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Auction Info

Auction Name
Books and Manuscripts: Summer Sale
Auction Date
07/25/2024 - 07/25/2024
Sale Number
#30241
Total Lots
150
Sold Lots
130
Lots Sold
86.67%
Unsold Lots
20
Total Sales (USD)
204,454.00
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
96,600.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
147,450.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (USD)
117,000.00
High Estimate of All Lots (USD)
183,050.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.
111.69%

Top twenty five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
83

Over 320 pages of tipped-in, mounted and loose autographs including Thomas Jefferson (2), Samuel Clemens (3), a Samuel Smith fair copy of "America" ("My Country Tis of Thee"), ...

USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 30,720.00
117 SCARRY, RICHARD. 1919-1914.

Original pen and watercolor on paper, with artist's stamp at lower left,

USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 12,800.00
80 WASHINGTON, GEORGE. 1732-1799.

Document Signed ("Go. Washington"), being a discharge from the Continental Army for Sergeant Elijah Price of the 2nd New York Artillery,

June 9, 1783 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 11,520.00
78 VANDERBILT, CORNELIUS. 1794-1877.

Document Signed ("C. Vanderbilt") on verso, partially printed and accomplished in manuscript, granting John M. Dobin 500 shares in the New York and Harlem Railroad Company,

April 12, 1864 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 8,320.00
8 MORRISON, TONI. 1931-2019. WALKER, KARA E, artist.

Five Poems.

2002 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 7,040.00
44 TOOLE, JOHN KENNEDY. 1937-1969. PERCY, WALKER, foreword.

A Confederacy of Dunces.

1980 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 5,120.00
58 FORD, HENRY. 1863-1947.

Document Signed ("Henry Ford"), stock certificate #100 issuing 20 shares in the Ford Motor Company of Canada, Ltd.,

USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 4,864.00
105

36 volumes of XXe siecle, including 1-18, 20, 24, 26, 29-40, 42-43, 45.

1951-75. USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 4,608.00
133 WILLIAM DUNCAN. 1717-1760. Translator.

The Commentaries of Caesar ... To which is prefixed a Discourse Concerning the Roman Art of War.

1753 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 4,352.00
60 GREEN, HETTY. 1834-1916.

Document Signed ("Hetty H.R. Green") on verso of certificate granting Green 4 shares in the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Company,

October 6, 1902 USD 700.00 - 900.00 USD 4,352.00
67 JEFFERSON, THOMAS. 1743--1826. MADISON, JAMES. 1751--1836.

Printed Document Signed ("Thomas Jefferson" as President; and "James Madison" as Secretary of State), the right-hand third of an unaccomplished ship's passport,

[1801 - 1809] USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 4,352.00
2 COLLODI, CARLO. 1826-1890.

The Story of a Puppet, or the Adventures of Pinocchio.

1892 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 4,096.00
5 DICKENS, CHARLES. 1812-1870.

Autograph Letter Signed ("Charles Dickens") to John Pritt Harley,

1844 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 3,840.00
16 BAUM, L. FRANK. 1856-1919; and JOHN R. NEILL, illustrator.

Comprising 14 volumes, many with marginal annotations in pencil by Wagenknecht:

USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 3,584.00
49 ALLEN, ETHAN. 1738-1789.

Manuscript Document Signed ("Ethan Allen" and "Ebenezer Moses") being a bill of debt to Stephen Fay for "full value received," in the hand of Ebenezer Moses,

July 16, 1775 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 3,584.00
81 WASHINGTON, GEORGE. 1732-1799. KNOX, HENRY. 1750-1806.

Document Printed on Parchment Signed ("H. Knox" as Secretary and "Go: Washington" as President), an unaccomplished Society of the Cincinnati Diploma, copper engraving after the design of Pierre-Charles L'Enfant,

USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 3,584.00
98 PICASSO, PABLO. 1881-1973. MERIMEE, PROSPER.

Le Carmen des Carmen.

1964 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 3,328.00
140 HONTER, JOHANN. 1498-1549.

Rudimentorum ... Libri III. cum Tabellis Geographicis Elegantissimis [with Atlas] Circuli Sphaeral.

1564 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 2,816.00
22 CRANE, HART. 1899-1932.

Postcard Signed ("Hart Crane") featuring the Brooklyn Bridge, to Edward Dahlberg,

1929 USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 2,432.00
90 DUCHAMP, LAURENCIN, PICABIA, PICASSO, et al. GLEIZES, ALBERT; and JEAN METZINGER.

Du Cubisme.

1947 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 2,304.00

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  • Fonsie Mealy’s
    Summer Rare Book
    & Collectors’ Sale
    July 30-31, 2024
    Fonsie Mealy’s, July 30-31: U.S. / European Shipping Archive 1800-1814. The Widow Bermingham & Sons Collection. €7,000 to €10,000.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, July 30-31: Bunreacht na hÉireann. Constitution of Ireland. An important copy of the First Printing of De Valera’s new Constitution, approved in 1938. Signed by the Constitution Cabinet. €7,000 to €9,000.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, July 30-31: A Rare Complete Run of the Cuala Press Broadsides. €7,000 to €9,000.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Summer Rare Book
    & Collectors’ Sale
    July 30-31, 2024
    Fonsie Mealy’s, July 30-31: Grose (Francis). The Antiquities of Ireland, 2vols. folio London (for S. Hooper) 1791. Magnificent Hand-Coloured Copy - Only 25 Copies. €3,000 to €5,000.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, July 30-31: Cantillon (Richard). Essai sur la Nature du Commerce en General, Traduit de l'Anglois, Sm. 8vo London (Fletcher Gyles) 1756. €3,000 to €4,000.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, July 30-31: Gregory, (Lady Augusta). Spreading the News: The Rising of the Moon: The Poorhouse (with Douglas Hyde). Being Vol. IX of the Abbey Theatre Series. €3,000 to €4,000.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Summer Rare Book
    & Collectors’ Sale
    July 30-31, 2024
    Fonsie Mealy’s, July 30-31: Lavery (Lady Hazel). A moving series of three A.L.S. and a Telegram to Gen. Eoin O'Duffy, July-August 1927, expressing her grief at the death of Kevin O'Higgins. €3,000 to €4,000.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, July 30-31: Dampier (Wm.) Nouveau Voyage Autour du Monde, ou l'on descrit en particulier l'Isthme de l'Amerique…, 2 vols. in one, Amsterdam, 1698. €800 to €1,200.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, July 30-31: Howell (James). Instructions for Forreine Travel Shewing by what Cours, and in what Compasse of Time…, London, 1642. €800 to €1,200.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Summer Rare Book
    & Collectors’ Sale
    July 30-31, 2024
    Fonsie Mealy’s, July 30-31: Rowling (J.K.) Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, 8vo, L. (Bloomsbury) 1999, First Edn., First Printing of Deluxe Collectors Edn. Signed. €800 to €1,200.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, July 30-31: James (Wm.) A Full and Correct Account of the Military Occurrences of The Late War Between Great Britain and The United States of America. 2 vols. Lond. 1818. €650 to €900.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, July 30-31: The Laws of the United States, Published by Authority, 3 vols. Philadelphia (Richard Folwell) 1796. €600 to €800.
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