• 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
  • 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.
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Fonsie Mealy Auctioneers: Rare Books, Literature, Collectibles, & Ephemera

Auction Reports

Auction Name Rare Books, Literature, Collectibles, & Ephemera Total Sales (EUR) 376,968.00
Auction Date December 10, 2019 - December 10, 2019 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 195,870.00
Sale Number #315 High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 276,540.00
Total Lots 862
Sold Lots 577 Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 274,380.00
% of Lots Sold 66.94% High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 387,825.00
Unsold Lots 285 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 97.20%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
624 Jack B. Yeats (1871 - 1957)

The White Jug,, oil on canvas board

EUR 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 21,600.00
248 Joyce (James).

Ulysses. thick

1922 EUR 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 EUR 14,400.00
460 Heaney (Seamus)

Toome Illustrated by Jane Proctor.

1980 EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 13,200.00
566

Stop Press War News All Published Republican Documents: An important compilation of Republican, separatist and similar Periodicals and Leaflets, 1922-24, with some earlier material, strongly bound in green buckram in a single large

1922-24 EUR 3,500.00 - 4,500.00 EUR 13,200.00
604

Rare Unpublished Letters By Flann O'Brien [O'Nolan (Brian)]:

EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 9,600.00
740

A Band of Damned Yankee Nitpickers ..' Cormac McCarthy Archive.

EUR 7,000.00 - 9,000.00 EUR 8,400.00
722 Mc Carthy (Cormac)

Blood Meridian or The Evening Redness In the West,

1985 EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 5,040.00
610

Fifty Years of Love' Jack and Cottie Yeats, their wedding and anniversary Memorabilia.

EUR 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 4,800.00
543

A large Set of Original Architectural Plans Courtown House, Co. Wexford:

EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 4,560.00
613 Yeats (Jack B.)

Two tiny ink and watercolour Drawings, circa ½ in. diam., set in oval lapel mounts, one showing sailors in a boat approaching a sailing ship, the other a pirate on shore with curved sword, inscribed 'JF'. The second is in a gold mounted locket; in rear

EUR 600.00 - 800.00 EUR 3,840.00
511

Heraldic Grants to the Delaval Family of Northumberland Manuscripts: 9 May 1761.

1761 EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 3,600.00
514

Grant of Lands in Co. Wexford from Charles II Royal Letters patent dated 15 April, 31st year of Charles II [1679]

1679 EUR 750.00 - 1,000.00 EUR 3,600.00
605 Heaney (Seamus)

Holograph manuscript copy by Heaney of his poem Mad Sweeney's Praise of Trees

EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 3,600.00
620 Yeats (Anne)

A good collection of watercolours and drawings from her studio, in three portfolios,

EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 3,600.00
712 Mc Carthy (Cormac)

The Orchard Keeper,

1965 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 3,600.00
344 Montague (John)

The Rough Field, With 18 lithographs by Marco Del Re.

2005 EUR 1,700.00 - 2,200.00 EUR 3,240.00
655

Receipt Signed by Chippewa Chiefs Document dated 24 May 1845 signed by five "Chippewa chiefs on the River Thames"

1845 EUR 400.00 - 600.00 EUR 3,240.00
716 Mc Carthy (Cormac)

Outer Dark,

1970 EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 3,120.00
719 Mc Carthy (Cormac)

Suttree,

1979 EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 3,120.00
364 Yeats, Mangan and John McCall, with an ALS Yeats [W.B.].

The Wanderings of Ossian and other Poems.

1889 EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 3,000.00
717 Mc Carthy (Cormac)

Child of God,

1973 EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 2,880.00
108

In Fine Mullen Binding Theatre: [Power (John & Harriet)] The Private Theatre of Kilkenny, with Introductory Observations on Other Theatres in Ireland, before it was Opened,

1825 EUR 800.00 - 1,200.00 EUR 2,760.00
714 Mc Carthy (Cormac)

Outer Dark,

1968 EUR 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 EUR 2,760.00
512

Original Illuminated Charter of Charles II With Details of Property Grants in Cork City Co. Cork: A magnificent original Charter of Charles II dated 19 August in the 19th year of his reign (1667)

1667 EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 2,640.00
542 Kelly (John)

Architect:

EUR 800.00 - 1,200.00 EUR 2,640.00
  • 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
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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
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    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ian Fleming. Live and Let Die. First Edition. 9,500 USD
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