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

18 IMPERFECTIONS NOT STATED Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 105. Irish Travel: [Jackson (Mrs. John)]? Notes of a Journey in the North of Ireland in the Summer of 1827, to which is added ‘ A Brief Account of the Siege of Londonderry, in 1689, ’ Sm 8vo Lond. (Baldwin & Cradock...) 1828. First Edn., Fold. map & 4 engd. plts. 185pp. uncut, orig. cloth, v. good copy. Rare. (1) €300 - €400 106. Irish Travel: Crofton Croker (T.)ed. The Tour of the French Traveller M. de la Boullaye le Gouz in Ireland, A.D. 1644, 8vo Lond. 1837. First Translated Edn., hf. title, VIII, 139pp orig. cloth, gilt lettered spine. V. good. Scarce. (1) €180 - €250 107. Wright (Rev. G.N.) An Historical Guide to Ancient and Modern Dublin, Illus. by Geo. Petrie. 8vo Lond. 1821. First Edn., Lg. fold. map of Dublin, engd. frontis & 16 engd. plts. on India paper, complete & v. clean, cont. hf. calf, gilt lined spine. V. good copy. (1) €200 - €300 108. First Six Editions - With Hand-Coloured Plates Fishing: Francis (Francis) A Book on Angling, 8vo Lond. 1867. First Edn., Hf. title, hd. cold. frontis & 14 other plts. (4 of which are hand cold.) adverts. at end, recent fine hf. wine cold. mor. raised bands gilt lettered. Also with, Second Edn., L. 1867, port. frontis & 15 plts. (5 hand. cold.) adverts at end, orig. cloth; also with Third Edn., L. 1872, engd. frontis & 16 plts. (6 hand cold.) adverts, recent attractive hf. crimson mor., gilt flat spine; also Fourth Edn., Lond. 1876, frontis, 16 plts. (some hd. cold.) orig. cloth; also Fifth Edn., Lond. 1880, hd. cold. & other plts. recent hf. green mor.; and Sixth Edn., Lond. 1885. Port. frontis, engd. plts. some hand coloured, orig. cloth. (6) * A very unusual & Scarce Collection. €350 - €500 109. Owenson (Miss S.) [Lady Morgan], The Lay of the Irish Harp; or Metrical Fragments. Sm. 8vo Lond. 1807. First Edn., Title with wd. cut vignette illus. by Bewick, adverts on end leaf, cont. hf. mor., raised bands, gilt panels. Rare. Good. (1) €200 - €300 110. Hayes (Rev. Richard) Augustinian Priest of the Catholic Church Sermons, 2 vols. in one, Sm. 8vo Dublin 1823. First Collected Edition, cont. calf, mor. label, joints cracked. Scarce. (1) €100 - €150 111. Almanac: Watson Stewart (John) The Gentleman’s and Citizen’s Almanack, with English Register, and Wilson’s Dublin Directory, for 1795, no fold. map, cont. mottled calf, v. good; Lover (Sam.) Legends and Stories of Ireland, 12mo Dublin 1832. Second Edn., engd. plts., orig. cloth; Inglis (H.D.) A Journey throughout Ireland, 8vo Lond. 1836. Fourth, fold. map frontis, 1 page with tear, orig. cloth. (3) €100 - €150 112. Flying: Ferris (Richard) How to Fly or The Conquest of the Air, Lond. (T. Nelson & Sons) 1910. First Edn., Cold. frontis, profusely illustrated, orig. pit. cloth, now in marble slipcase. V. Good. Bookplate of Garrycloyne. (1) €120 - €180 113. Binding: Missale Romanum, Ex decreto Sacro - sancti Concilii, Tridentini Restitutum, S. Pii Pont. Max. jussu editum, et Clementis VIII primum, nunc denuo Urani Papae VIII antoritare recognitum thick 8vo Antwerp (Plantin) 1762. Red & bl. title & text thro.-out, engd. vignette title, initials & fine plates, and music, a.e.g., later full straight grained crimson mor. tooled gilt borders & spine. Upper cover with gilt lettered Killaderry [Co. Offaly]. (1) €250 - €350 114. Very Clean Copy Wilde (Wm. R.) The Beauties of the Boyne, and its Tributary, The Blackwater, Dublin 1850. Second Edn., hf. title, illus. thro-out, advert leaf at front, orig. blue cloth, gilt. V. good copy. (1) €120 - €170 115. Co. Meath : Presentments - County of Meath, Abstracts etc. of Presentments, Lent Assizes, Summer Assizes, 1836, and Lent and Summer Assizes 1831 . Together 4 works, 8vo D.1830 - 1831, cont. hf. calf, worn. As a collection of works, w.a.f. V. Scarce. (1) €175 - €250 116. To My Dear Wife Gavan Duffy (Sir Charles) A Bird’s Eye View of Irish History (enlarged and carefully revised), sm 4to D. (James Duffy) 1882, Signed and inscribed ‘ For my dear wife, who had the most laborious share in producing this little volume, C. Gavan Duffy, Villa Amec, Nice, June 24th, 1882,’ with bookplate “Luisig G. Ui Dhubhthaigh,” contemp. slipcase. Nice Association. (1) €350 - €420 105 108 115 112 113