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

59 fonsiemealy.ie fm All contents and images are subject to copyright 308 Co. Kilkenny: Genealogy: Brennan (Thos. A.) A History of The Brennans of Idough, County Kilkenny, roy 8vo N.Y. 1979. First Edn., maps, orig. cloth, & pict. d.w. V. clean. Ex. Scarce. (1) € 160 - 220 309 [Whoseday Book] Heaney (Seamus), Quinn (L.) & Donnelly (M.)compiler, The Whoseday Book, A Unique Diary for the Millennium, oblong 4to D. (Irish Hospice Foundation) 1999, illus. and passages throughout, cloth & d.j., slip case. Clean copy. (1) € 100 - 125 310 Delightful Fore-Edge Painting of Dublin Binding: [Swift (Jon.)] Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, Roy 8vo L. n.d. [c. 1840] Ed. by W.C. Taylor. Illus. frontis & illus. thro-out, a.e.g. in full gilt tooled crimson mor., spine gilt in panels. (1) * An extremely fi ne fore-edge painting of the Quays in Dublin with a very good view of The Four Courts in foreground. € 750 - 1000 311 Bibliography: Webb (A.) A Compendium of Irish Biography:.. Distinguished Irishmen,.. 8vo D. 1878. First Edn.; O’Donoghue (David J.) The Poets of Ireland - A Bibliographical Dictionary, 8vo L. 1892-3. First Edn., Signed Pres. Inscription to Daniel O’Connor; Nat. Life of Ireland; Best (R.)ed. Bibliography of Irish Philology and of Printed Irish Literature, roy 8vo D. 1913, buckram; & 3 other items. A lot. (6) € 90 - 140 312 Irish Travel: Barrow (John) A Tour Round Ireland .. in the Autumn of 1835, 8vo L. 1836. First Edn., vign. title, fold. map, frontis & plts., hf. green mor.; Weld (C.H.) Vacations in Ireland, 8vo L. 1857. First Edn. litho frontis, recent qtr. calf, mor. label; [Barry (Wm. N.)] A Walking Tour Round Ireland in 1865, 8vo L. 1865. First Edn., fold. map frontis orig. cloth, all v. good; & 2 others, Irish Travel. (5) € 160 - 240 313 Farmer (John S.) Americanisms - Old & New, A Dictionary of Words, Phrases and Colloquialisms Peculiar to the United States, British America, the West Indies et. Thick 4to L. 1889. Limited Edition, No. 260, Signed by Author, attractive hf. cont. crushed mor. marble sides by MacMillan & Bowes, Cambridge. Fine Copy. (1) € 120 - 170