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Auction Name The Collector's Sale - Timed Auction Total Sales (EUR) 139,332.00
Auction Date July 15, 2020 - July 15, 2020 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 70,660.00
Sale Number #320 High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 100,705.00
Total Lots 576
Sold Lots 332 Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 115,405.00
% of Lots Sold 57.64% High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 164,240.00
Unsold Lots 244 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 84.83%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
311

Incunabula - A Landmark in Irish Printed Literature Duns Scotus Joannes: O'Fihely, Maurice Abp. Questiones subtilissme Scoti in metaphysicam Aristotelis

1497 EUR 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 EUR 24,000.00
415 Leadbeater (Mary 1758-1826 -

Two Manuscript Volumes containing Receipts for Herbal Prescriptions.

EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 12,000.00
292 Keogh (John)

Botanalogia Universalis Hibernica, or A General Irish Herbal Calculated for this Kingdom, giving an account of the Herbs, Scrubs ",

1735 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 5,520.00
414

Archive of the Medlicott Family of Dunmurry, Co. Kildare

EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 4,560.00
339 After Samuel Frederick Brocas (1792 - 1847)Brocas (Samuel 1792-1847,

Rare Complete Set of Brocas Prints Coloured Engravings: An important and complete Suite of 12 impressive and attractive Views of Dublin scenes

 EUR 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 EUR 3,600.00
457

Silhouettes Caricaturing the Parnell Divorce Scandal Three caricature Silhouettes by the Cork lithographer and silhouettist Stephen O'Driscoll (c1825-1895), depicting Parnell, Katharine O'Shea, and her husband.

Undated - 1890 EUR 400.00 - 600.00 EUR 2,880.00
458 O'Driscoll (Stephen) Cork (c. 1825 - 1895)

[Silhouettes of late 19th Century Cork personalities]

19th Century EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 2,760.00
336

Crofton Archive A Collection of Architectural Drawings, Maps, Religious Manuscripts, and miscellaneous Estate Papers of the Crofton Family of Inchanappa House, Co. Wicklow, c. 1789 - 1900.

c1789 - 1900 EUR 1,500.00 - 1,800.00 EUR 1,800.00
145 Taylor (Geo.) & Skinner (Alex.)

Maps of the Roads of Ireland L. &

 1778 EUR 650.00 - 900.00 EUR 1,680.00
494

See to as Quickly as you Can' - Signed by Collins [Collins (Michael)] A typescript single page Letter addressed to Mr. Martin Conlon, A'Chara

 1921 EUR 600.00 - 800.00 EUR 1,560.00
327 Elwes (Henry John) and Henry (Augustus)

The Trees of Great Britain and Ireland, 7 vols. (in 15 parts),

1906-1913 EUR 750.00 - 1,250.00 EUR 1,440.00
542

The Dr. Tommy Campbell Medal Collection,

EUR 600.00 - 800.00 EUR 1,380.00
188 Atkinson (Rob.) ed.

The Book of Ballymote, A collection of Pieces (Prose and Verse) in the Irish Language. Lg. thick Atlas

 1887 EUR 450.00 - 750.00 EUR 1,260.00
306 Shaw (George Bernard)

The Works of George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), 31 volumes - Set "Y",

 1930 - 1932 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 1,260.00
403

Co. Kerry: Country House Auction Catalogue - Dunloe Castle, Killarney, Co. Kerry, Catalogue of the Furnishings and Appointments to be Sold by Auction, Commencing Monday 11th January, 1937 (& 2 following days),

1937 EUR 225.00 - 325.00 EUR 1,140.00
248 From the Library at Carton House Rawson (Thomas James)

Statistical Survey of the County of Kildare with Observations on the Means of Improvement; drawn up for the consideration and by direction of the Dublin Society.,

 1807 EUR 300.00 - 400.00 EUR 1,080.00
212 Na gCopaleen (Myles) pseudo

An Beal Bocht nó An Milleanach

 EUR 500.00 - 700.00 EUR 960.00
40

In Original Vellum Binding [French (V. Rev.Dr. Nicholas, Bp of Ferns)] The Unkinde Desertor of Loyall Men and True Frinds

 1676 EUR 500.00 - 700.00 EUR 900.00
144 Moore (Arthur)

The Poor Law Unions and Electoral Divisions in Ireland and the Baronies in which they are Situate showing their Population, Area and Net Value

 1847 EUR 120.00 - 180.00 EUR 900.00
340

An Important Collection of 18th Century and later Irish Ballad Sheets Ballad Sheets, A large collection of single sheets printed one side only, in

 EUR 300.00 - 400.00 EUR 816.00
421

Co. Carlow: George III - General Assizes, a Grant of Pardon unto Charles Nowlan (as a poor man)

 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 816.00
179

The Lindisfarne Gospels [Illustrated Volumes] Evangeliorum Quattuor, Codex Lindisfarenis.,

 1956 - 59 EUR 750.00 - 1,000.00 EUR 792.00
194 Shaw (Thomas)

Travels, or Observations Relating to Several Parts of Barbary and the Levant

1738 EUR 600.00 - 700.00 EUR 792.00
319 Special Edition, Signed by Contributors Deane (Seamus) Gen. Editor, Carpenter (Andrew) and Williams (J.) associate editors,

The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing, 3 vols.

1991 EUR 750.00 - 1,000.00 EUR 792.00
80 Yeats (W.B.)

Plays and Controversies,

1924 EUR 500.00 - 700.00 EUR 744.00
  • Sotheby’s
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    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Winston Churchill. The Second World War. Set of First-Edition Volumes. 6,000 USD
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  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: McCarthy (Cormac). Cities of the Plain, N.Y., 1998, First Edn., signed on hf. title; together with Uncorrected Proof and Uncorrected Advance Reading Copies, both signed by the Author. €800 to €1,000.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Stanihurst (Richard). De Rebus in Hibernia Gestis, Libri Quattuor, sm. 4to Antwerp (Christi. Plantium) 1584. First Edn. €525 to €750.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Fleischer (Nat.) Jack Dempsey The Idol of Fistiana, An Intimate Narrative, N.Y., 1929, First Edn. Signed on f.e.p. by Rocky Marciano. €400 to €600.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Smith - Classical Atlas, Lond., 1820. Bound with, Smiths New General Atlas .. Principal Empires, Kingdoms, & States throughout the World, Lond. 1822. €350 to €500.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Rare Auction Catalogues – 1856: Bindon Blood, of Ennis, Co. Clare: Sotheby & Wilkinson. €320 to €450.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: [Mavor (Wm.)] A General Collection of Voyages and Travels from the Discovery of America to the Commencement of the Nineteenth Century, 28 vols. (complete) Lond., 1810. €300 to €400.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Mc Carthy (Cormac). Outer Dark, N.Y. (Random House)1968, Signed by Mc Carthy. €250 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Three signed works by Ted Huges - Wodwo, 1967; Crow from the Life and Songs of the Crow, 1970; and Tales from Ovid, 1997. €200 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: The Garden. An Illustrated Weekly Journal of Horticulture in all its Branches, 7 vols. lg. 4to Lond. 1877-1880. With 127 colored plates. €200 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Procter (Richard A.) Saturn and its System: Containing Discussions of The Motion (Real and Apparent)…, Lond. 1865. First Edn. €160 to €220.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: [Ashe] St. George, Lord Bishop of Clogher, A Sermon Preached to the Protestants of Ireland, now in London,... Oct. 23, 1712, London 1712. Second Edn. €130 to €180.
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