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

55 Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 481. Rare Early Catalogues Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts - Catalogue of the 67th, 68th, 71st, 72nd, & 73rd Exhibitions, together 5 vols. 12mo Dublin 1896-1902. All orig. ptd. wrappers. V. good. Ex. Scarce. (5) €200 - €300 482. R.D.S. - Dublin Horse Show, 1926 & 1932. Two Official Catalogues, 8vo Dublin 1926-1932. Each with fold. map, adverts. etc., full program, and each in attractive illustrated coloured wrappers after Olive Whitemore, both v. good. Scarce. (2) €200 - €300 483. Catalogue: Walpole (Horace) A Sale Catalogue of the Classic Contents of Strawberry Hill, 4to Lond. 1842. First Edn., Port. frontis add. illus. title. Partly Priced, orig. ptd. cloth backed boards, soiled & loose. (1) * The Sale ran over 24 days, from 25th April 1842. €130 - €180 484. Irish Auction: [Christies] Luttrellstown Castle, 4to L. (White Bros.) 1983, First Edn., illus., cloth and d.j. Clean copy. (1) €80 - €100 485. Young Girls Tour through Ireland Manuscript: Connelly (Lila) My Diary during a Tour through Ireland, in August 1865. Short 20mo diary (21pp, 9-24 August) recording excursions of ‘Uncle, Aunt, Mary, Edward and myself ’. * They visit Dublin, Cork and Killarney – “I consider Dublin is quite like London though the people are quite Irish” - and also the little Kerry town (unidentified, diary for 13-14 Aug. missing) where Uncle was born, which they find impoverished and in ruins, but with a fine church; they decline to stay in the town’s only hotel, the landlady’s comment being: “Those Killarney people, they thrap ye’s all – I wish I could thrap ye’s.” Also a short (12 pp, 1-10 Jan. 1866) diary of her life at home, including her trepidation at having her ears pierced. Brief but charming. As a manuscript, w.a.f. Good. (1) €200 - €300 486. Westmeath Land Owner Visits Andalucía, 1840 Manuscript: Hopkins (Sir Francis) Diary of Travels, 21st August 1940 to 26th August 1843, It partly deals with the administration of Estates in Westmeath and Leitrim but principally taken up with a lengthy sojour in Andalucía. Orig. hf. mor., with brass clasp, broken. As a m/ss., w.a.f. (1) * Hopkins sailed from Falmouth and through the Bay of Biscay to Lisbon; thence to Cádiz, Xeres [Jerez], Seville, Córdoba, Granada, Málaga, and back to Cádiz. His diary is enlivened by many comments, not all of them politically correct by today’s standards. Sir Francis Hopkins, 2nd Bart, of Athboy (1813-1860), had bought Rochfort house and estate near Mullingar from the Rochfort family in 1836. He died without issue in 1860 and was succeeded by his sister Anna Maria, wife of Nicholas Loftus Tottenham of Glenfarne Hall, co. Leitrim (1815-1851); their descendants changed the name of the house to Tudenham Park. The house is now a spectacular ruin, best known for the “Jealous Wall” built between it and Belvedere House. €250 - €350 487. Inventory of the goods of an Anglo-Irish Peer, Soldier and Diplomat, 1826 Manuscript: Inventaire de la Garderobe de Son Excellence Mr le Général Mylord Bloomfield, Stockholm, le 15 mars 1826, written in French throughout, lists clothes, jewellery, weapons, etc. of Benjamin, first Lord Bloomfield (1768- 1846), British Minister at Stockholm. Probably compiled on his appointment as commanding officer of the garrison at Woolwich in that year. The lists continue down to 1832, when he finally left Stockholm. Lord Bloomfield lived for a short period, at Loughton, Moneygall, Co. Offaly. As a m/ss., w.a.f. (1) €200 - €300 488. Manuscript: Translations of the Quotations and Phrases in Latin etc. which occur in the Life of Scottish Reformer John Knox [1514-1572, Edinburgh, 1812]. With “Testament Testamenter of Mr John Knox, Minister of the Evangell”, 13 Jan. 1572, and of historian and humanist scholar George Buchanan, 20 Feb. 1582. Cont. hf calf., w.a.f. €100 - €150 481 482 487 485 486