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

135 fonsiemealy.ie fm All contents and images are subject to copyright 751 A Relic of Empire Short Masses for Small Choirs. Mass in D Minor for Three Voices, Composed by [Samuel] Webbe Snr, the Organ part added by Novello. Oblong quarto, 84 pp music staves, possibly lacking title page. With oval stamp at p.21 of Royal Hibernian Military School, Dublin, dated 11 Jan [18]81. Strongly bound in hf. calf, titled in gilt, gilt rules to spine, v.g. The Royal Hibernian Military School was established in 1766 in a handsome building in the Phoenix Park. It catered for the children of soldiers, and prepared boys for the British Army. One of its last graduates was Liam Mellows, whose father (a serving NCO) wanted him to get a good military training. It is possible that he might have used this book. In 1922 the School withdrew to Folkestone. A rare survival from a vanished institution, part of the Empire on which the sun never set, until it did. € 80 - 120 752 An Bíobla Naofa [ The Holy Bible in Irish ]. Arna aistriú ón mbuntéacs faoi threoir ó Easpaig na hÉireann, maille le Réamhrá agus Brollaigh. An Sagart, Maigh Nuad 1981. Intro. by Cardinal Tomas Ó Fiaich, ed. Pádraig Ó Fiannachta. First Edn. of this new translation from the original Greek, thick quarto, one of a small number bound by Newman’s of Dublin in full red faux- morocco gilt over bevelled boards, a.e.g., gilt doublures, six marker ribbons, a handsome production. (1) € 50 - 80 753 [Clarke (Harry)] Anderson (Hans Christian) Fairy Tales, sm. folio L. (Geo. C. Harrap) n.d. 40 full page plts. include. 15 cold. plts., other bl. & white illus., orig. decor. cloth. (1) € 200 - 300 754 Leland (Thos.) The History of Ireland, 3 vols. 4to L. 1773. First English Edn., 3 hf. titles, cont. calf, tooled Greek key pattern border, tooled gilt spines, mor. labels, some wear. (3) € 120 - 180 755 Dalrymple (Sir J.) Memoirs of Great Britain and Ireland, 2 vols. 4to L. 1771 - 1773. First Edn., hf. calf, worn; [Curry (John)] An Historical and Critical Review of the Civil Wars in Ireland, 4to D. 1775. First Edn., rebacked calf. (3) € 120 - 180 756 Rare Oriental Porcelain Catalogue Chinese & Japanese Porcelain: de Muralt (A. Revilliod) Catalogue de la Collection de Porcelaines Anciennes de la Chine et du Japon, Folio Geneve 1901. Sole Edn., profusely illustrated with 40 plts. etc., over 2478 pieces, in unusual cold. illustrated & decorated wrappers. V. good and Rare. (1) € 200 - 300