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23 Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 168. Drummond (Wm. Hamilton) The Giant’s Causeway, A Poem, 8vo Belfast 1811. First Edn., engd. map frontis, fold. map of Co. Antrim, 4 engd. plts. (3 fold) some offsetting, top edge with small hole not affecting text, cont. hf. calf John Alexander’s Copy, Signed by him on title. (1) €140 - €180 169. Architecture: Oakley (Ed.) Every Man a Complete Builder: or, Easy Rules and Proportions for Drawing and Working the several Parts of Architecture, 8vo Lond. 1766. First Edn., Engd. frontis 51 engd. plts. leaves ( & include. one lg. fold.) cont. full calf, gilt fillet border. V. good; also Le Clere (Seb.) Exercises for Free and Accepted Masons being a Treatise of Architecture, ... Translated by Mr. Chambers. 8vo Lond. [1723]. Plates thro.-out, lacks some text at end, cont. hf. calf. (2) €200 - €300 170. Dun Emer Press: Hyde (Douglas) The Love Songs of Connacht Being The Fourth Chapter of the Songs of Connacht, Collected and Translated by Douglas L.L.D., .. President of the Gaelic League. Preface by W.B. Yeats 8vo Dundrum (Dun Emer Press) 1904. First Edn., Limited to 300 Copies. uncut, orig. cloth backed boards, printed labels. Very good copy. (1) €225 - €350 171. 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) €220 - €350 172. Irish Travel: [Campbell] A Philosophical Survey of the South of Ireland, in a Series of Letters to John Watkinson M.D., 8vo Dublin 1778. First Edn., 6 engd. plts. (some fold.) cont. calf, professional reback, tooled spine, mor. label; Slater (Rev. M.) Introductory Essay to a New System of Civil and Ecclesiastical Topography, 8vo Dublin 1806. First Edn., list of subs., cont. hf. calf, good. (2) €160 - €220 173. Co. Kildare & Co. Leix: A small Archive of Manuscript Material, numerous letters, some indentures, leases and two manuscript maps relating to Ballintubber Lodge, Athy, and Southville, Co. Leix, c. 1824, & principally 1890’s. As a m/ss. lot, w.a.f. (1) €250 - €350 174. County Armagh: Lyne Estate - Rental of the Estate of the Late Mrs. Anne Lyne in the County of Armagh,... for Years Ending November 1869, & November 1872, 2 vols. 4to 1869-72. Areas covered Cavanagarvin, Drumacanver, Lisglin, Drumgreenagh, Tamlet, Fernaloy & Magherkilcraney, parts of the Aghnanagh Estate. Both vols. lists tenants name, rents, arrears etc., & payments made to Provost & Fellows of Trinity College & others, morroco & cloth. As a m/ss., w.a.f. (2) €250 - €350 175. Binding: [O’Connell (Daniel) & Others] Flanedy (John) A Special Report of the Proceedings in the Case of The Queen against Daniel O’Connell Esq., M.P. John O’Connell M.P. Thomas Steele, Thomas Matthew Ray Esq., Charles Gavan Duffy Esq., & 4 others, roy 8vo Dublin (J. Duffy) 1844. First Edn., a.e.g. cont. full green mor lg. tooled gilt border, blind panel, & fine gilt tooled spine in panels. (1) €120 - €170 176. O’Rahilly (T.F.) Early Irish History and Mythology, roy 8vo Dublin 1946; Mac Lysaght (E.) The Kenmare Manuscripts, Dublin (I.M.C.) 1970; Mac Airt (Sean)ed. The Annals of Inisfallen, Dublin 1988, all cloth. (3) €100 - €150 177. King (Jeremiah) County Kerry Past and Present, 8vo Dublin 1931, Signed by ‘Seamus Pender, 1953’; Smith (C.) The Ancient and Present State of The County of Kerry, Mercier Press Reprint 1979, with map & plts. cloth; Doyle (Lynn) The Spirit of Ireland, L. 1935. Signed by Author; O’Donoghue (John) In a Quiet Land, L. 1957. With Long Presentation Inscription, Signed; & two other same author; Gibbings (R.) Lovely is the Lee, L. 1945, illus. (7) €100 - €150 178. Shaw Mason (Wm.) A Statistical Account or Parochial Survey of Ireland, 3 vols. thick 8vo Dublin 1814-1819. First Edn., numerous engd. plts. & maps (many folding), some loose, in cont. bindings, not uniform, as is. S.N.S.R. (3) €250 - €350 168 173 174