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71 Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 553. Dundalk - [Ogle (George)] Chairman, Minutes of Evidence taken before the Select Committee on the Dundalk Election, 8vo 1783. Sole Edition, uncut, recent hf. calf, mor. label down spine. clean copy. Scarce. (1) €100 - €150 554. Limerick Interest: The Shannonside Annual, Vol. I No. 1 - No. 5. Together 5 numbers [All Published] Tralee 1956-1960. Sole Edns., illus. thro.-out, adverts., some orig. ptd. wrappers, in recent hf. mor. Very good. Extremely Scarce. (1) €250 - €350 555. [Lever (Charles)]ed. Charles O’Malley, The Irish Dragoon, 2 vols. 8vo Dublin 1841. First Edn., 2 engd. add. titles, 2 frontis & other plts. by Phiz, adverts at front Vol. I, uncut, orig. blind decor. cloth, gilt spines. (2) €120 - €180 556. First Natural History of Ireland Boate (Dr. G.) & Molineux (Thomas) A Natural History of Ireland, in Three Parts, 4to, D. (G. & A. Ewing) 1755, First Edn., fold. chart frontis, five fold. plts., and three plts., recent hf. maroon calf marble boards, mor. labels. Good copy. (1) €400 - €500 557. Hawkey Classic: Q. Horatii Flacci Opera, roy 8vo Dublin (E. Typographa Academiae) 1745. First Edn., thus, title with wd. cut vignette of printing house and circular stamp of Milltown Park, later full green straight grained mor. large blind tooled borders. Good. (1) €200 - €300 558. Surveying: Furnass (Rev. J.) The Practical Surveyor; being a Treatise on Surveying; designed for Schools, 8vo Newcastle 1809. Hf. title, fold. & other plans & maps, (hd. cold. in outline) text, illus., uncut, orig. boards. With paper slip ‘ With The Author’s Compliments’ tipped - in at front; also A Treatise on Practical Surveying and Topographical Plan Drawing, 8vo Lond. 1829, with 2 fold. plans, errata slip; Bound with, Burr (G.D.) A Short Essay on Sketching Ground without Instruments, Lond. 1830, text illus., & 6 fold. plts., a.e.g., in full green mor. gilt Prize Binding from Royal Military College. V. good. (2) €100 - €150 559. Hardiman (J.) Irish Minstrelsy or Bardic Remains of Ireland; with English Poetical Translations, 2 vols. L. (J. Robins) 1831, First Edn., hf. title, portrait frontis, dedit., marble endpapers, leather backed green cloth, gilt lettered spine, clean set. (2) €180 - €220 560. Temple (Sir John) The Irish Rebellion or A History of the Beginnings and First Progress of the General Rebellion raised within the Kingdom of Ireland upon the three and twentieth day of October in the year 1641, together with the Barbarous Cruelties and Bloody Massacres with ensued there upon, 4to, L. (R. White for Samuel Gellibrand)1646, First Edn., 2 vols. in 1, XIpps, III, 1-136, 1-55, contemp. full mottled calf, gilt decor. spine mor. label. Scarce. (2) [Wing T627, Sweeney 50126]. €400 - €600 561. The Genesis of the Irish Rebellion 1798: [Tone (TheobaldWolfe)] An Argument on behalf of the Catholics of Ireland, 8vo 1791, 32pps., (Reprinted by Order of the Society of United Irishmen of Belfast), recent leather backed marble boards, mor. label. Good Copy. (1) * “It is a clever pamphlet, which adopts a conversational tone and establishes an immediate bond of Identity with its author’s intended audience by the assertion of his own Protestantism and the association of himself with their fears.” [Marian Elliott, 1989] €500 - €700 562. Benn (Geo.) A History of the Town of Belfast, thick 8vo Lond (Marcus Ward) 1877. First Edn., fold. maps & pedigrees, port. orig. cloth. V. clean copy. (1) €90 - €140 554 560 561 553