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

Auction Details

Auction Report
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
620 Walliams (David)

Children's Interest: The World's Worst Series

London EUR 120.00 - 140.00 EUR 125.00
629

[Irish Political Interest] Periodical Barney Burke's Diorama, An Irish Night's Inthertainmint Being a Comic Pictorial Review of Irish Affairs in 1897

Dublin 1892 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 250.00
630 Collins (Michael)

Republican interest: The Path to Freedom

Dublin 1922 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 300.00
631 Maunsell (H.)

Irish Medical Interest: The Dublin Practice of Midwifery

Lond. 1834 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 300.00
632 Rostand (Edmond)

French Bindings: L'Aiglon, Drama en Six Actes, En Vers

Paris 1900 EUR 80.00 - 120.00 Not Sold
633 Erasmus (D.)

Scarce Early Dublin Printing Colloquia Familiaria, Notis Novis Illustrata Ad Usum Juvetutis Politioris humanitatis Studiis imbuendae, apud omnes Protestantes, Britannos praesertim, & Hibernos

Dublin 1712 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 625.00
634 Bhedel (Dr. William)

An Biobla Naomhtha

Dublin 1852 EUR 80.00 - 120.00 EUR 150.00
635 Simpson (Rob.)

Northern Ireland interest: The Annals of Derry

Londonderry 1847 EUR 75.00 - 100.00 EUR 112.50
636 Wilde (Oscar)

The Soul of Man Under Socialism

London 1912 EUR 100.00 - 150.00 EUR 262.50
637 Goldsmith (Oliver)

Thompson (Hugh) illustrator; The Vicar of Wakefield

Lond. 1892 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
638 Bernard (Nicholas)

The Whole Proceedings of the Siege of Drogheda in Ireland

Dublin 1736 EUR 180.00 - 260.00 EUR 262.50
639 Tuke (James H.)

West of Ireland: Irish Distress and its Remedies - The Land Question

Lond. 1880 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 475.00
640 Senior (Nassau Wm.)

Journals, Conversation and Essays Relating to Ireland

Lond. 1868 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 175.00
641 Wodehouse (P.G.)

Uncle Dynamite

London [1948] EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 325.00
642 O'Cadhain (M.)

Cre na Cille, Aithris I nDeich nEadouluid

Dublin 1949 EUR 80.00 - 140.00 EUR 212.50
643 Yeats (W.B.)

Rare American Presentation Copies The Shadowy Waters

N.Y. 1901 EUR 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
644 O'Brien (Flann)

Rare Modern Irish Masterpiece At Swim-Two-Birds

London 1939 EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 5,875.00
645

Gaelic Interest: [Edinburgh Bible Society] Leabhraichean an T-Sean Tiomnaidh air an Tarruing O'N chead Chanain chum Gaelic Albannach

Edin. 1829 EUR 80.00 - 120.00 EUR 325.00
646 Burroughs (Edgar Rice)

Tarzan of the Apes

N.Y. 1914 EUR 250.00 - 320.00 Not Sold
647 Shane (Elizabeth)

With Original Manuscript Poem Co. Donegal: [Gertrude Hind] By Bog and Sea in Donegal

London 1923 EUR 120.00 - 180.00 Not Sold
648 MacLaverty (Bernard)

Lamb

Belfast 1980 EUR 80.00 - 120.00 Not Sold
649 Muldoon (Paul)

Hopewell Haiku

1997 EUR 140.00 - 180.00 EUR 212.50
650 [Osborne (Ozzy)]

Music Interest: I am Ozzy

London 2009 EUR 120.00 - 180.00 Not Sold
651 Doyle (Roddy)

Life without Children

London 2021 EUR 80.00 - 100.00 EUR 87.50
652 Collins (Phil)

Not Dead Yet, The Autobiography

London 2016 EUR 70.00 - 100.00 EUR 100.00
  • 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.
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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.