Fonsie Mealy's RARE BOOKS & COLLECTIBLES December 7th & 8th, 2021

125 Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 850. Bayly (Henry) A Topographical and Historical Account of Lisburn, also a Poem on Same, Comprehending The Maze - A Satire, 8vo, Belfast (Th. Mairs) 1834, First Edn., dedit, list of subs, 156pps, original cloth backed boards, ptd. label. Scarce. (1) €200 - €300 851. Tyndall (John) Verme og Kulde, sm. 8vo Christiania 1874. First Danish Edn., text illus. hf. mor.; Das Licht, Braunschweig 1895. Second German Edn., engd. port. frontis, hf. mor.; Der Schall, 8vo Third German Edn., illus. pict. cloth backed boards; Fragments of Science, Berlin 1894, cloth. (4) €120 - €160 852. Tyndall (John) Sound. A Course of Eight Lectures. 8vo Lond. 1867. First Edn., hf. title, port. frontis, text illus. orig. cloth; also Seventh Edn. of same work, 2 plts., cloth. (2) €130 - €180 853. Tyndall (John) Heat Considered as a Mode of Motion, Lond. 1865. Second Edn., text illus., full mor. Prize Binding; also Essays on the Floating - Matter of the Air, In relation to Putrefaction and Infection. Second Edn., orig. cloth. Both clean copies. (2) €150 - €200 854. Boyle (Robert) Some Motives and Incentives to the Love of God, Pathetically discoursed of In a Letter to a Friend, 12mo Lond. (For W. Owen, and R. Goadby, at Sherborne) 1752. Library stamps, cont. full calf, rebacked. Good. Fulton 9A. (1) €200 - €300 855. Hayes (Edward) The Ballads of Ireland Collected and Edited, 2 vols., sm. 8vo L. (A. Fullerton & Co.) 1855, Third, engd. frontis and add. title page, hf. leather, blue buckram boards, (by R. Earswell, Belfast), mor. labels. Good Copy. (2) €120 - €140 856. Presentation Copy [Blake (Henry, & his Family)] Letters from the Irish Highlands, Sm. 8vo Lond. (J. Murray) 1825. First Edn., hf. title. Pres. Copy, inscribed to A.G. Moore. Also inscribed on title ‘Earnan’ [O’Malley], later cloth. V. clean copy. (1) * See article in ‘Linen Hall Review’Vol. 8, No. 2/3, by C. Mac An Aili. The author lived at Renvyle House, Connemara. €220 - €350 857. Doyle (J.B.) Tours in Ulster: A Hand-Book to the Antiquities and Scenery of the North of Ireland, 12mo Dublin 1854. First Edn., litho title, & 16 ex. 17, litho plts., recent mor. backed cloth mor. label. (1) €120 - €180 858. Poetry: MacManus (M.J.) Connacht Songs, sq. 12mo D. (Talbot Press) 1927. First Edn., orig. pictorial boards after Sean O’Sullivan; Rackrent Hall and Other Poems, D. 1941, First Edn., boards; Irish Cavalcade 1550-1850, L. & D. 1939. First Edn., Signed by Author, cloth; & 1 other item same author. (4) €70 - €100 859. First Editions Macnamara (Brinsley) The Mirror in the Dusk, D. & L. 1921. First Edn., Signed by Bernard Duffy, cloth; also 1928 London Edition of same, cloth; The Smiling Faces and other Stories, 12mo Lond. 1929. First Edn. cloth backed boards; Return to Ebontheever, Lond. 1930. First Edn., cloth; Margaret Gillan, A Play in Three Acts. Lond. 1934. First Edn., ptd boards; Michael Caravan, Dub. 1946. First Edn., cloth & orig. d.w.; O’Farrell (Padraic) The Burning of Brinsley Macnamara, Dub. 1990. First Edn., pict. boards; & 1 other. (8) €130 - €200 860. Mitchel (John) Poems by James Clarence Mangan, 8vo N. York (P.M. Haverty) 1883. First Edn., cont. brown cloth. Good. (1) €100 - €150 861. Very Attractive Copies Binding: Hamilton (Count A.) Memoirs of Count Grammout, 3 vols. 8vo Lond. (T. Bensley) 1809. Second End., Revised. Engd. frontis port. Vol. I, & others thro.-out, a.e.g., cont. full green mor. gilt fillet borders & spines, & with blind tooled lozengers on all covers. V. good. (3) €120 - €180 862. Signed First Editions O’Connor (Frank) Three Old Brothers and other Poems, roy 8vo Lond. 1936. First Edn., wrappers; Bones of Contention and other Stories, N. York 1936. First American Edn., cloth; Selected Stories, sm. 8vo D. & L. (Maurice Fridberg) 1946. First Edn. Thus, Signed Copy, orig. ptd. wrappers; The Lonely Voice, A Study of the Short Story, Lond. 1963. First English Edn., Signed Copy, cloth & d.w.; The Stories of Frank O’Connor, L. 1963. Signed Copy, cloth & d.w. and An Only child, London 1964. Signed Copy, cloth & orig. d.w. V. good lot. (6) €150 - €200 850 852 862