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Fonsie Mealy Auctioneers: Killoughter House, Ashford, County Wicklow, Ireland.

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Auction Name Killoughter House, Ashford, County Wicklow, Ireland. Total Sales (EUR) 26,462.50
Auction Date May 18, 2021 - May 18, 2021 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 13,255.00
Sale Number #51821 High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 18,760.00
Total Lots 42
Sold Lots 31 Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 18,225.00
% of Lots Sold 73.81% High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 25,810.00
Unsold Lots 11 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 102.53%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
16

A rare and original Advertising Mirror, "The Shamrock Whiskey"

c. 1910 EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 5,000.00
35 James Malton (1761 - 1803)

A very good set of 13, original hand coloured Engravings of Dublin c. 1794,

c. 1794 EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 4,250.00
48 Samuel F. Brocas (1792 - 1847)

A fine rare set of 9 original hand coloured Engravings of Dublin, all c. 1800

 c. 1800 EUR 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 EUR 1,875.00
347 Burton (Richard F.)

 The Book of a Thousand Nights and a Night, Ed. by Leonard C. Smithers & illus. by Albert Lotchford

 1897 EUR 400.00 - 600.00 EUR 1,750.00
320 Churhill (Sir Winston)

A short typed letter dated 26th August 1935 written from Churchill’s home at Chartwell in Kent and signed in his hand

1935 EUR 700.00 - 1,000.00 EUR 1,500.00
344 Bindings:  Beaufort (Duke of)ed. 

The Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes, 30 vols.,

 1901 - 1909. EUR 550.00 - 750.00 EUR 937.50
342 Ruskin (John) 

The Complete Works of John Ruskin, 39 vols.

 1903 - 1912 EUR 300.00 - 400.00 EUR 875.00
343 Bulwer Lytton (Ed.)

 The Works of ...., 32 vols.

EUR 420.00 - 650.00 EUR 875.00
352

Co. Kildare Poster:  "Kildare Hunt Races, April 16th & 17th 1863,"

1863 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 825.00
351 After J. & C. Cooper 

Coloured Coach Prints: A very good and attractive set of 8 coloured Prints of various Coaches, Carriages etc., from 'Coach Builders' & Wheelwrigthts Art Journal,'

c. 1880 EUR 425.00 - 650.00 EUR 700.00
28 After Jack B. Yeats 

"The Strand Races," a pair, mounted and in hogarth type frames.

 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 625.00
384 After John Gould

A set of 12 coloured Bird Prints

 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 625.00
362 After Walter Till, (1880 - 1930)

Irish Travel Poster - "Glendalough," Great Southern Railways

 EUR 400.00 - 600.00 EUR 600.00
110 After C.C. Henderson

A set of four, 19th Century Coaching Prints, "Fores Coaching Incidents,"

 1848 EUR 300.00 - 400.00 EUR 550.00
340

Collection of approx. 60 Bindings covering Gibbons, Rome, Shakespeare, Milton, Shaw etc., together with a box of Auction Catalogues.

 EUR 80.00 - 120.00 EUR 550.00
341

Bindings: Encyclopaedia Britannica, 35 vols.

c. 1880 EUR 250.00 - 400.00 EUR 525.00
350 After Edith O. Somerville 

An attractive set of 8 coloured Hunting Prints, "St. Patricks Day Hunt," 

 EUR 350.00 - 500.00 EUR 525.00
321

An 18th Century engraved Irish Map

 18th Century EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 450.00
43 J. Le Petit & J. Malton

College Green, Dublin, and "Powerscourt House, Dublin," two original hand coloured period engravings, c. 1800

 c. 1800 EUR 300.00 - 400.00 EUR 375.00
47 After H. O'Neill 

Coloured Engravings: "Gold Mines, Wicklow," "Stone Cross at Kilcullen," and "Lough Erne,"

 c. 1824 EUR 250.00 - 350.00 EUR 375.00
79 Ian? Richard, '59

"Lady playing the Piano,"

EUR 100.00 - 150.00 EUR 325.00
44

A pair of early Maritime Engravings,"A Representation of his Majesty's Frigate La Concorde  Engaging two French Frigates, The L'Engagente and La Resolve," "A General View of the Engagement between the British Fleet and that of the French Fleet, June 1794

 1795 EUR 150.00 - 250.00 EUR 312.50
17

Advertising:  "W. & R. Jacob & Co's Biscuits,"

EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 287.50
346

A large collection of Antique, Modern Books, covering various subjects, history, politics, etc., paperbacks, hardbacks and bindings.

 EUR 300.00 - 400.00 EUR 287.50
407 James Arthur O'Connor (1792 - 1841) 

At Milltown, Co. Dublin

 EUR 250.00 - 320.00 EUR 287.50
  • 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.
  • 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
  • Doyle, May 1: Thomas Jefferson expresses fears of "a war of extermination" in Saint-Dominigue. $40,000 to $60,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An exceptional presentation copy of Fitzgerald's last book, in the first issue dust jacket. $25,000 to $35,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The rare first signed edition of Dorian Gray. $15,000 to $25,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The Prayer Book of Jehan Bernachier. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Doyle, May 1: Van Dyck's Icones Principum Virorum Doctorum. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The magnificent Cranach Hamlet in the deluxe binding by Dõrfner. $7,000 to $10,000.
    Doyle, May 1: A remarkable unpublished manuscript of a voyage to South America in 1759-1764. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Doyle, May 1: Bouchette's monumental and rare wall map of Lower Canada. $12,000 to $18,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An rare original 1837 abolitionist woodblock. $8,000 to $12,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An important manuscript breviary in Middle Dutch. $15,000 to $25,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An extraordinary Old Testament manuscript, circa 1250. $20,000 to $30,000.
  • 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.
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