Fine Arts: Your very own copy of the Book of Kells for €2,000-€3,000

Fonsie Mealy’s Rare Books and Collectors Timed Online Auction this week has a 1950 facsimile of the manuscript for sale, as well as a 1798 Dublin edition of Doctor Johnston’s Dictionary

Bound volumes of the works of Jonathan Swift, Quarto Edition (€1,500-€2,000)

Fonsie Mealy’s Rare Books and Collectors Timed Online Auction this week caters for every taste, be it for antiquarian books, literature, travel, military history, sport or the movies. Leading the sale is one of the 500 copies of the 1950 facsimile of the Book of Kells. Ireland’s national treasure, this is an illuminated manuscript depicting the four gospels of the New Testament, created by monks in the 9th century. In three volumes, it is gloriously ...