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<center><b>Fonsie Mealy Auctioneers<br>Rare Books & Literature Sale<br>December 10, 2019</b><b>Fonsie Mealy, Dec. 10:</b> Archive of almost 500 Quaker letters written between leading members of the Society of Friends in Ireland between about 1770 and 1830. €10,000 to €15,000.<b>Fonsie Mealy, Dec. 10:</b> Heraldic Grants to the Delaval Family of Northumberland Manuscripts: 9 May 1761. Patent of Stephen Martin Leake. €2,000 to €3,000.<b>Fonsie Mealy, Dec. 10:</b> Unique Manuscript – Miniature Book by Seamus Heaney. Holograph manuscript copy by Heaney of his poem <i>Mad Sweeney’s Praise of Trees</i>. €2,000 to €3,000.<center><b>Fonsie Mealy Auctioneers<br>Rare Books & Literature Sale<br>December 10, 2019</b><b>Fonsie Mealy, Dec. 10:</b> Yeats, Mangan and John McCall, with an ALS Yeats [W.B.]. <i>The Wanderings of Ossian and other Poems.</i> London, 1889. €2,000 to €3,000.<b>Fonsie Mealy, Dec. 10:</b> Heaney (Seamus). <i>Toome</i>, illustrated by Jane Proctor. National College of Art and Design 1980. Extremely rare Heaney title limited to 15 copies. €1,500 to €2,000.<b>Fonsie Mealy, Dec. 10:</b> Young (Ella). <i>Celtic Wonder Tales,</i> illustrated by Maud Gonne (four colour plates and other decorations). 1910. Signed by Gonne with an original sketch. €1,000 to €1,500.<center><b>Fonsie Mealy Auctioneers<br>Rare Books & Literature Sale<br>December 10, 2019</b><b>Fonsie Mealy, Dec. 10:</b> The Yeats Brothers “Jack & William” Yeats (Jack B.) RHA (1839-1922). An attractive small pencil portrait of his son Jack Yeats, aged perhaps 10-12, drawing of a bearded man on rear [with] a second drawing. €1,000 to €1500.<b>Fonsie Mealy, Dec. 10:</b> 18th c. Manuscript Volumes on French Peerage Manuscript: “Recueil de tous les actes concernant les Ducs & Pairs de France… Depuis l’an 900 jusqu’en 1660.” €1,500 to €2,000.<b>Fonsie Mealy, Dec. 10:</b> Churchill (Winston Spencer). <i>The River War, An Historical Account of The Reconquest of the Soudan.</i> 2 vols. roy 8vo L. 1899. First Edn. €800 to €1200.<center><b>Fonsie Mealy Auctioneers<br>Rare Books & Literature Sale<br>December 10, 2019</b><b>Fonsie Mealy, Dec. 10:</b> Important Scientific Association Presentation Copy - Tyndall (John). <i>Heat considered as A Mode of Motion…</i> 1863. €600 to €800.<b>Fonsie Mealy, Dec. 10:</b> Receipt Signed by Chippewa Chiefs Document dated 24 May 1845 signed by five “Chippewa chiefs on the River Thames.” €400 to €600.<b>Fonsie Mealy, Dec. 10:</b> Bury (Lady Charlotte). <i>The Three Great Sanctuaries of Tuscany, Valombrosa, Camaldoli, Laverna.</i> Lg. oblong folio L. (J. Murray) 1833. First Edn. €250 to €350.
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<b>Christie’s London, Dec. 11:</b> ALBUM AMICORUM OF SCHELOMITH FLAUM. Autograph album containing drawings, autograph quotations and signatures from over 47 contributors, India, Europe, America, Israel and elsewhere, 1923–50. £40,000 to £60,000.<b>Christie’s London, Dec. 11:</b> FLEMING, Ian (1908–1964). <i>Live and Let Die.</i> London: Jonathan Cape, 1954. £15,000 to £20,000.<b>Christie’s London, Dec. 11:</b> HISTORY OF CINEMA. Animal Farm (1954), an animation archive from the Halas and Batchelor studios, [c.1954]. £20,000 to £30,000.<b>Christie’s London, Dec. 11:</b> LE HAY, Jacques – [Charles de FERRIOL]. <i>Recueil de Cent Estampes representant differentes Nations du Levant...</i> Paris, 1714. [With:] <i>Explication des cents Estampes.</i> Paris, 1715. £25,000 to £35,000.<b>Christie’s London, Dec. 11:</b> THE LAST JUDGEMENT, historiated initial 'A' on a leaf from an Antiphonal on vellum illuminated by Nikolaus Bertschi [Augsburg, first quarter 16th century]. £7,000 to £10,000.<b>Christie’s London, Dec. 11:</b> VALTURIUS, Robertus (1413–1484). <i>De re militari.</i> [Verona:] Johannes Nicolai de Verona, 1472. £170,000 to £250,000.
