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

68 IMPERFECTIONS NOT STATED Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 589. With 75 Folding Maps Shannon Reports [Second Report of the Commissioners.. for the Improvement of the Navigation of the River Shannon] with Maps, Plans and Estimates. folio D. 1837. First Edn., 75 fold. engd. maps & plans, many hd. cold. in outline, recent full cloth. A fine clean collection. (1) €500 - €700 590. [Irish Historical Studies: Nolan (Wm.), McGrath, Whelan(K.) et al , History and Society, a large collection of the County Histories, including Fermanagh, Kildare, Carlow,Dublin,Clare, Laois, Kilkenny, Longford, Limerick, Donegal, Down, Wexford, Derry, Tyrone, Offaly, Armagh, Wicklow, Waterford, Galway & Cork, all 8vo, illus., cloth and pictorial d.j. Nice clean collection. (20) €350 - €450 591. Coloured Plates: [Ornithology] Bannerman (David Armitage) The Birds of the British Isles, 12vols. roy 8vo, L. (Oliver and Boyd) 1953-1963, illustrated throughout with colour plates by George Edward Lodge, uniform green cloth, d.j. Clean Set. (12) €200 - €300 592. Box: Antiquarian Volumes: S. Thomae Aquinatis Summa Totius Theologiae, folio Antwerp (C. Plantin) 1585, title page rebacked & repaired, good later full calf; Catechismus Romanus, sm. 8vo Antwerp 1601, full cont. vellum; The Book of Common Prayer, 4to Dublin (D. Hay) 1778. Full cont. mottled calf, with gilt tooled label for ‘Eliza Radford Rowe,’; Breboeuf - La Pharsale de Lucain, ou Les Fuerres Civiles de Cesar et de Pompee, 4to Paris 1655, cont. calf; Tena (Dr. L.) Commentaria et Disputationes in Epistolam D. Pauli Hebre,’ Folio Toleti 1611. Engd. t.p. a few pps. of Index lacking, approx. 1340pp. old calf; & others sim. A large box, w.a.f. (1) €250 - €350 593. Natural History: Ford (E.B.)ed. & others, editors, The New Naturalist, Vol. 1 (Butterflies) - Vol. 84 (Ireland, edited by Dr. David Cabot), lacking only vols. 54, 61, 69 & 70. Together 80 vols. 8voLond. (Collins) 1946 - 1999. Profusely illustrated thro-out, all with orig. cold. pictorial wrappers As a periodical, w.a.f. (80). €300 - €400 594. With Attractive Engravings Bindings: Periodical: The Sportsman, Vol. V - Vol. XVII, together 18vols. Lond. 1838 - 1847. With engraved equestrian & other sporting illustrations, attractive cont. red mor. gilt decoration, and mor. labels, by Caldwell, Bookbinders, Frederick St., Dublin. Bookplates of John Aylmer, Co. Kildare. (18) €120 - €180 595. Bindings: The Library of British Poets, 15 vols. Lond (Cassell, Petter & Galpin) n.d. c. 1870. Cont. hf. dark brown mor., attractive tooled gilt tan spines, raised bands, green and red mor. labels. As bindings. V. good. (15) €300 - €400 596. Bindings: Cross (J.W.)ed. George Eliot’s Life as Related in Her Letters and Journals, 3 vols. 8vo Edinburgh 1885. First Edn., port. frontis & plts. cont. hf. tan calf, red & green mor. labels. V. good copy. (3) €70 - €100 589 595 590 593