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Fonsie Mealy Auctioneers: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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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
  • Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 546. Christoph Jacob Trew. Plantae selectae, 1750-1773.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 70. Thomas Murner. Die Narren beschwerung. 1558.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 621. Michael Bernhard Valentini. Museum Museorum, 1714.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 545. Sander Reichenbachia. Orchids illustrated and described, 1888-1894.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1018. Marinetti, Boccioni, Pratella Futurism - Comprehensive collection of 35 Futurist manifestos, some of them exceptionally rare. 1909-1933.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 634. August Johann Rösel von Rosenhof. 3 Original Drawings, around 1740.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 671. Jacob / Picasso. Chronique des Temps, 1956.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1260. Mary Webb. Sarn. 1948. Lucie Weill Art Deco Binding.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 508. Felix Bonfils. 108 large-format photographs of Syria and Palestine.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 967. Dante Aligheri and Salvador Dali. Divina Commedia, 1963.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1316. Tolouse-Lautrec. Dessinateur. Duhayon binding, 1948.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1303. Regards sur Paris. Braque, Picasso, Masson, 1962.
  • Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    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
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    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
  • Doyle, May 1: Thomas Jefferson expresses fears of "a war of extermination" in Saint-Dominigue. $40,000 to $60,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An exceptional presentation copy of Fitzgerald's last book, in the first issue dust jacket. $25,000 to $35,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The rare first signed edition of Dorian Gray. $15,000 to $25,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The Prayer Book of Jehan Bernachier. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Doyle, May 1: Van Dyck's Icones Principum Virorum Doctorum. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The magnificent Cranach Hamlet in the deluxe binding by Dõrfner. $7,000 to $10,000.
    Doyle, May 1: A remarkable unpublished manuscript of a voyage to South America in 1759-1764. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Doyle, May 1: Bouchette's monumental and rare wall map of Lower Canada. $12,000 to $18,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An rare original 1837 abolitionist woodblock. $8,000 to $12,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An important manuscript breviary in Middle Dutch. $15,000 to $25,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An extraordinary Old Testament manuscript, circa 1250. $20,000 to $30,000.
  • Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Piccolomini's De La Sfera del Mondo (The Sphere of the World), 1540.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Vellutello's Commentary on Petrarch, With Map, 1525.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Finely Bound Definitive, Illustrated Edition of I Promessi Sposi, 1840.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Rare First Edition of John Milton's Latin Correspondence, 1674.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Giolito's Edition of Boccaccio's The Decamerone, with Bedford Binding, 1542.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of the First Biography of Marie of the Incarnation, with Rare Portrait, 1677.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Aldine Edition of Volume One of Cicero's Orationes, 1540.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Bonanni's Illustrated Costume Catalogue, with Complete Plates, 1711.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: An Important Incunable, the First Italian Edition of Josephus's De Bello Judaico, 1480.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Jacques Philippe d'Orville's Illustrated Book of the Ruins of Sicily, 1764.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: An Incunable from 1487, The Contemplative Life, with Early Manuscript.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Ignatius of Loyola's Exercitia Spiritualia, 1563.
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