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

25 Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 177. O’Curry (Eugene) On the Manners and Customs of The Ancient Irish, 3 vols. Lond. 1873, Fist Edn.; Joyce (P.W.) A Social History of Ancient Ireland, 2 vols. D. 1913. Second Edn., all illus., orig. green cloth, gilt decor., v. good. (5) €200 - €300 178. Signed Limited Edition of 150 Copies Nelson (E.C.) &Walsh (W.F.) An Irish Flower Garden Replanted, The Histories of Some of Our Garden Plants, 4to D. (Catlebourke) 1997, Signed Limited Edition No. 109/150 Copies, illus., green leather backed yellow cloth boards, matching slipcase with illustrated label. (1) €500 - €700 179. [de Valera] Longford (Earl) & O’Neill (T.P.) Eamon de Valera, 8vo, L. (G. & M.) 1970, First Edn., Signed and inscribed ‘ Le Mor Mheerg- Eamon de Valera,’ (also ‘Nollaig Shona Dhuit O’Maire (10-11- 70) illus., cloth & d.j.; also a copy of the Battalion Review - The Boys’ Brigade, Dublin Battalion (1892-1962) Signed, illus., ptd. wrappers. (2) €200 - €300 180. Yeats (Jack B.) Life in the West of Ireland, 4to, D. (Maunsel & Co. Ltd.) 1912, First Edn., cold. frontis & 7 colour prints, 32 black and white prints and 16 reproductions of paintings, blue gilt decorated and lettering cloth, d.j. bound in good copy [with bookplate of Pickford Waller, designed by Austin Osman Spare)] (1) €500 - €700 181. [Co. Galway] Mahony (E.) The Galway Blazers - Memoirs, 4to Galway (Kenny’s) 1979, Signed Limited Edition, No. 1 / 75 Copies, illus., full decor. leather with gilt design, and matching cloth slipcase. (1) €180 - €220 182. Very Attractive Set Stafford (Thos.) Pacata Hibernia, Ireland Appeased and Reduced: History of the late Warres of Ireland, Three Books bound separately, 3 vols. plus Volume of Maps etc. Together 4 vols. folio Dublin (The Hibernia Press) 1810. Large Paper Copy, with 15 of the large folding maps (ex. 18) now in attractive uniform hf. calf, marble sides, gilt spines with mor. labels. (4) €300 - €400 183. Owen (D.J.) History of Belfast, Belfast (Baird) 1921. First Edn., illus. recent attractive hf. mor. gilt decor. spine; Bardon (Jon.) Belfast an Illustrated History, folio Belfast (Blackstaff Press) Lim. Edn. No. 60 of 200 Copies, Signed by Author, mor. backed boards by Sydney Aiken, slipcase; Proudfoot (L.)ed. Down History and Society, Dublin 1997, illus., d.w. (3) €100 - €150 184. From Henry Grattan’s Auction O’Halloran (Silvester) A General History of Ireland, 2 vols. 4to Lond. 1778. First Edn., 7pp. subscribers list, which amongst others, includes Edmund Burke, Member for Bristol, hf. title Vol. II, lacks front loose blanks, uncut orig. blue boards. (2) * Inscribed on title, Vol. 1 ‘ Grattan’s Auction, Nov. 6, 1888’ Rare. €160 - €240 185. Mitchel (Flora H.) Vanishing Dublin, lg. 4to Dublin (Allan Figgis) 1966. Sole Edition, 50 cold. plts., cloth & fine illustrated d.w. V. good. (1) €200 - €300 181 178 179 185 182 180