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

23 Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 155. Coloured Plates: [Combe (Wm.)] The Tour of Doctor Syntax in Search of the Picturesque, ... The Third Tour of Doctor Syntax in Search of a Wife, 2 vols. 8vo Lond. All with hand cold. plts.; Doyle (Martin)ed. The Illustrated Book of Domestic Poultry, Lond. n.d. all cold. pls., mor. backed; A. Beckett (G.) The Comic History of Rome, Lond. hd. cold. plts. orig. gilt cloth; Tytler (Sarah) Childhood, A Hundred Years Ago, Lond. (Marcus Ward & Co.) Lond. 6 mounted cold. plts., orig. decor. gilt cloth. (5) €130 - €180 156. Co. Cork: Cusack (M.F.) A History of the City and County of Cork, thick imp. 8vo D. & Cork (Kenmare Publications) 1875. First Edn., Fold. cold. map & fold. pedigrees, orig. cloth gilt, v. good; also Cole (Rev. J.H.) Church and Parish Records of the United Diocese of Cork, Cloyne and Ross, Cork 1903. First Edn., port. frontis & 1 plt. orig. cloth. Both with Garrycloyne bookplate. V. good. (2) €150 - €200 157. Andrews (J.H.) A Paper Landscape - The Ordnance Survey in Nineteenth-Century Ireland, Ulster History Foundation 1975; Plantation Acres, 1985; and Shapes of Ireland, Maps and Their Makers 1564-1839; Dublin 1997. All First Edns., illus. & orig. d.w.’s, Eden (P.)ed. Dictionary of Land Surveyors and Local Cartographers of Great Britain and Ireland, 1550-1850, Lond. 1979; & 9 others sim. (a lot) €100 - €150 158. Taylor (Geo.) & Skinner (Andrew) Maps of the Roads of Ireland, Surveyed 1777, roy 8vo Lond. & D. 1778. First Edn., Fold. map of Ireland, engd. title, dedit & 288 road maps of Ireland, cont. hf. calf, rebacked. V. clean copy. (1) €550 - €750 159. Genealogy: Burke (Sir B.) A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Ireland, Sm. thick folio Lond. 1912. New Edn., orig. gilt cloth, v. good. (1) €100 - €150 160. With Fine Hand Coloured Maps Atlas: Scale (B.) An Hibernian Atlas, Lond. 1776. First Edn., Hd. cold. map of Ireland, & 36 full page hd. cold. maps (ex. 37, lacking Wicklow), all loose, lacking title & dedit, old cloth backed boards. As an Atlas, w.a.f. (1) €500 - €750 161. O’Malley (Tony & Jane) 50 Years - A Selective Retrospective of Works on Paper, 4to 2002; Lynch (B.)ed. Tony O’Malley, The Visual Diaries, Kilkenny 2005; Whittaker (D.) Tony O’Malley An Irish Artist in Cornwall, 2005; & 13 others, Exhibition Catalogues etc of Tony & Jane O’Malley, & include. 2 vols. of poetry by John F. Deane, with illus. covers by T. O’Malley. As a lot, w.a.f. (1) €70 - €90 162. Northern Ireland interest: Lyall (Sir A.) The Life of The Marquis of Dufferin and Ava, 2 vols. Lond. 1905. Illus.,orig. cloth, gilt; Colles (Ramsay) The History of Ulster, 4 vols. Lond. 1919. Maps & plts., orig. cloth. All good. (6) €100 - €150 163. Donleavy (J.P.) The Ginger Man, 8vo, D. (Lilliput Press) 2015, (60th Anniversary Edition) Signed & Limited No. 78 / 200 Numbered Copies, cloth backed boards, silver lettered spine, matching orange slipcase. Good copy. (1) €180 - €220 164. Beckett (Samuel) [O’Brien (E.)ed.] Dream of Fair to Middling Women, 8vo D. (The Black Cat Press) 1992, Limited Edn. 84/130 Copies, Signed by the Editor, marble end papers, decor. cloth (Antiquarian Bookbinders label), matching green slipcase. Good copy. (1) €180 - €220 165. Three Candles Binding: O’Donovan (John)ed. The Tribes and Customs of Hy- Many, Commonly called O’Kelly’s Country, 4to Dublin (Irish Arch. Soc.) 1843. First Edn., Map frontis & lg. fold. table, later fine calf backed cloth boards, mor. label, by The Sign of The Three Candles, Ltd... binders, with Celtic designed ticket. V. Good. (1) €150 - €200 166. Arctic Travel: Pearson (Henry J.) Beyond Petsora Eastward, 4to L. (R.HJ. Porter) 1899, First Edn., cold. frontis & 88 photographic plts., text & fold. maps, original gilt lettered and decor. green cloth; Three Summers Among the Birds of Russian Lapland; 4to L. (R.H. Porter) 1904, First Edn., frontis & 67 photographic plts. (some fold.) large folding map, gilt lettered green cloth; Trevor-Battye (A.0.) Ice bound on Kolguev, A chapter in the Exploration of Artic Europe,.. 4to Westminster (A. Constable & Co.) 1895, First Edn., frontis, illus., cloth backed boards, as a lot. (3) €150 - €200 158 160 163