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Fonsie Mealy Auctioneers: Chatsworth Summer Fine Art Sale
Auction Reports
| Auction Name | Chatsworth Summer Fine Art Sale | Total Sales (EUR) | 15,256.25 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Auction Date | April 29, 2026 - May 01, 2026 | Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) | 12,675.00 |
| Sale Number | #42926 | High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) | 17,270.00 |
| Total Lots | 66 | ||
| Sold Lots | 62.0 | Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) | 15,075.00 |
| % of Lots Sold | 93.94% | High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) | 20,810.00 |
| Unsold Lots | 4 | Total Sales as a % of High Est. | 73.31% |
Top twenty-five by sale price
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 869 | After Giovanni Battista Falda (1643-1678) | A set of four black and white Engravings: Fontana Nella Piazza di S. Giovanni Laterano Sotto la Guglia; Fontana su la Piazza della Porta del Popolo Sotto la Guglia; Fontana su la Piazza della Basiclica di S.Maria un Trustevere; Fontana a Monte Citorio |
N/A | EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00 | EUR 850.00 |
| 1329 | Inchbald | The Poets of Great Britain; The British Essayists; Antiquarian and Topographical Cabinet... Great Britain; A Collection of Farces,... Comedies,... Tragedys,... Plays, Opera's etc. |
1807-1808; 1808; 1807; 1809 | EUR 300.00 - 400.00 | EUR 700.00 |
| 1328 | T.U. Sadlier; Page L. Dickinson | The Georgian Society Records of Eighteenth Century Domestic Architecture and Decoration in Dublin; Georgian Mansions in Ireland |
1909-1913; 1915 | EUR 500.00 - 800.00 | EUR 625.00 |
| 1330 | M. Bret; Fenelon | Oeuvres de Moliere; Les Avantures de Telemaque; Contes Mervceilleux |
1778; 1740; 1814 | EUR 70.00 - 100.00 | EUR 600.00 |
| 702 | Charles Johnson Payne (Snaffles) (1884-1967) | The Stone Faceder; A Bonafide Fox Chaser |
N/A | EUR 400.00 - 500.00 | EUR 525.00 |
| 704 | Charles Johnson Payne (Snaffles) (1884-1967) | The Gunner - Good Hunting Old Sportsmen; Wipers |
N/A | EUR 150.00 - 220.00 | EUR 525.00 |
| 710 | Charles Johnson Payne (Snaffles) (1884-1967) | Once Upon a Time; The Gunner |
N/A | EUR 400.00 - 500.00 | EUR 487.50 |
| 709 | Charles Johnson Payne (Snaffles) (1884-1967) | Oh! to be in Ireland, now that's April there |
N/A | EUR 200.00 - 300.00 | EUR 450.00 |
| 1326 | Susan Sex; B. Sayers; Michael Longley | Ireland's Wild Orchids |
2004 | EUR 275.00 - 350.00 | EUR 450.00 |
| 319 | Curran | Ireland Radio Train Day Trips |
N/A | EUR 250.00 - 350.00 | EUR 400.00 |
| 982 | After John Nost Sartorius (1759-1828) | Hunting |
1790 | EUR 300.00 - 400.00 | EUR 400.00 |
| 706 | John Sturgess | Punchestown Conyngham Cup 1872. A set of four coloured lithographic Prints |
1874 | EUR 400.00 - 600.00 | EUR 375.00 |
| 707 | Francis Calcraft Turner (1746-1846) | The Nobel Tips. A set of four coloured Prints |
1853 | EUR 400.00 - 600.00 | EUR 375.00 |
| 1324 | M. Anglesea; Richard Dunscombe Parker | Birds of Ireland |
1983 | EUR 300.00 - 400.00 | EUR 375.00 |
| 317 | Terry Myler | Lernt Irland mit der eisenbahn kennen |
N/A | EUR 250.00 - 350.00 | EUR 312.50 |
| 550 | Henry Matisse (1869-1954) | Ragazza Che Salta la Corda |
1952 | EUR 350.00 - 450.00 | EUR 312.50 |
| 700 | Charles Johnson Payne (Snaffles) (1884-1967) | The Worst View in Europe, Oh Murther! the dhrink died out of me and the wrong side of Bechers |
