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

152 IMPERFECTIONS NOT STATED info@fonsiemealy.ie fm 844 Signed by Queen Victoria Military Document: A commission appointing Edward Beauchamp Maunsell to Lieutenant in the 39th Regiment of Foot, 25 June 1852, printed form with m/ss entries, Signed in upper right hand corner, ‘Victoria’. As a m/ss., w.a.f. (1) € 200 - 300 845 Curious Manuscript Poems by a 19th Century Galway Merchant Co. Galway: M/ss book of homely verses written by Henry Howard, merchant of Eyrecourt in Co. Galway, 1809 - 10. Written in a childish hand, with atrocious spelling. Contained in “ The Emerald Copy Book,” which dates from c. 1890 (therefore this is a later transcript?) Lacks back cover. 2pp damaged, a ff ecting text. The fi rst and longest item is the sixty-verse “ A View of Redmond Hill” This is followed by “ A Song,” “ The Forsaken Shades” (“ When a Mr. Pendergast took the Castle and Farm at £1000 for a year he shut out the peoples of the Town”) “ A Dealers Address to all worthles visitors” (A diatribe against loungers whose presence discourages customers from entering the shop), and the very moving “ Widowers Soliloquy, By Henry Howard on the Death of his wife Anne Rosingrave Howard,” which concludes with an acrostic on her name . A fascinating and rare instance of rustic versi fi cation in the years before the introduction of national schools. As a m/ss, w.a.f. (1) € 120 - 180 846 Tender of the Façade of Holy Trinity Church, Cork [Pain (G.R.)] Draft submission of design for the façade of Holy Trinity Church, Cork, 3 pp, unsigned. Holy Trinity was the brainchild of temperance crusader Father Theobald Mathew, the architect being George Richard Pain. The foundation stone was laid in 1832, but work stalled for a variety of reasons (Pain’s death, spiralling costs, the outbreak of the Famine); the church was opened in 1850, though the interior was not completed until 1866. The façade was left un fi nished, and a competition was launched for a design as close as possible to Pain’s to complete the work in time for the centenary of Fr Mathew’s birth (1890). The committee was chaired by Cork nationalist Denny Lane, to whom this tender is addressed. The contract was awarded to Dominick J. Coakley and the work was carried out by John Sisk, and despite initial anxiety the church was reopened on time. This is one of the designs submitted, though as it is not signed and it has not been possible to identify the applicant. As a m/ss., w.a.f. (1) € 150 - 200 848 Box: Mixed Postcards A very large collection of varied Postcards (most postally used), of Ireland, topographical and greeting cards, of Great Britain, Scotland, Wales, etc., and The Continent, an interesting lot, approx. 1000 cards, as a coll., w.a.f. (1) € 200 - 300 849 Russell (Charles) of Killowen, late Lord Chief Justice. An original A.L.s, dated 9th Nov. 1892, on paper headed ‘Attorney - General’s Chambers,’ London, to ‘Dear Sir Richard,’ o ff ering to meet him to discuss a note from Ld. Oxendbridge (?) which he cannot understand. Fold marks & a little soiled. As a m/ss., w.a.f. (1) * Lord Russell made his name with his cross examination of the forger Pigott in the Parnell Commission hearings, 1890. € 80 - 120 847 Speci fi cations for Two Houses in Co. Cork, 1883 A Manuscript containing speci fi cations for two houses to be built on the lands of Kipaddar South in the Barony of Duhallow, Co. Cork, under the terms of the Landed Property Improvement (Ireland) Acts of 1847 and later. Owner, Robert Reeves Esq. To be built by the O ffi ce of Public Works funded by a loan from the Treasury of £150. Signed by E. Thornton, 17 July 1883, 6pps., as a m/ss, w.a.f. (1) € 75 - 125