Fonsie Mealy's THE LIBRARY HOWTH CASTLE September 22nd & 23rd, 2021

139 fonsiemealy.ie Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 933 – See pages 140 & 141 934. Abraham Ortelius (1527 - 1598) Hiberniae Britannicae Insulae Nova Descriptio ,engd. map, had coloured, Latin text verso, approx. 35cms x 48cms in Hogarth type frame. (1) €500 - €700 935. Irish Map: Speed (John) 1552 - 1629, The Kingdome of Ireland divided into Severall Provinces and then Again divided into Counties newly described, engraved by J. Hondius, engraved map, hand coloured, c. 1610, English text verso, mounted in glass top tray, approx. 20” x 15”, as a map, w.a.f. (1) €200 - €300 936. Irish Map: Map of the Howth Estate of the Right Honorable the Earl of Howth, situate in the Barony of Coolock and County of Dublin, made on the basis of the Ordnance Survey by Hodges and Smith, Map Agency office, 104 Grafton Street, 1853, engd. and hand painted, with Howth Castle vignette, approx. 203cms x 130cms (80” x 51”) reference key at base, as a map, w.a.f. in custom mahogany wall container. (1) €700 - €1000 Illuminated Address : Address to The Right Hon.ble The Earl of Howth, 1874, The address is dated 12 Mach 1874 from the tenants of Howth to the Fourth Earl, welcoming him on his succession to the title and estates of his late father, and expressing confidence in his protection from‘those grievances which have in times past and present so sadly disturbed the relation between tenant in this country’ and gratitude for his independent role in parliament and support of reform (a Liberal MP, he had previously represented the borough of Galway in Gladstone’s reforming government of 1868 - 1874). With the names of 80 tenants. Lg. 4to 12 sheets beautifully ‘Illuminated at King’s Inns Street Convent Schools, Dublin 1874’. Each decorated in bright colours with flowers etc., and with vignettes of Howth Castle and St. Mary’s Abbey. In a magnificent full leather binding, again profusely decorated in varied colours to an intricate design, overlays etc., and with mother-o-pearl studs, and also with engraved brass plate with arms of the Earl of Howth on front and Earls crown on back, with silk ends, gilt tooled doublures with coloured overlays. The binding stamped ‘Bound by Doyle, Thompson &Wall,’ contained in its original tooled leather bound box, lined in velvet, titled in gilt ‘Address to the Earl of Howth,’ and signed by the same binders. It also contains some associated papers loosely inserted, including drafts of replies from the Earl, also a letter dated 16 Mach 1874 fromW. Rickard, Obertown, recounting a dispute between the tenants of Lusk and Rahany over a meeting to congratulate the new Earl, the latter refusing to co-operate with the former, and casting aspersions on the writer’s character. A magnificent volume, a manuscript, w.a.f. (2) €4,000 - 6,000 934 935 936 937. Highly Elaborate Illuminated Volume