N/A | EUR 150.00 - 200.00 | EUR 312.50 |
| 708 | Charles Johnson Payne (Snaffles) (1884-1967) | Great Bank the was Below in the Fields |
N/A | EUR 200.00 - 300.00 | EUR 312.50 |
| 701 | Charles Johnson Payne (Snaffles) (1884-1967) | Peshewar Vale |
N/A | EUR 250.00 - 350.00 | EUR 300.00 |
| 495 | Lionel Edwards (1878-1966) | A collection of coloured Prints, including: The Limerick; The Carlow; The Meath |
N/A | EUR 300.00 - 400.00 | EUR 275.00 |
| 551 | Banksy | Suicide Bombers Just Need a Hug; Mona Lisa with AK47 |
2000 | EUR 200.00 - 300.00 | EUR 275.00 |
| 703 | Charles Johnson Payne (Snaffles) (1884-1967) | The Finest View in Europe |
N/A | EUR 180.00 - 250.00 | EUR 275.00 |
| 1131 | A collection of 10 attractively framed coloured Chinese Prints, of Immortals |
N/A | EUR 200.00 - 300.00 | EUR 275.00 | |
| 1333 | Edward Gibbon; Shakespeare; Clarendon | The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire; The Plays of Shakespeare; Clarendon's History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England from 1641 |
1809; 1807; 1707 | EUR 130.00 - 180.00 | EUR 275.00 |
| 1335 | Lebalt; Escoffier | A large collection of 19th & 20th Century English and French Books on Cookery, Drink and Wine, and General Housekeeping |
N/A | EUR 300.00 - 400.00 | EUR 262.50 |
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Sotheby’s
Shelf Life: Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper from the Library of Stanley J. Seeger and Christopher Cone
25 June – July 7Sotheby’s, July 7: Ludwig van Beethoven. Autograph sketches for the overture "Die Weihe des Hauses", op.124, [1822], UNPUBLISHED. £150,000 to £200,000.Sotheby’s, July 7: Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice, 1813, first edition, 3 volumes, contemporary half calf. £50,000 to £70,000.Sotheby’s, July 7: Walt Whitman. Leaves of Grass, Brooklyn, 1855, first edition, first issue, original green cloth, the Doheny copy. £50,000 to £70,000.Sotheby’s, July 7: Binding—Sangorski & Sutcliffe—Omar Khayyam. Rubaiyat, London, 1872, third edition, in a magnificent jewelled Peacock binding. £15,000 to £20,000.Sotheby’s, July 7: George Eliot. Middlemarch, Edinburgh and London, 1871, first edition in the original parts. £20,000 to £30,000. -
Forum Auctions
The Private Library:
Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
July 9, 2026Forum, July 9: Hassall (Joan) A large collection of over 300 original woodblocks of engravings for various books, v.d., with Hassall's engraver's glass water-globe (Qty) - Est. £10,000-15,000Forum, July 9: Eragny Press.- [Bradley (Katherine Harris) & Edith Emma Cooper], "Michael Field." Whym Chow, Flame of Love, one of only 27 copies, inscribed by Bradley, the rarest book from the press, 1914. - Est. £3,000-4,000Forum, July 9: [Moore (Thomas Sturge)] [Wood Engravings], 71 wood-engravings printed by David Chambers from the original blocks, the only set on Japanese Hosho paper, from an edition of 5 sets, [1970]. - Est. £3,000-4,000Forum Auctions
The Private Library:
Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
July 9, 2026Forum, July 9: La Fontaine (Jean de) Contes et Nouvelles en vers, 2 vol., engraved plates after Eisen, fine early 19th century blue morocco, gilt, by Bradel l'ainé, Amsterdam [Paris], 1762. - Est. £2,000-3,000Forum, July 9: Erotica.- Prostitution.- Pretty Women of Paris (The); Their Names and Addresses, Qualities and Faults..., [Paris], privately printed at the Press of the Prefecture de Police, 1883. - Est. £3,000-4,000Forum, July 9: Vale Press.- Ricketts (Charles) & Lucien Pissarro. De la Typographie et de l'Harmonie de la Page Imprimée…, [one of 216 copies], bound in dark blue morocco tooled in gilt, by Sarah T.Prideaux, 1898. - Est. £1,000-1,500Forum Auctions
