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<center>Fonsie Mealy’s The Library of Howth Castle September 22nd & 23rd, 2021

Fonsie Mealy’s, Sep. 22-23: Rosellini (Ippolito). I Monumenti dell Egitto e Della Nubia, Plate Volumes 1, 11 & 111, 3 vols. Elephant folio. €50,000 to €80,000.

Fonsie Mealy’s, Sep. 22-23: Curtis (William), 1746 - 179, & other Editors. The Botanical Magazine: or, The Flower Garden Displayed. London 1793 - 1982-83. Together 184 vols. [with] other botanical material. €30,000 to €40,000.

Fonsie Mealy’s, Sep. 22-23: Berkeley (George). A Treatise Concerning the principles of Human Knowledge, wherein the chief Causes of Error and Difficulty in the Sciences… Part I, Dublin, 1710 Rare First Edn. €15,000 to €20,000.

<center>Fonsie Mealy’s The Library of Howth Castle September 22nd & 23rd, 2021

Fonsie Mealy’s, Sep. 22-23: Ruskin (John). A large finely executed Pencil Drawing, captioned Oxford Cathedral, The Choir, & Signed 'J. Ruskin Ch. Ch. 1838. €15,000 to €20,000.

Fonsie Mealy’s, Sep. 22-23: Sir Edward L. Lutyens. Howth Castle Plans: A Series of 10 Original Architects Drawings and Sketches, Alterations and Additions for J.C. Gaisford St. Lawrence, County Dublin, Ireland. €8,000 to €12,000.

Fonsie Mealy’s, Sep. 22-23: Newman (Rev. Fr. John Henry, later Cardinal, now Saint) A very good collection of 24 A.L.S. to [Thomas] Gaisford of the Gaisford St. Lawrence family of Howth Castle. €10,000 to €15,000.

<center>Fonsie Mealy’s The Library of Howth Castle September 22nd & 23rd, 2021

Fonsie Mealy’s, Sep. 22-23: Manuscript Atlas: Hodges, Smith & Co. The Estate of the Rt. Hon. the Earl of Howth Situate in the County of Dublin, lg. atlas folio Dublin (Hodges, Smith & Co.) 1863. €4,000 to €6,000.

Fonsie Mealy’s, Sep. 22-23: Anon. Herbolario Volgare: nel quale se dimostra conoscer le herbe et le sue vrtu… Sm. 8vo Venice (Gio Maria Palamides) 1539. €3,000 to €4,000.

Fonsie Mealy’s, Sep. 22-23: Baron (Caesar). Annales Ecclesiastici. [With] Annalium Ecclesiasticorum Caesaris Baronii... Apparatus. [With] Index Universalis Rerum Omnium [and one other]. 38 vols total. €1,500 to €2,000.

<center>Fonsie Mealy’s The Library of Howth Castle September 22nd & 23rd, 2021

Fonsie Mealy’s, Sep. 22-23: Log Books of Three British Warships. Three folio Volumes, containing meticulously arranged logs of the voyages of Royal Navy Ships from 1876 – 1881. €1,200 to €1,800.

Fonsie Mealy’s, Sep. 22-23: Walpole (Robert). Memoirs Relating to European and Asiatic Turkey, lg. 4to Lond. 1817. €1,000 to €1,500.

Fonsie Mealy’s, Sep. 22-23: Bosio (Antonio). Roma Sotteranea, Opera Postuma. Large thick folio Rome (Guglielmo Facciotti) 1632. €1,000 to €1,500.
Il Ponte, Sep. 21: ZEILER, Martin - Topographiae Italiae. Francoforte: Mattheus Merian, 1688. €3,500 to €4,500.

Il Ponte, Sep. 21: HAMILTON, William, Sir -- HANCARVILLE, Pierre-Francois HUGUES - Collection of Etruscan, Greek and Roman Antiquities from the Cabinet of the Hon. William Hamilton. Napoli: Francois Morelli, 1766-67. €38,000 to €48,000.

Il Ponte, Sep. 21: [ASTRONOMIA] - Manoscritto astronomico. Italia: 1650. €1,000 to €1,500.

Il Ponte, Sep. 21: DALI, Salvador - Biblia Sacra vulgatae editionis. Edizione “Ad Personam” Milano: Rizzoli, 1967. €40,000 to €60,000.

