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

137 Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 933. Tuer (AndrewW.) History of the Horn Book, small folio Lond. 1897. Engd. frontis hd. cold. vignette on title, approx. 300 illus., & with 2 horn books (ex 3 lacks ivory example) in pocket at end, in fine crushed mor. by Bayntun. (1) €160 - €240 934. Engraved Plates: Views in the East (India), sm. folio Lond (Fisher Son & Co.) c. 1830-1835. Thirty six engraved views, all exceptionally clean, bound without title or preliminaries, in cont. full green mor. tooled gilt fillets and blind tooling, profusely gilt spine in panels. V. clean copy. As a coll. of plts., w.a.f. (1) €200 - €300 935. Ordnance Survey: Co. Offaly - [O’Donovan (John)] Letters containing information relative to the Antiquities of the County of Offaly, Collected during .. the Ordnance Survey in 1839. 2 vols. in One, 4to Bray 1933. Typescript, Reproduced under the direction of Rev. M. O’Flanagan, Bray 1933, maps and plans & illus., orig. green cloth. Good. (1) €150 - €200 936. Ordnance Survey: Co. Wexford - [O’Donovan (John)] Letters Containing information relative to the Antiquities of the County of Wexford, Collected during .. the Ordnance Survey in 1840. 2 vols. in One, 4to Bray 1933. Typescript reproduced under direction of Rev. M. O’Flanagan. Illus. etc. orig. green cloth. Good. (1) €150 - €200 937. One of 28 Copies Only Bradley (John)ed. Viking Dublin Exposed, The Wood Quay Saga, 8vo D. (The O’Brien Press) 1984, Signed Limited Edition No. 9 (28) copies, also Signed by the contributors including R. Haworth, Peter J. Walsh, F.X. Martin etc., illus., mor. backed boards, matching slipcase. Scarce. (1) €350 - €450 938. Mc Avera (Brian) Patrick Pye, Life and Work A Counter - Cultural Story, lg. 4to D. (Four Courts Press) 2013, Signed by Author and Artist on hf. title, illus., cloth and d.j. (1) €120 - €180 939. Signed by Eamon de Valera O’Curry (Eugene) Lectures on The Manuscript Materials of Ancient Irish History, Dublin 1861. First Edn., hf. title, 26 plts. orig. cloth. Title page Signed by ‘Eamon de Valera’, in recent slipcase; also Hennessy (Wm. M.) Chronicum Scotorum, A Chronicle of Irish Affairs. Roy 8vo Lond. 1866. First Edn., fold. cold. frontis, recent cloth. (2) €220 - €320 940. Ordnance Survey: Co. Tipperary - [O’Donovan (John)] Letters Containing information relative to the Antiquities of the County of Tipperary, Collected during .. Ordnance Survey in 1840, 3 vols. 4to Bray 1930. Typescript reproduced under direction of Rev. Michael O’Flanagan. Illus. etc., orig. green cloth. V. good set. (3) €220 - €350 941. Genealogy: Hill (Rev. Geo.) An Historical Account of the Macdonnells of Antrim: Including Notices on some other Septs, Irish and Scottish. 4to Belfast 1873. First Edn. cloth, worn. (1) €100 - €150 942. Sheridan (Noel)comp. N.C.A.D. Drawings 1746-1996, sm. folio, Belfast (Nicholson and Bass) 1996, illus., leather backed marble boards by Sidney Aiken, mor. labels. Good Copy; Murray (Peter)comp. The Crawford Municipal Art Gallery, 4to, Belfast (Nicholson & Bass) 1992, First Edn., illus., hf. leather, marble boards, mor. labels, by Sidney Aiken in matching slipcase. Good Copy. (2) €180 - €220 943. With Illustrations by Le Brocquy Le Brocquy (Louis) & Donnelly (Marie) et al, Eight Irish Portraits in Words and Watercolour, 4to D. (Michael Molloy) 1990, Ltd. Edn. No. 708 (1000), Signed by the Author, in cloth portfolio and matching slip case. (1) €400 - €600 944. Collingwood (W.G.) Northcumbrian Crosses of the Pre-Norman Age, folio Lond. 1927. First Edn., illus. thro-out, orig. cloth. (1) €80 - €120 945. Signed Limited Edition West (Annie) Yeats in Love, 4to, D. (New Island) 2014, Signed and Limited No. 181 (200) Copies illustrated, cream cloth, pictorial decoration and matching slip case, (minor staining) otherwise good copy. (1) €180 - €220 937 943 & detail 945