Fonsie Mealy Auctioneers: Rare Books, Manuscripts & Collectors' Sale, 100125, Kilkenny
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- October 01, 2025 - October 02, 2025
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 51 | Heaney (Seamus) | With Inscription by the Author Seeing Things |
London | 1991 | EUR 400.00 - 600.00 | EUR 775.00 |
| 52 | Yeats (W.B.) | The Tower |
London | 1928 | EUR 325.00 - 450.00 | EUR 650.00 |
| 53 | Mayo (Earl of,) & Boulton (W.B.) | Co. Kildare: A History of the Kildare Hunt |
Lond. | 1913 | EUR 220.00 - 350.00 | EUR 350.00 |
| 54 | Directory: Pigot & Co. - Directory of Ireland ... and London, etc |
[Lond.] | [1824] | EUR 120.00 - 170.00 | EUR 150.00 | |
| 55 | Townsend (Rev. Horatio) | R.D.S.: - Statistical Survey of the County of Cork, with Observations... and by Direction of the Dublin Society |
Dublin | 1810 | EUR 300.00 - 400.00 | EUR 375.00 |
| 56 | Longley (Michael) & Moran (J.)illus. | Signed Limited Edition The Lake without a Name, Poems of Mayo |
Belfast | 2005 | EUR 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold |
| 57 | O'Donovan (John) | Annals of the Kingdom of Ireland |
Dublin | 1856 | EUR 300.00 - 400.00 | EUR 1,062.50 |
| 58 | [Bradshaw (Henry)] | Bibliography: A Catalogue of the Bradshaw Collection of Irish Books in the University Library Cambridge |
Cambridge | 1916 | EUR 100.00 - 150.00 | Not Sold |
| 59 | Barrie (J.M.) | [Thompson (Hugh)] Artist. Quality Street |
Lond. | 1901 | EUR 80.00 - 130.00 | Not Sold |
| 60 | Bennett (Douglas) | Irish Collectors: Irish Georgian Silver |
Lond. | 1972 | EUR 60.00 - 90.00 | EUR 112.50 |
| 61 | Burgess (J. Howard) | Rare Plate Book of Northern Ireland Illustrations of the North of Ireland, Guide to the Giants Causeway |
Belfast | n.d. [c. 1850] | EUR 600.00 - 900.00 | EUR 1,625.00 |
| 62 | Smith (George) | The Cabinet Maker and Upholsterers Guide: Being a Complete Drawing Book... |
Lond. | 1836 | EUR 350.00 - 500.00 | Not Sold |
| 63 | Ware (James) | Rerum Hibernicarum Annales,... |
Dublin | 1664 | EUR 350.00 - 500.00 | EUR 375.00 |
| 64 | Grimble (Augustus) | Limited Edition - Fine Copy Fishing: The Salmon Rivers of Ireland |
Lond. | 1903 | EUR 225.00 - 350.00 | EUR 500.00 |
| 65 | Allom (T.) & Walsh (Rev. R.) | Constantinople and The Scenery of the Seven Churches of Asia Minor |
Lond. & Paris | n.d. [c. 1839] | EUR 200.00 - 300.00 | EUR 162.50 |
| 66 | Musgrave (Sir Richard) | Memoirs of the Different Rebellions in Ireland |
Dublin | 1801 | EUR 200.00 - 300.00 | EUR 425.00 |
| 67 | [Doyle (Most Rev. Dr. James)] Ware (Sir James) | From the Library of J.K.L. Inquiries concerning Ireland and its Antiquities |
Dubin | 1705 | EUR 160.00 - 240.00 | Not Sold |
| 68 | Derricke (John) 1581 | Blackstaff Press: The Image of Ireland with a Discoverie of Woodkarne |
Belfast | 1985 | EUR 130.00 - 180.00 | EUR 175.00 |
| 69 | Curtis (John) | Fine Coloured Plates Farm Insects; being the .. Insects Injurious to the Field Crops of Great Britain and Ireland |
Lond. | 1883 | EUR 150.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold |
| 70 | Hore (Philip Herbert) | History of the Town and County of Wexford |
Lond. | 1900-1911 | EUR 600.00 - 900.00 | EUR 750.00 |
| 71 | Scottish Engravings: Scotland Illustrated in a Series of Eighty Views |
London Dublin & Edin. | 1845 | EUR 100.00 - 150.00 | EUR 75.00 | |
| 72 | Blackburne (G.L.) | Sketches Graphic and Descriptive etc for a History of the Decorative Painting applied to English Architecture during the Middle Ages |
1847 | EUR 160.00 - 220.00 | EUR 225.00 | |
| 73 | MaCartney (Mervyn) | Architecture: - The Practical Exemplar of Architecture |
Lond. | n.d. c. 1920 | EUR 75.00 - 125.00 | EUR 100.00 |
| 74 | Mawson (Thos. H.) | The Art & Craft of Garden Making |
Lond. | [1926] | EUR 70.00 - 100.00 | EUR 56.25 |
| 75 | Eudes (P.)ed. | Architecture: Vignole ou Etudes D'Architecture par Jacques de Barozzio |
Paris | n.d. [c. 1850] | EUR 80.00 - 120.00 | Not Sold |
![<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> ROALD AMUNDSEN: «Sydpolen» [ The South Pole] 1912. First edition in jackets and publisher's slip case.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/0a99416d-9c0f-4fa3-afdd-7532ca8a2b2c.jpg "<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> ROALD AMUNDSEN: «Sydpolen» [ The South Pole] 1912. First edition in jackets and publisher's slip case.")