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<b>Swann Auction Galleries Dec 10:</b><br>Dr. Seuss, pen, ink & watercolor, calendar illustration, Thomas D. Murphy Company, 1937. $10,000 to $15,000.<b>Swann Auction Galleries Dec 10:</b> Georges Lepape, <i>Sur la Terrasse,</i> gouache & pencil, cover for <i>Vogue,</i> 1930. $8,000 to $12,000.<b>Swann Auction Galleries Dec 10:</b> Charles Dana Gibson, <i>The Coming Game, Yale vs. Vassar,</i> pen & ink, for <i>Life</i> magazine, 1895. $2,000 to $3,000.<b>Swann Auction Galleries Dec 10:</b><br>H.A. Rey, color pencil, charcoal, watercolor & gouache, for <i>Rafi et les 9 singes,</i> 1939. $10,000 to $15,000.<b>Swann Auction Galleries Dec 10:</b> Ernest H. Shepard, pen & ink, for Kenneth Grahame’s <i>Bertie’s Escapade,</i> 1949. $10,000 to $15,000.<b>Swann Auction Galleries Dec 10:</b> Charles Schulz, <i>The Biggest Star Measured So Far,</i> ink & wash, original <i>Peanuts</i> cartoon, published 1961. $8,000 to $12,000.<b>Swann Auction Galleries Dec 10:</b> Saul Steinberg, <i>12 Biographies, A to B,</i> pen & ink with collage, final illustration in his book <i>The Labyrinth,</i> 1960. $12,000 to $18,000.<b>Swann Auction Galleries Dec 10:</b><br>Jo Mielziner, <i>A Streetcar Named Desire,</i> watercolor, graphite & gouache, first color study for the award-winning 1947 production. $7,000 to $10,000.<b>Swann Auction Galleries Dec 10:</b> Charles Addams, <i>Nevermore,</i> watercolor & ink, for <i>The New Yorker,</i> 1973. $12,000 to $18,000.<b>Swann Auction Galleries Dec 10:</b> James Montgomery Flagg, <i>I Should Worry,</i> watercolor, gouache & graphite, cover for <i>Judge</i> magazine, 1914. $5,000 to $7,500.<b>Swann Auction Galleries Dec 10:</b> Edward Gorey, <i>Swan Lake, Hunters/Siegfried, Van Rothbart,</i> watercolor, pen & ink, costume designs, 1975. $8,000 to $12,000.<b>Swann Auction Galleries Dec 10:</b> Ludwig Bemelmans, <i>Sketch for Madeline,</i> gouache & ink. $6,000 to $9,000.
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Auction Info
- Auction Name
- Premier Auction - Books, Prints
- Auction Date
- 09/14/2019 - 09/14/2019
- Sale Number
- #91419
- Total Lots
- 78
- Sold Lots
- 70
- Lots Sold
- 89.74%
- Unsold Lots
- 8
- Total Sales (USD)
- 131,644.00
- Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
- 78,900.00
- High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
- 121,000.00
- Low Estimate of All Lots (USD)
- 86,600.00
- High Estimate of All Lots (USD)
- 132,300.00
- Total Sales as a % of High Est.
- 99.50%
Top twenty by sale price
Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
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1115 | ANDY WARHOL (New York/Pennsylvania, 1928-1987) | Flowers (F. & S. II.6), 1964 |
1964 | USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 | USD 26,400.00 |
840 | REMBRANDT VAN RIJN (Dutch, 1606-1669) | Abraham Entertaining the Angels |
1656 | USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 | USD 16,800.00 |
993 | THOMAS MORAN (California/Pennsylvania, 1837-1926) | Grand Canyon of Arizona From Hermit Rim Road, 1913, |
1913 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 10,455.00 |
1123 | HOWARD HODGKIN (British/New York, 1932-2017) | Acquainted with the Night, 2012 |
2012 | USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | USD 8,610.00 |
1112 | SALVADOR DALI (Spanish, 1904–1989) | The Twelve Apostles (as Knights of the Round Table) |
1977 | USD 3,500.00 - 4,500.00 | USD 8,400.00 |
1032 | JOHN JAMES AUDUBON (New York, 1785-1851) | Wild Turkey, Plate 287 from The Birds of America, Bien edition, London, 1858 |
1858 | USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 | USD 4,800.00 |
1066 | COLLECTION OF CROW RESERVATION EPHEMERA |
early 20th century | USD 400.00 - 600.00 | USD 3,900.00 | |
1146 | GRANT WOOD (Iowa, 1891-1942) | January, 1938 |
1938 | USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | USD 3,750.00 |
1114 | JOAN MIRO (Spanish, 1893–1983) | Ma de proverbis, 1970 |
USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | USD 3,600.00 | |
1075 | ALFRED HEBER HUTTY (Charleston, South Carolina, 1877-1954) | Deep South, |
USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 | USD 3,360.00 | |
837 | KAWASE HASUI, THREE WOODBLOCK PRINTS, UNFRAMED (Japanese, 1883-1957) |
1883-1957 | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | USD 3,250.00 | |
1291 | Walt Whitman | LEAVES OF GRASS |
1871 | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | USD 2,640.00 |
839 | HIROSHI YOSHIDA | 11 JAPANESE WOODBLOCK PRINTS, HIROSHI YOSHIDA |
20th century | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 2,375.00 |
1296 | Jean-Baptiste de La Quintinye | THE COMPLEAT GARDENER |
1693 | USD 500.00 - 700.00 | USD 2,040.00 |
919 | ROBERT JOHN THORNTON, PUBLISHER (British, 1768-1837) | Cupid Inspiring Plants with Love, a rare impression from The Genera of Exotic and Indigenous Plants that are to be met with in Great Britain; |
1800 | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 1,920.00 |
951 | ABRAHAM MUNTING (Dutch, 1626-1683) | Four botanical plates from Naauwkeurige Beschryving der Aardgewassn, 1696, or Phytographia Curiosa, 1713, |
1696, 1713, | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 1,680.00 |
1311 | JOHN SENEX | JOHN SENEX MAP OF NORTH AMERICA |
18th century | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 1,599.00 |
1124 | MADELINE AND ROBERT LONGSTREET (American, 20th/21st century) | Elephant Ears |
USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 | USD 1,440.00 | |
1145 | THOMAS HART BENTON (American, 1889–1975) | Hymn Singer, 1950 |
1950 | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 1,320.00 |
1082 | MARK CATESBY (British, 1679-1749) | Four fish plates |
1731-1743 | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 1,200.00 |