Fonsie Mealy Auctioneers Rare Books & Collectors' Sale December 9th & 10th, 2020

103 fonsiemealy.ie fm All contents and images are subject to copyright 560 With Hand-Coloured Plates Coloured Plates: The Florist, Fruitier and Garden Miscellany, 8vo L. 1860.13 fi ne hand cold. plts., orig. hf. mor. v. good; also Journal d’Horticulture Pratique, sm. 8vo [Paris] 1831., 14 hand cold. plts. include. 2 lg. fold., orig. cloth backed boards. (2) € 200 - 300 561 Hyde (Douglas) Abhraín Gradh Chuige Connacht or Love Songs of Connacht, 8vo D. n.d. Third Edn., cloth; Ubhla de’n Chraoibh, 12mo D. n.d. First Edn., wrappers; Casadh an tSugain; or The Twisting of the Rope; Right Seumas, First Edns., wrappers; also Songs of St. Columcille, 1942, and Dánta Eagsamhla, D. 1943, both Signed, as President of Ireland; & 1 other item. (7) € 130 - 180 564 Theosophical Society, Dublin Association copy: [Russell (Geo.) A.E.] Whitman (Walt) Democratic Vistas, and Other Papers, sm. 8vo L. (Walter Scott) 1888. First Thus, Inscribed by George W. Russell, (A.E.) on hf. title & title uncut, orig. cloth. (1) * From the Library of Theosophical Society, Dublin Lodge, with bookplate and stamps. Russell was a member, and he signed this volume in 1888, when he was only 21 years of age. € 180 - 250 565 Travel in Kerry, Clare, Connemara & Mayo Becker (Bernard H.) Disturbed Ireland: Being the Letters Written during the Winter of 1880 - 81, 8vo L. 1881. First Edn., route map frontis & 1 lg. fold. sim. ditto, hd. cold. in outline, advert leaf at end, orig. decor. cloth. V. good clean copy. Rare. (1) € 150 - 200 566 Hon. Irish Society: Reed (Chas.)ed. An Historical Narrative of the Origin and Constitution of .. The Honourable The Irish Society, 8vo L. [1865] Private Printing for Members, engd. map frontis, orig. binding. Good. (1) € 180 - 250 562 Irish Biography etc: Bullock (Shan F.) Thomas Andrews, Shipbuilder, 8vo D. 1912. First Edn. port. frontis cloth; Drummond (W.H.) Autobiography of Archibald Hamilton Rowan, Esq., 8vo D. 1840. Port. frontis fold. facsimile, lacks a couple of pages, cont. hf. mor. by Larmine; Fitzpatrick (W.J.) Lady Morgan; Her Career, Literary and Personal, sm. 8vo L. 1860. First, cloth; Healy (James J.) Life and Times of Charles J. Kickham, D. 1915. First Edn., port. frontis, cloth; & 1 other. (5) € 180 - 220 563 Irish Travel: [Thackeray] The Irish Sketch-Book, 2 vols. 8vo L. 1845. Second Edn., 2 frontis, text illus., cloth; Hall (Mr. & Mrs. S.C.) Hand-Books for Ireland - The West and Connemara, and The South and Killarney, 2 vols. sm. 8vo L. 1853. 2 engd. frontis & 2 engd maps, text illus, a.e.g., uniform gilt cloth; The Pleasure Tours in Ireland, 8vo Edin. 1827. Lg. fold. map & 1 other plan, engd. plts. hf. mor. As a lot, w.a.f. (1) € 180 - 240