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Auction Info

Auction Name: Antiquarian and Collectors' Books
Auction Date: 11/05/2019 - 11/05/2019
Sale Number: #110519
Total Lots: 237
Sold Lots: 225
Lots Sold: 94.94%
Unsold Lots: 12

Total Sales (GBP): 41,625.33
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP): 17,120.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP): 25,550.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP): 18,530.00
High Estimate of All Lots (GBP): 27,610.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.: 150.76%

Top twenty by sale price

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Swann Auction Galleries: C.F. Payne, Micawber—Imitating Norman Rockwell's "Triple self-portrait," acrylic, watercolor & colored pencil, 2002. Sold June 2021 for $3,000.

Swann Auction Galleries: Jane Russell, archive of letters written during a whaling voyage, 1840s. Sold July 2021 for $30,000.

Swann Auction Galleries: Guild of Women Binders, exhibition binding of A.F. Pollard’s Henry VIII, London, 1902. Sold July 2021 for $12,350.

Swann Auction Galleries: Robert Frost, Collected Poems, author’s presentation copy, signed, with entirety of Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening inscribed, NY, 1930. Sold June 2021 for $20,000.

Swann Auction Galleries: James Joyce, Ulysses, deluxe limited issue, signed, London, 1936. Sold June 2021 for $21,250.

Swann Auction Galleries: Mercator [family], [World and Continents], 5 double-page maps, Amsterdam, c. 1633. Sold June 2021 for $15,000.

Swann Auction Galleries: George Schlegel, New York, Taken from Central Park, hand-finished color-tinted lithograph, 1874. Sold June 2021 for $11,250.

Swann Auction Galleries: Nicolaus Copernicus, De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium, second edition, Basel, 1566. Sold April 2021 for $75,000.

Swann Auction Galleries: Book of Hours, Use of Utrecht, illuminated manuscript, c. 1435-45. Sold April 2021 for $60,000.
<center>Doyle Rare Books, Autographs & Maps September 23, 2021

Doyle, Rare Books, Autographs & Maps: Lot 20. ADAMS, JOHN QUINCY. Letter to the editors of the Boston Atlas on slavery and its political ramifications, 1842. $20,000 to $30,000.

Doyle, Rare Books, Autographs & Maps: Lot 208. HEMINGWAY, ERNEST. A Farewell To Arms. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929. First edition. $2,000 to $3,000.

Doyle, Rare Books, Autographs & Maps: Lot 237. ADDAMS, CHARLES. Original drawing "Now Remember-act casual." $5,000 to $7,000.

<center>Doyle Rare Books, Autographs & Maps September 23, 2021

Doyle, Rare Books, Autographs & Maps: Lot 4. SMITH, ADAM. An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations. Philadelphia, 1789. The first American edition. $4,000 to $6,000.

Doyle, Rare Books, Autographs & Maps: Lot 131. BEETHOVEN, LUDWIG VON. Cinquieme Sinfonie en ut mineur: C Moll de Louis Van Beethoven. Oeuvre 67. First edition of the complete score. $3,000 to $5,000.

Doyle, Rare Books, Autographs & Maps: Lot 73. Chinese Export Painting. Album of twenty-three original Chinese natural history studies of flowers and insects. Likely Canton: circa 1850. $2,000 to $3,000.

<center>Doyle Rare Books, Autographs & Maps September 23, 2021

Doyle, Rare Books, Autographs & Maps: Lot 241. GOREY, EDWARD. Original drawing "Cat Drawing Wallpaper." Signed in Pencil in lower right margin. $2,000 to $4,000.

Doyle, Rare Books, Autographs & Maps: Lot 36. LINCOLN, ABRAHAM. Autograph note signed instructing Edwin Stanton to meet with the important African American abolitionist and officer Martin Delany. [Washington:] 21 February 1865. $8,000 to $12,000.

Doyle, Rare Books, Autographs & Maps: Lot 112. JONSON, BEN. Workes. London: William Stansby, 1616; Together with Workes. London: Richard Meighen,1640-41. $7,000 to $10,000.

Doyle, Rare Books, Autographs & Maps: Lot 161. STURGIS, LEE. Salmon Fishing on Cain River, New Brunswick. (Chicago:) Privately printed (for the author by Ralph Fletcher Seymour), 1919. First edition. $3,000 to $5,000.

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