RARE BOOK AND COLLECTOR'S SALE July 30th & 31st, 2024

121 Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 857. Moore (James) publisher Moore’s Dublin Edition of Encyclopaedia Britannica; Vols. 1 - 18, plus Vol. I of Supplement, together 19 vols. lg. 4to Dublin 1791-1800. [Third Edition] Illustrated with near Four Hundred Copper Plates. With fold. & other plts, with list of subscribers, and each with errata and list of plts. at end, cont. tree calf, tooled gilt labels. Good Set. (19) €400 - €700 858. Irish First Day Covers Contemporary Irish Art: A collection of 70 (+ 14 duplicates) F.D.C. commemorating important figures in Irish Art including, Jack B. Yeats, Wm. & Patrick Scott, L. le Brocquy, Paul Henry, Mainie Jellett, Gerald Dillon, W.J. Leech, Oisin Kelly, F.E. McWilliams, also important Irish Writers, W.B. Yeats, J.M. Synge, Sean O’Casey, the Four Masters, Tomas O’Criomhtain, institutions & places, Nat. Library of Ireland, Royal Cork Yacht Club, Ballintuber Abbey etc. A fine clean set in 4to folder, as a coll.,w.a.f. (1) €180 - €260 859. Irish Republican Postcards Album: Very good Album of approx. 100 scarce and rare original Postcards, many real photos include Daily Sketch Valentino, Rotary Photo and Baird Belfast Cards of the Sinn Fein Rebellion, approx. 28 portraits of Leaders etc., include cold. Portrait of Archbishop Mannix, Michael Collins, R. Casement, Hartley & Mullins, Co. Kilkenny, some cards of Irish Peace Conference 1921, View of Frongoch, P.H. Pearse speaking at Dolphin’s Barn, 1915, I.R.A. Prisoners on Prison Landing 1916, with Michael Collins included & National Volunteers Meeting at Portarlington to mention but a few. All in fine condition, in 4to Album. As a coll., w.af. (1) €1200 - €1600 860. Co. Louth: Large modern Coffee Table & Other Books, McArdle & Clinton - Jewel of the North East - Dundalk Institute of Technology, 1969-2016, Dundalk 2018. Lim. Edn.; Murtagh (Fr. M.) From Lann Leire to Dunleer, folio 2009; McKeown (M.) A Sketchbook of Dundalk, folio 1988, Signed Copy; Sharkey (N.) The Parish of Haggardstown & Blackrock A History, folio 2003; Memories of the Boyne - The Story of the Drogheda Rowing Club, folio 2000; Murtagh (Fr. M.) Ardee 20000, folio 20000; also Golf Club Histories, Ardee, Baltray, Greenore, & Dundalk; & some other items, a lot. (1) €120 - €170 861. Fine Collection on Co. Mayo, etc. Postcards: A very good collection of over 170 original Postcards, many real photographic of Co. Mayo, and with a few of Co. Galway. Towns included, Castlebar, Westport, Foxford, Newport, Ballina, Claremorris, Ballinrobe, Balla, Killala, Achill Sound, Duagh, hotels etc., Croagh Patrick & Clew Bay, Mullranny, Clare Island, Pontoon etc. Also Galway City, The Claddagh, An Spideal, Connemara, Military Barracks, Oughterard, Eviction Scene at Loughrea, real photo cards of Aran. A very fine clean collection, in 4to Album, a few loose. As a lot, w.a.f. (1) €700 - €1000 862. Macalister (R.A.S.) Muiredach Abbot of Monasterboice 890-923, His Life and Surroundings, Folio Dublin 1914. First Edn., Hunt (John) Irish Medieval Figure Sculpture 1200-1600, 2 vols. I.U.P. 1974, illus. & d.w.’s. (3) €100 - €150 863. I.M.C.: Griffith (M.C.) Irish Patent Rolls of James I, Facsimile of the Irish Record Commissioners Calendar... Lg. folio Dublin (Stationary Office) 1966. Full orig. cloth. V. good. (1) €100 - €150 857 854 859 861