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

67 fonsiemealy.ie fm All contents and images are subject to copyright 352 Milligan (Spike) Puckoon, 8vo L. (A. Bland) 1963, First, cloth, decor. d.j. (together with later paperback edition); Hommel? Gunner Who?, 8vo L. (M. Joseph) 1974, First, illus., cloth and pictorial d.j.; Mussolini - His Part in my Downfall, 8vo L. (M. Joseph) 1978, First, illus., cloth d.j.; The Looney, An Irish Fantasy, 8vo L. (M. Joseph) 1987, First, Inscribed by the Author, cloth, pictorial d.j. (5) € 180 - 220 353 Colgan (N.) & Scully (R.W.) Contributions towards a Cybele Hibernica, 8vo D. (E. Ponsonby) 1898, Second, fold. map frontis, blue cloth; Brunker (J.P.) Flora of the County Wicklow, 8vo Dundalk (Dundalgan Press) 1950, First, fold. map at back, red cloth. (2) € 120 - 140 354 Crofton Croker (T.) The Popular Songs of Ireland, 8vo L. (Henry Colburn) 1839, First Edn., Ex. Libris (bookplate) Joseph M. Gleeson, hf. mor., gilt decor & lettered spine; Renehan (L.R.) History of Music, 8vo D. (C.M. Warren) 1858, First, attractive gilt decor. full mor., with gilt lettered spine. (2) € 120 - 180 355 O’Brien (Rev. Paul) A Practical Grammar of the Irish Language, 8vo D. (H. Fitzpatrick) 1809, First, hf. title, fold. plt., hf. calf, gilt lettered and decor. spine; Anderson (C.) Historical Sketches of the Native Irish and their Descendants - with Regard to Literature, Education and Oral Instruction, 8vo, Edinburgh (Oliver & Boyd) 1830, hf. title, dedit., advert leaf at end, boards. (2) € 150 - 200 357 In Attractive Binding Illustrated Volume: [Dalpayral & Depelley] eds. Missal Roman, 12mo, Paris Limoges [n.d.] frontis, coloured borders to each page, in full leather with blind and gilt decorated panels, raised bands, in good condition. (1) € 120 - 180 358 From the Library at Clonbrock Moore (Thomas) The Life and Death of Lord Edward Fitzgerald, 2 vols. L. (Longman, Rees etc) 1831, frontis and fold. map frontis., marbled end papers, inscribed ‘Clonbrock’ on f.e.p., hf. mor. marble boards, gilt decor. spine. Clean Set. (2) € 120 - 180 356 Yeats (W.B.) Poems of Spenser, sm. 8vo L. (Caxton Publishing Co.) n.d., frontis & illus., by J.M. King, uncut, purple gilt decorated cloth (together with another copy variant cover with bookplate of Charles John Beech Mase fi eld (W.W.1 Poet); Poem s, 8vo, L. (T. Fisher Unwin) 1913, Third, portrait fronti s, uncut in blue cloth with ornate gilt decoration. As a lot, w.a.f. (3) € 120 - 180