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

155 fonsiemealy.ie fm All contents and images are subject to copyright 861 Valuation of the Bishops Palace, Cavan Co. Cavan: [Verschoyle (Hamilton)] a manuscript Notebook of a valuation of the contents of the Bishops Palace at Kilmore, Co. Cavan, carried out on behalf of the executors of the late Bishop, by Ganby Son, Parker and Bennett, 8 February 1870, approx. 51pps., contemporary marbled wrappers. As a manuscript, w.a.f. (1) € 250 - 320 862 Journal of a tour through Flanders, the Rhineland and Holland in 1840 Manuscript Journal (writer unnamed) of a tour through Ghent, Liege, Verviers, Aix, Cologne, up the Rhine by steamer as far as Coblenz, thence by train to Wiesbaden, by train back to Cologne, and home via Utrecht, Amsterdam, The Hague and Rotterdam. The travellers left Dover on 28 July and returned on 14 August 1840. The writer has a keen eye and describes landscapes and buildings - towns, churches, castles - in some detail. This was an interesting period: not only long before the destruction caused by two world wars (the armies of Napoleon are cited as the main culprits in this journal) but also before much 19 th century building: Cologne Cathedral, for instance, had been left un fi nished since 1560; work resumed shortly after our travellers had left, and the iconic spires were not completed until 1880. A 79 pp, written in a clear, neat hand. Binding detached. As a Manuscript, w.a.f. (1) € 200 - 300 863 Manuscript Work on Ancient Classical Philosophers Manuscript volume attractively bound in brown morocco with gold tooled edges and spine. 18 x 12 cm. 248 pp in a very neat hand. Entitled “A Translation of the Manuel [sic] of Epictetus; with a brief sketch of the Philosophy of the Greeks and Romans. Some of the Dialogues of Socrates; and the Advice of Isocrates to a young man.” By “J.S.” (unidenti fi ed), c 1860. Epictetus (c 50-135 A.D.) was a Greek Stoic philosopher whose ideas on life and human behaviour in fl uenced subsequent generations; he taught that we should accept external events with calmness, while maintaining control over our lives through self-discipline. The ideas of the rhetorician Isocrates (436-338 B.C.) have been a major in fl uence on the concept of liberal arts education. (1) € 300 - 400 859 Three Manuscript Travel Journals of Thomas Prior, later Vice-Provost of Dublin University (1) ““Journal of a Tour through North Wales, Cheshire, Derbyshire, Yorkshire, Westmorland, Cumberland, and Lancashire, in the months of July & August 1800 … in company with Jas Bessonnet Esq.” Evidently the fi rst volume only, as the narrative ends when the travellers are in Ripon (Yorkshire). Oblong 8vo, approx. 79pp mor. backed marble boards; (2) “Excursion to Wales, Journal &c, Aug 27th to Oct 29th 1802.”Oblong 8vo, approx. 44pp marble boards; (3) Fragment of Italian journal n.d., 8vo approx. 30pp wrappers; The Rev. Thomas Prior (1765-1843) was at this time a Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin (he became a Doctor of Divinity in 1805, and was Vice-Provost of the University 1832-33 and 1840-43). In the journals he writes with a keen eye for detail about people, places and events - and is rather easily shocked! (3) € 750 - 1000 860 The 1831 Meath Election Co. Meath: Rowley (Hon. Richard Thomas) an interesting early 19th Century Manuscript of Local Political interest, of 106pps., listing 960 voters (in alphabetical order), with 18 electoral districts - name, residence, landlord, value, etc., full green mor. with manuscript label. As a manuscript, w.a.f. (1) The Hon Richard Thomas Rowley (1812-1887) was the younger brother of Lord Langford of Summerhill, Co. Meath. At the general election of 1831, in which the key issue was the government’s proposed reform bill, he stood for one of the two seats in Meath County (the fi rst contested election there since 1802). There were fi ve candidates - four supporters of reform and one (Rowley) a well-known opponent of the bill. The government feared that the quarrelling of the reformers would split the vote and give the seat to Rowley. They need not have worried - Rowley withdrew at the end of the fi rst day’s polling, having received only eight votes. (However, he was more successful in later years, becoming M.P. for Harwich from 1860 to 1865.) € 200 - 300