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

92 Imperfections Not Stated Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 667. A Swimming Pool in the Castle Co. Kilkenny: Pettit (E.G.)eng. Kilkenny Corporation Proposed Swimming Pool, Preliminary Report, 8vo Cork 1964, folding plan, ptd. wrappers; together with blue print Plan of the Castle Gardens, Kilkenny. As a lot, w.a.f. (1) €150 - €220 668. Pamphlet: Huskisson (W.) The Question Concerning the Depreciation of Our Currency Stated and Examined, 8vo L. 1810. First Edn., hf. title, XIX, 154pp uncut, disbound. Scarce. (1) € 150 - €200 670. LordWaterford’s Coming of Age, 1896 Photograph: Large mounted Photo by Poole of Waterford, taken on the steps of the garden front at Curraghmore for the coming of age of the 6th Marquis of Waterford in September 1896, showing members of the house party, including LordWaterford, his invalid mother in a bath chair, her parents the Duke and Duchess of Beaufort, his future wife Lady Beatrix Fitzmaurice and her mother the Marchioness of Lansdowne, his sisters Lady Susan and Lady Clodagh Beresford, &c, and the Marquis of Ormonde, as a photo, w.a.f. (1) €200 - €300 See illustration page 5 671. Ferguson (Charles) The Gaelic Names of Trees, Shrubs, Plants, 8vo, Inverness (Free Press) 1878, Reprint from Gaelic Society, Signed by the author, 32pps, worn, lacking wrappers. Scarce. (1) €120 - €140 671 666. Molly Keane’s Hunting Registers, 1928-1930 [Keane (Molly)] Hunting Registers , 2 vols, 1928-29 and 1929-30, bound in red buckram with marbled endpapers and edges. 21 x 15 cm. 2nd half of 2nd vol blank. A few inserts. Inscribed “Kept by Molly Skrine.” Each double page has on the left printed headings for filling in the details of each hunt, and on the right a blank page on which the owner could write a narrative. These vary from very detailed accounts, mainly of hunting in Co. Wexford, to “Never found a fox all day”. As a m/ss, w.a.f. (2) Mary Nesta (Molly) Skrine (1904-1996) grew up at Ballyrankin House, Co. Wexford, where horses and hunting were an intimate part of her life. An acute observer of the society in which she lived, at the time she wrote these journals she was already producing novels under the pen name M.J. Farrell. She married in 1938 Bobby Keane of Cappoquin. Her novel Good Behaviour, published in 1981 under her married name of Molly Keane, launched her career as an international literary figure. €400 - €600 667 669. A Charming Record of an Irish Peer’s Babyhood [The O’Briens of Dromoland] B aby’s Souvenir, by A.O. Kaplan, with pictures by Frances Brundage, London, Dean & Son, n.d. blue and crimson cover with gold tooling and illustration. Many illustrations in text. “The Book Contains a Biographical Record of the Child-Life of [Donough E.F. O’Brien]. born at 16 Grosvenor Square 6 January 1897 to Lucius and Ethel O’Brien. With m/ss notes by mother on his earliest experiences to the end of 1899: lock of hair (enclosed), first laugh, first tooth, first steps etc. Many photographs and a few letters loose or pasted in. Donough Edward Foster O’Brien, the baby commemorated so lovingly in this book, was the first of six children born to the Hon. Lucius O’Brien (who in 1900 became the 15th Baron Inchiquin) and Ethel Jane Foster. He served in the Rifle Brigade during the First WorldWar, and married in 1921 Anne Molyneux Thesiger. In 1939 he succeeded his father as 16th Baron Inchiquin and settled at the ancestral seat of Dromoland Castle. For twenty years he struggled to keep the estate afloat, but in 1962 financial circumstances forced him to sell castle and estate. he died in 1968. Frances Isabelle Lockwood Brundage (1854-1937) was an American illustrator best known for her depictions of attractive and endearing children, both for ephemera such as postcards and calendars and for the novels of Louisa May Alcott and others. She was a prolific artist, producing in her late sixties as many as twenty books annually. As an Album, w.a.f. (1) €400 - €600