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

61 Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 462. Co. Tipperary: A Signed Bond of Stephen Going of Clonmel to the bankers William Charles and Arthur Riall (Bankers) for the then huge sum of £9,324.15.4 in repayment of a loan of £4,662.7.8. Dated 15th January, 1820. With manuscript insertions. As ephemera, w.a.f. (1) €100 - €150 463. One of 50 Copies Only Booth (Martin)pub. Ten Fold, Poems for Frances Horovitz, tall 8vo, Northamptonshire (Skeltons Press) 1983, Signed Limited Edition No. 23 (50) Signed by the Contributors, (including Seamus Heaney, P.J. Kavanagh, Ted Hughes, Gillian Clarke, et al) printed blue wrappers, red lettering. Good copy. (1) [Brandes & Durkan B63] €400 - €500 464. Agriculture: A collection of mostly mounted engraved and woodcut plates etc., illustrating old farm machinery, cattle & horses, farm practices etc., an interesting lot, 15 items, some hand-coloured, as a lot, w.a.f. Good. (1) €100 - €150 465. [O’Connell (Daniel)] Zodiaque Satires - A. O’Connell, L’Irlande Par Barthelemy, 8vo Paris 1847. Sole Edition. 16pp, 2 copies. One copy has English translation in pencil, one with orig. printed yellow wrappers. (2) * Scarce. A long poem dedicated to O’Connell and decrying the Famine. Barthelemy (1796-1867) was the author of many poems on a variety of subjects ranging from French politics to smoking and syphilis. His ‘satires’ on various French statesmen were published as a series in ‘Zodiaque.’ €130 - €180 466 – See page 63 467. One of 200 Copies Hand-Coloured and Signed Illustrated Volume: Macme (J.M.) aka [“Mac”], The Celebrity Zoo (First Visit) some Desultory Rhymes and Caricatures, 4to, D. (Browne & Nolan) 1925, Signed Limited Edn. No. 18/200 copies, decor. printed wrappers. (1) €250 - €320 468. Signed by Arthur Griffith, Founder Griffith (Arthur) The Sinn Fein Policy, National Council Pamphlets - B. 8vo D. n.d. [1908] 36pp., orig. printed wrappers. (1) * Signed on title by ‘Arthur Griffith, 26/1/08’ Griffith himself devised the Sinn Fein Policy which was initially disapproved of by Republicans, was its President and founder, and yet stood down in favour of Dev. at October 1917 National Convention. €250 - €350 469. Signed by James Connolly, 1916 Signatory Connolly (James) Labour in Irish History, sm. 8vo D. (Maunsel & Co. Ltd.) 1914, cheaper Edition. Signed on f.e.p. ‘ To George Brennan from the Author James Connolly, Belfast, May 28th, (19)14’” ptd. wrappers, spine worn. Scarce Association Copy. (1) €1500 - €2000 468 465 463 469 467 460