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

38 IMPERFECTIONS NOT STATED info@fonsiemealy.ie fm 191 Pamphlets: 1. [Craft (Dr.) Bishop] The Naked Truth, or The True State of the Primitive Church 4to [L.] 1675, [VI], 65pp; 2. [Fell (Dr. John)] Lex Talionis: or, The Author of Naked Truth Stript Naked, 4to L. 1676. First Edn., 42pp; 3. [Burnet (Dr. G.) Bp. of Salisbury] A Modest Survey of the most Considerable things in a Discourse Lately Published, Entitled Naked Truth, 4to L. 1676. First Edn. 29pp. Together 3 works in one volume, some cont. m/ss annots & comments, later cloth. (1) € 180 - 250 192 Poor Laws Ireland: Nicholls (Geo.) Three Reports - Poor Laws Ireland, 8vo L. 1838. First Edn. fold. tables, orig. cloth; Selection of Parochial Examinations Relative to the Destitute Classes in Ireland, 8vo D. 1835 First Edn., orig. cream cloth. Both v. good. (2) € 120 - 170 193 The Great War, 1914 - 1918: M’Ervel (S.)ed. The Letters of John Harold M’Ervel (Major), 1st Batt. The King’s (Liverpool) Regt., 8vo Belfast (Wm. Strain & Sons) 1916. Sole Edn. Portrait, & 7 maps & plts. illus., also text illus., orig. cloth backed boards, lettered front cover. Scarce. (1) * Pres. Copy, inscribed ‘T. Kennedy from S. Mc Ervel, January 1917.’ € 80 - 120 194 Rare ContemporaryWork [Casement (Sir Roger)] Everitt (Nicholas) British Secret Service during the Great War, Thick 8vo L. [1920] First Edn. hf. title, 2 illus., orig. cloth. Rare. (1) * Contains Chapter on “The Casement A ff air”. € 80 - 120 195 Vallancey (Col. Charles) A Vindication of the Ancient History of Ireland, 8vo D. (Luke White) 1786, First, hf. title, 2 fold. frontis, dedit., fold. plts., later hf. green leather cloth boards, cover loose. (1) € 200 - 300 196 Beckford (Wm.) Thoughts on Hunting, 8vo L. (Albion Press) 1810. Frontis & add. engd. title, 8 plts. & fold. plan after John Scott, cont. mor. v. good. (1) € 120 - 170