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
780

A rare lithograph Advertisement Print, for 'O'Connell's

EUR 120.00 - 180.00 EUR 237.50
781

Signs: Pub Memorabilia, a group of four Vintage enamel Signs for 'Guinness,' 'Ogden's St. Bruno Flake,' '7Up,' and 'Colman's Mustard'

EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 187.50
782

Signs: Pub Memorabilia, A group of three circular Vintage enamel Signs for Irish Whiskies, Jameson, Paddy and Bushmills

EUR 180.00 - 220.00 Not Sold
783

A large and important Advertisement or Branded Mirror, for 'Schweppes - High Class Mineral Waters, as Supplied to the House of Lords

London 1792 EUR 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 Not Sold
784

Signs: Pub Memorabilia, two Vintage enamel Signs for 'Players Please' (small), and another larger for 'Smoke Players Navy Cut Cigarettes''

EUR 80.00 - 120.00 EUR 87.50
785

Pub Memorabilia: Co. Waterford a large earthenware Spirit Jar for 'Henry Gallywey & Co.

EUR 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
786

Signed by the Miami Showband Music: [Irish Showband] a coloured broadside Poster for the Miami Showband, inscribed to 'Geraldine' from all members in group

EUR 250.00 - 350.00 EUR 475.00
787

Signed by Quentin Tarantino Cinema: [Pulp Fiction] A framed Record Sleeve for Music from the Motion Picture Pulp Fiction

EUR 180.00 - 220.00 Not Sold
788

"Come to Freddy" Cinema: A Nightmare on Elm Street, depicting the infamous Freddie Kruger and the famous yellow School Bus

EUR 80.00 - 120.00 EUR 225.00
789

Signed by the Gleeson Family Irish Theatre: A Promotional Poster for The Walworth Farce

EUR 120.00 - 140.00 Not Sold
790

Irish Tourism Posters: A group of four varied Irish 'Bord Failte'

EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 112.50
791

Poster: [Irish Times] R.D.S. Spring Show

EUR 80.00 - 120.00 Not Sold
792

Posters: [Irish Travel] Ireland for Your Holiday

EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 725.00
793 Merriott (Jack) artist

Irish Tourism: [British Railways] Southern Ireland, Travel in Comfort by Rail and Sea

EUR 180.00 - 220.00 EUR 175.00
794 Buckle (Claude) artist

Irish Tourism: British Railways, Bangor, Northern Ireland

c. 1957 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 212.50
795

Fine Hand-Colour Bird Plates Morris - British Game Birds

EUR 150.00 - 220.00 EUR 150.00
796 Hugh Thomson, Irish (1860-1920)

Watercolours: "A Present for Miss Priscilla," and "Had make her blood creep," (from George Eliot's "Silas Marner") a pair, watercolours, approx

EUR 350.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
797 Synge (John Millington)

A Sketch Portrait in Profile

EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 200.00
798 John Butler Yeats, R.H.A. (1839-1922)

Aunt Alice Pollexfen, pencil sketch, depicting side profile of a Lady seated

EUR 400.00 - 500.00 EUR 650.00
799 John Butler Yeats, RHA (1839-1922)

'The Fenian Trial in Court', pencil sketch, depicting bearded Gentleman standing in overcoat hands in pocket

2017-11-01 EUR 350.00 - 450.00 EUR 400.00
800 Jack Butler Yeats, RHA (1871-1957)

The Market or Tic-Tac Man

EUR 500.00 - 700.00 EUR 625.00
801 Jack Butler Yeats, RHA (1871-1957)

The Market Group, pencil sketch, depicting a group of five men gathered together, approx

EUR 350.00 - 420.00 EUR 450.00
802

[Dun Emer] An attractive embroidered green linen cover or tea cozy with central monogram on blue ground with initials 'E.B.Y.' (Elizabeth Butler Years)

EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 650.00
803 Maud Gonne, Irish (1866-1953)

Rosamund Longbridge, (Irish Novelist, Playwright and Poet) 1880-1964

EUR 800.00 - 1,200.00 EUR 1,875.00
804

Countess Constance Gore-Booth Markievicz, Irish (1868-1927) The House Keeper

EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
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    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 156: Cornelis de Jode, Americae pars Borealis, double-page engraved map of North America, Antwerp, 1593.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.