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
530	[Anon]	An 18th Century Sea Shanty Poetry: Naval Interest: An 18th Century Manuscript Poem written by a Sailor in the Royal Navy addressed to his beloved Mary			EUR 100.00 - 150.00	EUR 125.00
531		Waterford Harbour Commissioners: A group of six Printed Posters issued principally by Hugh N. Nevins, Secretary, mostly requesting tenders for Ballast, Repairs, for Flannel for inside clothing, one for Raising the wreck of the 'Hannah' from where it now l		1875	EUR 200.00 - 300.00	EUR 212.50
532		Postcards: R.M.S. 'Leinster,' coloured poster type card, posted to Dalkey, March 11th, 1906		March 11th, 1906	EUR 60.00 - 90.00	EUR 43.75
533		Iconic photographs of the Titanic by official photographer, with his Manuscript Notes			EUR 800.00 - 1,200.00	EUR 3,750.00
534	Moss (Sir Ed.)arr.	Titanic: London Hippodrome - Tuesday April 30, 1912 Matinee, in aid of the Fund for the Sufferers from the Disaster to the White Star Liner - Titanic, wrecked in mid Ocean April 15th, 1912	London	-1912	EUR 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
535		Watercolour: Attractive Coastal View with large Sailing Vessel, and an array of different naval flags in the Marius, approx			EUR 100.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
536	Carter (Samson)	Waterford Map: Noblett & St.Leger, Waterford Harbour, Surveyed for the Commissioners for Improving the Port,1835, approx	London	1835	EUR 270.00 - 350.00	EUR 312.50
550	ed. by John Lord Sheffield	Binding: Gibbon - Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon, Esq.	Dublin	1796	EUR 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
551	Prior (James)ed.	Bindings: Goldsmith - The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith M.B.	Lond.	1837	EUR 220.00 - 350.00	Not Sold
552	Musgrave (Richard)	1798: Memoirs of the Different Rebellions in Ireland	Dublin	1802	EUR 160.00 - 240.00	EUR 375.00
553	O'Connell (John)	Bindings: Recollections and Experiences During a Parliamentary Career from 1833-1848	Lond.	1849	EUR 200.00 - 300.00	EUR 200.00
554	Plowden (Francis)	Bindings: The History of Ireland, from its Union with Great Britain...	Dublin	1811	EUR 220.00 - 350.00	EUR 475.00
555	Lecky (W.E.H.)	Bindings: A History of Ireland in the Eighteenth Century	Lond.	1906	EUR 200.00 - 300.00	EUR 575.00
556	Madden (R.R.)	Bindings: 1798 - The United Irishmen, Their Lives and Times	Lond.	1842	EUR 300.00 - 400.00	EUR 550.00
557	Orpen (Godard H.)	Bindings: Ireland Under the Normans 1169-1216	Oxford	1968	EUR 200.00 - 300.00	EUR 375.00
558	Curry (Dr. C.E.)ed.	Bindings: [Casement (Roger)] Sir Roger Casement's Diaries	Munich	1922	EUR 200.00 - 300.00	EUR 425.00
559	Pearse (P.H.)	Bindings: Collected Works	Dublin	n.d.	EUR 300.00 - 400.00	EUR 600.00
560		Bindings: Fitzwilliam & Bourke, editors, Correspondence of the Rt. Hon. Edmund Burke	Lond.	1844	EUR 200.00 - 300.00	EUR 475.00
561	O'Flanagan (J. Rod.)	Bindings: The Lives of the Lord Chancellors...	Lond.	1870	EUR 200.00 - 300.00	EUR 275.00
562	Fagan (Wm.)	Bindings: [O'Connell (d.)] The Life and Times of Daniel O'Connell	Cork	1847	EUR 300.00 - 400.00	EUR 600.00
563	O'Leary (John)	Bindings: Recollections of Fenians and Fenianism	Lond.	1896	EUR 325.00 - 450.00	EUR 650.00
564	Carleton (Wm.)	Bindings: Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry	Dublin	1852	EUR 200.00 - 300.00	EUR 200.00
565	Gordan (Rev. James)	Bindings: 1798 - History of the Rebellion in Ireland	Lond.	1803	EUR 300.00 - 400.00	EUR 650.00
566	Wolfe Tone (Wm. Theo.)ed.	Binding: 1798 - Memoirs of Theobald Wolfe Tone	Lond.	1827	EUR 225.00 - 350.00	EUR 425.00
567	[Emmet (Robert)] Emmet (Thos. Addis)	Bindings: Memoir of Thomas Addis and Robert Emmet with Their Ancestors and immediate Family	Kildare	2003	EUR 200.00 - 300.00	EUR 500.00

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Swann
Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
December 9, 2025

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 156: Cornelis de Jode, Americae pars Borealis, double-page engraved map of North America, Antwerp, 1593.

