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

173 fonsiemealy.ie fm All contents and images are subject to copyright 949 Dundalgen Printing Co. Waterford: O’Maolaudh (Art) Fleadh Ceoil na Mumhan & Deise 1969 Dungarbhan, broadside with attractive design, Dundalk (Dundalgen Press 1969 No. 26) approx. 72cms x 48cms (28 ¼ ” x 19”) framed. (1) € 180 - 220 950 Guinness Advertisement A facsimile coloured print for E.J. Burke Finest Pale Ale & Extra Foreign Stout, brewed in Dublin, depicting two baseball players seated enjoying a beer by a tent with fi gures playing in the distance, approx. 64cms x 50cms (25” x 20”) in wooden frame. (1) € 160 - 220 951 Rare Coloured Lithographic Print, Amalgamated Union Operative Bakers and Confectioner’s, a Certi fi cate awarded to James Darcy of the Dublin Branch of the Union, Dec. 11th, 1915. Printed by The Argus Printing Company, Temple Ave., London, 70cms 50cms (27 ½ ” x 19 ½ ”) framed. (1) € 200 - 300 952 King Edward VII & Queen Alexander Co. Kerry interest: A note signed by both King Edward and Queen Alexander, together with an original photograph of the pair, occasioned by their visit to the Poor Clare Convent, Kenmare on July 31st 1903, during their Irish tour, together with original pen used by the Royals on this occasion, attached. The entire mounted, and framed within a magni fi cent embroidered border, executed by the Nuns at the Kenmare Convent. The entire within a deep velvet lined outer frame of mahogany. A unique item. (1) € 500 - 700 953 Salvator Rosa, 1615 - 1673 Etching: “The Rescue of the Infant Oedipus,” 73cms x 48.5cms (28 ¾ ” x 19”) etching with dry point, Second State of Two, a very good impression, Signed ‘pinxit’ in recent hogarth frame; together with Peter Paul Rubens, Pinxit, 1623 Engraving: “The Nativitiy,” Serenissimo Maximilano Utrisque Bavariae Duci et Christianae Religionis ... Petrus Paulus Rubenius Venerabundus Dedicabit Concecrabatq. approx. 56cms x 73cms (22” x 28 ¾ ”), in black frame. As an engraving, w.a.f. (2) € 200 - 300 954 Portfolio: Pencil Sketches - River Trent from Bridge, Gainsbora, Aug. 1836, An attractive pencil drawing, approx. 12cms x 24cms (4 ¾ ” x 9 ½ ”), inscribed & signed J.D. Harding, mounted; also Hayling Island, pencil sketch probably by the same hand 10cms x 25cms (4” x 9 ¾ ”), inscribed and dated ‘May 71’, mounted; 2 other drawings, a small portrait ‘Endymion Porter,’ and early 19th Century watercolour drawing of a memorial monument to Hon. Francis Coventry Esq. As a lot, w.a.f. (1) € 150 - 200