A copy of Thomas Sadlier and Page Dickinson’s Georgian Mansions in Ireland. One of 700 copies of the first, limited edition of 1915, it was sold for €480 (£415) by Fonsie Mealy.
Some 150 lots of books formed part of a recent Irish auction held at Fortgranite, Baltinglass, in Co Wicklow, the home for over 200 years of the Dennis family.
However, it was an odd avian volume that far outsold everything else in this section and but for a large Irish hunting table would have proved the day’s most expensive lot overall.