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

60 IMPERFECTIONS NOT STATED info@fonsiemealy.ie fm 314 Gavan Du ff y (Hon. Sir C.) Young Ireland A Fragment of Irish History 1840 - 45, 2 vols. in one 8vo L. 1896. Illus & ports. qtr. cloth; also Young Ireland, made up from cont. news cuttings, tall 8vo 1845, cont. hf. mor.; Mitchel (J.) Jail Journal, D. 1913, cloth. (3) € 100 - 150 315 Cooke-Trench (Thos.) An Autobiography to which is appended An Account of the Church of St. Michael and All Angels at Clane, 4to Galway n.d. [c.1903] Privately Printed, port. frontis text illus., uncut, orig. hf. vellum paper. (1) € 130 - 180 316 I.M.C.: Fitzgerald (Brian) Correspondence of Emily Duchess of Leinster, 3 vols. roy 8vo D. 1949 - 1957. First Edns., illus. orig. crimson cloth. V. good. (3) € 200 - 300 317 Hill (Rev. Geo.) An Historical Account of the Macdonnells of Antrim, 4to Belfast 1873. First Edn., orig. green cloth. V. good copy. (1) € 140 - 180 318 In Specially Bound Presentation Binding Hutton (Alfred) Cool Steel: A Practical Treatise on the Sabre, also on Various other Weapons of the Present Day, lg. 4to, L. (William Clowes & Sons Ltd) 1889, First, port. frontis & 55 plts. (complete), specially bound in vellum, bookplate of “ DuBois, Paris,” good clean copy; together with Matthey (C.G.R.)ed. The Works of George Silver, comprising Paradoxes of Defence, printed in 1599 (now reprinted), 4to L. (George Bell) 1898, illus. frontis & plts. uncut, vellum backed green boards, inscribed to The Irish Fencing Club 1936. (2) € 500 - 600 319 Atheism: Besant (Annie) My Path to Atheism, sm. 8vo L. 1877. First Edn., cloth Annie Besant An Autobiography, Illustrated, L. 1908, cloth, gilt; Typescripts - Reports of Lectures Delivered by Annie Besant, folio c. 1910. contains 6 articles, interleaved at end of second article, Signed in m/ss. A.B., together approx. 120pp., later hf. mor. worn; & 2 other items, same author. As a lot. (4) € 130 - 180