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Auction Name Photographs Total Sales (USD) 620,474.00
Auction Date April 05, 2024 - April 05, 2024 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 468,800.00
Sale Number #29465 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 704,200.00
Total Lots 140
Sold Lots 93 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 966,300.00
% of Lots Sold 66.43% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 1,421,700.00
Unsold Lots 47 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 43.64%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
8 Ansel Adams

Golden Gate Before The Bridge

1932, printed between 1932-35 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 35,840.00
62 Alfred Eisenstaedt

Children at a Puppet Theatre, Paris

1963, printed 1991 USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 USD 28,160.00
26 Hiroshi Sugimoto

Time Exposed

1991 USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 USD 19,200.00
27 Sophie Calle

North Pole

2018 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 16,640.00
92 Todd Webb

Sixth Avenue between 43rd and 44th Streets, New York, March 24, 1948

1948, printed later USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 USD 16,640.00
55 Shirin Neshat

'Identified' (from 'Women of Allah')

1995 USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 USD 15,360.00
102 Terry O'Neill

Raquel Welch on the Cross, Los Angeles

1970, printed later USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 15,360.00
40 Manuel Alvarez Bravo

Photographs by Manuel Alvarez Bravo: A Portfolio

1977 USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 USD 14,080.00
9 Ansel Adams

Nevada Fall, Yosemite National Park, California (Rainbow)

c. 1947, printed between 1973 and 1977 USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 USD 12,800.00
56 Shirin Neshat

Rebellious Silence (from 'Women of Allah')

1994 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 12,800.00
34 Robert Mapplethorpe

Feet

1982 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 12,160.00
68 Vik Muniz

Disaster (Hindenburg) (from 'Pictures of Ink')

2000 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 12,160.00
110 Richard Misrach

'2.21.00, 4:38 p.m.' (from 'Golden Gate')

2000 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 10,880.00
115 Horst P. Horst

'Round The Clock I, N.Y.'

1987, printed later USD 7,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD 10,880.00
66 Mark Seliger

'Barack Obama, Washington, D.C.'

2010, printed 2018 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 10,240.00
96 Albert Watson

Frida Kahlo Story, 'Monkey,' Marrakech, Morocco (Teresa Lourenco) (for 'Vogue' Germany)

1998, printed later USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 10,240.00
87 Alfred Eisenstaedt

Drum Major and Children, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

1951, printed 1994 USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD 9,728.00
31 Josef Koudelka

Kadan, Czech Republic

1962 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 9,600.00
58 Sally Mann

'Sunday Funnies' (from 'Immediate Family')

1991, printed later USD 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 9,600.00
79 Garry Winogrand

Los Angeles

1964, printed 1970s USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 9,600.00
28 Nan Goldin

'Geno in the Lake, Bavaria, Germany'

1994 USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD 8,960.00
135 Edward Ruscha

Roof Top View #6

1961, printed 2003 USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD 8,960.00
139 Matthew Barney

DRAWING RESTRAINT 9: Dear General MacArthur

2005 USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD 8,960.00
91 Elliott Erwitt

'New York City'

1955, printed later USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD 8,320.00
122 James Welling

7484

2008, printed no later than 2010 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 8,320.00
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    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.
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    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.
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    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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