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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 176 | O'Casey (Sean) | I Knock at the Door |
London | 1939 | EUR 200.00 - 300.00 | EUR 200.00 |
| 177 | O'Curry (Eugene) | On the Manners and Customs of The Ancient Irish |
Lond. | 1873 | EUR 200.00 - 300.00 | EUR 312.50 |
| 178 | Nelson (E.C.) & Walsh (W.F.) | Signed Limited Edition of 150 Copies An Irish Flower Garden Replanted, The Histories of Some of Our Garden Plants |
Dublin | 1997 | EUR 500.00 - 700.00 | Not Sold |
| 179 | Longford (Earl) & O'Neill (T.P.) | [de Valera] Eamon de Valera |
London | 1970 | EUR 200.00 - 300.00 | EUR 212.50 |
| 180 | Yeats (Jack B.) | Life in the West of Ireland |
Dublin | 1912 | EUR 500.00 - 700.00 | EUR 1,000.00 |
| 181 | Mahony (E.) | [Co. Galway] The Galway Blazers - Memoirs |
Galway | 1979 | EUR 180.00 - 220.00 | EUR 262.50 |
| 182 | Stafford (Thos.) | Very Attractive Set Pacata Hibernia, Ireland Appeased and Reduced: History of the late Warres of Ireland, Three Books bound separately |
Dublin | 1810 | EUR 300.00 - 400.00 | EUR 375.00 |
| 183 | Owen (D.J.) | History of Belfast |
Belfast | 1921 | EUR 100.00 - 150.00 | Not Sold |
| 184 | O'Halloran (Silvester) | From Henry Grattan's Auction A General History of Ireland |
Lond. | 1778 | EUR 160.00 - 240.00 | Not Sold |
| 185 | Mitchel (Flora H.) | Vanishing Dublin |
Dublin | 1966 | EUR 200.00 - 300.00 | EUR 650.00 |
| 186 | Hardiman (James) | The History of the Town and County of the Town of Galway |
Dublin | 1820 | EUR 250.00 - 320.00 | EUR 375.00 |
| 187 | Hall (Mr. & Mrs. S.C.) | With Hand Coloured Maps Ireland: its Scenery, Character, etc. |
Lond. | EUR 225.00 - 275.00 | EUR 237.50 | |
| 188 | Barrington (Sir Jonah) | Historic Memoirs of Ireland;.. The Rebellion and The Union |
Lond. | 1835 | EUR 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold |
| 189 | O'Phelan (John) | Epitaphs on the Tombs in the Cathedral Church of St. Canice, Kilkenny |
Dublin | 1813 | EUR 325.00 - 450.00 | EUR 825.00 |
| 190 | Lodge (Edmund) | Most Likely by George Mullen Bindings: Portraits of Illustrious Personages of Great Britain |
London | 1835 | EUR 700.00 - 1,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 191 | Beaufort (Daniel Augustus) | Memoir of a Map of Ireland, illustrating The Topography of that Kingdom... |
Lond. | 1792 | EUR 300.00 - 400.00 | EUR 450.00 |
| 192 | Bartlett (W.H.) | V. Good Copy in Fine Binding The Scenery and Antiquities of Ireland |
Lond. | n.d. [1842] | EUR 300.00 - 400.00 | EUR 450.00 |
| 193 | Lawrence (W.) & others | Photographs: a late 19th Century 4to Album containing approx |
c. 1870-90 | EUR 200.00 - 300.00 | EUR 312.50 | |
| 194 | Pugin (A. Welby) | Architecture: The True Principles of Printed or Christian Architecture |
Edin. | 1895 | EUR 120.00 - 180.00 | EUR 312.50 |
| 195 | Houghton (Rev. W.) | Most Desirable Copy with large Coloured Plates British Fresh-Water Fishes |
Lond. | [1879] | EUR 600.00 - 800.00 | Not Sold |
| 196 | Tenore (V.) & Pasquale (G.A.) | With Fine Hand-Coloured Plates Atlante di Botanica Popolare, ossia Illustrazione di Piante Notevoli di Ogni Famiglia |
Naples | 1872-76 | EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | EUR 3,125.00 |
| 197 | Smith (C.) | Atlas: Smith's New General Atlas |
Lond. | 1826 | EUR 450.00 - 750.00 | EUR 1,062.50 |
| 198 | J.W. Carey | Very Fine Illuminated Address, by J.W. Carey Carrickfergus: Carey & Thomson, Illuminators, Belfast, Address to the Rev. George Chamberlain, Rector of St. Nicholas, Carrickfergus, V. |
March | 1907 | EUR 700.00 - 1,000.00 | EUR 1,750.00 |
| 199 | Sullivan (Sir Edward) | The Book of Kells |
London | 1914 | EUR 180.00 - 220.00 | Not Sold |
| 200 | Antonio (Marco) | Association Copies Box: Cashel Library: De Republica Eccleiastica Pars Secunda... |
Lond | 1620 | EUR 80.00 - 120.00 | EUR 300.00 |
![<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.")
