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

121 Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 1011. Bindings: The Poetic and Dramatic Works of Robert Browning, 6 vols., 8vo, Boston (Riverside Press) 1899, hf. calf marble boards, gilt decor. spine; Clarke (C.C.) ed. The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, 4 vols., Edin. (J. Nichol) 1866, full green leather, mor. labels; Martin (Sir T.) The Works of Horace, 2 vols., Edin. (Wm. Blackwood & Sons) 1881, hf. vellum, mor. labels; Mac Carthy (D.) The Essays of Michael Lord of Montague, 3 vols. L. 1928, illus. hf. mottled calf, gilt decor. panels, mor. labels; Jebb (R.C.) The Attic Orators, 2 vols. L. 1893, full tree calf, prize binding, decor. spine, mor. label, and four other fine bindings, as a lot. (22) €250 - €400 1012. Republican interest: Kerry’s Fighting Story; Rebel Cork’s Fighting Story, Dublin Fighting Story; With the IRA in the Fight for Freedom 1919 to the Truce; Easter 1916-The Story of the Rising; 1913 Jim Larkin and the Dublin Lock Out; MacThormaid (Brendan M.) Deathless Glory , & 4 other items, all orig. wrappers. V. good. (11) €180 - €250 1013. [Irish Politics] Dail Eireann - Diosboireachtai Pairliminte (Parliamentary Debates) Vol. 1 (Sept. - Dec. 1922) - 1969, (not consecutive) all thick 4to, D. 1922- 1969, 65 volumes, all green cloth, gilt lettering, as a lot. (1) * Includes the Anglo-Irish Treaty Debates. €200 - €300 1014. All Signed by the Author Banville (John) A collection of the Author’s Novels, all hardback, all Signed, including Ghosts, The Newtown Letter, The Book of Evidence, Doctor Copernicus, The Sea, and others, all 8vo, cloth and d.j. (12) €150 - €200 1015. Military: Roskill (Captain S.W.) The War at Sea, 3 vols. (bound as 4) large 8vo, First Edn., illustrated with maps, photographs and plts., green cloth, d.j. in protection cases. (4) €180 - €220 1016. Box: Irish interest: Large collection of modern Irish literature, many Signed, good Irish poetry, Heaney, Kennelly (signed), Roper (signed), Neil Bracken, and others, sim. signed, some issues of the ‘The Blackrock Society Journal,’ 2012- 2019, a good collection, approx. 65 items, as a box lot, w.a.f. (1) €100 - €150 1017. Bindings: Waverley Novels, 47 vols. (Ex 48, lacking Vol. 9), sm. 8vo 1829. Engd. frontis & add. titles, cont. hf. green mor. tooled gilt spines; also British Theatre, 39 vols., full green mor., tooled gilt spines, together 88 vols. As a coll. of bindings, w.a.f. Attractive lot. (88) €300 - €400 1018. Counties, Louth, Fermanagh & Down: O’Donovan (John) Letters Containing information relative to the Antiquities of the County Louth, Down & Fermanagh, collected during.. The Ordnance Survey in 1834-35-36, 3 vols. 4to Bray (Rev. M. O’Flanagan) 1928. All typescripts, & orig. cloth. (3) €220 - €350 1019. Counties Kildare & Leix O’Donovan (John) Letters Containing information relative to the Antiquities of the County of Kildare, collected during .. The Ordnance Survey in 1837. Two vols. in one, 4to Bray (Rev. M. O’Flanagn) 1930; also for The Queen’s County (Leix), collected in 1838. Two vols. in one, 4to Bray (Rev. M. O’Flanagan) 1933. All typescript, & orig. cloth. (2) €200 - €300 1020. CountiesWexford &Waterford: O’Donovan (John) Letters Containing information relative to the County of Wexford,.. Ordnance Survey in 1840, Two vols. in one, 4to Bray (Rev. M. O’Flangan) 1933; also ditto for County of Waterford Ordnance Survey in 1841, 4to Bray 1929. Both typescripts, & orig. cloth, one spine dam. (2) €200 - €300 1021. County Derry O’Donovan (John) Letters Containing information relative to the Antiquities of the County of Londonderry, Collected during.. The Ordnance Survey in 1834, 4to Bray (Fr. M. O’Flanagan) 1927. together with, Survey Name Books, 2 vols. 4to, all typescript, & orig. cloth. (3) €200 - €300 1022. Co. Antrim: O’Donovan (John) Survey Letter Books for County of Antrim, 3 vols. Bray c. 1930, all typescripts & orig. cloth. (3) €150 - €200 1011 1018 1020