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

199 fonsiemealy.ie fm All contents and images are subject to copyright 1111 Mill (John Stuart) On Liberty, 8vo Lond. (J.W. Parker & Son) 1859. Second Edn., L.S. removed from verso of title page causing some dam., 207pp., cont. hf. mor. mor. label, top of spine dam. (1) € 70 - 100 1105 Important Archive of 19th Century Kilkenny Deeds An Archive of Documents relating to families and land holdings in County Kilkenny, comprising leases, wills, marriage settlements, legal correspondence and other papers. Mainly 19 th century, but a few of the 18 th Century (1718 and 1769) and some of the early 20 th Century. Many of the papers relate to the family of Hutchinson and to lands at Boolyshea (which they bought from Robert Garrett in 1718), Kiltorcan and Derrynahinch (acquired by fee farm grant) and Jerpoint Church (acquired in 1801 by marriage between Richard Hutchinson and Mary, daughter of Edward Hunt). In a curious deed made of 1801 soon after his marriage, Richard Hutchinson grants to Anastatia and Mary Walsh of Derrynahinch an annuity of £20 on condition that they continue to clothe, maintain, educate, support and keep Mary, Judith, John, Abigail and Thomas Hutchinson otherwise Walsh, “reputed children of said Richard”. Through a series of very detailed marriage settlements, it is possible to follow the genealogical details of later Hutchinsons and the families with whom they intermarried, and their fi nancial and land transactions. In a curt letter of 1875 to his solicitors, John Hutchinson of 89 Waterloo Road, Dublin, instructs that two of his daughters “should be cut out and excluded from any share in my will”. These documents provide an insight into the a ff airs of a Kilkenny family of substance, but which did not meet the quali fi cations for an entry in Burke’s Landed Gentry and whose genealogy is therefore not easy to trace. The archive also contains a number of documents relating to other families of Co. Kilkenny during the second half of the 19 th century,mainly of the farming class rather than of gentry status. The largest fi le contains 25 documents of the Phelan family of Ballyragget, 1824-1897. As an archive, w.a.f. (1) € 500 - 700 1112 Co. Mayo: Mac Philin (John)Tuam. The Apparitions and Miracles at Knock, also The O ffi cial Depositions of the Eye - Witnesses. 8vo D. (Gill & Son) 1880. First Edn., hf. title, some L.S.s, later cloth backed boards. V. Scarce. (1) € 150 - 200 1113 [Walsh (Peter)] A Prospect of The State of Ireland, from The Year of the World 1756 to The Year of Christ 1652. Sm. 8vo [L.] 1682. First Edn., title with dble. line border, [68] 3 - 504, plus rare 6pp ‘Additions’ at end, orig. full calf, blind fi llet borders with tooled corner decoration. V. good copy. Bradshaw 6531. (1) * B.P. of Jas. Clealand, Rathgill, near Bangor Ireland. € 350 - 500 1114 Galway Printing: Neyms (P.A.O.) Similitudes; or The Israelites and the Irish, sq. 12mo Galway (EXpress O ffi ce) n.d. Sole Edn., (4), 156pp, orig. cloth. Scarce. Good. (1) € 125 - 175