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

21 Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 137. Co. Kerry: Scully (Reg. W.) Flora of County Kerry, including the Flowering Plants, Ferns, Chavaceae, 8vo D. (Hodges, Figgis & Co.) 1916, First Edn., hf. title, cold. fold. map (at end) & 5 plts., (2pps. flyer) green cloth, gilt lettered spine. (1) €180 - €220 138. Coloured Plates: Lee (James) An Introduction to the Science of Botany, chiefly extracted from the Works of Linnaeus, thick 8vo, L. (F.C. & J. Rivington) 1810, Fourth Edn., portrait frontis, dedit, 12 hand coloured plts., uncut, recent cloth reback and label, original boards. Good copy. (1) €200 - €300 139. [Maxwell (W.H.)] Wild Sports of the West, 2 vols. L. (R. Bentley) 1832, First Edn., hf. title (Vol. 1) 5 engravings, various text vignettes, contemp. hf. calf, cloth boards, mor. label, bookplate ‘R Basil Cane.’ (2) €200 - €300 140. Patterson (R.)ed. Ulster Nature Notes (Series 1) 8vo, Belfast (W. Mullan & Son) 1908, 8 plts., gilt lettered green cloth; Publication of the British Trust for Ornithology (Vol. 1) 1935-9 & (Vol. 2) 1939 - 44, 2 vols. Oxford 1939-44, illus. & plans, cloth backed boards; Fitter (R.) ed. Kingfisher, News and Comment about Wildlife and Conservation at Home and Abroad, periodical, Vol. 1 No. 1 (Feb. 1965) - Vol. 5, No. 6 1970, illus. ptd. wrappers, bound as one, as a lot. (4) €180 - €220 141. Murdoch (Iris) Under the Net, 8vo, L. (Chatto andWindus) 1954, First Edn, green boards, d.j. designed by Victor Ross (priced); Johnston (J.) The Captains and the Kings, 8vo, L. (Hamish Hamilton) 1972, Second, Inscribed by the Author, cloth & d.j.; Huxley (Aldous) Adonis and the Alphabet, 8vo, L. (Chatto &Windus) 1956, First Edn., green cloth, d.j., as a lot. (3) €350 - €450 142. Donegal Interest: Doherty (W.J.) Inis- owen and Tirconnell: Notes Antiquarian and Topographical, 2 vols. (First & Second Series) 8vo, D. (P. Traynor) 1891-1895, First Edn., brown cloth, gilt lettering. Good clean set. (2) €200 - €300 143. [Blenkinsop (A.) / Gregory (Sir W.H.)] Paddiana; or Scraps and Sketchs of Irish Life, 2 vols., L. (R Bentley) 1847, First Edn., hf. calf, marble boards; Trollope (A.) Phineas Finn, The Irish Member, 2 vols., L. (Virtue & Co.) 1869, First Edn., frontis, illus. recent hf. calf marble boards, mor. labels. (4) €180 - €220 137 138 142 141 136. Rare Irish 18th Century Animal Treatise K’eogh (John) Zoologia Medicinalis Hibernica: or a Treatise of Birds, Beasts, Fishes, Reptiles, or Insects.., 8vo D. (S. Powell) 1739, First Edn., dedit (6pps), Preface (4pps), list of subscribers, (6pps), 1 - 167, Index (10pps), contemp. full calf, mor. label, Library Stamp on title page (College Library Carlow). Scarce. (1) €1000 - €1500