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53 Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 417. Signed-Fishing: Schmookler (Paul) & Sils (I.V.) Rare and Unusual Fly Tying Materials: A Natural History. Birds, and Birds & Mammals. 2 vols. Lg. folio Massachusetts 1994-1997. Vol. II Signed by Authors; also Forgotten Flies, lg. folio Massachusetts 1999, all fully cold., & pict. d.w.’s, and Art of Angling Journal, Vol. I No. 1, 4to 2001. As a lot, w.a.f. V. good. (4) €350 - €500 418. [Wright (John Michael)] An Account of His Excellence The Earl of Castlemaine’s Embassy, To His Holiness Innocent XIth, Folio 1687. Engd. frontis engd. port., engd. headpiece & engd. initial, 15 engd. plts. include. one lg. fold. plate of banquet table, 116pp appears to be no title, page 1, inscribed Matthew Ashton, in 19th Century hf. calf, with tooled gilt mor. label of Earl of Glengall. Scarce. (1) €700 - €1000 418 410. Signed by J.M. Synge & J.B. Yeats Synge (J.M.) & Yeats (Jack B.)illus. The Aran Islands, lg. 4to, D. (Maunsel & Co. Ltd.) 1907, Signed Limited Edn., NO. 21 (150) copies, hand coloured by the artist, frontis and 11 plates (complete) uncut, original wheat coloured cloth, dble gilt fillet border, gilt lettering. Good Copy. (1) Provenance: Thomas Johnson Westropp, (1860-1922) Irish Antiquarian, Folklorist and Archaeologist. Note: Although the hand coloured edition was of 150 copies, many are Signed only by Yeats, due to Synge’s ill health. It is suggested that as little as 40 were Signed by Both. €4000 - €5000