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

26 IMPERFECTIONS NOT STATED Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 186. Hardiman (James) The History of the Town and County of the Town of Galway, 4to D. (Golds & Sons) 1820, First Edn., fold. frontis, 10 plts. (3 fold.), later hf. green mor., cloth boards, gilt lettered spine. Good copy. (1) €250 - €320 187. With Hand Coloured Maps Hall (Mr. & Mrs. S.C.) Ireland: its Scenery, Character, etc., 3 vols. Lond. (Hall, Virtue & Co.) First Edn., engd. add. titles frontis & good engd. plts. & text vignette illus. plus all hand coloured maps, cont. hf. calf, gilt spines. Garrycloyne Bookplates. O’Callaghan Newenham - Views in Ireland, 4to c.. 1860 approx. 51 full page plts. (only), a few dam., cont. hf. mor. Garrycloyne Bookplate. (4) €225 - €375 188. Barrington (Sir Jonah) Historic Memoirs of Ireland;.. The Rebellion and The Union, 2 vols. 4to Lond. 1835. New Edn., port. frontis & others, list of subs. cont. hf. green mor.; also Barrington, Personal Sketches of His Own Times, 3 vols. 8vo Lond. 1830-1832. Second Edn., uniform, hf. mor. (5) €200 - €300 189. O’Phelan (John) Epitaphs on the Tombs in the Cathedral Church of St. Canice, Kilkenny, Folio Dublin 1813. First Edn., frontis plt. hand cold. & 11 other plts. & plans, some sepia, 2 engd. text illus. hf. mor., spine rubbed, upr. joint cracked. V. Scarce. (1) * A remarkably good clean copy of a book notoriously always found in bad condition. (1) €325 - €450 190. Most Likely by George Mullen Bindings: Lodge (Edmund) Portraits of Illustrious Personages of Great Britain, vols. 1 - 11 only (ex. 12) folio London 1835. With 240 engd. & full page portraits, all edges gilt, in magnificent full crimson mor. with lg. gilt Gothic design border, and gilt spines. Most likely bound by George Mullen, not signed but almost identical to signed examples. An exceptional set. (11) €700 - €1000 191. Beaufort (Daniel Augustus) Memoir of a Map of Ireland, illustrating The Topography of that Kingdom... 4to Lond. 1792. First Edn., Fold. map, hand cold. in outline, uncut, now in attractive quarter calf, gilt. A superb clean copy. (1) €300 - €400 192. V. Good Copy in Fine Binding Bartlett (W.H.) The Scenery and Antiquities of Ireland, 2 vols. lg. 4to Lond. n.d. [1842] First Edn., engd. port. engd. map, 2 add. engd. titles, & 120 engd. plts., a.e.g. in fine full mor. lg. tooled gilt borders & spines by Folthorp, Nth. Street, Brighton. V. good, with clean plts. (2) €300 - €400 193. Photographs: Lawrence (W.) & others, a late 19th Century 4to Album containing approx. 60 original photos of c. 1870-90, some single page, most two to a page, of Adare, Limerick, Killarney, Limerick, Dublin, Cashel, Kilkenny, Castledermot, Waterford, Wexford &Waterford. All in good condition, in orig. full mor. binding. As a coll., of photos, w.a.f. (1) €200 - €300 189 190 193 191