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

8 IMPERFECTIONS NOT STATED info@fonsiemealy.ie fm 19 Journal of a Young Drogheda Lawyer & Member of The Rowing Club Co. Louth: Manuscript: A Notebook , 21 x 17 cm, headed: “The Journal Scribblings of Laurence J. Branigan, youngest son of a far better man of the same name, of 18 Shop Street, Drogheda, Co. Louth, inscribed this 24 th day of May 1914.” Continues to 16 Sept 1922, with postscript dated 18 Dec 1939. 80 pp, the rest blank. In 1914 Branigan was an 18-year-old law student; he subsequently graduated as a solicitor (there is still a law fi rm of Phelan Branigan in Drogheda). The journal contains some family news, verses are interspersed from time to time, and there is much about the Drogheda Rowing Club, including a picture postcard showing the club’s crew, stroked by the author, winning the Regatta of 1914. (1) € 150 - 200 20 Boswell (James) An Account of Corsica, The Journal of a Tour to that Island, and Memoirs of Pascal Paoli. 8vo L. 1768. Second Edn., hf. title, engd. fold. map frontis., engd. vign. title, later engd. port of P. Paoli, tipped in, orig. calf, joints cracked, mor. label. (1) € 140 - 200 21 With Hand- Coloured Plates Binding: [Walpole (Horace)] Castle of Otranto, A Gothic Story, translated by William Marshal, Gent. Je ff rey’s Edition. 8vo L. 1796. New Edn., Engd. hd.-cold. frontis & 6 hd. cold. plts. each with gilt borders, a.e.g., cont. full crimson mor., with attractive gilt tooled fl oral borders, spine gilt in panels. (1) € 200 - 300 22 With Hand-Coloured Fore-Edge Painting Porteus (Bp. Beilby) Tracts on Various Subjects, 8vo L. 1807. First Edn., a.e.g., cont. straight- grained dark blue mor., gilt spine. (1) * With fi ne fore-edge Painting, “Landscape with fi gures in foreground, Castle in background.” € 275 - 375 23 Gibson (Wm.) A New Treatise on the Diseases of Horses, 2 vols. 8vo L. 1754. Second Edn., engd. frontis & 31 engd. plts. complete,cont. full calf, attractive tooled gilt spines in panels, mor. labels. Good set. (2) € 250 - 350 24 Kippis (Andrew) The Life of Captain James Cook, 8vo D. (H. Chamberlain, W. Colles... and B. Dornin) 1788. First Dublin Edn., hf. title, 527pp a few worm holes, not a ff ecting text, cont. calf, mor. label, worn. (1) € 300 - 400