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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.

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Auction Name 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. Total Sales (EUR) 77,831.25
Auction Date April 24, 2024 - April 24, 2024 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 52,420.00
Sale Number #42424 High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 74,825.00
Total Lots 710
Sold Lots 390 Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 91,580.00
% of Lots Sold 54.93% High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 130,965.00
Unsold Lots 320 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 59.43%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
568 Signed by Cormac Mc Carthy Mc Carthy (Cormac)

Outer Dark

1968 EUR 250.00 - 300.00 EUR 2,312.50
395 Banks (Iain M)

Set of First Editions Cleaning Up

1987 EUR 450.00 - 550.00 EUR 1,937.50
626 Manchester United Home Games (1949-1969)

Soccer: Programmes, Manchester United, F.C. [1949-1969], a large collection of Official issued Match Programmes 'United Review' from Season 1949/50 - 1969/70

1949-1969 EUR 300.00 - 400.00 EUR 1,750.00
71 M'Parlan (James)

Statistical Survey of the County Leitrim, With Observations on The Means of Improvement,... by Order of The Dublin Society.

1802 EUR 300.00 - 400.00 EUR 1,375.00
486

Paper Currency, Bank Notes, etc: An extensive collection of varied International Bank Notes & Paper Currency contained mostly in 6 large albums, England, Europe, Germany, Spain, Russia etc.

EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 1,200.00
309

Rare Auction Catalogues - 1856 Bindon Blood, of Ennis, Co. Clare: Sotheby & Wilkinson - Catalogue of he First Portion, - [Second and Concluding Portion] of the Very Extensive and Valuable Library, 2 vols.

1856 EUR 320.00 - 450.00 EUR 900.00
69 Fine Clean Copy Stanihurst (Richard)

De Rebus in Hibernia Gestis, Libri Quattuor,

1584 EUR 525.00 - 750.00 EUR 875.00
441 Harry Clarke's Copy Beechey (H. Wm.)

The Literary Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds, Vol. I (ex 2)

1835 EUR 45.00 - 75.00 EUR 875.00
578

Periodical: Thoms Directory, 1859-1900, together 10 vols.

1859-1900 EUR 350.00 - 450.00 EUR 750.00
121

Irish Land Owners: Return of Owners of Land of One Acre and Upwards, in the Several Counties, Counties of Cities, and Counties of Towns in Ireland, To which is added a Summary for Each Province and For All Ireland.

1876 EUR 180.00 - 240.00 EUR 725.00
565 Signed Limited Edition Mc Carthy (Cormac)

Cities of the Plain

1998 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 700.00
405 Barnes (Julian)

Nine First UK Editions. Cross Channel,

1996 EUR 600.00 - 700.00 EUR 675.00
700

Postcards: [1916 Sinn Fein Rising] A collection of 40 pen Photograph Postcards, issued by Powell Press, Valentine and Colemans, ...

EUR 400.00 - 500.00 EUR 675.00
92 With Coloured Illustrations by the Author Yeats (Jack B.)

Life in the West of Ireland, 4to

1912 EUR 550.00 - 750.00 EUR 625.00
477 Signed by Cormac Mc Carthy McCarthy (Cormac)

Cities of the Plain,

1998 EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00 EUR 625.00
695

Stamp Collection: A good collection of mostly early English, Irish, Continental, & World generally some Japanese & some North & South America, N. Borneo, etc.

c. 1840 - 1920 EUR 350.00 - 500.00 EUR 625.00
105 With Fine Coloured Plates Couts (Joseph)

A Practical Guide for the Tailor's Cutting-Room; being Treatise on Measuring and Cutting Clothing in all Styles...

n.d. [1848] EUR 350.00 - 500.00 EUR 612.50
335 Hamilton (G.A.), Daniel O'Connell, J.B. West & Rob. Hutton, [Candidates]

An Alphabetical List of the Constituency of the City of Dublin, with Residence,... and Profession of Each Voter.. at the Elections of 1832, 1835 and 1837

EUR 80.00 - 130.00 EUR 600.00
169

Photographs: Large collection of over 120 large Photographs of Ireland, some original, some modern copies of Lawrence, some aerial views, Armagh, Antrim, Donegal, Dublin, Wicklow, Galway, Limerick, Cork, Cavan, Sligo, etc., etc.,

EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 575.00
365 Lewis (Samuel)

A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, 2vols.lg.

1837 EUR 250.00 - 350.00 EUR 575.00
687 Longley (Michael)

Out Here, original m/ss Poem, signed,; Ceilidh, broadside

2003 EUR 550.00 - 650.00 EUR 575.00
614

Postcards: A very large collection of varied Postcards, mostly postally used and mainly to Cork or Waterford, cards of Cork, Dublin & Northern Ireland interest,

EUR 300.00 - 400.00 EUR 537.50
622

Early Directories Periodicals: Thoms Directory, 1852, 1862, 1871, 1887, 1888, 1889, 1892, 1912, 1921, 1925 & 1926,

1852-1926 EUR 350.00 - 500.00 EUR 537.50
236 Genealogy: Archdall (Mervyn)

Lodge's Peerage of Ireland: or, A Genealogical History of the Present Nobility of that Kingdom, 7 vols.

1789 EUR 450.00 - 650.00 EUR 531.25
68 [Mavor (Wm.)]

A General Collection of Voyages and Travels from the Discovery of America to the Commencement of the Nineteenth Century, 28 vols. (complete)

1810 EUR 300.00 - 400.00 EUR 512.50
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