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
855 Heaney (Seamus)

Miracle, card

EUR 180.00 - 250.00 EUR 575.00
856 Heaney (Seamus)

I Sing of a Maiden, card

2003 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 575.00
857 Heaney (Seamus)

Poetry International Rotterdam - Rotterdamse Kunststichting - Poetry 85

Rotterdam 1985 EUR 180.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
858 Heaney (Seamus)

Crediting Poetry - The Nobel Lecture

1995 EUR 250.00 - 320.00 EUR 450.00
859 Heaney (Seamus)

Reading in Contemporary Poetry

N.Y. 1988 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 312.50
860 Heaney (Seamus)

Extending the Alphabet, on Christopher Marlowe's - Hero and Leander, (The Pratt Lecture 1993)

Newfoundland 1994 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 312.50
861 Heaney (Seamus)

A Hazel Stick for Catherine Ann, card

1983 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 725.00
862 Heaney (Seamus)

January God, card

1972 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 300.00
863 Heaney (Seamus)

The Yellow Bittern, card

Dublin 2002 EUR 150.00 - 180.00 EUR 350.00
864 Heaney (Seamus)

The Child That's Due: From Bann Valley Eclogue, card, [1999]

Ballynahinch Lake, card 1999 EUR 300.00 - 400.00 EUR 1,312.50
865 Heaney (Seamus)

The Loose Box

N.Y. 2001 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 600.00
866 Heaney (Seamus)

One of 50 Copies Signed Boy Driving His Father to Confession

Surrey 1970 EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00 EUR 1,625.00
867 Heaney (Seamus)

The Villanelle of Northwest Orient Flight 4, card

Tokyo 1993 EUR 180.00 - 220.00 EUR 600.00
868 Heaney (Seamus)

With Inscription by Heaney Queens University Belfast - The Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry

Belfast 2004 EUR 180.00 - 220.00 EUR 250.00
869 Heaney (Seamus)

Dangerous Pavements, card

1995 EUR 180.00 - 220.00 EUR 675.00
870 Heaney (Seamus)

A Skilled Poet (for William Alfred), card

Harrard 1999 EUR 180.00 - 220.00 EUR 575.00
871 Heaney (Seamus) & Newmann (M.)

One of 100 Signed Copies Audensque

Paris 1998 EUR 350.00 - 420.00 EUR 700.00
872 Heaney (Seamus)

A Keen for the Coins

Hickory, N.C. 2002 EUR 300.00 - 400.00 EUR 425.00
873 Heaney (Seamus)

A Keen for the Coins

Hickey, N.C. 2002 EUR 600.00 - 700.00 Not Sold
874 Heaney (Seamus) & others]

The Northern Review, a Quarterly Magazine of the Arts

Belfast 1965 EUR 350.00 - 450.00 EUR 400.00
875

Signed by All Belfast Festival Publication. A collection of about 30 Signed letters, postcards and notes, typescript and m/ss., to Dr. Philip Murray from writers whose work was published in the Festival Publications Series

EUR 500.00 - 700.00 EUR 800.00
876

Turret Bookshop [Bernard Stone & Raymond Danowski]. A collection of 100 poetry broadsides, 1991-93

EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00 EUR 1,187.50
877

Signed Limited Edition Portfolio [Cheltenham Festival of Literature] The Four Elements, portfolio, including: * Fire, Lawrence Sail...

EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 325.00
878

Signed by Irish Playwright & Artists [Field Day Theatre Company] A Collection of 13 Official Programmes for Productions at the Field Day Theatre Company 1981-1995 to include: 1981 - Three Sisters...

EUR 700.00 - 1,000.00 EUR 812.50
879 Heaney (Seamus)

The Otter, [poem]

-1977 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 1,375.00
  • 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.