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

15 Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 77. Signed by Artist Fitzgerald (Augustine) artist, & Fitzgerald (Sybil) Naples, lg. 4to Lond. (A. & Co. Black) 1904. Signed Lim. Edn. 250 Copies, cold. plts. decor. worn cloth, soiled.(1) €70 - €120 79. Australia: Booth (Edwin Carton) Australia, 2 vols in 3, lg. 4to Lond. (Virtue & Co.) n.d. (c. 1870), engd. title, cold. maps, & engd. plts. by Samuel Prout, all v. clean, full dark blue mor.; also Walsh (Garnet) Victoria in 1880, folio Melbourne (Geo. Robertson) 1880. First Edn., full page plts. & text illus. thro.-out, orig. pict. gilt cloth, clean copy. (4) €175 - €250 80. Powerscourt (Viscount) A Description and History of Powerscourt, v. lg. 4to Lond. 1903. First Edn., Port. frontis. Red & bl. title, 14 full page plts., orig. full wine cloth, with gilt lettering & coat of arms. V. good copy. (1) €400 - €600 75. Roman Views: Sadeler (Marco) Vestigi delle Antichita di Roma Tivoli Pozzvolo et Altri Luochi, oblong folio Rome (Giocomo di Rossi) 1660. Second Edn., Engd. title, dedication (No. 1) & Nos 2 - 50 (lacking N. 26?) together 49 engd. plates, cut-out and mounted in an 18th Century Album, hf. calf, marble sides. Bookplate of Michael Kearney, F.T.C.D. (1) €1250 - €1750 78. Famous Cork Maritime Family Co. Cork: Roberts (Capt. R.E.) of “Simla” Glenbrook, Passage West,” Folio Day-book for Cork boat-builder, for 1939. Contains letters to him, drafts of his replies, and notes. Orders range from yachts, and their accoutrements to punts and dinghies. Clients include C.W. Read, solicitor (re insurance claim for gangway accident on the S.S. Amarglin), Miss Hill (‘daughter of H. Hill, Architect, re yacht “Yodash”), A.J. Wolfe (yacht “Marion”), J.F. Quain of Ardmore, etc. etc., cloth. As a m/ss., w.a.f. (1) * Capt. R.E. was a direct relative of Capt. R.R. Roberts of ‘The Sirius,’ the first steamship to cross the Atlantic entirely on steam. €200 - €300