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Dominic Winter Auctioneers
June 18 & 19
Printed Books & Maps, Children's & Illustrated Books, Modern First EditionsDominic Winter, June 18-19: World. Van Geelkercken (N.), Orbis Terrarum Descriptio Duobis..., circa 1618. £4,000-6,000.Dominic Winter, June 18-19: Moll (Herman). A New Exact Map of the Dominions of the King of Great Britain..., circa 1715. £2,000-3,000.Dominic Winter, June 18-19: Churchill (Winston S.). The World Crisis, 5 volumes bound in 6, 1st edition, 1923-31. £1,000-1,500Dominic Winter Auctioneers
June 18 & 19
Printed Books & Maps, Children's & Illustrated Books, Modern First EditionsDominic Winter, June 18-19: Darwin (Charles). On the Origin of Species, 2nd edition, 2nd issue, 1860. £1,500-2,000.Dominic Winter, June 18-19: Roberts (David). The Holy Land, 6 volumes in 3, 1st quarto ed, 1855-56. £1,500-2,000.Dominic Winter, June 18-19: Saint-Exupéry (Antoine de, 1900-1944). Pilote de guerre (Flight to Arras), 1942. £10,000-15,000.Dominic Winter Auctioneers
June 18 & 19
Printed Books & Maps, Children's & Illustrated Books, Modern First EditionsDominic Winter, June 18-19: Austen (Jane, 1775-1817). Signature, cut from a letter, no date. £7,000-10,000Dominic Winter, June 18-19: Huxley (Aldous). Brave New World, 1st edition, with wraparound band, 1932. £4,000-6,000Dominic Winter, June 18-19: Tolkien (J. R. R.) The Hobbit, 1st edition, 2nd impression, 1937. £3,000-5,000Dominic Winter Auctioneers
June 18 & 19
Printed Books & Maps, Children's & Illustrated Books, Modern First EditionsDominic Winter, June 18-19: Rackham (Arthur, 1867-1939). Princess by the Sea (from Irish Fairy Tales), circa 1920. £4,000-6,000Dominic Winter, June 18-19: Kelmscott Press. The Story of the Glittering Plain, Walter Crane's copy, 1894. £3,000-4,000Dominic Winter, June 18-19: King (Jessie Marion, 1875-1949). The Summer House, watercolour. £4,000-6,000 -
Fonsie Mealy’s
Chatsworth Summer Fine Art Sale
18th June 2025Fonsie Mealy, June 18: William IV, c1830, oversized slope-top Rosewood Davenport Desk, Attributed to Gillows of Lancaster. With Provenance to Oscar Wilde.Fonsie Mealy, June 18: William IV, c1830, oversized slope-top Rosewood Davenport Desk, Attributed to Gillows of Lancaster. With Provenance to Oscar Wilde.Fonsie Mealy, June 18: William IV, c1830, oversized slope-top Rosewood Davenport Desk, Attributed to Gillows of Lancaster. With Provenance to Oscar Wilde.Fonsie Mealy, June 18: French Bateau Bed, exhibition piece from the Exposition Universelle—The Paris World’s Fair, 1878. Third quarter of the 19th century. With Provenance to Oscar Wilde. -
Bonhams, June 16-24: KELMSCOTT PRESS. RUSKIN. The Nature of Gothic. 1892. $1,500 - $2,500Bonhams, June 16-24: ASHENDENE PRESS. The Wisdom of Jesus. 1932. $2,000 - $3,000Bonhams, June 16-24: CHARLOTTE BRONTE WRITES AS GOVERNESS. Autograph Letter Signed, 1851. $15,000 - $25,000Bonhams, June 16-24: FIRST AMERICAN EDITION OF WUTHERING HEIGHTS. BRONTE, Emily. New York, 1848. $3,000 - $5,000Bonhams, June 16-24: IAN FLEMING ASSOCIATION COPY. You Only Live Twice. London, 1964. $7,000 - $9,000Bonhams, June 16-24: DELUXE EDITION WITH ORIGINAL PAINTING. BUKOWSKI, Charles. War All the Time. 1984. $3,000 - $5,000Bonhams, June 16-24: EINSTEIN'S MOST POWERFUL STATEMENT ON THE ATOMIC BOMB. Original Typed Manuscript Signed, "On My Participation in the Atom Bomb Project," 1953. $100,000 - $150,000Bonhams, June 16-24: EINSTEIN ON SCIENCE, WAR AND MORALITY. Autograph Letter Signed, 1949. $20,000 - $30,000Bonhams, June 16-24: SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. WASHINGTON, George. Engraved document signed, 1786. $8,000 - $12,000Bonhams, June 16-24: AN EARLY CHINESE-MADE 34-STAR U.S. CONSULAR FLAG. $8,000 - $12,000Bonhams, June 16-24: SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH OF LINCOLN WITH HIS SON TAD. 1864. $60,000 - $90,000Bonhams, June 16-24: MALCOLM X WRITES FROM KENYA. Postcard signed, 1964. $4,000 - $6,000
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Book Catalogue Reviews - May - 2007 Issue
The Civil War and More Americana from Chapel Hill Rare Books
By Michael Stillman
Just arrived is the latest from Chapel Hill Rare Books: Americana: Recent Acquisitions Including Civil War. While the most recent previous catalogues from Chapel Hill were focused on Civil War items from the Confederate side, this is a more balanced presentation. Not only are there Union items from the Civil War, but material that extends far beyond that sad confrontation. There are books, quite literally, from Maine to California this time. We can only mention a few, but anyone who collects antiquarian Americana can expect to find something to their liking in this catalogue.
For those who think politics are rough today, there may not have been anything quite like the campaign of 1828. Andrew Jackson was a man of fanatical supporters, and equally rabid enemies. Jackson was an old soldier, and there were rumors that he might have summarily executed a few prisoners along the way. His enemies played on these to publish what were known as "coffin handbills" (or broadsides), so known because they featured depictions of coffins of people Jackson had supposedly killed. Item 136 is a particularly incendiary broadside, headed An Account of Some of the Bloody Deeds of General Jackson. It includes several vignettes of Ol' Hickory. One shows six blindfolded men, standing in front of six coffins, while nine riflemen take aim. In another, three rifleman prepare to execute another standing in front of his coffin. General Jackson is depicted behind them saying, "Blow ten balls thru thee d___d rascal." Meanwhile, the poor victim cries out, "O God!! My poor mother." In a third woodcut, Jackson shoots an unarmed man, Charles Dickinson, while exclaiming, "I'll have your heart's blood." The broadside goes on to describe several more comparably heinous acts by the General, but all for naught. Jackson won the election by an overwhelming margin. Priced at $8,750.
Item 74 provides a testament of what war is really like. It is a Civil War broadside from ironically named Uniontown, Alabama, by a writer identified only as "C," but based on a similar item, likely Captain Richard Clarke, a 47-year-old physician who joined the Confederate Army to provide assistance to the soldiers. He had just witnessed the first Battle of Manassas (or Bull Run), a stunning victory for the Confederates. Nevertheless, all was not joy behind Southern lines. Writes "C," "Merciful God! What a sickening sight… Wagons & ambulances filled with mangled and groaning men; corpses carried on litters and shoulders of surviving comrades; heaps of legs and arms, recently cut off by the surgeon; brains and blood scattered over the ground, and trodden into the mire… All this I saw!" Clarke left the service the following year because of his age. This extremely rare broadside is an unusual 5" x 20" in size due to the paper shortage. It is offered with a second broadside from Clarke. $2,850.