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John McInnis Auctioneers: Important Estates Collections

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Auction Name Important Estates Collections Total Sales (USD) 31,806.00
Auction Date January 04, 2025 - January 04, 2025 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 13,660.00
Sale Number #10425 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 25,510.00
Total Lots 46
Sold Lots 44 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 14,060.00
% of Lots Sold 95.65% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 26,310.00
Unsold Lots 2 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 120.89%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
353 THOMAS JEFFERSON

THOMAS JEFFERSON to WILLIAM WINGATE, FEB 25, 1803

1803 USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 9,920.00
501

MAP of MINING LANDS NEWBURY NEAR NEWBURYPORT 1875

1875 USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 2,790.00
531 J.J. AUDUBON

JULIUS BIEN 1860 RUFFED GROUSE by J.J. AUDUBON / A Later Printing

1860 USD 300.00 - 600.00 USD 1,860.00
265

1806 LAST WILL & TESTAMENT of SIR TIMOTHY DEXTER

1806 USD 500.00 - 1,000.00 USD 1,240.00
394

1817 SHIP'S PASSPORT SIGNED by MADISON & ADAMS

1817 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,240.00
611

(20th c) FOX STUDIOS AUTOGRAPHED FAN PHOTOS

(20th c) USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 992.00
502 COL. SMEDBERG

COL. SMEDBERGS (19th/20th c) MILITARY SCRAPBOOK

(19th/20th c) USD 300.00 - 600.00 USD 992.00
393

EARLY (20th c) CARVED & PAINTED TRADE SIGN

USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 868.00
421 N. CURRIER

1856 N. CURRIER CHROMOLITHOGRAPH "CAMPING OUT"

1856 USD 500.00 - 1,000.00 USD 868.00
401

REVERSE PAINTED HUNTER BALTIMORE RYE TAVERN SIGN

(19th/20th c) USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 744.00
614

(19th c) REPRODUCTION of (18th c) MAP of NEWBURY

(19th c) USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 744.00
500 JOHN MILTON

PARADISE LOST by JOHN MILTON 1688

1688 USD 1,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 744.00
449

(2) SIDED W.T. DAVIES TAILOR & COSTUMER TRADE SIGN

USD 300.00 - 600.00 USD 620.00
388

(3) HOLLOWCUT SILHOUETTES

USD 100.00 - 300.00 USD 620.00
514 Charles A. Palmer

MERRIMACK ICE COMPANY YARD LONG PHOTOGRAPH

USD 400.00 - 800.00 USD 589.00
585

VINTAGE PAINTED SIGN with VIRTUOUS MOTTO

USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 527.00
455 JAMES MONROE

JAMES MONROE 1817 ILLINOIS TERRITORY LAND GRANT

1817 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 527.00
569

SHEFFIELD FARMS CO PAINTED WOOD ADVERTISING WAGON

USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 496.00
422 N. CURRIER

1856 N CURRIER CHROMOLITHOGRAPH THE LAST WAR WHOOP

USD 100.00 - 300.00 USD 496.00
376

ECCLESIASTICAL OAK and LEADED GLASS EXIT SIGN

(19th / 20th c) USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 403.00
584

FOOT PATH ONLY PAINTED SIGN

USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 403.00
405

VINTAGE NEW ENGLAND COKE ENAMELED SIGN

USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 403.00
581 GEORGE GROTE

A HISTORY OF GREECE in (12) VOLS. by GEORGE GROTE

1884 USD 500.00 - 1,000.00 USD 403.00
583

MR. BLISS PAINTED IRON SIGN CIRCA 1910 (REHOBOTH)

