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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Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
28th May 2026Forum, May 28: Book of Hours.- Heures de nostre dame a l'usaige de Romme, Paris, Antoine Chappiel pour Germain Hardouin, [1504]. £6,000-8,000Forum, May 28: Colonna (Francesco). La Hypnerotomachia di Poliphilo, second edition, Venice, Sons of Aldus Manutius, 1545. £15,000-20,000Forum, May 28: The Christ Child holding a crystal orb and surrounded by banderoles with devotional exhortations, on a leaf most probably from a Book of Hours, [Southern Netherlands, last decades of the fifteenth century]. £2,000-3,000Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
28th May 2026Forum, May 28: Jackson (Shirley). The Haunting of Hill House, first English edition, signed presentation inscription from the author to Claude Fredericks, 1960. £2,000-3,000Forum, May 28: Lennon (John). In His Own Write, first edition, first impression, signed by the author, 1964. £3,000-4,000Forum, May 28: Doves Press.- Keats (John). [Poems], one of 200 copies on paper, Doves Press, 1914. £5,000-7,000Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
28th May 2026Forum, May 28: Rodrigues (João Barbosa). Sertum Palmarum Brasiliensium, 2 vol., first and only edition, Brussels, 1903. £8,000-12,000Forum, May 28: Newton (Sir Isaac). Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica…editio ultima, auctior et emendatior, Amsterdam, Sumptibus Societatis, 1714. £8,000-12,000Forum, May 28: Kepler (Johannes). Ad Vitellionem paralipomena, wuibus astronomiae pars optica traditur, first edition, Frankfurt am Main, 1604. £5,000-7,000Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
28th May 2026Forum, May 28: Tagliacozzi (Gaspare). De Curtorum Chirurgia per insitionem, libri duo, first edition, Venice, Gasparo Bindoni, 1597. £7,000-10,000Forum, May 28: Lootsman (Jacobsz). The Lightning Colomne, or Sea-Mirrour, containing the Sea-Coasts of the Northern, Eastern and Western Navigation..., 1670. £8,000-12,000Forum, May 28: Ribelles y Helip (José), Attributed to. An album comprising 33 finely executed watercolours of Spanish costume, bull-fighting scenes, and other genre subjects, [circa 1830]. £10,000-15,000 -
