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

70 IMPERFECTIONS NOT STATED Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 602. Personalised Limited Subscribers Edition Bindings: Lamb - The Life and Works of Charles Lamb, 12 vols. roy 8vo New York (Lamb Publishing Company) n.d. India House Edition,Limited to 130 Sets, this set, No. 25 & Printed for Lillian Russell, identified in a manuscript panel, with blue watercolour background. Port. frontis Vol. I, hf. titles, red & bl. titles, plates, uncut, and in magnificent full mottled calf, tooled floral gilt doublures, and large elaborated tooled gilt corner decorations, & similarly decor. spines, with raised bands. Extremely fine copy. (8) €2000 - €3000 604. A Very fine Long Run of the First Archaeological Journal, R.S.A.I. Periodical: Transactions of the Kilkenny Archaeological Society [- Journal of Kilkenny and South-East of Ireland Archaeological Society - The Journal of the Royal Historical and Archaeological Association of Ireland.] Vols. I, No. 1 - Vol. 138 Kilkenny [-Dublin] 1849-2008. Lacking only nos. for 1887/88, & Vol. 136, 2006. The first 5 vols. in fine fac-simile reproduced by R.S.A.I., also with, Buckley (J.J.) Some Irish Altar Plate, 8vo Dublin 1943, illus. etc. Together 91 vols. in uniform hf. green cloth, with coloured red & black name pieces. A very good long set, in fine condition. As a periodical, w.a.f. (91) €1250 - €1750