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

16 Imperfections Not Stated Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 69. Rolls Series: Brewer (J.S.) & Bullen (Wm.)ed. Calendar of the Carew Manuscripts, 1601 - 1603, sm. thick folio L. 1870. First Edn., unopened, orig. cloth backed boards. Good. (1) €130 - €180 70. Illustrated Children’s Books: Adams (Frank) Illustrator , Old Time Rhymes, lg. 4to L. (Blackie & Co.) 1915. 35 full page mtd. cold. prints cloth; Birkdale (Eleanor Flortescue) Golden Book of Famous Women, 4to L. n.d. Fine mtd. cold. plts., gilt pict. cloth, & orig. d.w.; Sowerby (M. & G.) Cinderella, 4to L. n.d., mtd. cold. plts., pict. boards; Neilson (Harry B.) Droll Doings, L. (Blackie) n.d. cold. plts. & illus. thro.-out, pict. boards. Good lot. (4) €200 - €300 71. Warburton (J.), Whitelaw (Rev.J.) & Welsh (Rev. R.) History of the City of Dublin, 2 vols. lg. 4to Lond. 1818, 2 Engd. plan frontis (1 fold.), lg. fold. map of Canals in Ireland, fold. Plan of Botanic Gardens, & 24 full page plts., fac-similes, plans etc., text browned, cont. hf. mor. (2) €250 - €350 72. Petrie (Geo.)ed. The Petrie Collection of Ancient Music of Ireland, Vol. I, folio Dublin 1855, hf. mor. worn; Lover (Sam.) The Low Backed Car, lg. 4to Lond. 1890, illus. with photogravures & drawings, decor. cloth; Ramsay (Allan) The Gentle Shepherd - A Pastoral Comedy, lg. 4to Edin. 1880. Attractive plts., decor. cloth, gilt; O’Sullivan (D.) Songs of the Irish, 4to D. 1960, d.w.; Sullivan (Sir Ed.) The Book of Kells, 4to L. & N.Y. (Studio) 1952. Illus., & d.w. (5) €120 - €180 73. [Harris (Walter)]ed. Hibernica: or Some Ancient Pieces relating to Ireland,... Folio Dublin (Ed. Bate) 1747. First Edn., printed list of subscribers loosely inserted, full cont. calf, rebacked, tooled gilt spine laid down, new mor. label. V. good copy. (1) €225 - €350 74. Mortimer (J.R.) Forty Years’ Researches in British and Saxon Burial Mounds of East Yorkshire, Folio Lond. 1905. First Edn., fine cold. frontis fold. cold. map, 125 plts. text illus., errata slip, orig. mor. backed cloth boards. V. good copy. (1) €160 - €240 75. With Illustrations by Louis le Brocquy Synge (J.M.) The Playboy of the Western World, folio Barre, Massachusetts (Imprint Society) 1970 Lim. Edn. 1950 Copies. Signed by artist L. le Brocquy, fine cold. illus., orig. gilt décor. yellow cloth, & matching slip case. V. good. (1) €200 - €300 76. With Fine Coloured Illustrations [Clarke (Harry)] Poe (Edgar Allan) Tales of Mystery and Imagination , lg. 4to L .nd. with 32 fine cold. & black and white mtd. illus. etc., by Harry Clarke, gilt cloth, with overlaid pict. label. Good. (1) €150 - €220 77. Co. Sligo: [O’Flanagan (M.)ed] Ordnance Survey - Name Books No 117, Achonry to Killaraght, and No. 118, Kilaspugbrone to Toomour, 2 vols. 4to Typescript, n.d. (c. 1940), orig. cloth, gilt lettered spines. (2) €150 - €200 78. Signed Limited Edition West (Rebecca) & Low (David)illus. The Modern Rakes Progress, 4to L. (Hutchinson & Co.) 1934, Signed Limited Edition No. 58 (250) Copies, double page coloured illustrations, leather backed green cloth. Good copy. (1) €120 - €180 79. With Le Brocquy Illustrations Kinsella (Thomas)trans. The Tain, from the Irish Tain Bo Cuailnge, sm. folio, D. (Dolmen Press) 1969, Ltd. Edn., illustrated by Louis le Brocquy, black cloth, silvered lettered spine, decor. dust jacket (some wear), otherwise good, decor. slip case. (1) €350 - €450 80. Joyce (James) Haveth Childers Everywhere, lg. 8vo, Paris & N.Y. (Henry Babou & Jack Kahane, The Fountain Press) 1930, Ltd. Edn. of 500 copies, uncut Vidolgz Royal, ptd. wrappers, spine split. [Slocum and Cahoon 41]. (1) €200 - €300 71 79 73 78