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

83 Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 591. Limited to 100 Copies Franco (G.) Hibiti D’Huomeni et donne Venetiani 1610, Facsimile Copy. Folio Venice 1878. Lim. Edn., No. 54 of 100 Copies. Port. frontis, decor. title in red & bl. & 40 full page plts. with tissue guards, a.e.g., orig. gilt decor. crimson cloth. V. good. (1) €200 - €300 592. Irish Atlas: Royal Irish Academy - Atlas of Ireland, lg. folio Dublin 1979. First Edn., full page coloured & other maps, orig. prospectus loosely inserted, orig. full green cloth, gilt lettered. V. good. (1) €100 - €150 593. Box: Catalogues A collection of Auction House and Book Dealers Catalogues for Christies, Stokes, de Burcas, & P. & B. Rowan and others, to include a catalogue from the Castle Hackett Sale, as a box lot, w.a.f. (1) €80 - €100 594. Illustrated Volumes: Henry (F.) The Book of Kells, Reproductions, folio L. (Thames & Hudson) 1974, illus, orange cloth and matching clip case; Thomas (Marcel)ed. Les Grandes Heures de Jean de France Duc de Berry, folio Paris (Drayer Freres) 1971, illustrated, cloth and d.j. (2) €120 - €140 595. [Boate (Ger.), Molyneaux (Thos.) & others] The Natural History of Ireland, In Three Parts, 4to Dublin (Geo. Grierson) 1726. First Edn., 10 engd. plts. some fold. (2 in fac-simile) some pps. strengthened at edges, cont. panel calf, rebacked. Scarce. (1) €400 - 600 Auction House Catalogues 596. Irish House Auction Catalogues [Co. Dublin] The Old Glebe, Newcastle, Co. Dublin. Hamilton Osborne King 1989, 19 July. 42pp, 602lots, illus; Cuilin, Alleys River Road, Old Conna, Co. Dublin, re Paul Campbell. H.O.K. 1991, 19 June, 73pp, 615 lots, illus; Rosenbery, Glenageary, Co. Dublin, 26th October 1989; Howth House, Howth, Co. Dublin, late William Ruttle. Ganly Walters, 1989 22-23 Nov., illus. 39pp, 1245 lots; Swynnerton, Brighton Road, Foxrock, Co. Dublin, T.V. Murphy. Hamilton Osborne King, 1988, 26 July, illus., 64pp, 717 lots; Bohomer, St. Doulagh’s Malahide Road, Dublin. H.O.K.; and Glenageary, Co. Dublin, Mrs. Arthur Williams. H.O.K. 1989, 26 Oct., illus., 54pp, 566 lots. As a lot, w.a.f. (6) €180 - €220 597. Auction Catalogues Important Old Master Paintings etc., Collection of a Gentleman. Town & Country Estates, 27-28 Clare St., Dublin 1960, 9 Nov. profusely illus., some prices and buyers written in. Includes work attributed to Goya, Manet, Jordaens, Raeburn, Rubens, Jan Steen, Turner, Robert Walker (portrait of Cromwell) etc., 88pp, 112 lots; Objets d’Art, Furniture, Oil Paintings, an Outstanding collection of Period Silver etc. at The Orchard, Shankill, Co. Dublin, by order of W.J.B. MacAuley esq., Hamilton & Hamilton 1960, 4-5 Oct., 23pp, 284 lots; Contents of 62 Fitzwilliam Square, Dublin, by direction of Miss Kathleen Kennedy, Osborne King & Megran 1966, 19 July, illus., 15pp, 310 lots (some good furniture). (3) €80 - €120 598. Auction Catalogues: Chester Beatty (Alfred) etc: Period Furniture, Pictures, Objects of Art, and Vertu, from 10 Ailesbury Rd, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4, and from Clonmannon, Ashford, Co. Wicklow,” Sold by Direction of the Executors of the late A. Chester Beatty, on 14th & 15th May, 1968, and on 21st May, 1968. Both catalogues illustrated, first one priced, orig. ptd. wrappers; also catalogue again for Clonmannon House, Ashford, Co. Wicklow, on 25th October, 1979, when sold on behalf of Mrs. Frances P. Wilby, illustrated and partly priced, printed boards. As a lot, w.a.f. (3) €200 - €300 599. Auction Catalogues Sotheby & Co. Valuable Printed Books, Manuscripts etc., property of Lt.-Col. Ralph Isham, the Countess of Kenmare, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle & others. 1930, 16-19 June, 115pp, 816 lots. Includes Isham’s well- known and comprehensive Goldsmith collection; Sotheby & Co. Printed Books, Autograph letters, Literary manuscripts etc.. formerly the property of Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881. 1932, 13-14 June, 313 lots. 5pp, orig. printed wrapper, stapled. P.S. O’Hegarty’s copy. Scarce; Sotheby & Co. The Valuable Library formed by the late Dr. T.P.C. Kirkpatrick of Dublin. Second and Final Portion: Books Printed in Ireland of Irish Interest. 1955, 28-29 November, 307 lots. Orig. printed wrappers, 40pp, stapled. A substantial Irish library, mainly historical but including much by Goldsmith and some Joyce and Yeats. Fine copy. As a lot, w.a.f. (3) €200 - €300 595 596 597 591