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Auction Name Irish Interest Book & Ephemera Auction Total Sales (EUR) 51,408.00
Auction Date December 04, 2019 - December 04, 2019 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 34,465.00
Sale Number #120419 High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 53,775.00
Total Lots 687
Sold Lots 557 Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 45,160.00
% of Lots Sold 81.08% High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 69,910.00
Unsold Lots 130 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 73.54%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
222 Rare folio

Atlas of coloured maps of the Estates of the Right Hon. Lord George Quin

1852 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 1,560.00
113 W. H. Russell

The Atlantic Telegraph'

c 1865 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 1,200.00
343 Barry, Tom.

Guerilla Days in Ireland

EUR 350.00 - 450.00 EUR 840.00
103 Allom & Wright.

China in a Series of Views, displaying The Scenery, Architecture and Social Habits.

1843 EUR 100.00 - 150.00 EUR 744.00
284 O'Donovan, John Editor.

The Annals of the Kingdom of Ireland. Annala Rioghacta Eireann By The Four Masters

1856 EUR 600.00 - 800.00 EUR 660.00
353 Heaney, Seamus.

Wintering Out.

EUR 400.00 - 600.00 EUR 552.00
224

18th century large folio Atlas of land holdings,property of James Charles Fitzgerald rented to various tenatnts

EUR 300.00 - 400.00 EUR 456.00
479 Grose, Francis.

The Antiquities of Ireland.

1791 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 432.00
448 O'Riada, Seán Ó Riada

Hercules Dux Ferrariae. Nomos No 1 for strings With a tribute by John Montague Limited edition signed by Seán Ó Riada, John Montague (also signed in Irish),

1970 EUR 150.00 - 250.00 EUR 408.00
96 L. Huxley

Scott's Last Expedition'

1914 EUR 350.00 - 450.00 EUR 384.00
178

Pacata Hibernia or A History of the Wars In Ireland during the Reign of Queen Elizabeth

1810 EUR 300.00 - 400.00 EUR 384.00
453 by W G Wood-Martin,

The History of Sligo, County and Town

1889 EUR 150.00 - 250.00 EUR 384.00
223

18th Century large folio: Atlas of land holdings, properties of Henry F. Fitzgerald rented to various tenants

EUR 300.00 - 400.00 EUR 360.00
55 by Mulhallen Marum.

Protestant Ascendency in Ireland: its Cause and Cure

1868 EUR 30.00 - 60.00 EUR 336.00
156

The Evening-Office of the Holy Week which the Church Performs

1760 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 312.00
351 Heaney, Seamus.

A Lough Neagh Sequence

1969 EUR 300.00 - 400.00 EUR 312.00
433

Census of Ireland 1841,

EUR 100.00 - 150.00 EUR 312.00
7

Census of Ireland

c 1910 EUR 100.00 - 150.00 EUR 288.00
65 Lady Chatterton.

Rambles in the South of Ireland During the Year 1838

1839 EUR 250.00 - 350.00 EUR 288.00
333

Reports of the Keeper on Public Records in Ireland'

EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 264.00
397 John Locke

Ireland's Recovery or Excessive Emigration and it's Reparative Agencies in Ireland

1854 EUR 60.00 - 120.00 EUR 264.00
4

Murdoch, Iris: Collection of Eleven volumes

EUR 100.00 - 150.00 EUR 240.00
6 Evans, E. Estyn. Bell, Jonathan and Others. Edited by.

Ulster Folklife

1955 - 1992 EUR 100.00 - 150.00 EUR 240.00
92 by Daniel Keshan.

Ireland, an inquiry into the social condition of the country, with suggestions for its improvement

1853 EUR 60.00 - 120.00 EUR 240.00
504 Sir Frank Fox

The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers in the World War

1928 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 240.00
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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
    Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    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
  • 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
  • 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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