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

20 IMPERFECTIONS NOT STATED Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 125. Mac Greevy (Thomas) Jack B. Yeats - An Appreciation and an Interpretation, 8vo D. (Three Candles) 1945, Special Edn. of 250 Copies, red cloth backed boards, d.j. (1) €150 - €200 126. Martyn (Edward) The Tale of a Town and An Enchanted Sea, 8vo [Published at Kilkenny by Standish O’Grady], L. (T.F. Unwin) 1902, First Edn., hf. title, blue cloth, gilt lettering. (1) €150 - €200 127. Military: Cannon (Richard) Historical Record of The Eighteenth, or The Royal Irish Regiment of Foot, 8vo Lond. 1848. First Edn., engd. gen. title, 2 hand coloured plts. & extra engd. & other illus., recent cloth. (1) €100 - €150 128. Rutty (John) A Chronological History of the Weather and Seasons, and of the Prevailing Diseases in Dublin, 8vo Lond. 1770. First Edn. recent cloth. (1) €100 - €150 129. Painting of Carlow Castle Fore-Painting: Pope (Alexander) The Poetical Works of...,For the Use of Young People. Sm. 8vo Lond. 1849. Ed. by Wm. Chas. Macready, a.e.g., in full cont. crimson mor., triple gilt fillet borders. V. good. (1) * With an attractive fore-edge watercolour painting of Carlow Castle. Rare. €300 - €400 130. Joyce (James) Two Tales of Shem and Shaun, Fragments fromWork in Progress. 8vo Lond. (Faber and Faber) 1932. First U.K. Edition. Good clean copy with orig. orange d.w., few nicks on edges. (1) €160 - €220 131. Macnamara (M.A.) Authentic Derivations of Place-Names in County Dublin, 8vo Dublin 1922. First Edn., full cloth, with ptd. label. Scarce. V. good. (1) €80 - €130 132. Irish Travel: [Ashworth (J.H.)] The Saxon in Ireland: or, The Rambles of An Englishman in Search of a Settlement in the West of Ireland, 8vo Lond. 1851. First Edn., litho frontis, fold. map ‘ With the Publishers Complts.’ in m/ss on title, 32pp. Cat at end, orig. green cloth. V. good copy of a scarce book. * Issued to try and encourage investment in the West of Ireland following the Great Famine; also Knox (Alexander) The Irish Watering Place, Dublin 1845. First Edn., frontis orig. cloth; & Rambles in Ireland, by Wm. Bulfin, Dublin 1912, fold. maps & illus., orig. cloth. (3) €200 - €300 133. One of 100 Signed Copies Chaskey (S.), O’Casey (Breon) illus . Stars are Suns, 4to L. (Stonemen Press) 1993, Signed Limited Edn. No. 55/100, gilt decor. brown cloth. Good copy. (1) €350 - €450 134. Colum (Padraic) Ten Poems, 8vo, D. (Dolmen Press) 1957, Limited Edn. No. 212/500, inscribed on front end paper with passage ‘ O Men from the Fields, Come Gently Within, Near Softly, Softly, O Men Coming In! ’ Padraic Colum, Sandycove, Feb. 22nd, 1958, green cloth backed boards, glassine cover; Millar (L.)ed. Borges, Irish Strategies, 8vo, D (Dolmen Editions) 1975, Signed Limited Edn., No. 80/350 Copies, leather backed green boards, slip case. (2) €300 - €400 129 133 135. Rare Irish Provincial Printed 18th Century Herbal K’eogh (John) Botanalogia Universalis Hibernica, or, A General Irish Herbal, Calculated for this Kingdom..., 4to Corke (George Harrison) 1735, First Edn., dedit (4pps), Preface (8pps) subscribers (4pps) 1- 145pps, Index (32pps.) contemporary m/ss notes on f.e.p. and b.e.p., contemp. leather backed marble boards (Rebacked) mor. label. Extremely Rare. (1) €1500 - €2000 134