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Old World Auctions (June 18): Lot 567. One of the Earliest & Most Desirable Printed Maps of Arabia - by Holle/Germanus (1482) Est. $55,000 - $65,000Old World Auctions (June 18): Lot 681. Zatta's Complete Atlas with 218 Maps in Full Contemporary Color (1779) Est. $27,500 - $35,000Old World Auctions (June 18): Lot 347. MacDonald Gill's Landmark "Wonderground Map" of London (1914) Est. $1,800 - $2,100Old World Auctions (June 18): Lot 1. Fries' "Modern" World Map with Portraits of Five Kings (1525) Est. $4,000 - $4,750Old World Auctions (June 18): Lot 539. Ortelius' Superb, Decorative Map of Cyprus in Full Contemporary Color (1573) Est. $1,100 - $1,400Old World Auctions (June 18): Lot 51. Mercator's Foundation Map for the Americas in Full Contemporary Color (1630) Est. $3,250 - $4,000Old World Auctions (June 18): Lot 667. Manuscript Bible Leaf with Image of Mary and Baby Jesus (1450) Est. $1,900 - $2,200Old World Auctions (June 18): Lot 226. "A Powerful Example of Color Used to Make a Point" (1895) Est. $400 - $600Old World Auctions (June 18): Lot 290. One of the Most Decorative Early Maps of South America - from Linschoten's "Itinerario" (1596) Est. $7,000 - $8,500Old World Auctions (June 18): Lot 62. Coronelli's Influential Map of North America with the Island of California (1688) Est. $10,000 - $12,000Old World Auctions (June 18): Lot 589. The First European-Printed Map of China - by Ortelius (1584) Est. $4,000 - $5,000
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Forum Auctions
A Sixth Selection of 16th and 17th Century English Books from the Fox Pointe Manor Library
19th June 2025Forum, June 19: Euclid. The Elements of Geometrie, first edition in English of the first complete translation, [1570]. £20,000 to £30,000.Forum, June 19: Nicolay (Nicolas de). The Navigations, peregrinations and voyages, made into Turkie, first edition in English, 1585. £10,000 to £15,000.Forum, June 19: Shakespeare source book.- Montemayor (Jorge de). Diana of George of Montemayor, first edition in English, 1598. £6,000 to £8,000.Forum, June 19: Livius (Titus). The Romane Historie, first edition in English, translated by Philemon Holland, Adam Islip, 1600. £6,000 to £8,000.Forum Auctions
A Sixth Selection of 16th and 17th Century English Books from the Fox Pointe Manor Library
19th June 2025Forum, June 19: Robert Molesworth's copy.- Montaigne (Michel de). The Essayes Or Morall, Politike and Millitarie Discourses, first edition in English, 1603. £10,000 to £15,000.Forum, June 19: Shakespeare (William). The Tempest [&] The Two Gentlemen of Verona, from the Second Folio, [Printed by Thomas Cotes], 1632. £4,000 to £6,000.Forum, June 19: Boyle (Robert). Medicina Hydrostatica: or, Hydrostaticks Applyed to the Materia Medica, first edition, for Samuel Smith, 1690. £2,500 to £3,500.Forum, June 19: Locke (John). An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding in Four Books, first edition, second issue, 1690. £8,00 to £12,000. -
ALDE, June 18: CHAPPE D'AUTEROCHE (JEAN). Voyage en Sibérie fait par ordre du Roi en 1761 contenant les mœurs…, Paris, 1768. €4,000 to €5,000.ALDE, June 18: HENNEPIN (LOUIS). Description de la Louisiane nouvellement découverte au Sud-Ouest de la Nouvelle France…, Paris, 1688. €3,000 to €4,000.ALDE, June 18: LA BOULLAYE-LE GOUZ (FRANÇOIS DE). Les Voyages et Observations, Paris, 1653. €1,500 to €2,000.ALDE, June 18: LE BRUN (CORNELIS DE BRUYN DIT CORNEILLE). Voyage au Levant, c'est à dire dans les principaux endroits de l'Asie mineure..., Delft, 1700. €6,000 to €8,000.ALDE, June 18: SAINT-NON (J.