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Fonsie Mealy Auctioneers: Prints, Signs, Books

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Auction Name Prints, Signs, Books Total Sales (EUR) 20,796.00
Auction Date July 23, 2019 - July 23, 2019 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 13,640.00
Sale Number #312 High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 19,450.00
Total Lots 43
Sold Lots 41 Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 13,910.00
% of Lots Sold 95.35% High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 19,830.00
Unsold Lots 2 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 104.87%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
515 After William Hincks (fl. 1773 – 1798)

Engraved Plates: A very fine set of 12 black and white original Engravings of the Irish Linen Industry:

 EUR 3,000.00 - 4,500.00 EUR 4,200.00
567

ALBUMS, SCRAPBOOKS AND ANCILLARY MATERIAL RELATING TO ADMIRAL LORD CHARLES BERESFORD (1846-1919)

EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 2,880.00
774

A varied collection of Irish Interest,

EUR 300.00 - 400.00 EUR 1,680.00
163

Co. Cork interest: “The Hon.ble Mrs. Aldworth,” a fine mezzotint portrait,

 1811 EUR 300.00 - 400.00 EUR 1,440.00
773

A large and varied collection of Art Reference Works, Architecture, Painting etc., other varied subjects as a collection,

EUR 350.00 - 500.00 EUR 1,440.00
566 Admiral Lord Charles

Beresford Co. Tipperary: Advertising: “Michael Power, Wholesale Grocer and Tobacconist, Wine Importer & Whiskey Merchant,” ..

 1909 EUR 300.00 - 400.00 EUR 960.00
389

Poignant Mementoes of two Dublin Brothers killed in the Great War Hicks (John George & Henry Leighton)

EUR 300.00 - 400.00 EUR 528.00
772

Bindings: A large collection of French and other leather bound Bindings, approx. 155, as a lot, w.a.f. (1)

 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 504.00
569 Beresford (Admiral Lord Charles)

Holograph Letter dated 2 September 1903 from Admiral Lord Charles Beresford to his daughter Kathleen, then aged 24 (later the wife of Maj. Gen. Edmund Blacque).

1903 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 408.00
571 [Beresford (Lord)]

A rare coloured sand decorated Testimonial to Lord Beresford, Admiral to the British Fleet, dedicated for his kindness and friendship from his Venetian counterparts in August 1906

 1906 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 408.00
636 After Antonio Canal

“Solennita del Corpus Domini durante la Republica di Venezia,” and “Il Novello Doge della Republica di Venezia parla al popolo nella Basilica di S. Marco.”

EUR 350.00 - 500.00 EUR 384.00
637 After Francesco Guardi, & D. Louisa

Engraved Plates: “Prospectus Insule S. Georgii Majorii Venetiarum,” by Francesco Guardi;

 EUR 350.00 - 500.00 EUR 384.00
161

Engravings: A group of early 18th Century black and white Engravings,

18th Century EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 336.00
277A Salvator Rosa, 1615 – 1673

“The Rescue of the Infant Oedipus,”

EUR 350.00 - 500.00 EUR 312.00
170

Advertisement Signs: An attractive large composition Insurance Sign, “Phoenix Assurance Company Limited,” painted in attractive colours; a similar sign, “Commercial Union Assurance Co. Ltd.,” and three similar smaller Signs. (5)

 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 288.00
269

Equestrian Prints: Curling (Peter) “The Tipperary Fox Hounds,” , signed by the artist; “Riding out in the Snow,”

 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 288.00
169

Advertisement Signs: A pair of Edwardian colour printed Advertising Signs for “The Hibernian Fire and General Insurance Co. Ltd.,” Dame St., Dublin

 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 276.00
235

A large painted metal Advertising Sign, “Wills Gold Flake,” Cigarettes Made in Ireland,

 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 276.00
272

Prints: A set of 6 coloured Vanity Fair Prints from 1877 – 1903,

1877 – 1903 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 264.00
162

Engravings & Prints: A large collection of black and white Engravings,

EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 240.00
173

An early 20th Century enamel Shop Sign, “Players Please – Famous for Quality,”

early 20th Century EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 240.00
771 Greyhounds: Morris (T.A.)ed.

