CHRISTMAS RARE BOOK & COLLECTORS’ SALE December 11th & 12th, 2024

121 Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 898. One of 100 Copies Signed by All Contributors Wylie (Donal) 32 Counties, Photographs of Ireland, 4to L. (Secker &Warburg) 1989, Limited Edn., Signed by the Contributors, Number 10/100 copies, black boards, silver lettered spine, Signed photograph, d.j. Clean copy with matching slipcase. (1) [Brandes & Durkan B986] €800 - €1200 899. Postage Stamps: Two Albums of 20th Century Stamps, one album mostly of 1937 Coronation, fromWest Indies, South Africa, New Zealand, Jamaica, many of the other Pacific Islands, also 1 sheet of stamps for Edward VIII, but stopped when he abdicated ; the other Album contains stamps from Ajman State, Dhofar, Yemen, Sharjah & others, mostly in lg. blocks etc. As a coll., w.a.f. (2) €150 - €200 900 – 911 – See pages 122 & 123 912. Signed by Saint Unique Association Copy Binding: [Newman (John H. Card.)] Canon Missae ad usum Episcoporum ac Praelatorum..., Lg. folio Mechelen 1848. Hf. title & text printed in red and black, port. frontis & fine full page plts. a.e.g. in full profusely gilt block crimson mor. binding, with I.H.S. in centre of both covers, brass locks. In very fine condition. (1) * The front loose blank inscribed, “ To the Most Rev. Dr. Healy in memory of his elevation to the Episcopate from his faithful servant, John H. Card. Newman, In Fest. Assumpta B.M.V. 1884,” Healy appointed co-adjutor Bishop of Clonfert in 1884. He also that same year critised J.H. Newman for suggesting that the Bible, while accurate on matters pertaining to faith, might contain minor factual inaccuracies. He was later appointed in 1903, to be Archbishop of Tuam, where he died in 1918. (1) * A Remarkable Association. €1500 - €2000 913. Full Set of the Original Georgian Society Records [Architecture] The Georgian Society Records, Eighteenth - Century Domestic Architecture and Decoration in Dublin, 5 vols. lg. 4to D. (D.U.P.) 1909-1913, (Vol. 1, No. 161/300 copies, Vol. 2 - 400 copies, Vol. 3 - 550 copies, Vol. 4 - 550 copies, Vol. 5 - 600 copies,) all illus. throughout, illus. uniform green cloth; together with Sadlier (T.U.) & Dickinson (P.L.) Georgian Mansions in Ireland, lg. 4to, D. (D.U.P.) 1915, Limited Edn. 266/700, illus. green cloth, some foxing, otherwise good set. (5) €800 - €1200 914. Fine Coloured Plates Presuhn (Emil) Pompeji, Die Neuesten Ausgrabungen von 1874 bis 1881. Folio Leipzig 1882. First Edition, 80 attractive chromo litho plts. cont. hf. mor. (1) €175 - €250 898 912 (inset: Cardinal Newman) 913 914