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

48 IMPERFECTIONS NOT STATED Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 404. Special Signed Limited Edition Russell Flint (Sir Wm.) In Pursuit - An Autobiography, lg. folio Lond. (Medici Society) 1970. Limited Edition,No. 61 of 150 Copies, Signed. Cold. & other full page plts., a.e.g., in full crushed dark blue morocco, with gilt decor., by Mansell, Bookbinders. In orig. cloth slipcase. (1) €300 - €400 405. Special Limited Edition Lavery: Shaw-Sparrow (Walter) John Lavery and His Work, large atlas folio Lond. n.d. Limited Edition, No. 144 of 160 Copies Only, full page plts. photogravures, uncut, orig. vellum backed boards, & recent marble slipcase. V. good. (1) €200 - €300 406. Co. Cork: Photocopies: Genealogie de la Ryale et Serenissime Maison de Mac Carthy, folio; also A Distribution of Forfeited Land in the County of Corke, returned by the Downe Survey, Showing whose they were, in Anno 1641 & to whom they are now sett out by the Acts of Settlement & Explanation, folio Royal Irish Academy, M/ss V2. Both in full modern cloth. (2) €120 - €180 407. Britton (John) The Fine Arts of The English School folio Lond. (Chiswick Press) 1812. First Edn., add. decor. title, & 22 full page plts. include. frontis orig. hf. calf, cover loose; also a very large folio Edwardian Scrap Album of illustrations from magazines etc., c. 1890-1910, strongly bound. As a lot. (2) €120 - €180 408. Oxlade (D.)artist, Maxwell (R.), & Scott (R.) contrib. A Tropical Glen, A Florilegium of Belfast Botanic Gardens, folio, Belfast (Nicholson & Bass) 2000, illus., leather backed green cloth, gilt lettered spine. (1) €200 - €300 409. Sex (Susan)artist & Sayers (B.)comp. Ireland’s Wild Orchids, folio, B. (Nicholson & Bass) 2004, First Limited Edition No. 447/700 Copies, Signed by Artist & compiler, also Signed inscription by Michael Langley on his Poem‘Autumn Lady’s Treeses’maroon cloth backed decorated boards, matching slipcase. (1) €400 - €500 410. Illustrated Volume: Sex (Susan) & Sayers (Brendan) Ireland’s Wild Orchids, folio, Belfast (Nicholson & Bass) 2004, Signed and Limited Edn., No. 169/700 Copies, profusely illustrated, red cloth backed decorative boards, matching slipcase. Good copy. (1) €400 - €600 411. Political Cartoons [Doyle (John)] ‘H.B. Political Sketches,’ Vols. 1 - 4, 4 vols. lg. Atlas folio L. (T. McLean) n.d. (c. 1828- 1835), 4 litho titles, & 3 list of contents & 337 litho cartoons, on cut-out mounts, all very clean & good, cont. hf. mor. with mor. labels on front covers, 2 vols. crackd & worn. As a coll. of prints, w.a.f. (4) Provenance: The Fred Hanna Collection. €350 - €420 412. Fine Colonial Printing & Binding Melbourne, Australia: Noone (John) The Albert Durer Album, Photo - Lithographed Under the Direction of the Trustees of the Melbourne Public Library. Lg. Atlas folio Melbourne 1869. Sole Edition, One of only 150 Copies. With title? & 41 full page plts., a.e.g., in heavy full block tooled gilt green mor. with presentation inscription, ‘ Presented to John Cashel Hoey Esq., by the Trustees of the National Gallery Melbourne.’ (1) * John Cashel Hoey was born at Dundalk, Co. Louth, 1827. He was educated at St. Patrick’s College, Armagh, and was on of the principal writers, for ‘ The Nation,’ and later sub-editor of the Dublin Review. He was later secretary to the Agent-General for Victoria, appointed by Gavan Duffy, and later to Agent-General for Melbourne. €200 - €300 413. Scrap Album: A large and comprehensive folio Victorian Scrap Album of news cuttings, art works, sketches, articles, (From Royal Academy, New English Art Club), contemporary hf. calf, marble boards. As an Album, w.a.f. (1) €80 - €120 404 412 409 411