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

60 IMPERFECTIONS NOT STATED Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 447. Rare Collection of Irish Travel Interest Co. Limerick: Adare (Viscount) The Shamrock Coach, and The Thomond Coach, Two rare travel advertising Posters (mounted on card), for the above, listing pick-up stops, times of departure and arrival, and fare table, between Rathkeale, Croagh, Adare, Patrickswell & Limerick (Cruise’s Hotel). Together with books of original tickets 1/-, 1/6, 2/-1, 2/6, 3/- & 5/-, and an original Shamrock Coach Parcel Book, unused. All printed by Geo. McKern & Sons, Limerick. As a coll. Ex. Rare. (1) * A delightful collection of rare social record. €350 - €500 448. Fishing: Co.Mayo. A printed Poster / circular issued by Pat Hearns, Mill St., Ballina, advertising his supply of angling gear, ‘ Boats, Rods, Nets, Casting-lines etc.’ Together with a draft of an article on Hearns by R.B. Marsdon, editor of the Fishing Gazette, & photocopy of the article as published April 1896, claiming Hearns as the inventor of the Thunder and Lightning salmon fly. As ephemera, w.a.f. (1) €120 - €170 449. Fishing: Heaney (E.C.) ‘Black Spider,’ Fly-Fishing for Trout and Salmon on the Faughan, 8vo Derry 1947. First Edn., in Bk. Form. Originally published in a series of articles published in the Londonderry Standard in 1946. With port. of author, plts. & illus. in text, also advertisements, orig. red printed blue wrappers. An extremely fine copy of this Irish fishing rarity. (1) €325‑€450 450. Interesting Album of Fishing Memories on The Slaney etc. Fishing: Co. Wexford - A small oblong folio Album, containing approx. 94 original Photographs, dating between 1946 and April 1953, by the owner of Riverview House, Newtownbarry [Bunclody] Co. Wexford. It features anglers (names given) with fish, mainly on the River Slaney, at and about Clohamon. It also shows some local houses, & pubs, again named, well-known parts of the river, and groups of fishermen with their catch, giving weights etc; in addition this lot includes a series of mounted photos taken by C.E. Eden in 1900 of anglers in Co. Kerry, mainly in Loughs Derriana and Currane. As a coll. of photos., w.a.f. (1) €250 - €400 451. Barrow Navigation Company: An original printed“Freight Receipt,” for March 22nd 1865, issued by Wm. W. Carr, New Ross Station. Signed, framed. V. good. Rare. (1) €80 - €120 452. Drummond (RevWm. Hamilton) The Battle of Trafalgar, A Heroic Poem, 12mo Belfast (J. Smyth) 1806. First Edn., hand cold. folding frontis, 124pp cont. hf. calf, upr. cover loose. V. Scarce. (1) €160 - €220 453. Westropp (Thos. J.) & others [“Folklore”] - County Clare Folk Tales and Myths - Part 1 - 4, Reprints 1911 - 1913, inscribed to “ Miss Scudomore with Thos. J. Westropps Compliments, Ap. 30th - 1918,” ptd. wrappers. Rare set. (1) €200 - €300 454. Very Rare Early Edition [Merriman] Mac Giolla Meidhre (Brian) Mediae Noctis Consilium, ... De Comitatu Clarensi in Momonia A.D. MDCCLXXX. Poema Heroico-Comicum, .. 12mo Dublin (Padruig O’Briain) 1893. Orig. limp green cloth, gilt lettered front cover. V. good copy. V. Scarce. (1) €120 - €180 455. Keane (John B.) Sive, 8vo, D. (Progress House) 1986, Limited Edn. 240 (275) Copies Signed brown cloth, d.j.; together with Theatre Copies for the Abbey & Druid Productions of Sive, and a copy of RTE’s production of ‘ Sive’ at 50, as a lot. (4) €180 - €220 456. Film Interest: [Merlin Films] Boorman (John) screenwriter The General, 8vo First Draft Revised, (1st May 1997) typescript, m/ss annotation on title page, ptd. wrappers. (1) €100 - €150 457. [Cuala Press] A Broadside June 1912 - No. 1, Fifth Year, 2pps, D. (Cuala Press) 1912, illus. by Jack B. Yeats (hand coloured) 300 copies only; A Broadside - No. 4 (New Series) April 1937, 2pps, D. (Cuala Press) 1937, illustrated by Jack B. Yeats (hand coloured) 300 copies only; Yeats (W.B.) On the Boiler, D. (Cuala Press) 1938, First Edn., ptd. wrappers; together with ephemeral pieces from Cuala Press and Yeats. As a lot. (1) €200 - €300 458. Cuala Press: A hand-coloured early Cuala Broadside, Rune of Hospitality, with illustration by Jack B. Yeats, approx. 32cms x 17cms (12½” x 6¼”) hogarth frame. Good. (1) €100 - €160 459. Northern Ireland: G. Rollos - A Map of the Province of Ulster, approx. 12cms x 20cms hd. cold.in outline, engraved for the Royal Magazine, c. 1765, framed; & a rare View of Londonderry, published by John Hempton, The Diamond, Derry, approx. 27cms x 38.5cms browned, framed. (2) €130 - €180 460. Fine Hand-Coloured Bird Plates Morris - British Game Birds , a good collection of 19 large hand-coloured plates, c. 1850, principally ducks, each approx. 25cms x 32cms (10” x 12½”) all loose & very clean. As a coll., w.a.f. (19) €150 - €220 461. Co. Carlow: Ten varied antique engraved and woodcut illus. of Co. Carlow, some hand cold. and mounted. As a lot. (10) €70 - €100 455 450 458