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57 Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 485. Stuart (Rob.) A Descriptive History of the Steam Engine, Lond. 1824. First Edn., frontis, add. decor., title, & engd. plts. cont. hf. crimson mor., tooled gilt spine; Anderson (Rich.) Lightening Conductors Their History, Nature, and Mode of Application, Sm. folio Lond. 1880. First Edn., frontis & illus. Inscribed Pres. Copy to the Rt. Hon. The Archbishop of Dublin, Glendalough & Kildare, Signed by Author, cloth. Good. (2) €140 - €200 486. Military interest: Hall (Donal) The Unreturned Army - County Louth in the Great War 1914-1918, Sm. folio Dundalk 2005; Dalton (Chas.) Irish Army Lists 1661- 1685, folio Lond. 1907, photocopy; D’Arcy (Fergus A.) Remembering the War Dead:... International War Graves in Ireland since 1914, folio 2007, illus.; Doherty (R.) & Truesdale (D.) Irish Winners of the Victoria Cross, Dublin 2000; & 2 others. (6) €100 - €150 487. I.A.S. - Petty (Dr. Wm.) The History of the Survey of Ireland, commonly called the Down Survey, edited by T Aiskew Larcom. 4to Dublin (Irish Arch. Society) 1851. Printed for member of Society, R. Clayton Browne. Orig. cloth,v. clean copy; also O’Donovan (J.)ed. The Banquet of Dun na N’Gedh and the Battle of Magh Rath, 4to Dublin 1842. First Edn., fold. table. cloth. (2) €150 - €200 488. Henry (Francoise) Irish Art, to 800 A.D.; 800 - 1020 A.D. & 1020 - 1170 A.D., 3 vols. sm. 4to Lond. 1965-1970. First Edns. Thus, Presentation Copies, Signed by Author to Eileen [McCarvill], illus. thro.-out, pict. d.w.’s; also L’Art Irlandais, 3 vols. & slipcases. V. good. (6) €150 - €200 489. Fine Collection Montague (John) The Rough Field, 8vo D. (Dolmen) 1972, First Edn., Signed, ptd. wrappers; The French Clock, 8vo, D. (Dolmen) 1978, First Edn., Signed, ptd. wrappers; Tides, 8vo, D. (Dolmen) 1970, First Edn., Signed with inscription ‘ Of Love that lifts us UP, of Death that Hurls us Down, John for Sean (Clerkin), ptd. wrappers; Speech Lessons, 8vo, (Gallery Press) 2011, First Edn., ptd. wrappers; Mount Eagle, 8vo (Gallery Press) 1989, First Edn., ptd. wrappers; New Selected Poems, 8vo (Gallery Press) 1998, First Edn., ptd. wrappers; The Lost Notebook, 4to C. (Mercier Press) 1987, First Edn., Signed, ptd. wrappers; The Dead Kingdom, 8vo, D. (Dolmen) 1984, First Edn., inscribed Moving UP and Down the Central Spine, with Affection John (Montague), ptd. wrappers; Drunken Soldier, 8vo (Gallery Books) 2004, First Edn., Signed, ptd. wrappers; The Pear is Ripe, A Memoir, 8vo, D. (Liberties) 2007, First Edn., Signed, cloth & d.j.; Chosen Lights, 8vo First Edn., (Gallery Press) ptd. wrappers, as a lot. (1) €350 - €450 490. Bowen (Elizabeth) Bowen’s Court, L. 1942; Seven Winters, L. 1943; Anthony Trollope, L. 1946; Eva Trout, L. 1969; The Little Girls, L. 1964; A World of Love, L. 1955; To the North, L. 1983 (New Edn.); The Heart of the Day, L. 1949, all 8vo cloth & d.j., together two others, as a lot, w.a.f. (10) €100 - €150 491. Kinsella (Thomas) A Selected Life, Peppercanister 2, folio Dublin (Dolmen Press) 1972. Limited Edition, No. 102 of 150 Copies, Signed by author; also Finistere, by Kinsella. Folio Dublin (Dolmen Press) 1972. Limited Edition, No. 155 of 250 Copies, Signed by Author. Both Special Bindings. V. good. (2) €200 - €300 492. Signed Limited Edition Beckett (Samuel)trans. Zone, by Guillaume Apollinaire, with English translation by Samuel Beckett. Lg. 4to Dublin (Dolmen Press) 1972. Limited Edition No. 17 of 250 Copies, Signed by Beckett. Orig. mor. backed black cloth & slipcase. V. good clean copy. (1) €425‑€650 493. H.M.S.O. - Berry (H.F.) & Morrissey (J.F.) editors. Statute Rolls of the Parliament of Ireland, King John to Henry V.; King Henry VI; King Edward IV, in 2 vols., together 4 vols. roy 8vo Dublin 1907, 1910, 1914- 1939. Uniform recent calf backed black boards, mor. labels. V. good. (4) €225‑€350 494. Morrin (James)ed. Calendar of the Patent and Close Rolls of Chancery in Ireland, Henry VIII, Edward VI, and Elizabeth; 18th to 45th of Q. Elizabeth; and Reign of K. Charles I, 3 vols. imp. 8vo Dublin 1861- 1862-1863. With 2 cold. litho fold. frontis, orig. mor. backed boards.(3) €200 - €300 495. Co. Cork: GroveWhite (Col. J.) Historical and Topographical Notes etc. on Buttervant, Castletownroche, Doneraile, Mallow and Places in their Vicinity, Vols. II, III & IV (ex 4 vols.) imp. 8vo Cork 1911- 1925. Numerous photo illus., ex. libris copy, later full cloth. Scarce. (3) €500 ‑ €700 488 492 495