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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. -
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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.
Rare Book Monthly
Book Catalogue Reviews - April - 2009 Issue
<i>What Katy Did</i> - A Recognition of Feminism from Randall House Rare Books
Here is another woman who could swing a mean tomahawk, or at least, a mean ax. Well... maybe that's not fair. She was acquitted. Item 99 is The Fall River Tragedy. A History of the Borden Murders, by Edwin H. Porter, published in 1893. On a summer morning in 1892, Lizzie Borden's father and stepmother were discovered in their Fall River, Massachusetts, home, victims of a brutal murder. Though many suspected her of the murder, the jury concluded there was insufficient evidence that Lizzie had given her mother 40 whacks, or her father 41. While there had been problems in the family, and much reason to suspect Miss Borden, there was never the clear piece of evidence to connect her, though no one else was suspected. Randall House proclaims "she was about as innocent as O.J. Simpson." Lizzie never found the real killer either. The first edition of Porter's book is offered together with the 1985 limited edition facsimile reprint. $1,500.
Item 112 is a biography of a woman who was something of a precursor to Helen Keller: Life and Education of Laura Dewey Bridgman. The Deaf, Dumb and Blind Girl. We don't know whether Laura played a mean pinball, but she managed to learn to read by touch and become educated in numerous subjects. At one point, Charles Dickens visited and wrote about Miss Bridgman. It was Dickens' account which would later lead to Helen Keller's mother contacting the Perkins School for the Blind, where Bridgman lived, and hiring a teacher from that school (Anne Sullivan) to work with her daughter. The author of this 1878 book, Mary Swift Lamson, was one of Miss Bridgman's teachers at Perkins. $125.
Item 531 is a letter from the remarkable Miss Keller, dated November 24, 1936. The letter was written less than a month after the death of her teacher and "miracle worker," Anne Sullivan. The now 56-year-old Keller writes, "...it is winter in my life since the guardian angel of fifty years no longer walks by my side on earth." $1,500.
Item 102 is One Special Summer, a journal of a 1951 trip to Europe by Jacqueline and Lee Bouvier. It was originally written by the two young women as a thanks to their mother for allowing them to take this trip alone. However, by the time it was published in 1974, Jacqueline had grown up to be the wife of a president and now a wealthy Greek shipping magnate, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, while Lee had married Price Radziwill, who was Prince of... I really have no idea what he was prince of. This is one of 500 copies signed by both sisters. $1,000.
Randall House Rare Books may be reached at 805-963-1909 or Pia@RandallHouseRareBooks.com. The website is www.RandallHouseRareBooks.com.