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

37 Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 294. Engraved Plates: Landscape Magazine - Roscoe (T.) The Tourist in Italy, 3 vols. & The Tourist in France, 4 vols. in all, 1831- 1834, numerous (over 100) engd. views, a.e.g., cont. full mor., as a coll. of plts. (4) €80 - €120 295. Rinuccini (Monsignor Gio. Battista) Il Cappuccino Scozzese, 12mo Cremona (per il Belpiero) 1645, 213pps (mispagnation pg. 157/158) correct, printers page at end, contemporary full calf. Ex. Libris Copy. Scarce. (1) €250 - €320 296. Co. Kerry: Foley (Patrick) History of the Natural, Civil, Military and Ecclesiastical State of the County of Kerry in Baronies - Corkaguiny, Sm. 8vo, Dublin 1907. First Edn., Hf. title, list of subscribers, orig. cloth. V. good. (1) €200 - €300 297. Early Illustrated Volume Emblem Book: A Metamorphose D’Ovide, Figuree sm. 8vo Lyon (Jean de Turnes, Imprimeur du Roy) 1583. Title within engraved border with wd. cut medallion, & 172pp with woodcut illus. after Bernard Salomon, with two bookplates of previous owners, now in recent full clear vellum. V. clean. Attractive Copy. (1) €250 - €350 298. Co. Tipperary: Maher (James) The Valley near Slievenamon, A Kickham Anthology. Kilkenny 1941. First Edn; Gleeson (Rev. J.) Cashel of the Kings, Reprint 2001, illus. d.w.; Tierney (Rev. M.) Croke of Cashel, D. 1976. First Edn., d.w.; Neely (Rev. W.G.) Kilcooley Land and People in Tipperary, 8vo Belfast n.d. illus; Bassetts Guide & Directory of Tipperary, 8vo n.d. c. 1880. With interesting illus. adverts etc., working copy. As a lot, w.a.f. (5) €70 - €120 299. Thompson (Hugh) Illustrator - Goldsmith (O.) The Vicar of Wakefield, L. & N.Y. 1890; Mitford (Mary Russell) Our Village, L. 1893; Tristram (W.O.) Coaching Days and Coaching Ways, L. 1893; Dobson (A.) The Story of Rosina, L. 1895; Reade (C.) Peg Woffington, L. 1899; & Allen (J.L.) A Kentucky Cardinal, L. 1901. All illus. by H. Thompson & all attractive decor. gilt cloth. Good. (6) €200 - €300 300. Natural History: Harvey (A.) Trees and their Nature; Lond. 1856. First Edn.,; Voices of the Garden, The Woods, and The Fields, 12mo Lond. 1860; Cooke (M.C.) A Manual of Botanic Terms, 12m L. 1862 - First Edn.,; Draper (B.H.) The Juvenile Naturalist, 12mo Lond. (Darton & Clark) 1839; Page (L.) Stars of Earth or, Wild Flowers of the Months, sm. 8vo Edin. 1868; & 3 others sim., mostly illus. some cold. plts., all orig. cloth. (8) €100 - €150 301. Bindings: O’Connell (John)ed. The Select Speeches of Daniel O’Connell, M.P., 2 vols. D. (James Duffy) 1854; also Grattan’s, Currans, Burke’s, Shiels’ and Plunkett’s Speeches, together 9 vols. D. c. 1850- 1870, all uniform recent hf. green mor. mor. labels.(9) €200 - €300 302. Heaney (Seamus) Beowulf, 8vo L. (Faber & Faber) 1999, Signed Limited Edn. NO. 235 (300) Copies, red cloth backed cream boards, gilt lettered spine, matching slipcase; Also both the English and U.S. Uncorrected Proofs, Signed, ptd. wrappers. (3) €350 - €420 303. One of 200 Copies Heaney (Seamus) & Hughes (T.) The School Bag, 8vo, L. (Faber & Faber) 1997, Signed and Limited No. 47/200 copies, full red cloth black and gilt lettered label. Good copy. (1) [Brandes & Durkan B168b] €300 - €400 295 301 303 296 297