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Fonsie Mealy Auctioneers: Library Sale at Howth Castle, Howth, Co. Dublin, Ireland.

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Auction Name Library Sale at Howth Castle, Howth, Co. Dublin, Ireland. Total Sales (EUR) 727,118.75
Auction Date September 22, 2021 - September 23, 2021 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 366,080.00
Sale Number #92221 High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 537,685.00
Total Lots 1031
Sold Lots 852 Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 442,860.00
% of Lots Sold 82.64% High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 645,145.00
Unsold Lots 179 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 112.71%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
674 Rosellini (Ippolito)

I Monumenti dell Egitto e Della Nubia, Plate Volumes 1, 11 & 111, 3 vols. Elephant folio

1832-1834. EUR 50,000.00 - 80,000.00 EUR 92,500.00
892 Stobaeus:  

Keras Amalthaias Joannou tou Stobaiou... Joannis Stobaei Sententiae ex thesaurus Graecorum delectae, quarum autores circiter ducentos & quinquaginta citat: et in Sermones siue Locos communes digeste A Conrado Gesnero Doctore Medico Tigurino in Latinum ser

1549 EUR 500.00 - 700.00 EUR 36,250.00
933

The Newman Letters: A Catholic College at Oxford? Newman (Rev. Fr. John Henry, later Cardinal, now Saint)

1863-67 EUR 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 EUR 35,000.00
922

The Correspondence of Thomas Gaisford Dean of Christ Church, Oxford (approx. 384 items)

EUR 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 EUR 25,000.00
822 Berkeley (George)

A Treatise Concerning the principles of Human Knowledge, wherein the chief Causes of Error and Difficulty in the Sciences with the Grounds of Scepticism, Atheism, and Irreligion, are inquir'd into. Part I [All Published] 8vo

1710 EUR 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 EUR 23,750.00
925 Ruskin (John)

A large finely executed Pencil Drawing, captioned Oxford Cathedral, The Choir, & Signed 'J. Ruskin Ch. Ch. 1838,'

1838 EUR 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 EUR 16,250.00
937

Highly Elaborate Illuminated Volume  Illuminated Address: Address to The Right Hon.ble The Earl of Howth, 1874, The address is dated 12 Mach 1874 from the tenants of Howth to the Fourth Earl, welcoming him on his succession to the title and estates of hi

1874 EUR 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 EUR 15,000.00
936

Irish Map: Map of the Howth Estate of the Right Honorable the Earl of Howth, situate in the Barony of Coolock and County of Dublin, made on the basis of the Ordnance Survey by Hodges and Smith, Map Agency office, 104 Grafton Street, 1853

1853 EUR 700.00 - 1,000.00 EUR 13,750.00
915

Sir Edward L. Lutyens 1869 - 1944 Howth Castle Plans: A Series of 10 Original Architects Drawings and Sketches,

EUR 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 EUR 12,500.00
924

Magnificent Illuminated Charter, 1767 

1767 EUR 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 EUR 12,500.00
1037 Gaisford (Thomas)

 Bibliotheca Gaisfordiana, Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Gaisford, D.D. as extant in the Deanery Ch. Ch. Oxford in the Month of June 1833

1833 EUR 1,200.00 - 1,600.00 EUR 11,250.00
877

Travel Album: An impressive and comprehensive album recording the Travels to Hong Kong of T.J. Gaisford St. Lawrence in 1925.

1925 EUR 250.00 - 400.00 EUR 8,125.00
821 Berkeley (George)

An Essay Towards a New Theory of Vision, 8vo

1709 EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 7,000.00
652

Earl of Howth Estate Atlas  Manuscript Atlas:  Hodges, Smith & Co., The Estate of the Rt. Hon. the Earl of Howth Situate in the County of Dublin, lg. atlas folio

1863 EUR 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 EUR 5,500.00
776 Anon

Herbolario Volgare: nel quale se dimostra conoscer le herbe et le sue vrtu: et il modo di operale: con molti altri simplici: di novo venute in luce; et di latino in volgore tradutte ... Sm. 8vo

1539 EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 5,250.00
1036 Gaisford (Thos.)

Catalogue of English Poetry, Drama, and Jest Books,..

1868 EUR 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 EUR 5,250.00
1075 Pococke (Richard)

A Description of the East and some other Countries, 3 vols. in 2,

1743 EUR 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 EUR 5,000.00
764

Log Books of Three British Warships  Manuscripts:  Three folio

EUR 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 EUR 4,500.00
904 Perry (George)

Conchology, or The Natural History of Shells, lg. folio

1811 EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 4,250.00
471 Burman (Peter)ed. 

Titi Petronii Arbitri Satyricon quae Supersunt cum integris Doctorum Viropum Commentariis; With notes by N. Heinsii & Guil, Goesii. 4to

1709 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 4,000.00
79 Churchill (Winston S.)

Their Finest Hour, Second World War, Vol. II only, roy 8vo

1949 EUR 500.00 - 700.00 EUR 3,750.00
797

Greek New Testament:  Tes Kaines Diathekes hapanta... Novum Jesu Christi Domini Nostri Testamentum.

1553 EUR 300.00 - 400.00 EUR 3,750.00
972 Newman (St. John Henry)

Apologia Pro Vita Sua; Being a Reply to a Pamphlet .. by Rev. Charles Kingsley. 8vo

1864 EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 3,750.00
895 Dean Gaisford's 'Magnum Opus' With Important Correspondence etc., included Gaisford (Dean Thomas)

Etymologicon Magnum, seu verius Lexicon saipissime vocabulorum origines indagans ex pluribus lexicis scholiastis et grammaticis anonymi cuisdam opera concinnatum. Lg. thick folio

1848 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 3,625.00
884

Editio Princeps of Parallel Lives  Plutarch: Sapientissimi Plutarchi paralellum, Vitae Romanorum & Graecorum Quadraginta novem. Title in Greek and Latin. Large folio

1517 EUR 600.00 - 900.00 EUR 3,500.00
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  • 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
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    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A SET OF JONI MITCHELL LYRICS FOR "IF I HAD A HEART." $2,000 - $3,000
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    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
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    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.
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    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: FIRST PRINTING OF LINCOLN’S IMMORTAL GETTYSBURG ADDRESS. $4,000 to $6,000.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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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