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

65 Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 560. Bindings: Fitzwilliam & Bourke, editors, Correspondence of the Rt. Hon. Edmund Burke, 4 vols. Lond. 1844. Attractive crimson mor. backed marble boards, raised bands, mor. labels, gilt decor. in panels. V. good. (4) €200 - €300 561. Bindings: O’Flanagan (J. Rod.) The Lives of the Lord Chancellors..., 2 vols. Lond. 1870. First Edn.,; O’Driscoll (John) The History of Ireland, 2 vols. Lond. 1827. First Edn., all uniform quarter green mor., raised bands, mor. labels, gilt decor. of harps. V. good. (4) €200 - €300 562. Bindings: [O’Connell (d.)] Fagan (Wm.) The Life and Times of Daniel O’Connell, 2 vols. sm. 8vo Cork 1847. First Edn., Cusack (M.F.) The Liberator His Life and Times, Political and Social, 2 vols. Kenmare Publication, First Edn., illus.; Mc Cabet (Wm. B.) The Last Days of O’Connell, Dublin 1847. First Edn., Mac Donagh (M.) Daniel O’Connell and The Story of Catholic Emancipation, Dublin 1929, First Edn., illus. All uniform quarter green mor., raised bands with gilt shamrocks, colour mor. labels, spines tooled each with gilt harps. V. fine & attractive. (6) €300 - €400 563. Bindings: O’Leary (John) Recollections of Fenians and Fenianism, 2 vols. Lond. 1896. First Edn., portraits; Gavan Duffy (Chas.) My Life in Two Hemispheres, 2 vols. Lond. 1898. Second Edn., port. frontis; O’Connor (Rt. Hon. Sir J.) History of Ireland 1798 - 1924, 2 vols. N. York; Davitt (Michael) The Fall of Feudalism in Ireland, L. & N. York 1904; O’Callaghan (J. Corn.) History of the Irish Brigades in the Service of France, Glasgow. All fine attractive hf. & quarter recent mor., tooled gilt spines, raised bands mor. labels. V. good. (8) €325 - €450 564. Bindings: Carleton (Wm.) Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry, 2 vols. Dublin 1852. New Edn., 2 frontis (1 port.) litho titles, & cont. crushed green mor. gilt spines by Root & Son; also London Edition, 1865 of same work, engd. plts. thro.-out, cont. hf. green mor. All v. good. (4) €200 - €300 565. Bindings: 1798 - Gordan (Rev. James) History of the Rebellion in Ireland, 8vo Lond. 1803. First Edn.,; Maxwell (W.H.) History of the Irish Rebellion in 1798, Lond. 1891. Illus. by Cruikshank; Kavanagh (Rev. P.F.) A Popular History of The Insurrection of 1798, Cork 1898. First Edn., frontis & illus.; Hay Ed.) ... Irish Insurrection of 1798, D. 1898, New Edn., All attractive qtr. calf & mor. tooled gilt spines, mor. labels. V. good. (4) €300 - €400 566. Binding: 1798 - Wolfe Tone (Wm. Theo.) ed. Memoirs of Theobald Wolfe Tone, 2 vols. Lond. 1827. First London Edn., port. frontis, recent fine full calf, tooled gilt borders, & gilt spines, mor. labels; Crofton Croker (T.) Memoirs of Joseph Holt, 2 vols. Lond. 1838. First Edn., 2 frontis; Maxwell (W.H.) History of the Irish Rebellion in 1798, Lond. 1903. Illus. after Cruikshank, all recent qtr. green mor. mor. labels, tooled gilt spines with harps and ‘Erin go Bragh.’ All v. good. (5) €225 - €350 567. Bindings: [Emmet (Robert)] Emmet (Thos. Addis) Memoir of Thomas Addis and Robert Emmet with Their Ancestors and immediate Family, 2 vols.l lg. thick 8vo Kildare (Warfield Press) 2003. Illus. thro.-out; Landrath (Helen) The Pursuit of Robert Emmet, D. 1949; and Geoghegan (Patrick) Robert Emmet, A Life, D. 2002, all attractive qtr. mor. tooled gilt spines, mor. labels. V. good. (4) €200 - €300 568. Bindings: Beaslai (Piaras) Michael Collins and the Making of a New Ireland, 2 vols. Lond. 1926. First Edn., 18 cold. & other illus.; Flynn (James) Michael Collins, His Life and Times, 2 vols. 1996. All attractive qtr. mor. raised bands, mor. labels tooled gilt spines in panels. V. good. (4) €300 - €400 569. Bindings: Curran (John Philip) Speeches of ... on the late very interesting State Trials, 8vo Lond. 1815, uncut; Curran (W.H.)ed. The Life of the Rt. Hon. John Philpot Curran, late Master of the Rolls of Ireland, 2 vols. 8vo Lond 1819. First Edn., port. frontis, uncut, now in attractive qtr. green mor. raised bands, profusely tooled gilt spines. V. good. (3) €200 - €300 570. Bindings: D’Alton (Rev. E.A.) History of Ireland, 6 vols. imp. 8vo Lond. 1910. Cold. & other illus., fine quarter green mor. gilt raised bands mor. labels, harp motif in panels; Lenihan (P.) 1690 Battle of The Boyne, roy 8vo 2003; Kelly (Rev. M.) Dissertations Chiefly on Irish Church History, Dublin 1864. First Edn., all gilt tooled mor., mor. labels. V. good. (8) €200 - €300 562 566 570 568