CIRCA 1910 USD 50.00 - 100.00 USD 372.00
402 CHAS. DICKENS

RARE FIRST EDITION "BLEAK HOUSE" by CHAS. DICKENS

1853 USD 400.00 - 800.00 USD 372.00
  • Jeschke JádiRare Book Auction 155Saturday April 26, 2025 Jeschke JádiRare Book Auction 155Saturday April 26, 2025
    Jeschke Jádi
    Rare Book Auction 155
    Saturday April 26, 2025
    Jeschke Jádi
    Rare Book Auction 155
    Saturday April 26, 2025
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 26: Lot 962. Baird. United States Exploring Expedition. Philadelphia 1858.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 26: Lot 772. Edith Holland Norton. Brazilian Flowers. Coombe Croft 1893.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 26: Lot 49. Petrarca. Das Gluecksbuch, Augsburg 1536.
    Jeschke Jádi
    Rare Book Auction 155
    Saturday April 26, 2025
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 26: Lot 1496. Jacob / Picasso. Chronique des Temps, 1956.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 26: Lot 8. Augustinus. De moribus ecclesie. Cologne 1480.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 26: Lot 17. Heures a lusaige de Noyon. Paris 1504.
    Jeschke Jádi
    Rare Book Auction 155
    Saturday April 26, 2025
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 26: Lot 13. Schedel. Buch der Chronicken. Nürnberg 1493.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 26: Lot 957. Donovan. Insects of China. London 1798.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 26: Lot 123. A holy martyr. Tuscany, Florence, mid-14th century.
    Jeschke Jádi
    Rare Book Auction 155
    Saturday April 26, 2025
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 26: Lot 438. Dante. La Divine Comédie. Paris 1963.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 26: Lot 602. Firdausi. Histoire de Minoutchehr. Paris 1919
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 26: Lot 994. Westwood. Oriental Entomology. London 1848.
  • Sotheby'sSell Your Fine Books & Manuscripts Sotheby'sSell Your Fine Books & Manuscripts
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    Sell Your Fine Books & Manuscripts
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    Sell Your Fine Books & Manuscripts
    Sotheby’s: The Shem Tov Bible, 1312 | A Masterpiece from the Golden Age of Spain. Sold: 6,960,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: Ten Commandments Tablet, 300-800 CE | One of humanity's earliest and most enduring moral codes. Sold: 5,040,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: William Blake | Songs of Innocence and of Experience. Sold: 4,320,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: The Declaration of Independence | The Holt printing, the only copy in private hands. Sold: 3,360,000 USD
    Sotheby's
    Sell Your Fine Books & Manuscripts
    Sotheby’s: Thomas Taylor | The original cover art for Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Sold: 1,920,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: Machiavelli | Il Principe, a previously unrecorded copy of the book where modern political thought began. Sold: 576,000 GBP
    Sotheby’s: Leonardo da Vinci | Trattato della pittura, ca. 1639, a very fine pre-publication manuscript. Sold: 381,000 GBP
    Sotheby’s: Henri Matisse | Jazz, Paris 1947, the complete portfolio. Sold: 312,000 EUR
  • Fonsie Mealy’sRare Books & Collectors’ SaleApril 30th & May 1st Fonsie Mealy’sRare Books & Collectors’ SaleApril 30th & May 1st
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    April 30th & May 1st
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    Rare Books & Collectors’ Sale
    April 30th & May 1st
