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

81 Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 631. With Original Double Page Map of Ireland Camden (Wm.) Ireland, and The Smaller Island in the British Ocean, folio [Lond.] n.d. c. 1607. With hand coloured double page Map, ‘Hiberniae Ireland Anglis. Yverdon Britannis Erin incolis Ierna...’ Pages 55[56] 57-233, with hand coloured wd. cut initials, recent hf. crushed mor. V. clean copy. (1) €300 - €400 633. Walsh (Wendy) & Nelson (Chas.) An Irish Florilegium, Wild and Garden Plants of Ireland, 2 vols. folio Lond. 1983 & 1987. Both First Edns., fine tipped-in and other full page cold. plts., cloth & orig. pict. d.w. V. good. (2) €320 - €450 634. A Pristine Copy Co. Dublin: House of Commons: [John Rennie, Alec Taylor, Geo. Taylor & others] - Report from the Committee on Howth Harbour, Folio [Lond.] 13th April 1810. Sole Edition, 2 folding plates (plans), 32pp., recent full calf, gilt lettered spine & raised bands, & in similar matching calf backed slipcase. A truly clean pristine copy of this rarity. (1) €550 - €750 635. One of 150 Copies on Vellum Heaney (Seamus) Columcille the Scribe - from the Eleventh Century Irish, portfolio, D. [R.I.A.] (Trinity Closet Press) 2004, 150 copies only, 150 Copies Only, Signed, housed in oatmeal cloth, black lettering. Scarce. (1) €700 - €900 631 632. Fine Hand Coloured Copy Grierson (Geo. & John & Martin Keene) New and Correct Irish Atlas, Being a Complete Set of Provincial and County Maps, Divided into Baronies; Containing the Principal Cross-Roads, Cities, Towns, Rivers, Canals etc. Together with a General Map of Ireland... Oblong folio Dublin (Grierson) n.d. [c. 1823] With lg. fold. hand cold. Map of Ireland, 4 Provincial maps & 30 County Maps (lacking Wicklow & Cavan, Wexford loose), recent hf. green mor. As an Atlas, w.a.f. V. Scarce. (1) €800 - €1200 633 634 635 636. Rare Heaney Item One of 15 Lettered Copies Heaney (S.), Hughes (T.), Brown (G.) & Frey (C.) Four Poets for St. Mangus, sm. folio, Yorkshire (The September Press) 1987, Signed by the Contributors, lettered ‘M’, decorated board with vellum backed spine gilt lettering in matching green slipcase with label. Good copy. (1) [Brandes & Durkan B86] €1500 - €2000