Rare Book & Collectors' Sale 1st & 2nd October 2025

63 Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 529. A Corkman’s Voyage to NewYork in the Year of the Titanic Co. Cork: Manuscript: A fascinating eight-page M/ss Journal of a Voyage to New York aboard the RMS Baltic from 17 to 20 September 1912. The Baltic, once the world’s largest ship, was a White Star liner that sailed the Atlantic between 1904 and 1933. She was involved in several dramatic incidents, including sending the famous iceberg warning to Titanic. The writer, who signs with his initials ‘’B.H.’’ is thought to be Benjamin Haughton (1855 - 1932), a Quaker merchant of Cork who worked actively on behalf of various charitable organisations in the city; he was a member of the Senate of the Irish Free State from 1922 to 1928. On the voyage he was accompanied by his daughter Marjorie, whose 19th birthday was celebrated the day before their arrival. Fellow-passengers includedWilliam Redmond, the passionate Irish nationalist MP and inveterate traveller, the socialite Adele Countess of Essex, and the former Bishop of Ripon William Boyd Carpenter, who preached a lugubrious sermon after a fireman named Doyle threw himself overboard and drowned. There are comments on fellow passengers and on the entertainments provided, which included lectures by two celebrated missionaries, Henry Hodgkin on ‘’China’’ and Ralph Wardlow Thompson on ‘’The Menace of Moslemism’’ As a m/ss. Rare. (1) €200 - €300 530. An 18th Century Sea Shanty Poetry: Naval Interest : [Anon] An 18th Century Manuscript Poem written by a Sailor in the Royal Navy addressed to his beloved Mary, written in two parts, each comprising four verses of six lines. In the first he speaks of his imminent departure, urges Mary to resist those who might court her in his absence, and subsequently speaks of the dangers and temptations that surround him, and exhorts her to remain true. The second part echoes the Sailor’s return and the reuniting, Signed 1792 and 1799, J.D., as a manuscript paper, w.a.f. V. unusual. (1) €100 - €150 531. Waterford Harbour Commissioners : A group of six Printed Posters issued principally by Hugh N. Nevins, Secretary, mostly requesting tenders for Ballast, Repairs, for Flannel for inside clothing, one for Raising the wreck of the ‘Hannah’ from where it now lies, others are warnings etc., all for the year 1875. As a collection, w.a.f. (1) €200 - €300 532. Postcards: R.M.S. ‘Leinster,’ coloured poster type card, posted to Dalkey, March 11th, 1906; another card City of Dublin Steam Packet - R.M.S. ‘Leinster,’ cold. litho card, posted July 1913; & a fold. prospectus for Fishguard - Cork Direct Service in NewMotor Vessel ‘Innisfallen,’ July 1938, 3 folds, - 6 sides. As a lot, w.a.f. V. good. (3) €60 - €90 529 534 532 (Welch) Robert, Photographer: Six photographic Prints of the Titanic by Robert Welch (1859-1936), who had been commissioned by Harland &Wolff to record the construction of the famous liner, her sister ship the Olympic, and the Britannic. Three record sections of the ship, with detailed descriptions of furnishing and fittings on the back, one signed with initials R.W.: · H1725 R.W.: “One of the 2 Dutch rooms, oak inlaid with mahogany …” · H1728 R.W.: “Adams Room looking into Queen Anne (?) Room, Titanic ….” · H1731 R.W.: “The (Millionaire’s) private promenade” on B. deck. Also three smaller prints showing the Titanic leaving her berth and sailing through Belfast Lough. * Robert Welch is renowned for his photography of Irish natural history, archaeological sites and national monuments, besides his work for Harland &Wolff. These prints, however, are unique in that they bear his own personal observations on the reverse. (6) €800 - €1200 533. Iconic photographs of the Titanic by official photographer, with his Manuscript Notes