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Fonsie Mealy Auctioneers: Summer Rare Book & Collectors' Sale.

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Auction Name	Summer Rare Book & Collectors' Sale.	Total Sales (EUR)	350,050.00
Auction Date	July 30, 2024 - July 31, 2024	Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR)	215,135.00
Sale Number	#73024	High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR)	305,570.00
Total Lots	778
Sold Lots	717	Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR)	261,455.00
% of Lots Sold	92.16%	High Estimate of All Lots (EUR)	370,370.00
Unsold Lots	61	Total Sales as a % of High Est.	94.51%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
614		Signed by the Constitution Cabinet Bunreacht na hEireann. Constitution of Ireland.	c1938	EUR 7,000.00 - 9,000.00	EUR 13,125.00
831		The Noel Ross Postcard Collection of County Louth Postcards: This extensive and comprehensive Collection of over 2300 Postcards, contained in five large		EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	EUR 11,875.00
217		Magnificent Hand-Coloured Copy - Only 25 Copies Grose (Francis) The Antiquities of Ireland,	1791	EUR 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	EUR 10,000.00
691	Yeats (Jack B.)	Life in the West of Ireland. Drawn and Painted By ..	1912	EUR 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	EUR 6,750.00
650		'The Men are Sleeping' Important 1916 Documents.	1916	EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	EUR 6,250.00
641	Lavery (Lady Hazel)	A moving series of three A.L.S. and a Telegram to Gen. Eoin O'Duffy, July-August 1927,	1927	EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	EUR 5,625.00
859		Irish Republican Postcards Album:		EUR 1,200.00 - 1,600.00	EUR 4,750.00
354	Heaney (Seamus)	The Tree Clock.	1990	EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	EUR 4,250.00
638	Pearse (P.H.)	Scoil Eanna. Agenda Book 1912 (for meetings of directors). In Hely's small quarto ledger, morocco-backed.	1912	EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	EUR 4,250.00
704	Gregory, (Lady Augusta)	Spreading the News: The Rising of the Moon: The Poorhouse (with Douglas Hyde). Being Vol. IX of the Abbey Theatre Series.	1906	EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	EUR 4,250.00
708	Yeats, (Jack B.)	RHA A unique and important group of six early Jack Yeats Catalogues of 'Sketches of Life in the West of Ireland,' from the collection of his friend Lady Gregory,		EUR 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	EUR 3,125.00
842		County Louth Archaeological Journal, Vol. I No. 1 July 1904 - Vol. XXIX, No. 2	1904	EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	EUR 3,125.00
355	Wilde (Oscar)	An Ideal Husband,	1899	EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	EUR 2,875.00
341	Howell (James) (c. 1594-1666)	Instructions for Forreine Travel Shewing by what Cours, and in what Compasse of Time, one many Take an Exact Survey of the Kingdomes and States of Christendome,...	1642	EUR 800.00 - 1,200.00	EUR 2,750.00
707	[Yeats, Jack B.]	Mairin ni Chriagain. Sean-Eoin.	1938	EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	EUR 2,625.00
581	Smyth (Warington)	Index to the Townland Survey of the County Wicklow, Geologically Coloured, & Four Horizontal Sections (each double page) all hand coloured, and Plan and Sections of the Avoca Mines County Wicklow, ...	c.1839	EUR 450.00 - 750.00	EUR 2,500.00
413	Murphy (Jamie)	Albert, Ernest and the Titanic, oblong,	2012	EUR 800.00 - 1,200.00	EUR 2,125.00
461	Clarke (Dr. E.D.)	A Tour through the South of England, Wales and Part of Ireland, made during the Summer of1791,	1793	EUR 200.00 - 300.00	EUR 2,125.00
649	COLLINS, Michael.	An important TL, unpublished and apparently unrecorded, 29 July 1922, addressed to GOVERNMENT,	1922	EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	EUR 2,125.00
668		Sinking of the Titanic An original black-and-white photograph taken from the deck of the Carpathia on the morning of April 15th 1912, supposedly showing the site of the iceberg that sank the Titanic	1912	EUR 800.00 - 1,200.00	EUR 2,125.00
683	Yeats, (Jack B.)	Epitaphs, To Thomas Bodkin; Jack B. Yeats; Dermod O'Brien; George Russell; James P. O'Reilly; [Dr. Thomas] Mc Loughlin; [George Hill] Tulloch, and Liam Dawson.		EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	EUR 2,125.00
145	de Latocnaye (Mons.)	Rambles through Ireland; by a French Emigrant.	1798	EUR 220.00 - 340.00	EUR 2,000.00
538	Philip II of Spain	Philip II of Spain: A signed manuscript letter from King Philip II of Spain [1527-1598]	1566	EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	EUR 2,000.00
539	Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)	'Official French State War Record signed by Napoleon as First Consul of the French Republic in June, 1803,'	1803	EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	EUR 2,000.00
643	William T. Cosgrave	Removal from Commissionership A very good T.L.S. from William T. Cosgrave, on his headed personal notepaper, 25 Feb. 1933, to General O'Duffy,	1933	EUR 350.00 - 450.00	EUR 2,000.00

Koller Auctions
Books & Autographs
18 September 2024

Koller, Sep. 18: Cowper, William. Anatomia corporum humanorum ab excellentissimis… Utrecht, 1750. CHF 25,000 to 40,000

Koller, Sep. 18: Bell, Thomas. A Monograph of the Testudinata. London [1836-1842]. CHF 20,000 to 30,000.

Koller, Sep. 18: Gould, John. A monograph of the Trochilidae, or family of humming-birds [and] Supplement completed after the authors death…, London [1849-]1861 and [1880-]1887. CHF 50,000 to 80,000.

Koller Auctions
Books & Autographs
18 September 2024

Koller, Sep. 18: Gould, John. The birds of New Guinea and the adjacent Papuan Islands, including many new species recently discovered in Australia. CHF 50,000 to 80,000.

Koller, Sep. 18: Levaillant, François. Histoire naturelle des oiseaux de paradis et des rolliers, suivie de celle des toucans et des barbus. Paris [1801-]1806. CHF 40,000 to 60,000.

Koller, Sep. 18: Pfinzing, Melchior. Die geverlicheiten und einsteils der geschichten des loblichen streytparen…, Nürnberg, 1517. CHF 40,000 to 60,000.
Il Ponte, Sep. 24-25: HAMILTON, Sir William - Campi Phlegraei. Napoli: 1779. € 50,000 - 80,000

Il Ponte, Sep. 24-25: KIRCHER, Athanasius - Turris Babel. Amsterdam: 1679. € 3,000 - 5,000

Il Ponte, Sep. 24-25: EDWARDS, George.London - Gleanings of Natural History. Londra: 1758-1764. € 7,000 - 10,000

Il Ponte, Sep. 24-25: HEVELIUS, Johannes - Cometographia. Danzica: 1668. € 20,000 - 30,000

Il Ponte, Sep. 24-25: KUPKA, Frantisek - Quatre histoires de blanc et noir. Parigi: 1926. € 10,000 - 15,000
Sotheby’s
10 September 2024
The Shem Tov Bible

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