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Aspire Auctions: February 2024 Auction - bidstart 2/9

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Auction Name February 2024 Auction - bidstart 2/9 Total Sales (USD) 27,644.25
Auction Date February 17, 2024 - February 17, 2024 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 16,300.00
Sale Number #21723 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 29,750.00
Total Lots 42
Sold Lots 41 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 17,100.00
% of Lots Sold 97.62% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 30,950.00
Unsold Lots 1 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 89.32%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
119 George Rodrigue (American, 1944 - 2013)

Flower Child

2004 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 6,826.50
118 George Rodrigue (American, 1944 - 2013)

New Orleans City Park

2006 USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 3,075.00
313

Classics of Medicine

USD 1,500.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,091.00
103 Viktor Schreckengost (American, 1906 - 2008)

Lighthouse. Watercolor on paper

USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 1,660.50
324

Franklin Library 100 Greatest Books of All Times

USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,322.25
112 Karel Appel (Dutch, 1921 - 2006)

Clown, "The Circus Suite, Cirque Miroir du Monde from Portfolio I"

1978 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 762.60
318 Lord Macaulay

History of England

USD 300.00 - 600.00 USD 762.60
327

Winston Churchill Official Biography

USD 600.00 - 1,000.00 USD 738.00
328

Easton Press 100 Greatest Books Ever Written

USD 600.00 - 1,200.00 USD 738.00
114

Two Bender Body Company Engineering Drawings

1929 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 676.50
102 Seuss) Geisel (American, 1904-1991)

Gosh! Do I Look as Old as All That?

2007 USD 500.00 - 1,000.00 USD 645.75
100 Roman de Tirtoff "Erte" (Russian/French, 1892 - 1990)

Haute Couture. Screenprint on paper

USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 516.60
106 Bohl (American, 1907 - 1990)

Cardinals. Original watercolor on paper for official US stamps

USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 516.60
326 Dumas Malone

"Jefferson and His Time"

1993 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 504.30
113 LeRoy Neiman (American, 1921 - 2012)

Olympic Jumper

1984 USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 492.00
99 Roman de Tirtoff "Erte" (Russian/French, 1892 - 1990)

Athena. Screenprint on paper

USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 442.80
107 Bohl (American, 1907 - 1990)

Bullock's oriole. Original watercolor on paper for official US stamps

USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 442.80
323

Franklin Library The First Edition Society

USD 400.00 - 800.00 USD 405.90
98 Roman de Tirtoff "Erte" (Russian/French, 1892 - 1990)

Lilies and Lace. Screenprint on paper

USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 393.60
315 Winston S. Churchill

A History of the English-Speaking Peoples

1992 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 381.30
316 Ayn Rand,

The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged

USD 300.00 - 600.00 USD 381.30
325

Great Books of the Western World

USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 381.30
320 Edward Gibbon

Decline of the Roman Empire

1974 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 356.70
104 Bohl (American, 1907 - 1990)

Scott's Oriole. Original watercolor on paper for official US stamps

USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 344.40
115

Springfield, O.

USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 319.80
  • Fonsie Mealy’s
    Summer Rare Book
    & Collectors’ Sale
    July 30-31, 2024
    Fonsie Mealy’s, July 30-31: U.S. / European Shipping Archive 1800-1814. The Widow Bermingham & Sons Collection. €7,000 to €10,000.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, July 30-31: Bunreacht na hÉireann. Constitution of Ireland. An important copy of the First Printing of De Valera’s new Constitution, approved in 1938. Signed by the Constitution Cabinet. €7,000 to €9,000.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, July 30-31: A Rare Complete Run of the Cuala Press Broadsides. €7,000 to €9,000.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Summer Rare Book
    & Collectors’ Sale
    July 30-31, 2024
    Fonsie Mealy’s, July 30-31: Grose (Francis). The Antiquities of Ireland, 2vols. folio London (for S. Hooper) 1791. Magnificent Hand-Coloured Copy - Only 25 Copies. €3,000 to €5,000.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, July 30-31: Cantillon (Richard). Essai sur la Nature du Commerce en General, Traduit de l'Anglois, Sm. 8vo London (Fletcher Gyles) 1756. €3,000 to €4,000.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, July 30-31: Gregory, (Lady Augusta). Spreading the News: The Rising of the Moon: The Poorhouse (with Douglas Hyde). Being Vol. IX of the Abbey Theatre Series. €3,000 to €4,000.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Summer Rare Book
    & Collectors’ Sale
    July 30-31, 2024
    Fonsie Mealy’s, July 30-31: Lavery (Lady Hazel). A moving series of three A.L.S. and a Telegram to Gen. Eoin O'Duffy, July-August 1927, expressing her grief at the death of Kevin O'Higgins. €3,000 to €4,000.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, July 30-31: Dampier (Wm.) Nouveau Voyage Autour du Monde, ou l'on descrit en particulier l'Isthme de l'Amerique…, 2 vols. in one, Amsterdam, 1698. €800 to €1,200.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, July 30-31: Howell (James). Instructions for Forreine Travel Shewing by what Cours, and in what Compasse of Time…, London, 1642. €800 to €1,200.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Summer Rare Book
    & Collectors’ Sale
    July 30-31, 2024
    Fonsie Mealy’s, July 30-31: Rowling (J.K.) Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, 8vo, L. (Bloomsbury) 1999, First Edn., First Printing of Deluxe Collectors Edn. Signed. €800 to €1,200.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, July 30-31: James (Wm.) A Full and Correct Account of the Military Occurrences of The Late War Between Great Britain and The United States of America. 2 vols. Lond. 1818. €650 to €900.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, July 30-31: The Laws of the United States, Published by Authority, 3 vols. Philadelphia (Richard Folwell) 1796. €600 to €800.
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