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

42 IMPERFECTIONS NOT STATED Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 347. Heaney (Seamus) Pre-Occupations, Selected Prose 1968-1978, 8vo, L. (Faber & Faber) 1980, First Edn., Signed and inscribed The End of Art is Peace, blue cloth & d.j.; Preoccupations, Selected Prose 1968-1978, 8vo, N.Y. (F.S.G.) 1980, First U.S. Edn., Signed, orange boards, gilt lettering, d.j.; also Uncorrected U.S. Edn. Proof, Signed, orange wrappers. (3) [Brandes & Durkan A25a & b] €350 - €420 348. Economic Interest: Smith (Adam) An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, 3 vols., Edinburgh (S. Doy, A. Stirling et al) 1817, Fourth Edn., uncut, original boards. Good copy. (3) €200 - €300 349. Genealogy: [Gamble (D.)] Pedigree of The Gambles of Fermanagh 1899, 4to n.p. Inscribed Presentation Copy, some small damp stains, orig. cloth. Scarce. (1) €140 - €200 350. Cusack (M.F.) A History of the Kingdom of Kerry, Thick 8vo Lond. 1871. First Edn., cold. map frontis hf. title, some text illus., orig. cloth, gilt decor. (1) A very good copy. €180 - €260 351. Betham (Sir Wm.) E truria - Celtica. Etruscan Literature and Antiquities Investigated. 2 vols. Dublin 1842. First Edn.,, 2 hf. titles, numerous fold. & other plts. (1 lacking), unopened copy, orig. cloth, paper labels. V. good. (2) €160 - €240 352. Crumpe (Samuel) An Essay on the Best Means of Providing Employment for the People, Lond. 1793. First Edn., hf. title, later buckram, clean copy. (1) €125 - €175 353. Ireland in Famine Years Land in Ireland: Digest of Evidence taken before Her Majesty’s Commissioners of Inquiry into the State the Law and Practice in respect to the Occupation of Land in Ireland, 2 vols. Lond. & D. 1847-48. First Edn., Fold. hd. cold. & other maps & plts., tables etc., orig. cloth. V. good. (2) €180 - €260 354. Kennedy (J. Pitt) Instruct; Employ; Don’t Hang Them: or Ireland Tranquilized without Soldiers.., 8vo Lond. 1835. First Edn., lg. fold. plt., recent boards, working copy. (1) €65 - €90 355. Hall (Mr. & Mrs. S.C.) Ireland: its Scenery, Character etc., 3 vols. imp 8vo Lond. 1841. First Edn., decor. titles, engd. frontis & plts., & maps, all edges gilt, good cont. full mor. gilt fillet & blind tooled borders, & gilt spines with mor. labels. V. good. (3) €200 - €300 356. Heaney (Seamus) & Giese (Rachel) photographer Sweeney’s Flight, based on the revised text of Sweeney Astray, 4to L. (Faber & Faber) 1992, First Edn., Signed and inscribed ‘ ... From Heaney Astray in Stoneville...,’ illus., green cloth & d.j. (1) [Brandes & Durkan A34h] €180 - €220 357. Heaney (Seamus) Brian Bourke: 25 Years of Painting and Sculpture, lg. 4to, Galway 1988, Signed by Bourke and Seamus Heaney (Introduction), illus., decor. wrappers. (1) €120 - €140 358. Binding: The Art Journal, Vol. VI New Series, lg. 4to Lond. (Virtue & Co.) 1867. Engd. frontis & numerous plts. & illus. (all v. clean), a.e.g. in elaborate full crimson mor. strongly bound, with triple gilt fillet and very large gilt floral decorated borders, etc. V. good. (1) €150 - €200 359. Postage Stamps: Two very good 4to Albums, of mint stamps, many of British Dominions, N. Zealand (1929-1943), Virgin Islands, S. Rhodesia, Cook Islands, Hong Kong, India, N. Guinea, Pitcairn Islands, Samoa, Fiji, Gilbert & Ellice Islands, also Gudan, Nauru, Tonga, Egypt etc; in second volume, Vatican City, 1929-1939, Cayman Islands, British Somaliland, British Guiana, Bermuda, Barbados, Bahamas, Aden, S. West Africa, Seychelles, Burma, Newfoundland, Malta, Kenya, Cyprus, Solomon Islands etc. But also containing a v. good collection of Early Irish Overprints, 1922, approx. 42 stamps with some high values and other Irish Stamps. All in v. good condition, in Rapkins Favorite Albums. As a coll., w.a.f. (2) Provenance: A clergyman’s collection. €300 - €400 347 353 359 356