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Apr 30-May 1: Taylor (Geo.) & Skinner (A.) Maps of the Roads of Ireland, Surveyed 1777. Lond. & Dublin 1778. €500 to €750.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Apr 30-May 1: Messingham (Thos.) Florilegium Insulae Sanctorum seu Vitae et Acta Sanctorum Hibernia, Paris 1624. €350 to €500.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Apr 30-May 1: Heaney (Seamus). The Haw Lantern, L. (Faber & Faber) 1987, First Edn., Signed and dated. €225 to €350.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Apr 30-May 1: Valencey (Lt. Col. Chas.) Collectanea de Rebus Hibernicis, Vols. I-IV, 4 vols. Dublin 1786. €400 to €600.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Apr 30-May 1: Powerscourt (Viscount). A Description and History of Powerscourt, Lond. 1903. €350 to €500.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Apr 30-May 1: Moryson (Fynes). An Itinerary ... Containing His Ten Yeeres Travel Through the Twelve Dominions of Germany, Bohermerland, Sweitzerland…, Lond. (John Beale) 1617. €700 to €1,000.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Apr 30-May 1: After Buffon, Birds of Europe, c. 1820. Approx. 120 fine hd. cold. plts., mor. backed boards. €125 to €250.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Apr 30-May 1: Dunlevy (Andrew). An Teagasg Criosduidhe De Reir Ceasda agus Freagartha... The Catechism or Christian Doctrine by Way of Question and Answer, Paris (James Guerin) 1742. €400 to €700.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Apr 30-May 1: The Georgian Society Records of Eighteen-Century Domestic Architecture in Dublin, 5 vols. Complete, Dublin 1909-1913. €500 to €750.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Apr 30-May 1: Scale (Bernard). An Hibernian Atlas or General Description of the Kingdom of Ireland, L. (Robert Sayer & John Bennet) 1776. €625 to €850.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Apr 30-May 1: [Johnson (Rev. Samuel)]. Julian the Apostate Being a Short Account of his Life, together with a Comparison of Popery and Paganism,L. (Langley Curtis) 1682. €300 to €400.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Apr 30-May 1: Nichlson (Wm.) Illustrator. An Almanac of Twelve Sports, Lond. 1898. €300 to €400.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Apr 30-May 1: Heaney (Seamus) trans. The Light of the Leaves, 2 vols., Mexico (Imprenta de los Tropicos/Bunholt) 1999. €1,500 to €2,000.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Apr 30-May 1: Fleming (Ian). Moonraker, L. (Jonathan Cape) 1955. €1,500 to €2,000.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Apr 30-May 1: Heaney (Seamus) & Egan (Felim) artist. Squarings, Twelve Poems, D. (Hieroglyph Editions Ltd.) 1991. €1,750 to €2,250.
  • Bonhams, Apr. 21-29: ANDERSEN'S EXTREMELY RARE FIRST APPEARANCE IN PRINT. "Scene af: Røverne i Vissenberg i Fyen." in Harpen, 1822.
    Bonhams, Apr. 21-29: FIRST ISSUE OF THE FIRST THREE FAIRY TALE PAMPHLETS, WITH ALL INDICES AND TITLE PAGES. Eventyr, fortalte for Børn. 1835-1837.
    Bonhams, Apr. 21-29: THE FIRST FAIRY TALES WITH A SIGNED CARTE DE VISITE OF ANDERSEN AS FRONTIS. Eventyr, fortalte for Børn. 1835-1837.
    Bonhams, Apr. 21-29: KARL LAGERFELD. Original pastel and ink drawing in gold, red and black for Andersen's The Emperor's New Clothes (1992), "La cassette de l'Empereur."
    Bonhams, Apr. 21-29: PRESENTATION COPY OF THE SIXTH PAMPHLET FOR PETER KOCH. Eventyr, Fortalte For Børn, Second Series, Third Pamphlet. 1841. Publisher's wrappers, complete with all pre- and post-matter.
    Bonhams, Apr. 21-29: HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN RARE AUTOGRAPH QUOTATION SIGNED IN ENGLISH from "The Ugly Duckling," c.1860s.
    Bonhams, Apr. 21-29: HEINRICH LEFLER, ORIGINAL WATERCOLOR FOR ANDERSEN'S SNOW QUEEN, "Die Schneekönigin," 1910.
    Bonhams, Apr. 21-29: FIRST EDITION OF ANDERSEN'S FAIRY TALES IN ENGLISH. Wonderful Stories for Children. London, 1846.
    Bonhams, Apr. 21-29: ANDERSEN ON MEETING CHARLES DICKENS. Autograph Letter Signed ("H.C. Andersen") in English to William Jerdan, July 20, 1847.
    Bonhams, Apr. 21-29: PRESENTATION COPY FOR EDGAR COLLIN. Nye Eventyr og Historier. Anden Raekke. 1861.
    Bonhams, Apr. 21-29: DOLL HOUSE FURNITURE BY HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSON, DECORATED WITH FANTASTICAL CUT-OUTS, for the children of Jonna Stampe (née Drewsen), his godchildren.
    Bonhams, Apr. 21-29: PRESENTATION COPY FOR GEORG BRANDES. Dryaden. Et Eventyr fra Udstillingstiden i Paris 1867. 1868.
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