• Forum Auctions
    Colour Plate Books from the Library of Norman Bobins
    Part 2
    27th March 2024
    Forum Auctions, Mar. 27: Alken (Henry). Sporting Notions, first edition, T.McLean, 1832-33. £800 to £1,200.
    Forum Auctions, Mar. 27: Bardi (Lorenzo). Nuova Raccolta delle piu interessanti Vedute della Citta di Firenze…, Florence, Lorenzo Bardi, [c.1840]. £1,500 to £2,000.
    Forum Auctions, Mar. 27: Crawfurd (John). Journal of an Embassy from the Governor-General of India to the Court of Ava..., first edition, 1829. £1,000 to £1,500.
    Forum Auctions
    Colour Plate Books from the Library of Norman Bobins
    Part 2
    27th March 2024
    Forum Auctions, Mar. 27: Dawe (George, engraver). The Life of a Nobleman, first edition, Geo. Henderson, [c.1825]. £1,000 to £1,500.
    Forum Auctions, Mar. 27: [Doyle (John)], "H.B.". Political Sketches &c., 10 vol. including The Descriptive Key to H.B., Thomas McLean, [1829-51]. £4,000 to £6,000.
    Forum Auctions, Mar. 27: Eben (Adolphus Christian Frederick, Baron von) and Nicolaus Heideloff. Modèles de l'Uniforme Militaire Adopté dans l'Armée Royale de Suède, Rudolph Ackerman, 1808. £1,500 to £2,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Colour Plate Books from the Library of Norman Bobins
    Part 2
    27th March 2024
    Forum Auctions, Mar. 27: Geissler (J.G.G.) and Friedrich Hempel. Mahlerische Darstellungen der Sitten, Gebrauche und Lustbarkeiten bey den Russischen, Tartarischen…, 4 parts in 1, Leipzig and Paris, [1804]. £1,000 to £1,500.
    Forum Auctions, Mar. 27: Hunt (Charles). Portraits of Winning Horses...of the Derby, Oaks, & St. Leger, from the Year 1842 to 1849…, Rock Brothers & Payne, 1849. £1,500 to £2,000.
    Forum Auctions, Mar. 27: Kunike (Adolf Friedrich). Zwey hundert und sechzig Donau-Ansichten nach dem Laufe des Donaustromes…, Vienna, Leopold Grund, 1826. £3,000 to £5,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Colour Plate Books from the Library of Norman Bobins
    Part 2
    27th March 2024
    Forum Auctions, Mar. 27: Lasinio (Carlo). [Matrimony], Florence, 1790. £1,500 to £2,000.
    Forum Auctions, Mar. 27: Reinhardt (Joseph). A Collection of Swiss Costumes, in Miniature, second English edition, James Goodwin, [1828]. £800 to £1,200.
    Forum Auctions, Mar. 27: Wengen (Gottfried Durst von). Die Öffentliche Maskerade Bamberg am Fastnachts-Montage 1833…, Bamberg, [1833]. £2,000 to £3,000.
  • Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
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    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Winston Churchill. The Second World War. Set of First-Edition Volumes. 6,000 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: A.A. Milne, Ernest H. Shepard. A Collection of The Pooh Books. Set of First-Editions. 18,600 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Salvador Dalí, Lewis Carroll. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Finely Bound and Signed Limited Edition. 15,000 USD
    Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
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    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ian Fleming. Live and Let Die. First Edition. 9,500 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter Series. Finely Bound First Printing Set of Complete Series. 5,650 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell to Arms. First Edition, First Printing. 4,200 USD
  • Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [RUTH, George Herman “Babe” (1895-1948)]. Signed photograph. Circa 1930s. 191 x 248 mm. $1,500 to $2,500.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: HARRISON, Benjamin. Document signed (“Benj Harrison”) as governor of Virginia, certifying the service of Daniel Cumbo, a Black Revolutionary soldier. $6,000 to $9,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: ONE OF THE FIRST PRINTED ANNOUNCEMENTS OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. $4,000 to $6,000.
    Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: FIRST PRINTING OF LINCOLN’S IMMORTAL GETTYSBURG ADDRESS. $4,000 to $6,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: HIGHLY IMPORTANT MORMON ARCHIVE. ALLEY, George. Archive of 23 Autograph Letters Signed by Mormon Convert George Alley to His Brother Joseph Alley. $10,000 to $20,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [AVIATION]. [ARMSTRONG, Neil A.] Aviation Hall of Fame Gold Medal MS64 NGC, Awarded to Neil Armstrong in 1979. $2,000 to $3,000.
    Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: NEWLY DISCOVERED FIRST PRINTING OF "WITH MALICE TOWARDS NONE... " FROM THE ONLY NEWSPAPER ACTUALLY ALLOWED TO PARTICIPATE IN LINCOLN’S SECOND INAUGURAL PROCESSION. $4,000 to $8,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: THE MOST IMPORTANT GEORGE WASHINGTON DOCUMENT IN PRIVATE HANDS; GEORGE WASHINGTON’S COMMISSION AS COMMANDER IN CHIEF, 1775, ONE OF ONLY TWO ORIGINALS. $150,000 to $250,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: A VERY RARE ACCOUNT OF BLACKBEARD’S DEATH AND ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT PIRATE ITEMS EXTANT. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: EDISON, Thomas. Patent for Edison’s Improvements on the Electric-Light, No. 219,628. [Washington, D.C.: U.S. Patent Office], 16 September 1879. $2,000 to $3,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [VIETNAM WAR]. The original pen used by Secretary of State William P. Rogers to sign the Vietnam Peace Agreement, Paris, 27 January 1973. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: SONS OF LIBERTY FOUNDER COLONEL BARRÉ ANNOTATED TITLE-PAGE, “WHICH OUGHT TO ROUSE UP BRITISH ATTENTION”. $4,000 to $6,000.
  • Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A RUTH BADER GINSBURG BEADED JUDICIAL COLLAR. $80,000 - $120,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: ONLY KNOWN COPY OF THE ONLY BOOK BY THE REMARKABLE EVE ADAMS. $8,000 - $12,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A COMPLETE RUN OF VISIONAIRE MAGAZINE THROUGH 2010. $6,000 - $9,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: LAW REVIEW OFFPRINT SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY RUTH BADER GINSBURG. $3,000 - $5,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: META REBNER'S WORKING SCRIPT OF THE LOVED ONE. $1,500 - $2,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A KATHY GROVE PORTRAIT OF CYNDI LAUPER FOR THE FEBRUARY 1989 DETAILS COVER. $800 - $1,200
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A PLASTIC COAT BY MILLIE DAVID FEATURED IN SOHO NEWS STYLE SECTION, FROM THE COLLECTION OF ANNIE FLANDERS. $500 - $700
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A RUTH BADER GINSBURG JEWELRY BOX. $600 - $900
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A SET OF JONI MITCHELL LYRICS FOR "IF I HAD A HEART." $2,000 - $3,000
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Fonsie Mealy Auctioneers: Rare Books and Manuscripts

