Fonsie Mealy Auctioneers: Rare Books, Manuscripts & Collectors' Sale, 100125, Kilkenny

Auction Details

Auction Date: October 01, 2025 - October 02, 2025

Page Size: 1222 items in 49 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1	O'Faolain (E.)	Children's Interest: The Shadowy Man	London	1949	EUR 100.00 - 150.00	EUR 87.50
2	O'Kelly (Seamus)	The Weavers Grave	Dublin	[1922]	EUR 100.00 - 150.00	EUR 125.00
3	Smith (Charles) & Harris (Walter)eds.	Co. Down: The Ancient and Present State of the County Down, containing a choreographed description, with the Natural and Civil History of the Same	Dublin	1744	EUR 200.00 - 300.00	EUR 325.00
4		Association Copy Nohl (Dr. Ludwig) & Lady Wallace	Lond.	1877	EUR 150.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
5	Tyndall (John)	Lessons in Electricity at the Royal Institution 1875-6	London	1876	EUR 150.00 - 200.00	EUR 275.00
6		Arctic Travel: The History of Greenland	London	1820	EUR 200.00 - 300.00	EUR 550.00
7	Lyell (Charles)	Travel: Travels in North America; with Geological Observations on the United States, Canada and Nova Scotia	London	1845	EUR 200.00 - 300.00	EUR 200.00
8	Henderson (Ebenezer)	Travel: Iceland; or the Journal of a Residence in that Island, during the Years 1814 and 1815	Edinburgh	1818	EUR 180.00 - 220.00	Not Sold
9	Franklin (John)	Arctic Travel: Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea in the Years 1819-20-21-22	London	1824	EUR 250.00 - 350.00	EUR 325.00
10	Bryce (G.)	Polar Interest: The Siege and Conquest of the North Pole	London	1910	EUR 180.00 - 220.00	Not Sold
11	O'Siadhail (Michael)	Springnight	Dublin	1983	EUR 80.00 - 120.00	Not Sold
12	Fitzhenry (Edna C.)	Signed by Darrell Figgis Nineteen - Sixteen: An Anthology	Dublin	1935	EUR 80.00 - 120.00	EUR 87.50
13	Molyneux (Wm.)	The Case of Ireland's Being Bound by Acts of Parliament in England, Stated	Lond.	1720	EUR 130.00 - 180.00	EUR 275.00
14	Leet (A.)	A Directory to the Market Towns, Villages, Gentlemen's Seats and other Noted Places in Ireland	Dublin	1814	EUR 120.00 - 180.00	EUR 212.50
15	Lambarde (Wm.)	Eirenarcha, or Of The Office of the Justice of Peace, in Four Books Reused, corrected and enlarged,..	Lond.	1602	EUR 100.00 - 150.00	EUR 112.50
16		Hunting - Co. Meath, Annals of a Record Season: Being A Diary of Sport with the Meath Hounds, during 1895-96	Dublin	1896	EUR 100.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
17	Loftus (Chas.)	My Life from 1815 to 1849	Lond.	1877	EUR 120.00 - 170.00	EUR 100.00
18		Bindings: Scott, The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart	Edin.	n.d. (c. 1830)	EUR 160.00 - 240.00	EUR 237.50
19	Macaulay (T. Babington)	T.C.D. Prize Binding Binding: The History of England	Lond.	1854	EUR 220.00 - 350.00	EUR 625.00
20	Flynn (Paul J.)	The Book of the Galtees and The Golden Vein, A Border History of Tipperary, Limerick & Cork	Dublin	1926	EUR 120.00 - 180.00	EUR 187.50
21		Aberdeen (Countess of,) Irish International Exhibition, 1907, Home Industries Section - Irish Rural Life and Industry, with Suggestions for the Future	Dublin	1907	EUR 100.00 - 150.00	EUR 125.00
22		Dublin Printing: Les Pseaumes de David, Mis en vers Francois, avec La Liturgie, le Catechisme & la Confession de Foi des Eglises Reformees	Dublin	1731	EUR 150.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
23	[Thompson (Hugh) Artist]	Tales from Maria Edgeworth	Lond.	n.d.	EUR 140.00 - 200.00	EUR 112.50
24	M'Crie (Thos.)	Scottish interest: The Life of John Knox	Edin.	1814	EUR 70.00 - 100.00	EUR 37.50
25	O'Neill (Eamon)	Illustrated by Irish Artists trans. [P. O'Conaire], The Woman at the Window & other Stories	Dublin	n.d.	EUR 130.00 - 180.00	EUR 125.00

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("Martinus Luther") to His Friend the Theologian Gerhard Wiskamp ("Gerardo Xantho Lampadario"). $100,000 - $150,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: An Exceptionally Fine Copy of Austenís Emma: A Novel in Three Volumes. $40,000 - $60,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Presentation Copy of Ernest Hemmingwayís A Farewell to Arms for Edward Titus of the Black Mankin Press. $30,000 - $50,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript Signed Integrally for "The Songs of Pooh," by Alan Alexander. $30,000 - $50,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript of "Three Fragments from Gˆtterd‰mmerung" by Richard Wagner. $30,000 - $50,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Preliminary Artwork, for the First Edition of Snow Crash. $20,000 - $30,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("T.R. Malthus") to Economist Nassau Senior on Wealth, Labor and Adam Smith. $20,000 - $30,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Finely Bound by Michael Wilcox. $20,000 - $30,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: First Edition of Lewis and Clark: Travels to the Source of the Missouri River and Across the American Continent to the Pacific Ocean. $8,000 - $12,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Artwork for the First Edition of Neal Stephenson's Groundbreaking Novel Snow Crash. $100,000 - $150,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: A Complete Set Signed Deluxe Editions of King's The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King. $8,000 - $12,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("John Adams") to James Le Ray de Chaumont During the Crucial Years of the Revolutionary War. $8,000 - $12,000.
Sotheby’s
Book Week
December 9-17, 2025

Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Francesco Colonna. Hypnerotomachie, Paris, 1546, Parisian calf by Wotton Binder C for Marcus Fugger. €200,000 to €300,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Nausea. De principiis dialectices Gorgias, and other works, Venice, 1523, morocco gilt for Cardinal Campeggio. €3,000 to €4,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Billon. Le fort inexpugnable de l'honneur, Paris, 1555, Parisian calf gilt for Peter Ernst, Graf von Mansfeld. €120,000 to €180,000.

Sotheby’s
Book Week
December 9-17, 2025

Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Salinger, J.D. The Graham Family archive, including autographed letters, an inscribed Catcher, a rare studio photograph of the author, and more. $120,000 to $180,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: [Austen, Jane]. A handsome first edition of Sense and Sensibility, the author's first novel. $60,000 to $80,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Massachusetts General Court. A powerful precursor to the Declaration of Independence: "every Act of Government … without the Consent of the People, is … Tyranny." $40,000 to $60,000.
Heritage Auctions
Rare Books Signature Auction
December 15, 2025

Heritage, Dec. 15: John Donne. Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Author's Death. London: M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, 1633.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.

Heritage, Dec. 15: F. Scott Fitzgerald. Tender is the Night. A Romance.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Bram Stoker. Dracula. Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co., 1897.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Jerry Thomas. How to Mix Drinks, or the Bon-Vivant's Companion, Containing Clear and Reliable Directions for Mixing All the Beverages Used in the United States…
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