Rare Book & Collectors' Sale 1st & 2nd October 2025

106 IMPERFECTIONS NOT STATED Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 894. Address to Daniel O’Connell, at Start of Great Famine Manuscript: Co. Leix - An adulatory address to the “Illustrious Liberator” from“the pupils of Mountrath Seminary”, dated 27 Sept. 1845, written in a neat copperplate hand and signed “on behalf of the whole” by five students, praising him for liberating the Irish people “as the angel was sent to St Peter when in prison”, they promise to” rally round you as another Moses” and offer up their prayers for the success of his campaign for the Repeal of the Union. The students’ timing was unfortunate: divisions were rising in the Repeal movement, O’Connell was now in failing health, and the recent appearance of potato blight would soon give Irish people a greater cause of concern. As a m/ss., w.a.f. Important. (1) €300 - €400 895. Political Ballad Sheet, [O’Connell (D.;)] O’Connell and Erin Go Bragh,’ single sheet, L. (W.J. Mitchelson) c. 1844, approx. 22cms x 8.5cms, framed. (1) €80 - €100 896. Irish Political Prints: Two 20th Century Ameican Portrait Prints, Robert Emmett (The Irish Patriot), coloured lithograph depicting him in military attire; together with Daniel O’Connell (The Liberator), coloured lithograph depicting him in overcoat, seated (facsimile signature lower right) each approx. 75cms x 59cms (29½” x 23”), uniform frames. (2) €200 - €300 Unique Famine Medal - A superb and important engraved Gold Medal, 18 carat, weight 88.5 gm, diameter 51.5mm [2”], presented ‘ To Mr. T. OBrien, MDCCCXLVI [1846] / For his / continued exertions in / the manufacture of Bread / from Indian corn, / which have contributed / materially to its introduction / as a substitute for Potatoes / among the pople of / IRELAND’ [within a wreath], scratched number 5048, [presented by] S O Co. I N Sn / London 1753; obverse with legend ‘ Arts and Commerce Promoted’ enclosing two classical heads in relief; preserved in the original circular leather velvet-lined box with clasp. The recipient is Timothy O’Brien, a Dublin merchant and MP who (as Lord Mayor of Dublin) welcomed Queen Victoria to the capital in 1849, and was created a baronet [see D.I.B. for his grandson, also Timothy, an international cricketer]. He was a member of the well-known grocery and bakery firm Johnston Mooney & O’Brien. History does not record the nature of his exertions in promoting the use of Trevelyan’s Indian corn, which was intended to replace not only the potato, but the good Irish corn, whose export continued unchecked through the Famine years. (1) Provenance: By direct family descent. €10,000 - €15,000 897. Remembering Trevelyan’s Corn