Fonsie Mealy Auctioneers: Christmas Rare Books and Collectors' Sale, 121124, Kilkenny

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Auction Date
December 11, 2024 - December 12, 2024
Page Size: 999 items in 40 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
630

With 35 Large Folding Maps Irish Boroughs: Instructions given by The Chief Secretary for Ireland with Reference to The Cities and Boroughs in Ireland...,

London 1832 EUR 450.00 - 600.00 EUR 937.50
631 Camden (Wm.)

Ireland, and The Smaller Island in the British Ocean

[London] c.1607 EUR 300.00 - 400.00 EUR 400.00
632 Grierson (Geo. & John & Martin Keene)

New and Correct Irish Atlas, Being a Complete Set of Provincial and County Maps, Divided into Baronies; Containing the Principal Cross-Roads, Cities, Towns, Rivers, Canals etc. Together with a General Map of Ireland...

Dublin n.d. [c. 1823] EUR 800.00 - 1,200.00 EUR 1,125.00
633 Walsh (Wendy) & Nelson (Chas.)

An Irish Florilegium, Wild and Garden Plants of Ireland, 2 vols.

London 1983 & 1987 EUR 320.00 - 450.00 EUR 350.00
634

A Pristine Copy Co. Dublin: House of Commons: [John Rennie, Alec Taylor, Geo. Taylor & others] - Report from the Committee on Howth Harbour

[London] 13th April EUR 550.00 - 750.00 EUR 2,000.00
635 Heaney (Seamus)

Columcille the Scribe - from the Eleventh Century Irish

Dublin [R.I.A.] 2004 EUR 700.00 - 900.00 EUR 1,625.00
636 Heaney (S.), Hughes (T.), Brown (G.) & Frey (C.)

Four Poets for St. Mangus

Yorkshire 1987 EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 2,375.00
637 Heaney (Seamus)

Poems and a Memoir

N.Y. 1982 EUR 600.00 - 700.00 EUR 575.00
638 Heaney (Seamus) & Le Brocquy (Louis)

artist Ugolino

Dublin 1979 EUR 3,500.00 - 4,500.00 EUR 3,750.00
639 Heaney (Seamus)

Keeping Going

New Hampshire 1993 EUR 800.00 - 1,200.00 EUR 937.50
640 Pyle (Hilary)

Jack B. Yeats A Catalogue Raisonne of the Oil Paintings, 3 vols.

London 1992 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 175.00
641 Sampson (Rev. Geo. V.)

A Memoir, Explanatory of the Chart and Survey of the County of London-Derry, Ireland,

London 1814 EUR 180.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
642

Periodical: Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society, Vol. I No. 1 - Vol. XV Nos 3 & 4, in 20 Nos. (A few lacking), 1901 - 1933, also Vol. XVI, No. 1 - 1934, - Volume 64, 2012. All

Galway 1901 - 2012 EUR 500.00 - 700.00 EUR 400.00
645 Heaney (Seamus)

Eleven Poems

Belfast 1965 EUR 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 EUR 8,125.00
646 Heaney (Seamus)

Eleven Poems

Belfast 1965 EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 1,625.00
647 Heaney (Seamus) & Victory (Gerard)

The Island People, [Music Workshop Stage 1 - BBC Radio for Schools - Summer 1969] 4to,

London 1969 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 1,000.00
648 Heaney (Seamus)

Death of a Naturalist

,London 1966 EUR 800.00 - 1,200.00 EUR 3,625.00
649 Heaney (Seamus), Hammond (D.), Longley (M.) and Mahon (D.)

Poets Housed with Song

Belfast 1969 EUR 300.00 - 400.00 EUR 1,312.50
650 Heaney (Seamus)

Door Into the Dark

,London 1969 EUR 500.00 - 700.00 EUR 1,875.00
651 [Heaney (Seamus)] Murphy (Hayden)ed.

Broadsheet Four, 5 parts (gold.) original envelope with illustrated cover by John Behan, Limited Edn. of 1000,

Dublin 1968 EUR 200.00 - 250.00 EUR 525.00
652 Heaney (Seamus)

Poetry in Manuscript, An Exhibition of Poets' Work Sheets, [Feb. 9 - 20 1970 - Queen's Art Gallery]

Belfast 1970 EUR 400.00 - 500.00 EUR 650.00
653 Heaney (Seamus) & Connor (Noel)

Gravities

Newcastle 1979 EUR 400.00 - 500.00 EUR 575.00
654

Signed by Heaney [National Book League and the Poetry Society] Responses

London 1971 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 275.00
655 Heaney (Seamus)

A Shiver

Thame 2005 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 225.00
656

Signed by Heaney [Brockport Writers Forum of the Department of English] Presents Seamus Heaney, January 25th, 1984, Gold Room, Edwards Hall

N.Y. 1984 EUR 180.00 - 250.00 EUR 200.00
  • High Bids Win
    Rare Books, Catalogs, Magazines
    and Machine Manuals
    December 24 to January 9
    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Ellis Smith Prints unsigned. 20” by 16”.
    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: United typothetae of America presidents. Pictures of 37 UTA presidents 46th annual convention United typothetae of America Cincinnati 1932.
    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec signed Paper Impressionism Art Prints. MayMilton 9 1/2” by 13” Reine de Joie 9 1/2” by 13”.
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    Rare Books, Catalogs, Magazines
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    December 24 to January 9
    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Aberle’ Ballet editions. 108th triumph, American season spring and summer 1944.
    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Puss ‘n Boots. 1994 Charles Perrult All four are signed by Andreas Deja
    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Specimen book of type faces. Job composition department, Philadelphia gazette publishing company .
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    Rare Books, Catalogs, Magazines
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    December 24 to January 9
    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: An exhibit of printed books, Bridwell library.
    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur Court By Mark Twain 1889.
    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: 1963 Philadelphia Eagles official program.
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    Rare Books, Catalogs, Magazines
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    December 24 to January 9
    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: 8 - Esquire the magazine for men 1954.
    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: The American printer, July 1910.
    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Leaves of grass 1855 by Walt Whitman.
  • Sotheby's
    Fine Books, Manuscripts & More
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s: William Shakespeare.
    The Poems and Sonnets of William Shakespeare, 1960. 7,210 USD
    Sotheby’s: Charles Dickens.
    A Christmas Carol, First Edition, 1843. 17,500 USD
    Sotheby’s: William Golding.
    Lord of the Flies, First Edition, 1954. 5,400 USD
    Sotheby's
    Fine Books, Manuscripts & More
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s: Lewis Carroll.
    Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There, Inscribed First Edition, 1872. 25,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: J.R.R. Tolkien.
    The Hobbit, First Edition, 1937. 12,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: John Milton.
    Paradise Lost, 1759. 5,400 USD
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