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93 Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 705. 18th Century Legal Manuscript Co. Kerry: The answer of Daniel Mahony, dated 16 April 1737, to the bill of complaint of Dermod McCarthy regarding the tenure and rents of Claghanelynahane (Cloghanlinaghan), Co. Kerry, recording details of transactions from 4 May 1697, when the deponent’s father leased the premises to the complainant, and mentioning many local names. Contemporary manuscript copy, 26 pp. Folio, some damp damage & repairs. Bound in later cloth, with manuscript note dated Oct. 1910 by Rev. John Begley (historian of the diocese of Limerick) recounting the purchase of this and other manuscripts from a city dealer. As a manuscript, w.a.f. (1) €300 - €400 707. A Photographer’s visit to Inishmore, 1906 Manuscript: Exercise-book dated 31 Jan. 1907 containing the manuscript text of a lecture illustrated with 49 lantern slides on the writer’s visit to “ The North Island of Aran ” in June 1906 accompanied by Dr Otto Boeddicker of Birr Castle Observatory. Their main purpose was to record the antiquities of the island, which was achieved despite the persistent rain, but there is also practical advice on what to bring, the care of photographic equipment, etc., and some comments on the “ natives ”, including their ingenious improvisation when running out of fuel for the St John’s Eve bonfire. As a m/ss., w.a.f. (1) €200 - €300 708. Illustrated Volumes: Medical Interest: Furneaux (William S.) Philips Popular Mannikin or Model of the Human Body, tall slim folio, L. (George Philip & Son) n.d., illus. with three D chart at end, cloth backed boards; Witkowski (G.J.) A Moveable Atlas, showing the Positions of the Male Organs of Generation and Reproduction, by Means of Superposed Coloured Plates, sm. folio, Glasgow (J. Campbells & Coy) n.d., together with The Positions of the Female Organs of Generation and Reproduction, both illustrated, ptd. wrappers. As a lot. (3) €300 - €400 709. Periodical: Pye (Patrick)ed., also R. Kyne & Eliz. Healy Introspect, An Annual Review of the Visual Arts, atlas folio No. 1 -3. Together 3 numbers, Dec. 1975, 1976 & 1977. Sole Editions, illus. thro.-out, orig. ptd. wrappers, some discolorations. As a periodical, w.a.f. Scarce. (3) €150 - €200 706. Fermoy District during the Famine Year of 1847 Manuscripts: Collecting Books for the Poor Rate, Fermoy Electoral Division, dated 15 Sept. 1847 and 28 Sept. 1859 , with printed columns containing manuscript entries for each holding, listing description of property, names of occupier and lessor, details of valuation and assessment for tax, and “observations”. The first, printed in Fermoy, contains 43 ff for the town and 24 for the rest of the division; the second, printed in Dublin, has a total 62 ff. Folio, printed and manuscript. (2) The first Book is of particular significance as it was compiled during the worst year of the Famine. It is signed by (among others) William Cooke- Collis of Castle Cooke, Chairman of the Board of Guardians, and Roderick O’Flanagan, Clerk of the Union and author of The River Blackwater in Munster. Historian Edward Garner concludes his account of the Famine in this area: “It will have to be said that, had the Fermoy Poor Law Union not possessed the Board it did, then it would have joined the ranks of Skibbereen and Bantry. Fermoy escaped by the skin of its teeth.” (To die by inches: The Famine in North-East Cork, Éigse Books, 1986). * Highly important Records, with information not found elsewhere. €600 - €800 707 708