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Prices Dec.2011)

The Duke of

Ormonde Binding

Realised €7,400

Titanic Tragedy

Margaret Rice & Her Boys

Original Photograph

Realised € 2,600

 

The Harland & Wolff

Shipyard Ledgers

Realised €33,600

Lady Lavery Letter

about Michael Collins

Realised €2,400

The Howard Bury Archive

of Diaries & Letters

Realised €8,400

{O'Casey (Sean) }

"The Grand Oul' Dame Brittania"

Realised €6,000

Original 1916 Proclamation

Of The Irish Republic

Realised € 66,000

Michael Collins

Collection of Letters 1920

Realised € 16,800

Dunraven's Notes on

Irish Architecture

Realised €5,300

Early Irish Manuscript

Realised €5,300

Coldridge (Sara)

Phantasmion

Signed & Annotated

Realised €5,100

Lady Louisa Connolly Diaries

Realised € 5,000

Synge (J.M.)

One of The Author's

Last Letters

Realised € 8,500

 

Rare Books, Bram Stoker Dracula

Lot 772

Stoker (Bram)

"Dracula"

First Edition

Realised: € 4,800

 

Yeats (W.B)

Archive of Letters

Realised € 7500

Cuala Press Broadsides

J.B. Yeats Set

Realised €12,000

Lady Gregory's Copy Of J.M. Synge's The Aran Islands

Realised €11,000

Brocas (H.)

View Of Charleville,

Enniskerry, Co. Wicklow

Realised €3,500

The Book Of Kells

Facsimile Edition

Realised € 8,500

Fisher (Johnathan)

Killarney (Colured Plates)

Realised €11,000

Orlandi (J)

The British Isles

Realised € 2,500

Clarke (Harry) Illus.

Fairy Tales

Realised € 2,500

Rackham (Arthur)Illus.

Aesop's Fables

Realised € 1,000

Joyce (James)

Signed Limited Edition

Tales Told Of Shem

and Shaun

Realised € 4,200

Mount Congreve

Library Catalogue

Realised €1,600

Rare Books, Sean O'Casey Manuscripts  Letters

Important Collection of Sean O'Casey Letters

Realised: € 12,000

Rare Books, Ulysses

Joyce (James)

"Ulysses"

Limited & Numbered

First Edition

Realised € 10,500

Rare Book, Patrick Kavanagh Poems

Kavanagh (Patrick)

"Ploughman & Other Poems"

 

Realised € 2,160

 

Rare Book Flann O'Brien, Brian O'Nolan

The Flann O'Brien Correspondence

Realised € 26,400

Rare Book, The Tain

The Tain

Special Limited Edn.

Realised: € 7,200

Rare Books, Cuala Press Visitors Book, Manuscript, Rare Book

Cuala Press Visitors Book 1908 - 1928

Sold for € 20,500

 

 

Countess Markievicz Revolver

Realised € 9,000

Rare Book Kevin Barry Last  Letter

Kevin Barry's Last Letter

Realised € 87,000

Rare Book Bloody Sunday Ball 1920

Bloody Sunday 1920
Match Day Ball

Realised €30,000

 

Rare Book, Amhran Na bhFiann Manuscript

'Amhran Na bhFiann, the earliest autographed handwritten copy of the

Irish National Anthem -

Realised €760,000

 

Rare Books, Illustrated Books

 Joyce (James) & Matisse (Henri)

"Ulysses" Signed & Limited

Realised € 8,400

 

Rare Book Tailor & Ansty

"The Tailor & Ansty"

Original Typescript

Realised: € 6,000

Rare Books, Important Irish Binding

'Magnificent modern masterpiece, Chambers (William) A Treatise on Civil Architecture... London 1768.

Realised €13,000

Rare Book Early GAA Medal

"The GAA American Invasion Medal 1888"

Realised € 3,200

Rare Book, Charles Darwin

Darwin (Charles)

"Geology & Natural History"

First Edition

Realised: € 3,600

 

Rare Book,Antiquarian Book

Carve (Thomas)

"Tipperariensis"

Moguntiae 1639

Realised: € 9,000

 

The Sean MacDiarmada 1916 medal

                                               SEAN MAC DIARMADA

1916 Combatants Medal

Realised: € 110,000

Signed Programme- Munsters Win

Over the All Blacks 1978

Realised €3,000

Rare Book, Charles Langham Botanical Drawings

Sir Charles Langham

Botanical Watercolour Collection

Realised €11,000

Rare Book James Joyce

One of 29 Copies

Signed by James Joyce

& his daughter

Realised: € 18,000

 

Rare Book Kilkenny All Ireland 1904

Kilkenny's First All-Ireland Hurling Medal 1904

Realised: € 5,100

Rare Boo Mercers Hospital 1920 Manuscript Ledger

The Mercers Hospital Register of Operations 1910-1920

Realised € 2,500

"Man On The Moon",

Signed By All Three Astronauts

Realised  €1,600

Rare Book, The Curragh Camp Plans 1858

The Formation of the

Curragh Camp 1858

Realised € 2,900

 

Rare Book Seamus Heaney, Ugolino

Seamus Heaney's

"Ugolino"

Realised: € 3,800

1896 All-Ireland Hurling Medal (Tipperary)

Realised €2,900

 

1940 All-Ireland Hurling Programme

Realised € 1,500

 

Rare Book Ormonde Estate Atlas

The Ormonde Estate Atlases

Realised € 29,000

 

 

Rare Books, Stoke Rochford Drawings

Stoke Rochford Watercolours

Realised €9,600

 

Rare Books, The Tain- Louis Le Brocquy

"The Tain"

Limited Edition of 50

Realised € 1500

 

Rare Books, Important GAA Archive

Important Laois G.A.A

Hurling Archive

Realised 12,000

 

Rare Books, First All-Ireland Football Final 1887

First ever All-Ireland Football Medal, 1887 Won by Limerick Commercials

Realised €28,000

 

Rare Books, An original Lock of Oscar Wilde's Hair

Described as 'Unique Memento - An original Lock of Oscar Wilde's Hair. Realised €6,500

 

 

Highly Important Sales


"An 18th Century Irish Gentleman’s Library"

April 24th, 2012

 

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“Ireland’s Struggle”

April 25th 2012

~To Include~

Irish Republican & Historical Material
Original Manuscripts, Books, Artifacts & Other Items
& Some Titanic interest
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Still Accepting Suitable Items for this Sale

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Upcoming Sales & Events 2012

 

"The Gentleman's Library"

April 24th , 2012

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“Ireland’s Struggle”

April 25th, 2012

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The Irish Times with

Michael Parsons Review

at Mealys Rare Books

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