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

19 fonsiemealy.ie Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 90. Periodical: Anthologia Hibernica: or Monthly collections of Science Belles - Lettres and History, 4 vols. roy 8vo D. Jan. 1793 - Dec. 1794. First Edn., 4 engd. frontis., list of subscribes, engd. plts. (some cold.) & some lacking, boards; Wills (James) The Irish Nation: its History & its Biography. 4 vols. sm. folio L. & Edin. n.d. Engd. ports. plts. & red. & bl. genealogies, orig. décor. green cloth. (8) €120 - €180 91. Orpen (Goddard Henry) Ireland Under the Normans 1169 - 1216, 4 vols. Oxford 1911. First Edn., fold. map, partly unopened, orig. cloth. V. clean copy. (4) €200 - €300 92. Wright (Thos.) The History of Ireland, From the Earliest Period of the Irish Annals to the Present Time, 3 vols., sm. folio L. n.d. Fold. hd. cold. Map of Ireland, engd. plts., cont. hf. green mor. mor. labels (2 lacking) & 1 other book of Irish history. As a lot. (4) €120 - €180 93. Bowyer (Wm.) & Nichols (John) Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century; 9 vols. in 10, 8vo L. 1812 - 1815. Engd. ports. thro-out, cont. calf, décor. borders, & gilt spines with mor. labels. (10) €120 - €180 94. Adolphus (J.) The History of England, 3 vols. 8vo L. 1810, full mor.; Macpherson (James) The Poems of Ossian, 2 vols. L. 1784, full calf; [Thackeray (W.M.)] The Newcomes, 2 vols. L. 1854, engd. plts. hf. mor.; Rogers (Sam.) Poems, and Italy A Poem, 2 vols. L. 1834 & 1836. Engd port. & 1 hf. title, matching vellum boards, mor. labels. As a lot, w.a.f. (9). €100 - €150 95. Illustrations by Grandeville Swift (Jonathan) Voyages de Guillier, dans des Contrees Lointaines, 2 vols. 8vo Paris 1838. Two hf. titles, frontis Vol. I, & illus. thro.-out, cont. hf. mor.; also Fables de La Fontaine, Edition Illustree, 2 vols. roy 8vo Paris 1838, 2 hf. titles, add. illus. title & illus. thro. out, quarter mor. tooled gilt spine. (2) €150 - €200 96. Collins (Arthur) The Peerage of England, 8vols. plus Supplement 9 vols. 8vo L. 1779 - 1784. Engd. Coats of Arms thro-out, cont. calf, mor. labels, joints cracked; and Frank(Chas. A.H.) The Bearing of Coat- Armour by Ladies, L. 1923, illus. cloth. (10) €150 - €200 97. Wolfe Tone (Wm. Theo.) Life of Theobald Wolfe Tone, Founder of the United Irish Society. 2 vols. roy 8vo Washington 1826. First Edn., port. frontis Vol. I, & 2 other ports. tipped in, cont. diced calf, rebacked, tooled gilt spines, mor. labels. B.P.s. (2) €175 - €250 98. Bindings: Lecky (Wm. Ed. Hartpole) A History of England, in the Eighteenth Century, 8 vols. roy 8vo L. 1891. V. attractive full tan calf, t.e.g., dble gilt fillets, profusely tooled gilt spines in panels, mor. labels, by Cornish Brothers, Birmingham. B.P.’s. (8) * Prize to Thos. Gainsford, 1906 from The Oratory, Birmingham. €250 - €350 99. [Challoner (R.)] Memoirs of Missionary Priests, As Well Secular as Regular; and of other Catholics of Both Sexes, That have suffered Death in England, on Religious Accounts, from the year of Our Lord 1577 to 1684, 2 vols. L. 1741 - 42. First Edn., fine copy in later mottled calf, gilt fillet borders, profusely tooled gilt spines, mor. labels by Toovey, Piccadilly. V. good. (2) €220 - €350 90 91 93 95 98 99