The Private Library:
Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
July 9, 2026Forum, July 9: Martin (John) Illustrations of the Bible, complete set of 20 mezzotints, good impressions, rarely found in early states, [c.1831-1835]. - Est. £1,000-1,500Forum, July 9: Golden Cockerel Press.- Four Gospels of the Lord Jesus Christ (The), one of 500 copies, Mary Gill's copy, Waltham St. Lawrence, 1931 with a signed proof of engraving on japon numbered 10/10 (2) - Est. £5,000-7,000Forum, July 9: Boccaccio (Giovanni) The Decameron, 3 vol., vol.1 extra-illustrated by John Buckland Wright with c.150 erotic original drawings in pen & ink and pencil, 1886 [extra-illustrated c.1940]. - Est. £10,000-15,000Forum Auctions
The Private Library:
Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
July 9, 2026Forum, July 9: Cox (Morris) Collection of Gogmagog Press Books, 35 vol., rare complete collection of printed books issued by the press, limited editions, most signed by Cox, 1957-83. - Est. £10,000-15,000Forum, July 9: Wynkyn de Worde.- [Terentius Afer (Publius)] [Comedie...], [Paris, Josse Badius: sold in London by Wynkyn de Worde, & others], [15 July 1504]. - Est. £4,000-6,000Forum, July 9: Mosley (James) Ornamented Types. Twenty-Three Alphabets from the Foundry of Louis John Pouchée, 2 vol., one of 10 copies for presentation, from an edition of 210, 1992-93. - Est. £1,000-2,000 -
Freeman’s, June 30. Thomas Jefferson’s “Birth of the New Nation” letter, carried to Paris with the Treaty of Peace, by a Jewish patriot. $100,000-200,000.Freeman’s, June 30. “The rockets’ red glare.” A British midshipman’s log recording the bombardment of Fort McHenry. $60,000-80,000.Freeman’s, June 30. The Critical Promotion of a Naval Hero, Oliver Hazard Perry Commission signed by James Madison, 1812. $40,000-60,000.Freeman’s, June 30. Born in the USA: First Day of Printing in the United States, July 4, 1776. $15,000-25,000.Freeman’s, June 30. One of the Earliest Printed Announcements of American Independence, in the Exceedingly Rare Original Wrappers, 1776. $10,000-15,000.Freeman’s, June 30. "The Two Big Guns of the N.Y. Yanks": A Striking Type 1 Press Photograph of Lou Gehrig's Hands. $8,000-12,000.Freeman’s, June 30. A Unique Contemporary Manuscript Account of Joseph Smith's Final Words to His Followers, the Day Before his Violent Death. $8,000-12,000.Freeman’s, June 30. The State of Minnesota Officially Certifies the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution Of the United States. $8,000-12,000.Freeman’s, June 30. Extraordinarily Large Manuscript Petition Signed by a Who's Who of Colonial New York to Queen Anne from the Colony of New York. $8,000-12,000.Freeman’s, June 30. Mickey Mantle's First Cover: The Earliest Front-Page Newspaper Image of Mickey Mantle, "Something Good from Joplin". $8,000-12,000.Freeman’s, June 30. A Call to Arms in the Months Following the Declaration of Independence: An Early Continental Army Recruitment Poster. $6,000-9,000.Freeman’s, June 30. Samuel Jones, the Statesman Behind the Newly Discovered "Jones Declaration": His Annotated Set Used in His Working Law Library. $6,000-9,000.