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

23 Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 136. Wilde (Oscar) The Picture of Dorian Gray, roy 8vo Lond. (John Lane, Bodley Head) & N.Y. 1925. First Illustrated Edn., Hf. title, frontis illus. title & 11 full page plts., text illus. & decorations, by Henry Keen, uncut, finely decor. end papers & gilt decor. black cloth. V. good copy. (1) €275‑€350 137. Weld (Isaac) Illustrations of the Scenery of Killarney and the Surroundings, roy 8vo Lond. 1807?, also a later Edition of Same, Lond. 1812. Folding maps & plts. thro.- out, engd. vignettes etc. cont. diced calf, gilt spine, the other recent calf backed boards. (2) €150 - €200 138. Ryland (Rev. H.) The History, Topography and Antiquities of the County and City of Waterford, roy 8vo Lond. 1824, First Edn., lg. fold. hd. cold. map, & 8 plts. maps etc., some fold., uncut, orig. boards, joints and spine cracked, but a v. clean copy. (1) €200 - €300 139. Fishing: Nall (G. Herbert) The Life of the Sea Trout, especially in Scottish Waters, Lond. 1930; Falkus (H.) Sea Trout Fishing, roy 8vo 1982; Hutton (J.E.) Trout and Salmon Fishing, L. 1950, cold. frontis, d.w.; Scott (Jock) Sea Trout Fishing, Lond. 1969; Tod (E.M.) Wet-Fly Fishing, Lond. 1918. (a lot). (5) €70 - €100 141. I.A.S. - O’Donovan (John)ed. The Genealogies, Tribes and Customs of Hy- Fiachrach, commonly called O’Dowda’s County, 4to Dublin 1844. First Edn., fold. map frontis fold. pedigree; also Murphy (Rev. D.)ed. Triumphalia Chronologica Monasterii Sanctae Crucis in Hibernia, 4to Dublin 1891. First Edn., frontis & plts. Both orig. cloth. V. good. (2) €200 - €300 142. Fishing: [Chitty (Ed.)] ‘Theophilus South,’ The Fly Fisher’s Text Book, 8vo Lond. (R. Ackermann) 1841. Engd. frontis add. engd. title, & 10 engd. plts. (complete), text illus. orig. cloth. Bookplate of Robert Beauclere Aldridge, of Mount Falcon, Co. Mayo. V. good. (1) €160 - €240 143. Signed Special Edition Fishing: Schmookler (Paul)ed . The Salmon Flies of Major John Popkin Traherne, 4to Massachusetts 1993. Special Lim. Edn. No. 78 of 300 Copies, Signed by Editor. Port. cold. plts. mor. backed marble boards, slipcase. Scarce. (1) €200 - €300 144. Knox (Hubert Thomas) The History of the County of Mayo, to the Close of the Sixteenth Century, roy 8vo Dublin 1908. First Edn., frontis & 1 other port. & 3 fold. maps, orig. cloth backed boards. Good copy. (1) €160 - €220 136 143 140. Only 25 Copies Fishing: Literal Translation into English of the Earliest Known Book on Fowling and Fishing, Written originally in Flemish and Printed at Antwerp in the Year 1492. Roy 8vo London (Chiswick Press) 1872. Privately Printed for Alfred Denison 25 Copies Only. With attractive full-page & other woodcuts, uncut, marble ends, later cloth, with gilt lettered label. V. clean copy. (1) €1500 - €2000 144