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

14 IMPERFECTIONS NOT STATED Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 68. Records of the Cork Commercial Buildings Company, Co. Cork. Four volumes, leather-bound, containing records of the Company during the 19th Century, leather bound: · Treasurer’s Account Current Book, containing details of income and expenditure from 1814 to 1874; · Letter book, containing copies of letters from 1840 to 1874, signed by the company’s secretaries, successively Anthony Perrier and James B. Perrier; · Transfer Book “no. 2”, containing details of the transfer of shares in the company, generally on the death of a shareholder, from 1857 to 1894; 292 entries; · Index of subscribers as of 25 March 1874. A record of significant Cork interest, involving several hundred individuals in the city and neighbourhood. Also: a bound copy of the act for liquidating the Munster Bank and transferring its assets to the Munster and Leinster Bank, 1887. €300 - €400 69. Fine Coloured Plates: Lepage - Medvey - French Costumes, preface by Andre Varagnac, Folio Lond. Paris & N.Y. (Hyperion Press) 1939. 40 attractive cold. plts. in orig. cold. decor. folder. Good. (1) €120 - €180 70. Walker (J. & C.)engravers - Hobson’s Fox- Hunting Atlas, containing separate Maps of Every County in England & The Three Ridings of Yorkshire. Lg. folio Lond. n.d. 42 lg. dble. page hand coloured maps, cont. hf. mor. Good clean copy. (1) €300 - €400 71. Engravings: 70 Principali Vedute di Roma 1861, Vues de Rome & ses environs... Oblong folio [1861] Proprieta Cesari. Engd. title, full end. Map of Rome & 68 full page engd. views, cont. hf. mor. (1) €200 - €300 72. One of 125 Copies Bodkin (Thomas) & O’Lochlainn (Colm) Twelve Irish Artists; folio D. (Victor Waddington Publications) 1940, No. 40 (125) copies, printed at ‘The Sign of the Three Candles, Signed by Colm O’Lochlainn illus., leather backed cloth, and gilt lettered label. (1) €200 - €300 73. Photographs: A large oblong folio Photograph Album, c. 1880, of coloured Japanese Photographs, approx. 40 lg. photos, a few damaged, in dam. silk binding, as a coll., w.a.f. (1) €130 - €180 74. Edwards (Lionel) My Irish Sketch Book, 4to L. (Collins) 1938, First Edn., cold. frontis & illus throughout, green cloth, decor. d.j. Good copy. (1) €180 - €220 75 – See page 15 76. [Yeats (Jack B.)] Pyle (Hilary) Jack B. Yeats, A Catalogue Raisonne of the Oil Paintings, 3 vols. lg. thick 8vo Lond. 1992. First Edn., port. frontis. Vol. I, profusely illus. thro.-out, orig. cloth & slipcase. V. good. (3) €200 - €300 66. Grose (Francis) The Antiquities of Ireland, 2 vols. folio Lond. 1791; The Antiquities of England and Wales, 8vols. Lond. 1783- 1787; The Antiquities of Scotland, 2 vols. Lond. 1797; Military Antiquities Respecting a History of The English Army, 2 vols. Lond. 1801; The History of Dover Castle, folio Lond. 1797; together 15 vols. folio Lond. 1783-1801. Engd. titles in each, engd. frontis, & numerous plts. fold. & other maps, many hand coloured, full calf, tooled Greek key pattern and floral borders, git spines, all uniform, (one cover loose). (15) €500 - €700 68 72 70