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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

Der Sturm. 1922. Sold October 2021 for € 13,000.

Diophantus Alexandrinus, Arithmeticorum libri sex. 1670. Sold October 2021 for € 18,000.

Cozzani Ettore e altri, l’Eroica. Tutto il pubblicato. Sold October 2021 for € 11,000.

Newton Isaac, Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica. 1714. Sold October 2021 for € 7,500.

Manetti Saverio, Storia naturale degli uccelli. 1767-1776. Sold April 2021 for € 26,000.
<center>Swann Auction Galleries Maps & Atlases Natural History & Color Plate Books December 9, 2021

Swann, Dec. 9: John James Audubon, Carolina Parrot, Plate 26, hand-colored aquatint, 1828. $80,000 to $100,000.

Swann, Dec. 9: Francisco Henrique Carls, Album de Pernambuco e seus Arrabaldes, 53 plates, Recife, circa 1873. $25,000 to $35,000.

Swann, Dec. 9: Capt. Thomas Davies, group of five engraved topographical scenes of North American waterfalls, London, 1768. $8,000 to $12,000.

<center>Swann Auction Galleries Maps & Atlases Natural History & Color Plate Books December 9, 2021

Swann, Dec. 9: William R. Morley, Morley’s Map of New Mexico, New Mexico, 1873. $7,000 to $10,000.

Swann, Dec. 9: Paul Hariot, Le Livre d’Or des Roses, Paris, 1903. $800 to $1,200.

Swann, Dec. 9: D. Miguel Geli, album of finely hand-drawn studies for nineteenth-century Spanish forts and military bunkers, circa 1830. $1,200 to $1,800.
<center>Christie’s Valuable Books and Manuscripts December 15

<center>Christie’s Valuable Books and Manuscripts December 15

<center>Christie’s Valuable Books and Manuscripts December 15

<center>Christie’s Valuable Books and Manuscripts December 15

<center>Christie’s Valuable Books and Manuscripts December 15
<center>Aste Bolaffi Rare Books and Autographs December 16, 2021

Aste Bolaffi, Dec. 16: [Book of hours of Jean Boutin]. Illuminated manuscript on vellum, use of Rome, in Latin and French. France, early 15th century. From €50,000.

Aste Bolaffi, Dec. 16: [Book of Hours]. Pontifical illuminated manuscript on parchment, in Latin. Southern France, late 15th century. From €40,000.

Aste Bolaffi, Dec. 16: [Book of Hours]. Illuminated manuscript on parchment, in Latin and French. France, late 15th century. From €40,000.

<center>Aste Bolaffi Rare Books and Autographs December 16, 2021

Aste Bolaffi, Dec. 16: [Book of Hours]. Officium B. Mariae Virginis. Illuminated manuscript on parchment, use of Rome, in Latin and Italian. 1482. From €40,000.

Aste Bolaffi, Dec. 16: [Book of Hours]. Manuscript on parchment, in French. Amiens, 14th century. From €10,000.

Aste Bolaffi, Dec. 16: Verdi, Giuseppe. 9 handwritten lines signed by Luisa Miller, with a dedication 'to Monsieur Felix Le Couppey, Paris 24 Jan. 1852'. From €8,000.

<center>Aste Bolaffi Rare Books and Autographs December 16, 2021

Aste Bolaffi, Dec. 16: French Renaissance binding, produced in Lyon or Paris in the second half of the 16th century. Rhetoricorum secundus tomus in Gryphius' edition of 1548. From €800.

Aste Bolaffi, Dec. 16: [Printing and the Mind of Man]. Gesner, Conrad. Vogelbuch Darinn die art, natur und eigenschafft aller vöglen. Zurigo, Froschauer, 1581, 1583, 1585, 1589. From €10,000.

Aste Bolaffi, Dec. 16: [Dalmatia]. Berlinghieri, Francesco. Tabula quinta de Europa. Florence, Niccolò di Lorenzo della Magna, [before September 1482]. From €8,000.

<center>Aste Bolaffi Rare Books and Autographs December 16, 2021

Aste Bolaffi, Dec. 16: Giampiccoli, Giuliano. Jacobo Comiti Duratio […] Tabulas a Marco Ricci Auctore, Julianus Giampiccoli incidit. Venezia, Teodoro Viero, 1775. €30,000.

Aste Bolaffi, Dec. 16: [Piazzetta]. Pitteri, Marco. Studj di pittura gia dissegnati da Giambatista Piazzetta ed ora con l'intaglio di Marco Pitteri. Venezia, Giovanni Battista Albrizzi, 1760. From €4,000.

Aste Bolaffi, Dec. 16: [Printing and the Mind of Man]. Palladio, Andrea. I quattro libri dell'architettura. Venezia, Domenico de' Franceschi, 1570. From €14,000.
<center>Arader Galleries Live Auction December 11, 2021

Arader Galleries, Dec. 11: De Wit’s composite atlas with magnificent full original color. $125,000 to $150,000.

Arader Galleries, Dec. 11: Gardner's photographic sketch book of the Civil War. $200,000 to $250,000.

Arader Galleries, Dec. 11: Waugh Oil Painting, 70 Degrees North; The Polar Bear. $400,000 to $600,000.

<center>Arader Galleries Live Auction December 11, 2021

Arader Galleries, Dec. 11: Audubon aquatint, Ivory-Billed Woodpecker. $75,000 to $90,000.

Arader Galleries, Dec. 11: Blaeu terrestrial table globe, 1602. $70,000 to $100,000.

Arader Galleries, Dec. 11: Audubon aquautint, Ruby-Throated Humming Bird. $35,000 to $45,000.

<center>Arader Galleries Live Auction December 11, 2021

Arader Galleries, Dec. 11: Bessa original watercolor of a bouquet of flowers. $75,000 to $125,000.

Arader Galleries, Dec. 11: John Gould's only work devoted to American birds. $15,000 to $20,000.

Arader Galleries, Dec. 11: Wyld & Malby pair of terrestrial & celestial globes, 1833. $50,000 to $75,000.

<center>Arader Galleries Live Auction December 11, 2021

Arader Galleries, Dec. 11: Leutze map of the world oil painting. $70,000 to $100,000.

Arader Galleries, Dec. 11: Caula, the finest 18th century drawing of Lison. $25,000 to $35,000.

Arader Galleries, Dec. 11: Scolari / Blaeu map of Germania, 1650. $15,000 to $22,000.

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