Auction Reports

Auction Name Rare Books and Manuscripts Total Sales (EUR) 213,860.40
Auction Date July 23, 2013 - July 23, 2013 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 119,582.00
Sale Number #72313 High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 169,767.00
Total Lots 841
Sold Lots 514 Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 178,382.00
% of Lots Sold 61.12% High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 252,987.00
Unsold Lots 327 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 84.53%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
417

A very large collection of letters, manuscripts and documents relating to literature, politics, journalism and publishing, from the archive of Edmund Downey (1856-1937).

EUR 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 EUR 14,400.00
465

The Fianna of Fionn. An original manuscript essay of 21 numbered pages, , in Pearse's hand throughout, with numerous corrections and crossings-out, evidently his corrected first draft.Undated, but evidently written circa 1913 - 14

EUR 3,500.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 6,600.00
471 Lavery (Lady Hazel)

A moving series of three A.L.S. and a telegram to Gen. Eoin O'Duffy, July-August 1927

1927 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 6,000.00
916 Mc Connell (J.) Dublin, illustrator.

Address to Assheton Biddulph M.F.H. from His Friends in The Kings County Hunt & Adjoining Counties,

1897 EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 5,400.00
470 (Collins, Michael)

A collection of Irish Volunteers "IV" (Irish Army) Uniform brass Buttons (in two sizes). * With an autograph signed covering note to General (Eoin)

EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 5,100.00
468 (Gen.) Owen O'Duffy and Liam Lynch

An important typescript document (carbon copy), signed by both O'Duffy and Lynch, with amendments in O'Duffy's hand, dated 4 May 1922

1922 EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 4,080.00
722

[Kennedy (John Fitzgerald) President U.S.A.] Lossing (Benson J.) New History of the United States, From the Discovery of the American Continent to the Death of President Garfield.

1881 EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 3,600.00
731

Two lengths of original Morse code ticker-tape, approx. 24 ins. and 19 ins., relating to The First Ever Wireless Transmission of Commercial Information from ship to shore by Gugliemlo Marconi and his team, during the Kingstown Regatta at the Royal St. Geo

1898 EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 3,600.00
822 O'Donovan (John)ed.

Annals of the Kingdom of Ireland, by The Four Masters. 7 vols. lg.

1851 EUR 1,600.00 - 2,400.00 EUR 3,240.00
870 Heaney (Seamus)

Eleven Poems,

EUR 1,600.00 - 2,200.00 EUR 3,240.00
724

22 November 1963 A unique collection of nine teletype messages from Reuters news agency to an Irish news organisation recording the first news of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas, 22 November 1963

1963 EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 3,000.00
176 Dunraven (Edwin, Third Earl of,)

Notes on Irish Architecture, 2 vols. lg. thick

1875 EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 2,700.00
53

Georgian Society Records: The Georgian Society. Records of Eighteen Century Domestic Architecture and Decoration in Dublin, Vols. I - V, together 5 vols. All Published, lg.

