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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 880 | Heaney (Seamus) | Keeping Going, William B. Ewert 1993 |
1993-04-30 | EUR 600.00 - 800.00 | EUR 1,750.00 | |
| 881 | Heaney (Seamus) | Sweeney Astray, A section of photocopied typescript |
EUR 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 882 | Heaney (Seamus) | Four TL (carbon copies, unsigned) to Heaney from the photographer Christopher Barker, 1980-81 |
EUR 500.00 - 700.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 883 | Heaney (Seamus) | An Invocation [to Hugh MacDiarmid] |
1992-09-01 | EUR 400.00 - 600.00 | Not Sold | |
| 884 | Heaney (Seamus) | Unique Lot The Kilpeck Anthology |
1981 | EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | Not Sold | |
| 885 | Heaney (Seamus) | An important and comprehensive collection of about 35 mostly autograph Signed Letters, Notes and Cards from Heaney to a wide range of associates and correspondents, 1979-2000 approx |
EUR 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 | EUR 5,000.00 | ||
| 886 | Heaney (Seamus) | "The Music of What Happens" Song, Autograph Signed Manuscript of this quintessential Heaney lyric, eight lines and title |
1979 | EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | EUR 2,125.00 | |
| 887 | Heaney (Seamus) | From Five Derry Glosses |
dated September 1989 | EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | EUR 3,250.00 | |
| 888 | Heaney (Seamus) | Alphabets, Typescript |
1984 | EUR 1,500.00 - 1,800.00 | EUR 4,500.00 | |
| 889 | Heaney (Seamus) | Remembering Malibu, A collection of his working papers for this major poem |
-1984 | EUR 3,500.00 - 5,000.00 | EUR 22,500.00 | |
| 890 | Heaney (Seamus) | A Drink of Water |
1979 | EUR 600.00 - 800.00 | EUR 2,000.00 | |
| 891 | Heaney (Seamus) | The Underground |
EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | EUR 2,375.00 | ||
| 892 | Heaney (Seamus) | The Spoonbait |
EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | EUR 2,375.00 | ||
| 893 | Heaney (Seamus) | Dangerous Pavements, card |
[1987] | EUR 400.00 - 600.00 | EUR 1,750.00 | |
| 894 | Address to Daniel O'Connell, at Start of Great Famine |
27 Sept. 1845 | EUR 300.00 - 400.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 895 | [O'Connell (D.;)] | Political Ballad Sheet, O'Connell and Erin Go Bragh' |
London | c. 1844 | EUR 80.00 - 100.00 | EUR 62.50 |
| 896 | Irish Political Prints: Two 20th Century Ameican Portrait Prints, Robert Emmett (The Irish Patriot) |
EUR 200.00 - 300.00 | EUR 450.00 | |||
| 897 | Remembering Trevelyan's Corn Unique Famine Medal |
MDCCCXLVI [1846] | EUR 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 898 | Foster (Cavendish H.) | Home Rule in Co. Louth Broadside Poster: Home Rule - Irishmen |
EUR 120.00 - 160.00 | EUR 325.00 | ||
| 899 | Photograph: [Gallagher New York., 1886] Brigadier General Thomas Francis Meagher, U.S. Army, (born 3 August 1823, died 1 July 1867) |
EUR 200.00 - 300.00 | EUR 400.00 | |||
| 900 | Fine Cork Coloured Printed Poster Political interest: The Shan Van Vocht (Your King and Country Want You Says the Shan Van Vocht) |
Cork | EUR 300.00 - 400.00 | EUR 450.00 | ||
| 901 | Ranson (Canon Joseph) | Co. Wexford: Songs of the Wexford Coast |
Enniscorthy | 1948 | EUR 100.00 - 150.00 | EUR 200.00 |
| 902 | Bigger (Francis Joseph) | 1798: The Northern Leaders of '98 - (No. 1) William Orr |
Dublin | 1906 | EUR 150.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold |
| 903 | O'Cathasaigh (P.) [Sean O'Casey] | Republican interest: The Story of the Irish Citizen Army |
Dublin | 1919 | EUR 150.00 - 220.00 | EUR 312.50 |
| 904 | [SINN FEIN BANK] 1908-1924 and associated concerns, and other concerns |
EUR 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | EUR 9,375.00 |
![<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.")
