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

13 Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 56. Signed Limited Edition Longley (Michael) & Moran (J.)illus. The Lake without a Name, Poems of Mayo, 8vo, Belfast (The Blackstaff Press) 2005, Signed & Limited 218/275 Copies, illus. green cloth backed hand made boards, matching slipcase. (1) €200 - €300 57. O’Donovan (John) Annals of the Kingdom of Ireland, by the Four Masters, 7 vols., D. (Hodges Smith & Co.) 1856, Second Edn., full cloth, gilt lettered spine, some staining, otherwise good set. (7) €300 - €400 58. Bibliography: [Bradshaw (Henry)] A Catalogue of the Bradshaw Collection of Irish Books in the University Library Cambridge, 3 vols. Cambridge 1916, later cloth. V. good clean copy. (3) €100 - €150 59. [Thompson (Hugh)] Artist. Barrie (J.M.) Quality Street, 4to Lond. 1901, fine cold. plts.; Mitford (Mary Russell) Our Village, 4to Lond. 1910, illus. by H. Thompson, & 2 others sim. cold. plts. all cloth, gilt. (4) €80 - €130 60. Irish Collectors: Bennett (Douglas) Irish Georgian Silver , 4to Lond. 1972. First Edn.; Westropp (M.S. Dudley) Irish Glass, lg. 4to Lond. n.d. First Edn., buckram; Stannas (Mrs. G.) Old Irish Glass , 4to Lond. 1921 New Edn., & 1 other sim., all illus. Good. (4) €60 - €90 62. Smith (George) The Cabinet Maker and Upholsterers Guide: Being a Complete Drawing Book... 4to Lond. 1836. Add. engd. title, 38 hd. cold. plts. (include. frontis) & 110 bl. & white plts. some plts. with spotting, cont. hf. green mor. (1) €350 - €500 63. Ware (James) Rerum Hibernicarum Annales,... folio Dublin (J. Crook.. Sam Dancer) 1664. First Edn., red & bl. title, ... bound with, De Praesulibus Hiberniae Commentarius..., Dublin 1665. First Edn., red & bl. title, cont. full calf, rebacked. V. good. (1) * Bookplate of Jeremiah Milles, D.D., (friend of Bishop Pococke,... President of the Society of Antiquaries), & fac-simile of early 19th Century bookplate of Sir Edward Loftus. €350 - €500 61. Rare Plate Book of Northern Ireland Burgess (J. Howard) Illustrations of the North of Ireland, Guide to the Giants Causeway, Oblong sm. folio Belfast (Marcus Ward) n.d. [c. 1850] with black and blue printed illus. title & 20 fine full page plts., in orig. hf. mor. (recent mor. spine reback). Bookplate of Garrycloyne. In recent marble slipcase. (1) * A most desirable copy of a very scarce work. €600 - €900 56 62 57 63 59