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

231 fonsiemealy.ie fm All contents and images are subject to copyright 1288 Periodical: Crone (John S.)ed. The Irish Book Lover, A Monthly Review of Irish Literature and Bibliography. Vol. I No 1 August 1909 - Vol. XXXII No. 6, September 1957. Together 32 vols. in 26 vols. Vol. 1 - 21 bound in hf. mor. or cloth, & Vols. 22 - 32 in orig. wrappers. Lacking 2 loose numbers in Vol. 25, and Vol. 29 (6 parts) A very clean set, as a periodical, w.a.f. (1) € 2000 - 3000 1289 Illustrated Volumes: DuCane (Florence) The Flowers and Gardens of Japan, 4to L. (A. & C. Black) 1908, illus., decor. cloth; Jungman (B.) Norway, L. (A. & Co. Black) 1905, illustrated, decor cloth; Menpes (D. & M.) Japan, A Record in Colour, 4to L. (A. & C. Black) 1905, illustrated, decor. cloth; Brickdale (E.F.)illus. Idylls of the King by Alfred Lord Tennyson, 4to, L. (Hodder & Stoughton) n.d. cold. frontis & illus., red, gilt decor. cloth. As a lot. (4) € 120 - 170 1290 Very Scarce Dublin Edition Smith (Adam) Essays on Philosophical Subjects … to which is pre fi xed an Account of the Life and Writing of the Author; by Dugald Stewart. First Irish Edn., Dublin, for (Wogan inter al.) 1795, 8vo, near contemporary hf. calf, with label. (1) € 350 - 500 1291 Brenan (Rev. Martin) Schools of Kildare and Leighlin, ad. 1775 - 1835, 8vo, D. (M.H. Gill) 1935, First, cloth & d.j.; Walsh (Paul) Irish Men of Learning, 8vo D. (Three Candles) 1947, First, cloth & d.j. (2) € 80 - 120 1292 Melvill (Herman) Moby-Dick or the Whale, 8vo Pennsylvania (The Franklin Library) 1974, Ltd. Edn., blue silk end paper, a.e.g., gilt tressle design full leather, desirable copy. (1) € 150 - 200 1293 Rare First Edition A fi ne Inscribed Presentation Copy O’Donovan Rossa (Diarmuid) O’Donovan Rossa’s Prison Life, Six Years in Six English Prisons. Roy 8vo N.Y. (P.J. Kennedy) 1874. First Edn. Inscribed Presentation Copy, ‘To Pym Yeatman Esq. In Remembrance of the few days we spent together in America and with the Kind Regards of O’Donovan Rossa. New York Aug. 27, / 77’ Port. frontis, all edges gilt, orig. gilt decorated green cloth. Very Rare. (1) Provenance: The Family of the late General Michael Collins. € 450 - 650