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

7 Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 11. Binding: Willmott (R.A.) English Sacred Poetry, 4to L. (Routledge, Warne etc.) 1863, New Edn., frontis and text illus., tall red mor., with ornate Arabesque gilt panelled design with overlay and floral decoration, similar spine. As a binding. (1) €150 - €200 12. Machiavel - Farneworth (Ellis)ed. The Works of Nicholas Machiavel, Secretary of State to the Republic of Florence, 4 vols. 8vo Lond. 1775. Second Edition, Corrected. Hf. titles, Fold. port. frontis, 3 fold. pls., cont. full Irish calf binding, profusely gilt spine in panels, raised bands, & red and green mor. labels. V. good copy. (4) €550 - €750 13. With Hand-Coloured Plates Throughout Brightly & Co., Publishers: The Natural History of Quadrupeds and Cetaceous Animals, 2 vols. Bungay 1811; and The Natural History of Birds, 2 vols. Bungay 1815. With numerous hand coloured plates in each volume, cont. tree calf, gilt spines. Good. (4) €220 - €350 14. Co. Kerry: O’Sullivan (T.F.) Romantic Hidden Kerry, thick 8vo Tralee 1931. First Edn., fold. map, & plts. orig. cloth; Twixt Skellig and Scattery, 8vo Tralee 1932, recent hf. mor.; Hall (Mr. & Mrs. S.C.) A Week in Killarney, 4to Lond. 1850. First Edn., engd. plts. illus. etc. recent mor. backed. (3) €180 - €250 15. [Somerville (E.OE.) & Ross (M.)] Through Connemara in a Governess Cart, Lond. 1893. First Edn., illus. & attractive colour decorated cloth; Stray-Aways, roy 8vo Lond. 1920. First Edn., illus. orig. cloth; The States through Irish Eyes, roy 8vo Boston & N.Y. 1930, illus; & 1 other item. (4) €130 - €180 16. Both Signed by Author Heaney (Seamus) District and Circle, 8vo London 2006. Lim. Edn. No. 28 of 300 Copies, Signed, in slipcase; also The Testament of Cresseid & Seven Fables, by R.Henryson. Lond. 2009. Lim. Edn. No. 58 of 100 Copies. Signed, cloth backed boards, in slipcase. V. good. (2) €300 - €400 17. Herbert - Retrospections of Dorothea Herbert 1770 - 1806, 2 vols. Lond. 1929 - 30. First Edn., illus.; Trench (W. Steuart) Realities of Irish Life, 8vo Lond. 1869. Second Edn., illus.; Le Fanu (W.R.) Seventy Years of Irish Life, Lond. 1894. Third Edn., ports. & all cloth. (4) €100 - €150 18. Yeats (Jack B.) Life in the West of Ireland, 4to D. & Lond. (Maunsel & Co.) 1912. Lim. Edn. 150 Copies, Out of Series., 8 cold. plts., & other bl. & white plts. & illus., orig. gilt decor. blue cloth (a few marks) but a v. clean copy. (1) €325‑€450 12 16 13 18 14 10