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

15 Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 76. Coloured Plates - Pugin (A. Welby) Glossary of Ecclesiastical Ornament and Costume, lg. 4to L. 1868. Third Edn., ed. by Rev. B. Smith, add cold. litho title, & 73 cold. litho plts. (complete), orig. crimson mor. backed gilt boards, some slight stains. (1) €250 - €350 77. Co. Down: An Index of surnames of Households in Griffith’s Primary Valuation and Tithe Applotment Books [c.1823-1841] for Co. Down. Folio Dubin (National Library of Ireland) 1968, photocopy, recent hf. calf, gilt spine, mor. labels; An Act for Repairing Road .. from Bann-Water .. Ban Bridge .. to Belfast, Folio Dublin 1734; also Census of Ireland, Part I, Co Down, 1871, 1881, & 1901, 3 vols. folio Dublin 1874-1902, all uniform recent hf. calf; and Municipal Commissioners of Carrickfergus, folio Lond. 1877, cloth backed boards. As a lot. (6) €200 - €300 78. Flower (Wm. H.) Diagrams of the Nerves of the Human Body, lg. 4to Lond. 1872. Second Edn., 6 lg. dble. page plates, rebound cloth. (1) €100 - €150 79. Boer War - Gildea (Sir James) For Remembrance and In Honour of Those who Lost their Lives in the South African War 1899-1902 - Lest We Forget, lg. 4to Lond. 1911. First Edn., Profusely illustrated thro.-out, some damp stains, recent mor. backed cloth. (1) * Large section on Ireland. €80 - €130 80. With Hand Coloured Maps Lewis (Samuel) A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, 2 vols. + Atlas. Together 3 vols. lg. folio Lond. 1837. First Edn., L.P. Copy, Atlas containing large fold. map of Ireland, & 32 County Maps, all hand coloured in outline, title to atlas supplied in photocopy, cont. cloth, one cover stained, otherwise clean set. (3) €275 - €350 81. Grose (Francis) The Antiquities of Ireland, 2 vols. large folio Lond. 1791. First Edn., Lg. paper copy, 2 engd. frontis 2 engd. titles & 257 engd. plts. (in total 261), most with tissue guards, cont. tree calf, professional re-back & repairs, mor. labels, v. good copy. (2) €325 - €450 82. Wadding (Fr. Luke) Scriptores Ordinis Minorum, Quibus accessit syllabus illorum qui ex eodem ordine pro Fide Christi fortiter occubuerunt. Lg. folio Rome 1806, uncut, later hf. mor., marble sides. Good. Emf. (1) €40 - €75 83. One of 10 Copies Signed by Author & Artist Montague (John) The Rough Field, folio, Paris (Maeght Editions) 2005, Signed by the Author and Artist (Marco del Re), hand made paper, loose, Special Edition of 10, containing an extra suite of four Signed Lithographs, also 18 others, housed in bright green cloth folding box. Scarce. (1) €1000 - €1500 84. Original Ordnance Survey The Tottenham Copy Co. Wexford: Townland Survey of the County of Wexford, with Index, all hand coloured in outline, 49 fold. linen backed sheets, ex. 54; lacking nos. 15, 18, 19, 20 & 25; plus index map Dublin 1841-1842. Contained in 4 lg. full calf containers, each with gilt armorial stamps and name ‘Charles Tottenham, Jnr. New Ross.’The index map includes, Table of Areas to the Estate of Charles Tottenham, Esq. of New Ross, Some dirt marks, or a few damp stains & containers worn in places. As an atlas, w.a.f. These hand coloured County Surveys now extremely scare, only a handful completed. (4) €1200 - €1600 85. Grose (Francis) The Antiquities of Ireland, 2 vols. lg. 4to Lond. 1791. First Edn., 2 engd. title pages, 2 engd. frontis & 263 engd. full page plts., some browning, diced calf, attractive tooled gilt spine, rebacked. Tall copy. (2) €300 - €400 80 85 83 76