Fonsie Mealy Auctioneers: Spring Rare Book & Collectors' Timed Auction. Rare & Antiquarian Books: to include the Residue from the Library of the Late Dr. Philip Murray, Sligo and Select items from Other Private Clients., 42424, Kilkenny

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
April 24, 2024 - April 24, 2024
Page Size: 710 items in 29 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
26 Rose (Sir Alex)

My Lively Lady

 Hampshire 1968 EUR 50.00 - 70.00 Not Sold
27 Barry (Com. T.)

Guerrilla Days in Ireland, Cork 1955, illus., cloth &d.j.; Hogan (D.) The Four Glorious Years

Dublin 1953 EUR 80.00 - 120.00 EUR 87.50
28 McLaverty (Michael)

Call My Brother Back

 Dublin 1970 EUR 30.00 - 40.00 EUR 32.50
29 [Boate (Ger.) Molyneux (Thos.)etc.]

A Natural History of Ireland, in Three Parts

 Dublin 1726 EUR 100.00 - 150.00 EUR 112.50
30 Davy (Sir Humphry)

Elements of Agricultural Chemistry, In a Course of Lectures for The Board of Agriculture.

London 1814 EUR 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
31 Thicknesse (Philip)

A Years Journey through France and Part of Spain, 2 vols.

 London 1789 EUR 70.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
32 Wilde (W.R.)

Catalogues of the Antiquities .. in the Museum of the Royal Irish Academy, 2 vols.

Dublin 1857 & 1861 EUR 60.00 - 90.00 EUR 62.50
33 Beckett (Samuel).

Murphy.

1947 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
34

Modern Irish Poetry, Some of Wexford interest etc: Montague (John) The Rough Field, D. 1974; Casey (Philip) Dialogue in Fading Light, 2005; Wall (Eamon) A Tour of Your Country, Co. Clare 2008, ...

 EUR 70.00 - 120.00 EUR 75.00
35 [Charles Wain]

A Miscellany of Short Stories,

 London 1933 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 218.75
36 Irish Literature etc: Murphy (R.)

The Battle of Aughrim

 London 1968 EUR 40.00 - 70.00 EUR 106.25
37

Medical interest: Dublin Hospitals Reports, 26th - 40th Report, bound as one

 1884-1898 EUR 35.00 - 50.00 EUR 218.75
38 La Fontaine Pauly (Alphonse)

Oeuvres de J. de La Fontaine, d'Apres les textes originaux. 4 vols. (Vols. I - IV)

Paris 1875 EUR 140.00 - 200.00 EUR 125.00
39 Toplady (Augustus)

Historic Proof of the Doctrinal Calvinism of the Church of England, 2 vols.

London 1774 EUR 30.00 - 40.00 EUR 31.25
40 Dickens (Charles)

Our Mutual Friend, 2 vols.

London 1865 EUR 80.00 - 120.00 EUR 87.50
41

St. Brendan: Benedict - The Anglo-Norman Voyage of St. Brendan

Oxford 1928 EUR 60.00 - 90.00 EUR 62.50
42 Barton(B.H.)

& Castle (Thos.) The British Flora Medica:... Medicinal Plants of Great Britain.

London 1877 EUR 70.00 - 100.00 EUR 112.50
43 Sadler (Michael Thomas)

Ireland; Its Evils, and their Remedies: ... Errors of the Emigration Committee... A Synopsis .. on The Law of Population.

London 1828 EUR 80.00 - 120.00 EUR 93.75
44 McGahern (J.)

The Collected Stories

London 1992 EUR 30.00 - 50.00 EUR 32.50
45 Dickens (Charles)

The Mystery of Edwin Drood

London 1870 EUR 80.00 - 130.00 EUR 100.00
46

Bibliographical interest: Catalogue of The Scientific Books in The Library of The Royal Society

London 1839 EUR 40.00 - 70.00 Not Sold
47 Maty (M.)

Miscellaneous Works o the late ... Earl of Chesterfield, 3 vols.

Dublin 1777 EUR 80.00 - 120.00 Not Sold
48 MacNeven (Wm. J.)

Pieces of Irish History, illustrative of the Condition of the Catholics of Ireland, of The Origin and Progress of the Political System of the United Irishmen;

New York 1807 EUR 70.00 - 100.00 EUR 75.00
49 With Illustrations by Bewick Thompson (James)

The Seasons, Roy

London 1805 EUR 100.00 - 150.00 EUR 112.50
50

I.M.C.- Correspondence of Emily, Duchess of Leinster (1731-1814), Edited by Brian Fitzgerald. 3 vols.

 Dublin 1949, 1953 & 1957 EUR 180.00 - 240.00 Not Sold
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