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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

<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.
<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.

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