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48 IMPERFECTIONS NOT STATED Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 370. [R.D.S.] Vaughan Sampson (Rev. G.) Statistical Survey of the County of Londonderry, thick 8vo, D. (Graisberry & Campbell) 1802, First Edn., dedit, errata engd. fold. map, 16 plates, (11 fold.) contemp. hf. calf, marble boards, raised bands, gilt lettering. Good Copy. Scarce. (1) €350 - €450 371. [R.D.S.] M’Evoy (J.) Statistical Survey of the County of Tyrone, 8vo D. (Graisberry & Campbell) 1802, First Edn., dedit, fold. map (rebacked), contemp. hf. calf, marble boards, raised bands, gilt lettered. Good copy. (1) €300 - €400 372. [R.D.S.] Dubourdieu (Rev. John) Statistical Survey of the County of Antrim, thick 8vo, D. (Graisberry & Campbell) 1812, First Edn., dedit., fold. county map, 10 fold. plts., 5 single plts., contemp. hf. calf, marble boards, gilt decor. spine with mor. label. Good copy. (1) €225 - €350 373. [R.D.S.] Rawson(Th. J.) Statistical Survey of the County of Kildare, 8vo D. (Graisberry & Campbell) 1807, First Edn., dedit., engd. fold. map, & 2 other maps, and 12 other plts.(4 fold.), contemp. hf. calf, marble boards, gilt lettering. (1) €225 - €350 374. O’Curry (Eugene) On the Manners and Customs of the Ancient Irish, 3 vols., L. (Williams and Northgate) 1873, First Edn., original decor. green cloth, blind design, central gilt harp, gilt lettered spine. Good set. (3) €250 - €320 375. Doheny (Michael) The Felon’s Track or History of the Late Attempted Outbreak in Ireland, embracing the leading events in the Irish Struggle from the year 1843 to the late close of 1848, 8vo N.Y. (H. Holbrooke) [1849], First Edn., portrait frontis, & 11 portrait plts., marble endpapers, contemp. hf. calf, marble boards, mor. label. Scarce. (1) €200 - €300 376. G.A.A.: O’Muircheartaigh (M.) From Dun Sion to Croke Park, 8vo, D. (Penguin) 2004, Signed, illus., cloth & d.j.; Micheal’s G.A.A. Odyssey - A Celebration of Gaelic Games, 8vo, Edin 2009, Signed, cloth & d.j.; McCrohan (Owen) Mick O’Dwyer - The Authorised Biography, 8vo Kilkenny 1990, Signed, illus., ptd. wrappers; McEvoy (E.) The Godfather of Modern Hurling, The Father Tommy Maher Story, 8vo, Bray 2012, Signed, ptd. w rappers; Breheny (M.) D.J. A Sporting Legend, 8vo D. 2013, illus., ptd. wrappers, as a lot. (5) €150 - €180 377. In Attractive Morocco Binding Grace (Sheffield) Memoirs of the Family of Grace, roy 8vo L. (Weed & Rider) 1823, First Edn., numerous single and fold. engd. plts.; also bound with “ Lines Written at Jerpoint Abbey,” Lond. 1823. (bookplate “Joseph Bewley” in full green mor. with blind and gilt decor. borders, probably by Mullen, Dublin, ornate gilt panelled spine and gilt lettering. Scarce, V. good. (1) €350 - €550 378. Co. Kilkenny: Carrigan (Rev. William) The History and Antiquities of the Diocese of Ossory, 4vols. D. (Sealy, Bryers &Walker) 1905, First Edn., portrait frontis, illus. throughout, gilt decor. green cloth; Litton (H.) An Index to The Rev. William Carrigan’s Diocese of Ossory, 4to D. 2005, gilt decor. cloth & d.j. Clean set. (5) €500 - €700 379. Fishing: Scrope (Wm.) Days and Nights of Salmon Fishing in the Tweed, roy 8vo Lond. 1843. First Edn., Hf. title, add. litho title, litho frontis & 11 other litho plts. (3 hand cold.) text illus. etc., orig. cloth, recased, faded. (1) €350 - €500 374 371 378 377