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 206: John and Alexander Walker, Map of the United States, London and Liverpool, 1827.

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 223: Abraham Ortelius, Typus Orbis Terrarum, hand-colored double-page engraved world map, Antwerp, 1575.

Swann
Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
December 9, 2025

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 233: Aaron Arrowsmith, Chart of the World, oversize engraved map on 8 sheets, London, 1790 (circa 1800).

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 239: Fielding Lucas, A General Atlas, 81 engraved maps and diagrams, Baltimore, 1823.

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 240: Anthony Finley, A New American Atlas, 15 maps engraved by james hamilton young on 14 double-page sheets, Philadelphia, 1826.

Swann
Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
December 9, 2025

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 263: John Bachmann, Panorama of the Seat of War, portfolio of 4 double-page chromolithographed panoramic maps, New York, 1861.

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 265: Sebastian Münster, Cosmographei, Basel: Sebastian Henricpetri, 1558.

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 271: Abraham Ortelius, Epitome Theatri Orteliani, Antwerp: Johann Baptist Vrients, 1601.

Swann
Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
December 9, 2025

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 283: Joris van Spilbergen, Speculum Orientalis Occidentalisque Indiae, Leiden: Nicolaus van Geelkercken for Jodocus Hondius, 1619.

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 285: Levinus Hulsius, Achtzehender Theil der Newen Welt, 14 engraved folding maps, Frankfurt: Johann Frederick Weiss, 1623.

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 341: John James Audubon, Carolina Parrot, Plate 26, London, 1827.
SD Scandinavian Art & Rare Book Auctions
The Odfjell Collection
Polar – History – Ornithology – Colour Plate Books
Ending December 4th

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ROALD AMUNDSEN: «Sydpolen» [ The South Pole] 1912. First edition in jackets and publisher's slip case.

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: AMUNDSEN & NANSEN: «Fram over Polhavet» [Farthest North] 1897. AMUNDSEN's COPY!

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ERNEST SHACKLETON [ed.]: «Aurora Australis» 1908. First edition. The NORWAY COPY.

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ERNEST SHACKLETON: «The heart of the Antarctic» + SUPPLEMENT «The Antarctic Book», 1909.

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: SHACKLETON, BERNACCHI, CHERRY-GARRARD [ed.]: «The South Polar Times» I-III, 1902-1911.

SD Scandinavian Art & Rare Book Auctions
The Odfjell Collection
Polar – History – Ornithology – Colour Plate Books
Ending December 4th

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: [WILLEM BARENTSZ & HENRY HUDSON] - SAEGHMAN: «Verhael van de vier eerste schip-vaerden […]», 1663.

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: TERRA NOVA EXPEDITION | LIEUTENANT HENRY ROBERTSON BOWERS: «At the South Pole.», Gelatin Silver Print. [10¾ x 15in. (27.2 x 38.1cm.) ].

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ELEAZAR ALBIN: «A natural History of Birds.» + «A Supplement», 1738-40. Wonderful coloured plates.

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: 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.

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: JAMES JOYCE: «Ulysses», 1922. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS.
Sotheby’s
Book Week
December 9-17, 2025

Sotheby’s, Dec. 11: Darwin and Wallace. On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties..., [in:] Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society, Vol. III, No. 9., 1858, Darwin announces the theory of natural selection. £100,000 to £150,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 11: J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, 1997, first edition, hardback issue, inscribed by the author pre-publication. £100,000 to £150,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 11: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Autograph sketchleaf including a probable draft for the E flat Piano Quartet, K.493, 1786. £150,000 to £200,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Hooke, Robert. Micrographia: or some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies made by Magnifying Glasses. London: James Allestry for the Royal Society, 1667. $12,000 to $15,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Chappuzeau, Samuel. The history of jewels, first edition in English. London: T.N. for Hobart Kemp, 1671. $12,000 to $18,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Sowerby, James. Exotic Mineralogy, containing his most realistic mineral depictions, London: Benjamin Meredith, 1811, Arding and Merrett, 1817. $5,000 to $7,000.