTT PRESS. Poems of Shakespeare, one of 500, publisher’s vellum.

Shapero Rare Books: LEROUX. Phantom of the Opera, 1911. First UK edition in fine S&S binding.

Shapero Rare Books: INDIANA, Robert. The American Dream, one of 30 AP copies, 30 screen prints.

Shapero Rare Books: BENOIS. Tsarskoe Selo during the Reign of Elizaveta Petrovna, St Petersburg, 1910. Deluxe issue.

Shapero Rare Books: CORONATION ALBUM. Description du sacre et du couronnement de leurs Majestés Impériales, 1883. One of 200.

Shapero Rare Books: IMPERIAL FAMILY. Signed original photograph of Tsar Nicholas II’s 4 daughters.

Shapero Rare Books: Souvenir du Couronnement de Leurs Majestés Imperiales a Moscou, 1896.
Swann Auction Galleries, Jan 29: Leonard Baskin, Diptera: A Book of Flies & Other Insects, Gehenna Press, 1983. $6,000 to $9,000.

Swann Auction Galleries, Jan 29: Georg Heym, Umbra Vitae, illustrated by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, first edition, Munich, 1924. $6,000 to $9,000.

Swann Auction Galleries, Jan 29: Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven, special copy for illustrator Alan James Robinson, first book from Cheloniidae Press, 1980. $3,000 to $4,000.

Swann Auction Galleries, Jan 29: W.B. Yeats, Poems, illustrated by Richard Diebenkorn, accompanied by a suite of 6 etchings, 1990. $12,000 to $18,000.

Swann Auction Galleries, Jan 29: Georges Rouault, Cirque de l’Étoile Filante, Paris, 1938. $30,000 to $40,000.

Swann Auction Galleries, Jan 29: François-Louis Schmied, Le Cantique des Cantiques, Paris, 1925. $10,000 to $15,000.

Swann Auction Galleries, Jan 29: Frank Lloyd Wright, Ausgeführte Bauten und Entwürfe, Berlin, Ernst Wasmuth, 1910. $8,000 to $12,000.

Swann Auction Galleries, Jan 29: Hans Bellmer & Georges Hugnet, Oeillades ciselées en branch, Paris, 1939. $2,000 to $3,000.

Swann Auction Galleries, Jan 29: Wassily Kandinsky, Klänge, first edition, Munich, 1913. $30,000 to $40,000.

Swann Auction Galleries, Jan 29: Charles Dickens, The Nonesuch Dickens, limited edition, 1937-38. $5,000 to $7,500.

Swann Auction Galleries, Jan 29: Rudyard Kipling, Le Livre de la Jungle, plates by Paul Jouve, engraved by F.L. Schmied, Paris, 1919. $7,000 to $10,000.

Swann Auction Galleries, Jan 29: Georges Lepape, Les Choses de Paul Poiret, Paris, 1911. $3,500 to $5,000.

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