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

41 Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 337. Genealogy: Hale (Wm. Matthew) The Family of Hale-Facts Relating thereto, 4to Bristol 1936. Privately Printed, frontis, lg. fold. table & illus. thro.-out, uncut, cloth; Rogers (Chas.) Genealogical Memoirs of John Knox and of the Family of Knox, Lond. 1879. First Edn., frontis, cloth. (2) €90 - €140 338. Signed Limited Editions Montague (J.) Collected Poems, Gallery Press 1995, Signed Limited Edition No. 31 / 50 Copies, cloth backed boards, slipcase; New Collected Poems, Gallery Press 2011, Signed Limited Edn. No. 68/110, cloth backed boards, slipcase; A Slow Dance, Dolmen Press 1975 Signed & Ltd. Edn., No. 134/150 Copies, leather backed decor. boards, slipcase; The Great Cloak, Dolmen Press 1978, Signed Ltd. Edn. No. 1/75 Copies, leather backed marble boards slipcase; The Rough Field, Dolmen Press 1972, Signed Ltd. Edn. No. 2/150 Copies, leather backed boards. Nice clean lot. (5) €400 - €500 339. Muldoon (P.) Immram, 1980, Signed, Limited Edn., No. 63 (174) copies Signed by Robert Ballagh, cloth backed boards; Poems 1968-1998, L. 2001, Signed Ltd. Edn., No. 82 (100), cloth backed yellow boards, slip case; Wayside Shrines, Gallery Press 2009, Signed Ltd. Edn. No. 274 / 400, cloth & d.j., also a collection of other First & General Editions in hard back and pamphlet form. Good clean lot. (1) €150 - €200 340. A Pristine Copy Bryant (Sophia) Liberty Order & Law Under Native Irish Rule, A Study in the Book of the Ancient Laws of Ireland, Imp. 8vo Lond. 1923. First Edn., list of patrons, Celtic designed initials, completely uncut & unopened, orig. cloth backed blue boards. A superb copy. (1) €120 - €180 341. Gerard (Francis) Picturesque Dublin Old and New, roy 8vo Lond. 1898. First Edn., illus. by Rose Barton, buckram; Haliday (Chas.) The Scandinavian Kingdom of Dublin, roy 8vo D. 1884. Second Edn., 7 fold. maps (mostly cold.) cloth; Craig (Maurice) Dublin 1660-1860, roy 8vo Lond. 1952. First Edn., d.w.; & Shaw’s Dublin Pictorial Guide and Directory of 1850, 1988 Reprint, illus. (4) €120 - €180 342. Signed Limited Editions Mahon (Derek) Rising Late, Gallery Press 2017, Signed by author and illustrator No. 156 / 250 Copies, cloth, jacket; Somewhere the Wave, Gallery Press 2007, Signed Ltd. Edn. No. 83/500 Copies, cloth & d.j.; Collected Poems, Gallery Press 1999, Signed Ltd. Edn., No. 4 / 110 Copies, blue cloth backed boards, slip case; New Collected Poems, Gallery Press 2011, Signed Ltd. Edn. No. 7 / 140 Copies, maroon cloth backed boards, slip case. Clean lot. (4) €250 - €320 343. From the Library at Carton House Boyer (Abel) The Royal Dictionary, in Two Parts. First French and English and French , thick 4to, L. (R. Clavel et al) 1699, First Edn., engd. frontis, inscribed on f.e.p. ‘Ld. Kildare, May 3rd 1801 aged going on ten (own hand writing) swear upon my honor,’ full blind panelled calf, worn. Nice Association Copy. (1) €180 - €250 344. Maps: Cluverus (Philippi) Introductio in Universam Geographiam Tam veterem quam novam... Tabulis Geographicis XLII ac Notis olim ornata A Johanne Bunone, ... Joh. Frid Hekelii & Joh. Reiskii., 4to London (J. Nicholson) 1711. Engd. frontis, & 60 fold. & other maps & plts. (ex. 61, appears to lack Plate XLVII, pp. 6), remains of old L.S. on title page, cont. full panel calf, worn. (1) €200 - €300 345. Irish Hunting etc: Mac Ewan (M.) The Ryan Family and the Scarteen Hounds, 1989, d.w.; Craigie (Eric) An Irish Sporting Life, D. 1994; Lewis (Colin A.) Hunting in Ireland, 4to L. 1975; Watson (S.J.) Between the Flags.. Irish Steeple chasing, 4to D. 1969; Bradley (C.) The Reminiscences of Frank Gillard (Huntsman), L. 1898, Signed by author & orig. photo, cloth. (5) €80 - €130 346. Heaney (Seamus) & Hughes (T.) The School Bag, 8vo L. (Faber & Faber) 1997, Signed Limited Edn. No. 33/300 Copies, yellow boards, blue cloth & gilt lettered spine, with matching slipcase; together with an Uncorrected Proof, decor. wrappers. (2) [Brandes & Durkan B168c] €200 - €300 339 342 346 343