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

49 Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 380. Photographs: Irish Archaeology: A small folio Album of Scarce original Photographs of Irish Archaeological Sites and Ruins, c. 1890, approx. 55 by an amateur photographer, and 17 other larger photographs by R. Welsh (mostly of N. Ireland). All tipped-in to a roy 8vo Album, and with a large collection of newscuttings printed under the auspices of Royal Society of Antiquities. Many of the photos were taken at August Meeting (Outing) of Royal Society of Antiquities of Ireland, 1891. The album was formerly the property of Claire Murphy, Millmount, Maddoxtown, Kilkenny, an amateur archaeologist. As a coll. Rare, w.a.f. (1) €150 - €200 381. Co. Leitrim: Visitor’s Book for The Bush Hotel, Carrick-on-Shannon, Co. Leitrim, 4to c. 1926-1946. Containing approx. 160pp with over 3000 names, cont. hf. mor. As a m/ss., w.a.f. Unique. (1) €80 - €120 383. Toibin (Colm) The Testament of Mary, 8vo, L. 2012, Exclusive Signed Edition, cloth and d.j.; Mahon (D.) Somewhere The Wave, 8vo Gallery Press 2007, Signed Limited Edn., No. 279/450 copies, illus. by Bernadette Kiely, cloth & glassine cover. (2) €100 - €150 384. de Burgo (T.) Hibernia Dominicana: Sive Historia Provinciae Hiberniae Ordinis Pradicatorum... 4to Coloniae Agrippinae [Kilkenny]. 1762 First Edn., List of subs. Bound with, Supplementum Hiberniae Dominicanae, .. 4to Anno Domini 1772. First Edn., Early 19th Century hf. mor. V. clean copy, a few library stamps. (1) * This copy also contains pages 137-147, part of the seventh chapter, dealing with the state of the Protestants in Ireland, under the Reign of James II, which is cancelled in most copies. Ex. Scarce. €600 - €800 385. Co. Leix: Coote (Sir C.) General View of the Agriculture and Manufactures of the Queen’s County, Dublin 1801 First Edn.,; O’Hanlon (J. Canon) & O’Leary (Fr. E.) History of the Queen’s County, 2 vols. Dublin 1907. First Edn., Lg. fold. maps etc., plts. later hf. mor. Ex. Library. (3) €200 - €300 386. Political Interest: Moody (T.W.), Martin (F.X.) & Byrne (F.J.)eds. A New History of Ireland, 8vo, Oxford (Clarendon Press) 1982, Presentation Copy to Minister for Education (Mrs. Gemma Hussey) Signed by the Editors, cloth & d.j.; Dooge (James) ed. Ireland in the Contemporary World - Essays in Honor of Garret Fitzgerald, 8vo D. 1986, Signed on f.e.p. by Ronan Fanning, Padraig O’Malley, Garret Fitzgerald, and Enda McDonagh, cloth & d.j. Nice Association Items. (2) €150 - €220 384 380 385 382. Presentation Copy from the Ld. Visc. Bandon Baskerville Press: Milton (John) Paradise Lost. A Poem, .... [“Paradise Regained. A Poem”] ... With the Text of Thomas Newton, 2 vols. roy 8vo Birmingham (John Baskerville) 1760. Subscribers list Vol. I (19pp), cont. full mottled calf, finely tooled gilt spines, with birds, flower heads, etc., mor. labels. (2) * Presentation copy, both vols. inscribed to Christ. Fred Musgrave, and with his bookplate & with a later School Prize Bookplate to Richard Musgrave from Fermoy School, 1807. Fine Copy. €1000 - €1500