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

149 fonsiemealy.ie fm All contents and images are subject to copyright 830 Conolly (Thomas) of Castletown. Three manuscript Documents, c. 1775 - 1801, as follows: 1. 10th July 1775. John Henerson’s Bill for £14.14.7 for an ‘ornary’, punch, beer, cider and rum punch for 107 freeholders (presumably the lucky voters of County Londonderry). 2. 29 May 1801. Receipt from Thomas Conolly, Castletown, for £1.3.2 for ‘thirteen panes of glass put in Apartments at Leixlip for Artillery Drivers.’ Signed by the glazier, Matthew Byrne with his mark. 3. 17th November & 5th Dec. 1801. Receipt from Thomas Conolly for £27.14.0 for coals and turf delivered at Leixlip. Signed by Bryan & Bridget Colclough, as a manuscript, w.a.f. (3) * ‘Squire’ Conolly (1738 - 1803) succeeded his father at Castletown in 1754. He married Lady Louisa Lennox, third of the four famous Lennox sisters, and “notable among them for leading a wholly uncontroversial life fi lled with good works.”They had no children. He had a long political career, and was M.P. for Co. Derry from 1761 until the Act of Union. € 120 - 180 831 Co. Cork: [Sir Robert Tilson] An 18th Century Indenture relating to leases to William Galwey of Mallow, for a small Orchard, (part of the Townland of Annabella), for three lives (all members of the Royal Family) dated 21 August 1774 from Sir Robert Tilson (Dean of Dromore, Co. Cork) as a manuscript, w.a.f. (1) € 180 - 220 832 Contemporaneous Notes from Captain Cook’s Voyage Travel: [Anon] Voyage to the South Sea by Mr. Banks, Mr. Parkinson and Dr. Solender, with Capt. Cooke, a 7 page m/ss document, the hand written contemporary account describes how the “ Endeavor” arrives at Tierra de Fuego and continues to New Zeland, where young Nick’s Head is named after the boy who was fi rst to catch sight of it, thence to New Holland (“We Called the Bay Botany Bay”) and on to New Guinea and the Dutch Colony of Batavia. The writer details the customs of the natives and of the Chinese inhabitants of Batavia, describing the diet, clothing, decoration, language and character. An informative and interesting document. As a manuscript, w.a.f. (1) € 700 - 1000 834 Co. Carlow: Quaker Interest: [Faulkner (Hugh)] A manuscript Notebook written at Castletown, Co. Carlow, including a 14 page anecdote of the late Aldborough Wrightson (of Dundalk), also some Poems written by Mary Shackleton (Leadbetter), with other notes and letter, the notebook is presumbly written by school teacher Ms. Colburn, as a manuscript, w.a.f. (1) € 200 - 300 833 Certi fi cate of the Freedom of Dublin, 1795 Small Certi fi cate on vellum, 11cms x 15cms, granting the Freedom of the City of Dublin to Robert Williams, weaver, by right of birth, 28 October 1795. (1) € 75 - 100 836 Caustic Comments on the Politicians of 1803 Holograph letter (1 p.) fromWhig Politician Thomas Creevey to Liverpool doctor James Currie, 5 November 1803. Thomas Creevey (1768-1838), a native of Liverpool, had recently become MP for Thetford in Norfolk and had married a wealthy widow. Thanks to his intellectual and social skills, the patronage of his stepson William Ord, and his friendship with Charles James Fox, he became a signi fi cant fi gure in the British establishment. His journals and correspondence, published in 1903, “give a lively and valuable picture of the political and social life of the late Georgian period”. James Currie (1756-1805) was a Scots physician, best known as the biographer of Robert Burns but perhaps more memorable for his pioneering use of water in the treatment of fever. After an adventurous few years in America he settled in Liverpool, where presumably he knew the family of Thomas Creevey. In this letter, Creevey passes typically outspoken comments on a number of the most famous personalities of this colourful period, including George III, the Prince of Wales, Pitt, Fox, Sheridan, and Earl Grey of the tea fame. Typescript copy included, as a m/ss, w.a.f. (1) € 100 - 150