![<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> AMUNDSEN & NANSEN: «Fram over Polhavet» [Farthest North] 1897. AMUNDSEN's COPY!](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/a077b4a5-0477-4c47-9847-0158cf045843.jpg "<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> AMUNDSEN & NANSEN: «Fram over Polhavet» [Farthest North] 1897. AMUNDSEN's COPY!")
![<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> ERNEST SHACKLETON [ed.]: «Aurora Australis» 1908. First edition. The NORWAY COPY.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/6363a735-e622-4d0a-852e-07cef58eccbe.jpg "<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> ERNEST SHACKLETON [ed.]: «Aurora Australis» 1908. First edition. The NORWAY COPY.")
![<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> SHACKLETON, BERNACCHI, CHERRY-GARRARD [ed.]: «The South Polar Times» I-III, 1902-1911.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/3ee16d5b-a2ec-4c03-aeb6-aa3fcfec3a5e.jpg "<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> SHACKLETON, BERNACCHI, CHERRY-GARRARD [ed.]: «The South Polar Times» I-III, 1902-1911.")
![<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> [WILLEM BARENTSZ & HENRY HUDSON] - SAEGHMAN: «Verhael van de vier eerste schip-vaerden […]», 1663.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/d5f50485-7faa-423f-af0c-803b964dd2ba.jpg "<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> [WILLEM BARENTSZ & HENRY HUDSON] - SAEGHMAN: «Verhael van de vier eerste schip-vaerden […]», 1663.")
![<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> TERRA NOVA EXPEDITION | LIEUTENANT HENRY ROBERTSON BOWERS: «At the South Pole.», Gelatin Silver Print. [10¾ x 15in. (27.2 x 38.1cm.) ].](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/fb024365-7d7a-4510-9859-9d26b5c266cf.jpg "<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> TERRA NOVA EXPEDITION | LIEUTENANT HENRY ROBERTSON BOWERS: «At the South Pole.», Gelatin Silver Print. [10¾ x 15in. (27.2 x 38.1cm.) ].")
![<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> PAUL GAIMARD: «Voyage de la Commision scientific du Nord, en Scandinavie, […]», c. 1842-46. ONLY HAND COLOURED COPY KNOWN WITH TWO ORIGINAL PAINTINGS BY BIARD.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/a7c0eda0-9d8b-43ac-a504-58923308d5a4.jpg "<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> PAUL GAIMARD: «Voyage de la Commision scientific du Nord, en Scandinavie, […]», c. 1842-46. ONLY HAND COLOURED COPY KNOWN WITH TWO ORIGINAL PAINTINGS BY BIARD.")
![<b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 11:</b> Darwin and Wallace. On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties..., [in:] <i>Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society,</i> Vol. III, No. 9., 1858, Darwin announces the theory of natural selection. £100,000 to £150,000.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/00d5fd41-2542-4a80-b119-4886d4b9925f.png "<b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 11:</b> Darwin and Wallace. On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties..., [in:] <i>Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society,</i> Vol. III, No. 9., 1858, Darwin announces the theory of natural selection. £100,000 to £150,000.")
