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Tooveys: Prints, Maps and Posters

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Auction Name Prints, Maps and Posters Total Sales (GBP) 14,337.42
Auction Date May 15, 2024 - May 15, 2024 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 8,120.00
Sale Number #51524 High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 13,410.00
Total Lots 147
Sold Lots 130 Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 12,480.00
% of Lots Sold 88.44% High Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 20,060.00
Unsold Lots 17 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 71.47%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
12 George Washington Bacon

'Bacon's Chart of Useful Knowledge'

1905 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 684.75
139 Stanley Charles Rowles

'Great Western Railway, Looe South Cornwall for Ideal Homes and Holidays' (Railway Travel Poster)

GBP 200.00 - 400.00 GBP 448.20
27 Walter Sickert

'Mother and Daughter

GBP 200.00 - 400.00 GBP 423.30
130 Tove Jansson

'Moomintroll & Little My, Snufkin, Snorkmaiden and Sniff' (Moomin Series)

1956 GBP 60.00 - 100.00 GBP 423.30
52 Charles Mottram, after Henry Courtney Selous

'Jerusalem in Her Fall'

GBP 50.00 - 80.00 GBP 398.40
24 John Raphael Smith, after Joseph Wright of Derby

'The Widow of an Indian Chief Watching the Arms of Her Deceased Husband'

1789 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 373.50
26 Walter Sickert

'Sonia Alomis'

GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 373.50
37 John Johnson, after Allan Ramsay

'Lady Erskine'

GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 373.50
16 John Speed

Kent with her Cities and Earles Described and Observed' (Map of the County of Kent)

GBP 200.00 - 400.00 GBP 348.60
40 Spy [Leslie Matthew Ward]

On the Terrace

1893 GBP 50.00 - 80.00 GBP 323.70
82 Henry Moore

Petals (from La Poesie)

GBP 200.00 - 400.00 GBP 323.70
34 William Wynne Ryland, after Angelica Kauffman

'O Venus Regina Cnidi Paphique' and 'Venus presenting Helen to Paris

GBP 50.00 - 80.00 GBP 298.80
50 Charles Hunt, after John Frederick Herring

'Grand Stand, Ascot'

1839 GBP 40.00 - 60.00 GBP 273.90
31 Sebastian Leclerc, after Charles Lebrun

'Defaite de l'armee espagnole pres de Bruges sous la Condivite de Marsin, Parles Trouppes Du Roy Louis XIV en Lannee 1667'

GBP 40.00 - 60.00 GBP 249.00
93 After Raoul Dufy

'Ascot 1935'

GBP 60.00 - 80.00 GBP 224.10
74 Vernon Gibberd

'Edinburgh with Salisbury Crags'

GBP 50.00 - 80.00 GBP 199.20
91 William Orpen

'The Bather'

GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 199.20
33 Armedeo Gabrieli, after William Hamilton

Months of the Year

GBP 40.00 - 60.00 GBP 186.75
94 David Hockney

'The Rakes Progress'

GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 174.30
109 Graham Ovenden

'Selina'

GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 174.30
4 Willem Blaeu

'Rutlandia Comitatus, Rutlandshire' (Map of the County of Rutland)

GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 161.85
9 Joan Blaeu

Suthsexia vernacule Sussex' (Map of the County of Sussex)

GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 161.85
3 Herman Moll

'Sussex' (Map of the County of Sussex)

GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 149.40
36 Sayer & Bennett (publishers)

'The Pretty Milleners'

1781 GBP 40.00 - 60.00 GBP 149.40
102 Vladimir Griegorov Tretchikoff

Chinese Girl (The Green Lady)

GBP 50.00 - 80.00 GBP 149.40
  • 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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