EUR 1,850.00 - 2,250.00 EUR 2,400.00
715

W.W.1: Mc Cance (Finlay) [2nd Lieutenant, [2nd Lieutenant, 2nd Border Regiment] a collection to include his Royal Certificate (posthumously awarded) dated 22nd May 1915

EUR 250.00 - 350.00 EUR 2,100.00
476

SpainThree long A.L.S. from O'Duffy at the Spanish front to Capt. Walsh in Ireland,

1937 EUR 800.00 - 1,200.00 EUR 2,040.00
880 Heaney (Seamus)

Death of a Naturalist,

1966 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 1,920.00
845 Kinsella (Thos.)

The Starlit Eye, with drawings by Liam Miller.

1952 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 1,800.00
805 Kinsella (Thos.)translator

The Tain,

1969 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 1,680.00
823 Butler (Capt. H.)

South African Sketches: Illustrative of the Wild Life of a Hunter on the Frontier of the Cape Colony. Lg. .

1841 EUR 800.00 - 1,200.00 EUR 1,680.00
876 Heaney (Seamus)

Sweeney Astray, A Version from the Irish.

1983 EUR 350.00 - 450.00 EUR 1,560.00
410

A manuscript account for 'Funeral Expenses of the late Charles S. Parnell MP,' ú52-82

1891 EUR 300.00 - 400.00 EUR 1,500.00
947 Taylor (George) & Skinner (A.)

Maps of the Roads of Ireland, Surveyed 1777

1778 EUR 750.00 - 1,250.00 EUR 1,320.00
198

Manuscript: An important collection of deeds and indentures relating to the Borrows or Burrows Family (sir Walter, Sir Kildare & descendants) of Gilltown, Co. Kildare and their property in Kildare, Dublin & Queens County,

EUR 600.00 - 900.00 EUR 1,200.00
464

A very good autograph signed Letter, 3pp (single foldeld sheet), on Sgoil Eanna notepaper, dated 20th Oct. 1913

1913 EUR 900.00 - 1,200.00 EUR 1,200.00
497

A large Flag or Banner used by a unit of General O'Duffy's Irish Brigade in Spain, 1936-37

EUR 700.00 - 900.00 EUR 1,200.00
  • Forum Auctions
    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: [Langland (William)]. The vision of Pierce Plowman, nowe the seconde time imprinted..., Roberte Crowley, 1550. £8,000 to £10,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: [Shakespeare (William)]. [Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies], second folio edition, [by Tho.Cotes, for Robert Allot], [1632]. £30,000 to £40,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Bible, Czech Biblia Bohemica, first complete Bible printed in the Czech vernacular, Prague, August 1488. £30,000 to £40,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: Shabthai Tzvi.- Collection of four printed and illustrated broadsides detailing the appearance, rise and fall of the false messiah, Shabthai Tzvi, Augsburg, 1666-67. £40,000 to £60,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Leaf from the Beauvais Missal, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment, [Northern France (perhaps Beauvais or Amiens)], [fourteenth century (c.1310)]. £4,000 to £6,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Aubrey (John). [Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme], manuscript in English, Latin and Greek, [c. 1693]. £30,000 to £50,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: Byron (George Gordon Noel, Lord). Poems on Various Occasions, first edition, Harriet Maltby's copy, Newark, Printed by S. & J. Ridge, 1807. £30,000 to £40,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Tolkien (J.R.R.) The Hobbit, first edition, second impression with dust-jacket, 1937 [but 1938]. £7,000 to £10,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Blake (William).- Thornton (Robert John). The Pastorals of Virgil, 2 vol., engraved plates by William Blake, 1821. £8,000 to £12,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: America.- Mount (William J.) & Thomas Page. The English Pilot…, [bound with] The Fourth Book, describing The West Indies Navigation from Hudson's-Bay to the River Amazones, 1721. £20,000 to £30,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Oldfield (Henry Ambrose), Rajman Singh Chitrakar & others. An album of 160 photographs and 13 original artworks, (1833-1919), [c. 1850s-1880s]. £20,000 to £30,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Audubon (John James) [and William MacGillivray]. Ornithological Biography…, 5 vol., first edition, presentation copy inscribed by Audubon, Edinburgh, 1831-49 [i.e. 1831-39]. £10,000 to £15,000.
  • 19th Century Shop
    Catalogue 198 just published
    19th Century Shop. Darwin and Wallace, first printing of the first paper on natural selection
    19th Century Shop. Shakespeare’s Poems, first collected edition
    19th Century Shop. Walt Whitman portrait inscribed with a Leaves of Grass poem
    19th Century Shop. Major Elizabeth Barrett Browning manuscript notebook
    19th Century Shop. Spock's Baby Book, original MS
    19th Century Shop. Cellarius, Harmonia Macrocosmica, the great celestial atlas
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