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Robert Siegel Galleries: The John H. Barwis Collection of Victoria Postal History

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Auction Name	The John H. Barwis Collection of Victoria Postal History	Total Sales (USD)	393,471.00
Auction Date	February 28, 2025 - February 28, 2025	Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)	172,150.00
Sale Number	#1344	High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)	238,100.00
Total Lots	241
Sold Lots	214	Low Estimate of All Lots (USD)	184,700.00
% of Lots Sold	88.80%	High Estimate of All Lots (USD)	255,800.00
Unsold Lots	27	Total Sales as a % of High Est.	153.82%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
2098	1850, 1p Orange Brown, Original State, First Printing, Ham (SG 1a).	1850	USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	USD 41,300.00
2208	1852, 3p Blue, Third State, Fourth Printing, Ham (SG 11). Horizontal block of eight with right sheet margin,	1852	USD 7,500.00 - 10,000.00	USD 29,500.00
2100	1852, 3p Pale Greenish Blue, Third State, Fourth Printing, Ham (SG 11b).	1852	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	USD 16,520.00
2060	1855, 3p Blue, Ninth Printing, Campbell & Fergusson (SG 31b).	1855	USD 5,000.00 - 7,500.00	USD 14,160.00
2219	1853, 3p Deep Blue, White Veils, Fifth Printing, Ham (SG 14a).	1853	USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	USD 12,980.00
2144	Tasmania, 1860, 6p Gray (SG 45).	1860	USD 500.00 - 750.00	USD 7,965.00
2215	1853, 3p Deep Blue, White Veils, Fifth Printing, Ham (SG 14a).	1853	USD 5,000.00 - 7,500.00	USD 7,670.00
2166	1857, 3p Bright Blue, Seventh Printing, Campbell & Fergusson (SG 29).	1857	USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	USD 7,080.00
2082	1856, 3p Prussian Blue, Eighth Printing, Campbell & Fergusson (SG 30).	1856	USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	USD 6,785.00
2108	1854, 1p Dull Red, Seventh Printing, Campbell & Fergusson (SG 26b).	1854	USD 4,000.00 - 5,000.00	USD 6,785.00
2018	1850, 3p Bright Blue, Original State, First Printing, Ham (SG 4).	1850	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	USD 6,195.00
2164	1854, 3p Blue, Sixth Printing, Campbell (SG 24).	1854	USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	USD 6,195.00
2019	1850, 1p Red Brown, Second State, Second Printing, Ham (SG 5).	1850	USD 4,000.00 - 5,000.00	USD 5,900.00
2052	1855, 3p Deep Blue, Ninth Printing, Campbell & Fergusson (SG 31c).	1855	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	USD 5,310.00
2167	1857, 3p Bright Blue, Seventh Printing, Campbell & Fergusson (SG 29).	1857	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	USD 5,310.00
2053	1855, 1p Dull Red, Eighth Printing, Campbell & Fergusson (SG 27).	1855	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	USD 5,015.00
2061	1855, 1p Lilac Rose, Ninth Printing, Campbell & Fergusson (SG 28a).	1855	USD 750.00 - 1,000.00	USD 4,720.00
2042	Tasmania, 1854, 4p Orange, Plate I, Second State (SG 7).	1854	USD 400.00 - 500.00	USD 4,720.00
2192	1866, 10p Dull Purple on Pink (SG 123).	1866	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	USD 4,720.00
2165	New South Wales, 1855, 1sh Pale Red (SG 100).	1855	USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	USD 4,720.00
2026	1851, 2p Pale Dull Brown, Altered Veils, Eighth Printing, Ham (SG 17b).	1851	USD 400.00 - 500.00	USD 4,425.00
2193	1866, 10p Dull Purple on Pink (SG 123).	1866	USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	USD 4,130.00
2123	1854, 3p Blue, Sixth Printing, Campbell (SG 24).	1854	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	USD 4,130.00
2212	1857, 3p Bright Blue, Seventh Printing, Campbell & Fergusson (SG 29).	1857	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	USD 4,130.00
2025	1851, 1p Bright Pinky Red, White Veils, Fifth Printing, Ham (SG 12a).	1851	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	USD 3,835.00

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's
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’s
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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