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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
  • Leland Little, Jan. 22: The First Issue of Robert Frost's A Boy's Will, In Extremely Scarce Binding.
    Leland Little, Jan. 22: Knight's An Account of the Remains of the Worship of Priapus.
    Leland Little, Jan. 22: First Edition of Locke's Important Treatise Some Thoughts Concerning Education.
    Leland Little, Jan. 22: The Richly Illustrated First French Edition of Voyages de Corneille Le Brun par la Moscovie, en Perse, et aux Indes Orientales.
    Leland Little, Jan. 22: Scarce First Issue of An Account of the Province of Carolina in America, Finely Bound and With Celebrated John Speed Map.
    Leland Little, Jan. 22: Humphrey's An Historical Account, Complete with Scarce Folding Maps.
    Leland Little, Jan. 22: First Edition of Chamberlain's Scarce Civil War Memoir The Passing of the Armies.
    Leland Little, Jan. 22: A Rare Photograph of David Bruce Brown and #48 Fiat.
    Leland Little, Jan. 22: George Cruikshank (England, 1792-1878), Archive of Sketches, Notes, and Letters.
    Leland Little, Jan. 22: Extremely Scarce Copy of Die Samländische Ode (The Samland Ode), Signed by Max Pechstein.
    Leland Little, Jan. 22: Andy Warhol's The Thirteen Most Wanted Men Exhibition Catalogue.
    Leland Little, Jan. 22: Edward Ruscha (American, b. 1937), Every Building on the Sunset Strip.
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