-CL. RICHARD, ABBÉ DE). Voyage pittoresque ou description du royaume de Naples et de Sicile, Paris, 1781-1786. €3,500 to €5,000.ALDE, June 18: (CALVIN JEAN). SÉNÈQUE. Annei Senecae..., Paris, 1532. €2,000 to €3,000.ALDE, June 18: ADRIEN LE CHARTREUX. De remediis utriusque fortunæ, [Cologne, vers 1470]. €5,000 to €6,000.ALDE, June 18: GAZA (THÉODORE). [...] Introductivæ grammatices libri quatuor. Ejusdem de mensibus opusculum sanequampulchrum, Venise, 1495. €8,000 to €10,000.ALDE, June 18: LACTANCE. De divinis institutionibus. De ira Dei. De opificio Dei. De phoenice carmen, Rome, 1468. €30,000 to €40,000.ALDE, June 18: LUTHER (MARTIN). Der Erste [– Achte und letze] Teil aller Bücher und Schrifften des thewren, seligen Mans Doct. Mart. Lutheri, Iéna, 1555-1568. €5,000 to €6,000.ALDE, June 18: POLITIEN (ANGE). Omnia opera, et alia quædam lectu Digna, Venise, 1498. €8,000 to €10,000.ALDE, June 18: SIDOINE APOLLINAIRE. Poema aureum ejusdemque Epistole, Milan, 1498. €3,000 to €4,000.
Rare Book Monthly
Book Catalogue Reviews - August - 2007 Issue
Literature, Cinema, and Eclectic Offerings from James Pepper Rare Books
By Michael Stillman
Catalogue 164 from James Pepper Rare Books is described as a collection of "literary first editions, mystery and detective fiction, rare cinema material, and assorted eclectic offerings." That says it all, except that not all items are books. From the field of film there are scripts, plus signed photographs of well-known actors and actresses. From literature there are first editions of important books, some of which are signed. As for eclectic, how about a check signed by Edgar Rice Burroughs? Tarzan may have lived free in the trees and picked bananas, but Burroughs had to pay for things the same as the rest of us. Or how about a book written by early western film star William S. Hart's horse? Actually, this is an "as told to" book written down by Mr. Hart. Perhaps this horse was Mr. Ed's grandfather. The inscription comes from "the Little Pinto Hoss and his Cruel Master. Bill Hart." Here are some more items you will find in this catalogue.
Item 35 is a most fascinating biography and very rare one at that. The title is Charlie Chaplin's Own Story -- Being the Faithful Recital of a Romantic Career, Beginning with Early Recollections of Boy-Hood in London and Closing with the Signing of His Latest Motion Picture Contract. The book was published in 1916, just two years after Chaplin had burst on the scene. He was already very popular by the time, though his greatest work still lay years ahead. The author was Rose Wilder Lane, daughter of "Little House" novelist Laura Ingalls Wilder. Some say Lane ghostwrote her mother's books (she was, at times, a ghostwriter); others say her mother wrote hers. Perhaps each wrote her own. Chaplin had consented to a series of interviews by Lane in 1915. Just recently a star, much of the book is focused on Chaplin's earlier, difficult days growing up in London. Lane's style was to be dramatic, exaggerating, perhaps fictional in her writing. Her interviews were published serially in the San Francisco Bulletin, but when she attempted to publish them in book form, Chaplin put his foot down. The book was supposedly written by him, with a thanks to Wilder for "editorial assistance," the reverse of what was actually the case. It was replete with dialogue from Chaplin's early life no one could possibly remember. Chaplin threatened legal action, publisher Bobbs-Merrill agreed to withdraw the book (despite Lane's plea to Chaplin), and most copies were destroyed. The result is it is quite rare today. This copy includes a card with an early signature of Chaplin, though obviously he did not sign the book itself. Priced at $5,500.
Here is a very odd item for collectors of the old Confederacy: The Robert E. Lee Family Cooking and Housekeeping Book. I'm not sure how much of the cooking and housekeeping the Lee family did themselves in the old days, but the Confederate military commander's wife, Mary Anna Custis Lee, kept a notebook of such household information. In 1997, the Lees' great-granddaughter, Anne Carter Zimmer, published a book based on Mrs. Lee's notebook. This copy is inscribed by Ms. Zimmer. Item 83. $150.