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

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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
76 Williams (C.W.)

Observations on the Inland Navigation of Ireland, and the The Want of Employment for its Population, with a Description of The River Shannon

London 1833 EUR 140.00 - 180.00 EUR 156.25
77 Steele (Thomas)

Navigation of the Shannon

London 1827 EUR 160.00 - 230.00 EUR 312.50
78 O'Driscoll (W. Justin)

A Memoir of Daniel Maclise, R.A.,

 London 1871 EUR 70.00 - 100.00 EUR 75.00
79 Agriculture: Young (Arthur)

A Course of Experimental Agriculture: Containing An exact Register of all the Business Transacted during Five Years on nearly Three Hundred Acres of various Soils, 4 vols.

1771 EUR 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
80 Brewer (J.N.)

The Beauties of Ireland, 2 vols.

London 1825 EUR 140.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
81

Limited Edition Shakespeare Head : Bronte: The Brontes: Their Lives, Friendships & Correspondence, 4 vols.

 Oxford 1932-1938 EUR 130.00 - 180.00 EUR 150.00
82 Plummer (Charles)

Vitae Sanctorum Hiberniae, 2 vols. Oxfod 1910 & Bethada Naem n Erenn - Lives of the Irish Saints, 2 vols.

Oxford 1922 EUR 80.00 - 130.00 EUR 87.50
83 The Limited Signed Edition of His Works Moore (George)

Works, including Memoirs of My Dead Life

 London 1921 EUR 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
84 Stuart (James)

Historical Memoirs of the City of Armagh, Newry 1819

EUR 70.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
85

Irish Map: Index to the Townland Survey of the County of Longford, fold., linen backed, hand coloured

 Dublin 1838 EUR 75.00 - 125.00 EUR 81.25
86

Yeats (W.B.)ed. Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry,

London 1888 EUR 80.00 - 120.00 EUR 156.25
87 Yeats (W.B.)

Mosada, Shannon Reprint 1970; others by W.B. Yeats, Jack B Yeats, Douglas Hyde, O. St. Gogarty, F. O'Connor,... (81)

EUR 500.00 - 700.00 Not Sold
88 Agriculture: Johnston (J.)

Irish Agriculture in Transition, D. 1951; Kelly (Fergus) Early Irish Farming

 Dublin 1998 EUR 75.00 - 120.00 Not Sold
89 Irish Canals & Waterways: Delaney (R.)

The Grand Canal of Ireland, 1973

 1973 EUR 120.00 - 170.00 EUR 125.00
90 Smith (Adam)

An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, 3 vols.

London 1811 EUR 160.00 - 220.00 EUR 187.50
91 Brown (James)

The Forester, A Practical Treatise on the Planting and Tending of Forest Trees and the General Management of Woodland Estates, 2 vols.

 Edinburg & London 1894 EUR 80.00 - 130.00 EUR 87.50
92 With Coloured Illustrations by the Author Yeats (Jack B.)

Life in the West of Ireland, 4to

Dublin 1912 EUR 550.00 - 750.00 EUR 625.00
93

Fishing: Fly-Fisher's Classic Library - Blacker's Art of Fly-Making

 Devon 1994 EUR 120.00 - 180.00 EUR 175.00
94

Co. Leitrim: Visitor's Book for The Bush Hotel, Carrick-on-Shannon, Co. Leitrim

c. 1926-1946 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
95

Manuscript: Wesleyan Minute Book. A small quarto manuscript Album recording 'Resolutions of the Teachers' at Horwich Wesleyan S.S. (Sunday School), 1857-1873

1857-1873 EUR 80.00 - 120.00 EUR 87.50
96 Very Attractive Clean Set Hall (Mr. & Mrs. S.C.)

Ireland: its Scenery, Character, etc., 3 vols.

 London 1841 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 225.00
97 John M. Synge

The Works of John M. Synge, 4vols. 8vo

 Dublin 1910 EUR 180.00 - 250.00 EUR 162.50
98 Astronomy: Smyth (Capt. Wm. H.)

A Cycle of Celestial Objects, For the Use of Naval, Military and Private Astronomers. Vol. I 'Prolegomena,' Vol. II, 'The Bedford Catalogue.' 2 vols.

London 1844 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
99 Chambers (Geo. F.)

A Cycle of Celestial Objects, Observed Reduced and Discussed.

Oxford 1881 EUR 80.00 - 130.00 Not Sold
100

The Shannon etc.: Hayward - Where the River Shannon Flows, Dundalk 1950; Delaney (Ruth) By Shannon Shores

 Dublin 1987 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 60.00
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