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

114 IMPERFECTIONS NOT STATED Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 948. Belfast Printings: Burns (Robert) Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, 12mo Belfast 1790 with engd. port. frontis, some finger marks, but V. Scarce; also Milton (J.) Paradise Lost, A Poem in Twelve Books, From the text of Thos. Newton, D.D., 12mo Belfast (Wm. Magee) 1796. Both rebacked in orig. full calf, Rare. (2) €180 - €250 949. 1798: Hay (Edward) History of the Insurrection of the County of Wexford, A.D. 1798, 8vo Dublin 1803. First Edn., hf. title, lg. fold. map, with Appendix, & Authentic Detail, with 1 lg. fold. table, recent hf. calf, mor. label. V. good complete copy; 1 other item. (2) €200 - €300 951. [Walsh (Most Rev. Dr. W.J.)] Statement of the Chief Grievances of Irish Catholics in the Matter of Education,... 8vo Dublin n.d. [c. 1890] First Edn., orig. cloth backed printed boards; also Intermediate and University Education in Ireland, by a Committee of Irish Catholics, Part I [All Published] D. 1872 First Edn., cloth. Both Scarce. (2) €70 - €100 952. Synge (J.M.) The Works of John M. Synge, 4 vols. lg. 8vo Dublin (Maunsel & Co.) 1910. First Edn., 4 hf. titles & 4 port. frontis t.e.g., in cont. full blue cloth, front covers with coat of arms, by Leighton Bell & Co., Cambridge. V. good. (4) €180 - €220 953. All Signed Copies Heaney (Seamus) & others [John Malone Memorial Lecture] 6 issue, 1982- 88, Among School Children, (Heaney) Signed; Recollections (Hammond) Signed & inscribed; Dramatis Persona, (Stewart Parker) Signed, Education for Renewal, (Skilbeck) Signed, Is Comprehensive Education Still Worth Fighting For? (Sockett) Signed; Why Can’t they be Like Us, (Hayes) Signed, all 8vo, ptd. wrappers (varied colours). [Brandes & Durkan A35] €350 - €500 954. Signed Uncorrected Proof Heaney (Seamus) Seeing Things, 8vo, N.Y. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) 1991, Uncorrected Proof, Signed on front cover, ptd. wrappers; The Burial at Thebes, 8vo, N.Y. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) 2004, uncorrected Proof, ptd. wrappers. Scarce. (2) €250 - €320 955. Behan (Brendan) The Hostage, 8o, L. (Methaun & Co.) 1958, First Edn., hf. title, cloth & d.j.; Brendan Behan’s Island, An Irish Sketch-book, 8vo L.(Hutchinson) 1962, First Edn., illus. by Paul Hogarth, cloth & d.j. (2) €150 - €200 956. O’Casey (Sean) The Plough and the Stars, 8vo, L. (MacMillan & Co.) 1926, First Edn., portrait frontis, cloth & d.j.; Kraus (D.) The Letters of Sean O’Casey, 4 vols. L.(Cuala Press) 1975-1992, illus., cloth & d.j. (5) €180 - €250 957. [Stafford (T.)] Pacata Hibernia, or A History of the Wars in Ireland, 2 vols., D. (Hibernia Press) Reprint from 1633 Edn., port. frontis, & 16 fold. plans & maps etc., (ex. 18) Ex. Libris, (University of London King’s college), recent cloth, w.a.f. (2) €120 - €140 958. Medical: Thornton (Arthur) The X Rays [Popular Photographic Series, No. 10] Bradford 1896. Frontis text illus., adverts recent cloth & slipcase; Jerman (E. C.) Modern X Ray Technic, roy 8vo Saint Paul 1928; & Schall (W.E.) X Rays: Their Origin, Dosagh, and Practical Application, 4to Bristol 1928, both illus. & orig. cloth. (3) €80 - €120 954 955 956 950 950. Inscribed from the Author Turner (Dawson) Muscologiae Hibericae Spicilegium, 8vo, Yermuthae (J. Black) 184, dedit, XI, 200pps, XIV, 16 hand coloured plts. (Complete) by James de Carle Sowerby, Inscribed on title page from the author and dated 1812, recent blue boards, ptd. label. Ex. Scarce. (1) * This was the last book produced from the Press of James Black, the number of copies was very limited (approx. 30 copies) . €600 - €800