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

43 Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 327. Yeats (Jack B.) Apparitions - Three Plays, 8vo, L. (J. Cape) 1933, inscribed on f.e.p. ‘ To Mrs. Margaret Cushing Osgood from Jack B. Yeats with every good wish, Dublin June 18th, 1933,’ text, illus., blue cloth; Ah Well, A Romance in Perpetuity, sm. 8vo L. (Routledge) 1942, illus., cloth backed boards, d.j; And to You Also, L. (Routledge) 1944, illus., cloth backed boards; In Sand, 8vo D. (Dolmen) 1964, illustration by the author, paperbacked boards, d.j., as a lot, w.a.f. (4) €160 - €240 328. Co. Donegal: MacGill (Patrick) Songs of Donegal, 8vo L. (H. Jenkins Ltd.) 1921, First Edn., frontis & illus., green cloth; Soldiers Songs, 8vo L. (H. Jenlunss) 1917, First Edn., cloth & d.j.; Songs of Navvy, 8vo Windsor (P. MacGill) n.d., portrait, ptd. wrappers; Songs of the Dead, 8vo L. (The Year Book Press) 1913, First Edn., red cloth, gilt motif; Harkin (William) Scenery and Antiquities of North-West Donegal, 8vo, Londonderry (David Irwin) 1893, First Edn., adverts, & illus., green cloth, as a lot. (5) €200 - €300 329. Synge (J.M.) The Shadow of the Glen- Riders to the Sea, 12mo, L. (Elkin Mathews) 1905. First Edn., unopened, ptd. wrappers; In Wicklow, West Kerry and Connemara, 8vo D. (Maunsel & Co. Ltd.) 1911, First Edn., illus. by Jack B. Yeats, blue cloth, gilt lettering; Poems and Translations, 8vo D. (Maunsel & Co. Ltd.) 1920, hf. title, cloth backed boards, ptd. label; Cusack (C.) etc. Twentieth Century Interpretation of the Playboy of the Western World, 8vo N.J. (Prentice - Hall) 1969, ptd. wrappers, as a lot. (4) €150 - €200 330. Irish Music: [Maxwell (G.)] Popular Ballads Written in the Middle of the Last and Commencement of the Present Century, 8vo Belfast 1795, First Edn., 22pps., rebound. Scarce; Hayes (Ed.) The Ballads of Ireland Collected and Edited .... 2 vols. D. (J. Duffy) n.d. Seventh, illus. frontis engd. title page, green cloth, gilt harp motif; Waltons Treasury of Irish Songs and Ballads, 8vo, D. (Juverna Press) [1947] green cloth; O’Lochlainn (Colm) Irish Street Ballads, 8vo D. (Three Candles) 1962, Reprint, decor. cloth & d.j. As a lot. (5) €130 - €180 332. Economic Interest: Graves (Lloyd M.) The Great Depression and Beyond, 8vo, N.Y. (Brookmire Economic Service) 1932, First Edn., fold. chart, red cloth, no d.w. Scarce. (1) €180 - €220 333 – See page 44 334. Genealogy: Nesbitt (R.) History of the Nesbitt Family, Sometime Resident in the Townland of Corglass, Parish of Ematris, County Monaghan, Ireland, 8vo Belfast (M’Caw, Stevenson & Orr Ltd.) 1930, First Edn., frontis fold. plts. (some tears), green cloth, gilt lettering. Scarce. (1) €180 - €220 335. Fishing: Fisher (P.) The Angler’s Souvenir, sm. 8vo Lond. 1845. Engd. title & frontis plus plts., text within decor. borders, orig. cloth, rebacked with orig. spine; Stewart (W.C.) The Practical Angler or The Art of Trout-Fishing, 12mo Edin. 1861. Fourth Edn., text illus. cloth; Rosco (E.S.) Rambles with a Fishing-Rod, 8vo Edin. 1883, cloth; Barrington (C.G.) Seventy Years’ Fishing, Lond. 1906. First Edn., frontis cont. hf. green mor. Good. (4) €200 - €300 332 331. Collection of Important 18th Century Irish Pamphlets Pamphlets: Brookes (Henry) A bound volume of Pamphlets as follows: * The Constitutional Rights and Interests of the Kingdom of Ireland in five letters - (a) Letters 1 & 2 - The State - Tinker to all Fellow Politicians in Ireland, d. 1759 & 1760; (b) Liberty and Common Sense to the People of Ireland, Letter 1-5, D. 1759-1760; (c) A Proposal for the Restoration of Public Wealth and Credit in a Letter, D. 1760; (d) The Case of the Roman Catholics of Ireland, [The Farmers Case) Letter 1 - 4, D. 1760; (e) The Secret History and Memoirs of the Barracks of Ireland, Third Edn., L. 1747; (f ) A Brief Essay on the Nature of Bogs and the Method of Reclaiming Them, [Dublin Society] D. 1772; (g) A Letter to the Universal Fishing Company of the Kingdom of Ireland, D. 1773; (h) The Farmers Letter to the Protestant of Ireland, No. 1-6, D. 1745; (i) An Occasional Letter from the Farmer to the Free-Man of Dublin, D. 1749; (j) A Ninth Letter from the Farmer, D. 1749. Bound together, some m/ss notes, contemp. full calf, (rebacked), as pamphlets, w.a.f. (1) €600 - €800 327