Irish Greyhound Stud Book, Vol. I (signed and inscribed by Morris & others),

1923, 1950 – 51; 1963 – 64 – 2014. EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 240.00
160 Edwin Landseer, Thos. Faed, Henry Barraud, and others

Engravings: A collection of large 19th Century black and white Engravings,

 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 216.00
277 Peter Paul Rubens

Engraving: “The Nativitiy,” Serenissimo Maximilano Utrisque Bavariae Duci et Christianae Religionis … Petrus Paulus Rubenius Venerabundus Dedicabit Concecrabatq.

 1623 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 216.00
513 Crane (Walter)

A set of 8 woodcuts of Shakespeare’s “Tempest,”

 c. 1893 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 204.00
  • Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    Starting 10AM CST
    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [RUTH, George Herman “Babe” (1895-1948)]. Signed photograph. Circa 1930s. 191 x 248 mm. $1,500 to $2,500.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: HARRISON, Benjamin. Document signed (“Benj Harrison”) as governor of Virginia, certifying the service of Daniel Cumbo, a Black Revolutionary soldier. $6,000 to $9,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: ONE OF THE FIRST PRINTED ANNOUNCEMENTS OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. $4,000 to $6,000.
    Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    Starting 10AM CST
    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: FIRST PRINTING OF LINCOLN’S IMMORTAL GETTYSBURG ADDRESS. $4,000 to $6,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: HIGHLY IMPORTANT MORMON ARCHIVE. ALLEY, George. Archive of 23 Autograph Letters Signed by Mormon Convert George Alley to His Brother Joseph Alley. $10,000 to $20,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [AVIATION]. [ARMSTRONG, Neil A.] Aviation Hall of Fame Gold Medal MS64 NGC, Awarded to Neil Armstrong in 1979. $2,000 to $3,000.
    Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    Starting 10AM CST
    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: NEWLY DISCOVERED FIRST PRINTING OF "WITH MALICE TOWARDS NONE... " FROM THE ONLY NEWSPAPER ACTUALLY ALLOWED TO PARTICIPATE IN LINCOLN’S SECOND INAUGURAL PROCESSION. $4,000 to $8,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: THE MOST IMPORTANT GEORGE WASHINGTON DOCUMENT IN PRIVATE HANDS; GEORGE WASHINGTON’S COMMISSION AS COMMANDER IN CHIEF, 1775, ONE OF ONLY TWO ORIGINALS. $150,000 to $250,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: A VERY RARE ACCOUNT OF BLACKBEARD’S DEATH AND ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT PIRATE ITEMS EXTANT. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    Starting 10AM CST
    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: EDISON, Thomas. Patent for Edison’s Improvements on the Electric-Light, No. 219,628. [Washington, D.C.: U.S. Patent Office], 16 September 1879. $2,000 to $3,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [VIETNAM WAR]. The original pen used by Secretary of State William P. Rogers to sign the Vietnam Peace Agreement, Paris, 27 January 1973. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: SONS OF LIBERTY FOUNDER COLONEL BARRÉ ANNOTATED TITLE-PAGE, “WHICH OUGHT TO ROUSE UP BRITISH ATTENTION”. $4,000 to $6,000.
  • Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Winston Churchill. The Second World War. Set of First-Edition Volumes. 6,000 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: A.A. Milne, Ernest H. Shepard. A Collection of The Pooh Books. Set of First-Editions. 18,600 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Salvador Dalí, Lewis Carroll. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Finely Bound and Signed Limited Edition. 15,000 USD
    Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ian Fleming. Live and Let Die. First Edition. 9,500 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter Series. Finely Bound First Printing Set of Complete Series. 5,650 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell to Arms. First Edition, First Printing. 4,200 USD
  • Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Piccolomini's De La Sfera del Mondo (The Sphere of the World), 1540.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Vellutello's Commentary on Petrarch, With Map, 1525.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Finely Bound Definitive, Illustrated Edition of I Promessi Sposi, 1840.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Rare First Edition of John Milton's Latin Correspondence, 1674.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Giolito's Edition of Boccaccio's The Decamerone, with Bedford Binding, 1542.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of the First Biography of Marie of the Incarnation, with Rare Portrait, 1677.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Aldine Edition of Volume One of Cicero's Orationes, 1540.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Bonanni's Illustrated Costume Catalogue, with Complete Plates, 1711.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: An Important Incunable, the First Italian Edition of Josephus's De Bello Judaico, 1480.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Jacques Philippe d'Orville's Illustrated Book of the Ruins of Sicily, 1764.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: An Incunable from 1487, The Contemplative Life, with Early Manuscript.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Ignatius of Loyola's Exercitia Spiritualia, 1563.
  • Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 546. Christoph Jacob Trew. Plantae selectae, 1750-1773.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 70. Thomas Murner. Die Narren beschwerung. 1558.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 621. Michael Bernhard Valentini. Museum Museorum, 1714.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 545. Sander Reichenbachia. Orchids illustrated and described, 1888-1894.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1018. Marinetti, Boccioni, Pratella Futurism - Comprehensive collection of 35 Futurist manifestos, some of them exceptionally rare. 1909-1933.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 634. August Johann Rösel von Rosenhof. 3 Original Drawings, around 1740.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 671. Jacob / Picasso. Chronique des Temps, 1956.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1260. Mary Webb. Sarn. 1948. Lucie Weill Art Deco Binding.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 508. Felix Bonfils. 108 large-format photographs of Syria and Palestine.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 967. Dante Aligheri and Salvador Dali. Divina Commedia, 1963.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1316. Tolouse-Lautrec. Dessinateur. Duhayon binding, 1948.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1303. Regards sur Paris. Braque, Picasso, Masson, 1962.
  • Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: McCarthy (Cormac). Cities of the Plain, N.Y., 1998, First Edn., signed on hf. title; together with Uncorrected Proof and Uncorrected Advance Reading Copies, both signed by the Author. €800 to €1,000.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Stanihurst (Richard). De Rebus in Hibernia Gestis, Libri Quattuor, sm. 4to Antwerp (Christi. Plantium) 1584. First Edn. €525 to €750.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Fleischer (Nat.) Jack Dempsey The Idol of Fistiana, An Intimate Narrative, N.Y., 1929, First Edn. Signed on f.e.p. by Rocky Marciano. €400 to €600.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Smith - Classical Atlas, Lond., 1820. Bound with, Smiths New General Atlas .. Principal Empires, Kingdoms, & States throughout the World, Lond. 1822. €350 to €500.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Rare Auction Catalogues – 1856: Bindon Blood, of Ennis, Co. Clare: Sotheby & Wilkinson. €320 to €450.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: [Mavor (Wm.)] A General Collection of Voyages and Travels from the Discovery of America to the Commencement of the Nineteenth Century, 28 vols. (complete) Lond., 1810. €300 to €400.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Mc Carthy (Cormac). Outer Dark, N.Y. (Random House)1968, Signed by Mc Carthy. €250 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Three signed works by Ted Huges - Wodwo, 1967; Crow from the Life and Songs of the Crow, 1970; and Tales from Ovid, 1997. €200 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: The Garden. An Illustrated Weekly Journal of Horticulture in all its Branches, 7 vols. lg. 4to Lond. 1877-1880. With 127 colored plates. €200 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Procter (Richard A.) Saturn and its System: Containing Discussions of The Motion (Real and Apparent)…, Lond. 1865. First Edn. €160 to €220.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: [Ashe] St. George, Lord Bishop of Clogher, A Sermon Preached to the Protestants of Ireland, now in London,... Oct. 23, 1712, London 1712. Second Edn. €130 to €180.
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