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

50 IMPERFECTIONS NOT STATED Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 387. Irish Texts Society: Keating (Geoffrey) The History of Ireland, ed.by David Comyn & P.S. Dinneen, 4 vols. Lond. 1902-1914. First Edn.; also O’Grady (Stan. H.) Caithreim Thoirdhealbhaigh - Sean (Mac Ruaidhri) Mac Craith, 2 vols. Lond. 1928. All orig. gilt decor. green cloth. (6) €180 - €250 388. Nansen (Dr. F.) ‘Farthest North,’ Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of The Ship FRAM 1893-96... 2 vols. 8vo Lond. 1898. First Edn., illus. etc. (lacks fold. map) decor. cloth. (2) €70 - €100 389. I.A.S.: O’Kelly (Charles) Secret History of the War of the Revolution in Ireland, 1688 - 1691, Edited by John Corn. O’Callaghan, 4to Dublin 1850. First Edn., cloth. (1) €100 - €150 390. With Hand Coloured Maps Irish Atlas: Scale (Bernard) An Hibernian Atlas or General Description of the Kingdom of Ireland, 4to L. (Robert Sayer & John Bennet) 1776, First Edn., impressed f.e.p., engd. title page & dedit page, 37 hand coloured maps (complete) bound in later green leather backed marble boards, raised bands, gilt lettering. Good copy. (1) €800 - €1200 391. Dunn (Attributed to,) A Description of Killarney, 4to Lond.(J. Dodsley) 1776. First Edn., hf. title & title with engd. vignette map, & engd. vignette of Lakes on end leaf, 50pp now in cloth backed tan boards. V. good copy. Ex.Rare. (1) €300 - €400 392. Praeger (Rob. Lloyd) The Way that I Went - An Irishman in Ireland, roy 8vo Dublin 1937. First Edn., port. & illus. uncut, orig. blue cloth, & d.w. Fine tall copy; also A Tourist’s Flora of The West of Ireland, Dublin 1909 First Edn.,; Webb (D.A.) Scannell (Mary J.P.) Flora of Connemara and the Burren, D. (R.D.S.) 1983, illus. d.w. (3) €120 - €170 393. [Pogany (Willie) Illustrator] Goethe - Faust, Translated by Abraham Hayward. Lg. 4to 1908. Large Paper Edn. No. 248 of 250 Copies, with one extra plate, together 31 plts. Signed by Artist, uncut now in fine full crushed olive mor. single gilt fillet framing large gilt tooled decoration on front cover, raised bands, gilt lettered spine etc. by The Chelsea Bindery. An extremely fine copy. (1) €750 - €1250 394. [Pogany (Willie) Illustrator] Wagner (Rich.) Parsifal or the Legend of the Holy Grail..., Trans. C.W. Rolleston. Sm. folio Lond. 1912. Fine Lim. Edition, No. 187 of 525 Copies, Signed by Illustrator, 16 cold. tipped in plts. plus others illus. & decor. thro.-out, uncut, in full gilt decor. vellum, gilt lettered spine. (1) €650 - €900 390 393 388 394 391