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

116 IMPERFECTIONS NOT STATED info@fonsiemealy.ie fm 637 [Thomas Davis] Hone (Joseph)ed. The Love Story of Thomas Davis told in the Letters of Annie Hutton, 8vo D. (Cuala Press) 1945, Ltd. Edn., No. 2 (280) copies, inscribed on f.e.p. ‘ Margaret Ruttledge with Gratitude for help in editing from Joseph Hone,’ cloth backed boards, glassine cover. (1) € 200 - 300 638 Binding: Carpenter (H.B.) American Character and In fl uence, Oration delivered before the City Council and Citizens of Boston, July 4, 1883, 8vo Boston (City Council) 1883, First Edn., 36pps., full leather with ornate gilt panels and text. Desirable Copy. [No copy on Copac, World Cat. 1 Copy]. Scarce. (1) € 200 - 300 639 From the Library of Robert Day Wilde (W.R.) A Descriptive Catalogue of the Antiquities of Stone, Earthen and Vegetable Materials in the Museum of the Royal Irish Academy, thick 8vo D. (M.H. Gill) 1857, First Edn., hf. title, 642pps.; also A Descriptive Catalogue of the Antiquities of Gold in the Museum of the Royal Irish Academy, 8vo D. (Hodges, Smith & Co.) 1862, First, illus., marble end papers, bound together, bookplate of Robert Day, hf. calf, gilt lettered spine. (1) € 150 - 200 640 Travel: Villiers-Stuart of Dromana (H.) Adventures Amidst The Equatorial Forests and Rivers of South America; also in the West Indies and the Wilds of Florida to which is added Jamaica Revisited, lg. 4to L. (J. Murray) 1891, First Edn., fold. map frontis., hf. title, dedit., 22 plts. (some fold.) complete, decorated gilt pictorial blue cloth. Good. (1) € 300 - 400 641 Paintings, Works of Art etc: Cooper (D.) Fernand Leger et le Nouvel espace, 4to L. 1949. Lim. Edn. cold. & other plts. decor cloth; Burlington Fine Art Club - Catalogue of Blue and White Oriental Porcelain, Exhibited in 1895. Sm. folio L. 1895... together with Exhibition of the Art of Ancient Egypt, 1895, both illus., hf. mor. worn; & 4 other catalogues, c. 1912 - 1928. As a lot, w.a.f. (1) € 120 - 180 642 [Barnes (Ben)] Director. Abbey One Hundred - Book of Days, folio D. (Abbey Theatre)2003, First Edn., profusely illustrated, cloth and d.j.; Le Brocquy (Louis) The Head Image, folio, Cork (Gandon Editions) n.d. illus., cloth and d.j. (2) € 80 - 120