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

8 IMPERFECTIONS NOT STATED Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 Start of Sale 1. Children’s Interest: O’Faolain (E.) The Shadowy Man, 4to, L. (Longman & Co.) 1949, First Edn., illus., cloth & d.j.; Irish Saga and Folk-tales, 8vo Oxford (U.P.) 1954, First Edn., illus., cloth & d.j.; Children of the Salmon, 8vo, L. (Longmans) 1965, illus. cloth & d.j.; Lynch (P.) The House by Lough Neagh, 8vo, L. (J.M. Dent) 1963, First Edn., illus., cloth & d.j.; The Turf-Cutters Donkey, 8vo, L. (J.M. Dent) 1934, illus. by J.B. Yeats, cloth; The Cobbler’s Apprentice, 8vo D. (Hollis & Carter) 1947, illus., cloth; as a lot. (6) €100 - €150 2. O’Kelly (Seamus) The Weavers Grave, 8vo D. (Talbot Press) [1922] First Edn., illustrated by Jack B. Yeats, cold. frontis and 7 black and white illus., decor. cloth; The Golden Barque and the Weavers Grave, 8vo, D. (Talbot Press) 1919, First Edn., cloth backed boards; Wet Clay, 8vo, D. (Phoenix) 1920, First Edn., frontis, cloth; MacManus (Seamus) The Bold Heroes of Hungry Hill, 8vo L. (J.M. Dent) 1952, First Edn., illus., green cloth, d.j.; The Little Mistress of the Eskar Mor, 8vo D. (M.H. Gill) 1960, cloth & d.j., as a lot. (5) €100 - €150 3. Co. Down: Smith (Charles) & Harris (Walter)eds. The Ancient and Present State of the County Down, containing a choreographed description, with the Natural and Civil History of the Same, 8vo D. (Ed. Exshaw) 1744, First Edn., dedit, XX, folding map, 1 - 271, rebound, leather backed oatmeal boards. Good copy. (1) €200 - €300 4. Association Copy Nohl (Dr. Ludwig) & LadyWallace, translator The Life of Mozart, 2 vols. Lond. 1877. Two engd. port. frontis t.e.g., in cont. hf. blue mor. gilt spine. With bookplates of Charles Edward Merrill in each vol.; also Eighteen Concertos for Piano and Orchestra by... Mozart , 3 vols. c. 1930, in cont. hf. mor. (5) * Chas. Ed. Merrill, American Philanthropist, Stockbroker & Co-Founder of Merrill Lynch, Bankers. €150 - €200 5. Tyndall (John) Lessons in Electricity at the Royal Institution 1875-6, 8vo, L. (Longmans, Green & Co.) 1876, First Edn., illus., green cloth, gilt lettering; Essays on the Floating - Matter of the Air in Relation to Putrefaction and Infection, 8vo L. (Longmans, Green & Co.) 1881, First Edn., text illus., embossed cloth, gilt lettered spine; Sound: A Course of Eight Lectures, delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain, 8vo L. (Longmans, Green & Co.,) 1867, frontis, text illus., embossed blue cloth. (3) €150 - €200 6. Arctic Travel: The History of Greenland, 2 vols. L. (Longman etc.) 1820, First English Edition, frontis, fold. map & 5 plts. (Vol. 1), frontis (Vol. 2), contemp. hf. calf, marble boards, mor. labels, bookplate ‘Frances Viscountess London,’ Good set. (2) €200 - €300 7. Travel: Lyell (Charles) Travels in North America; with Geological Observations on the United States, Canada and Nova Scotia, 2 vols., 8vo, L. (John Murray) 1845, First Edn., fold. litho frontis (Vol. 1) dedit. & 3 plts. (1 cold. 1 fold.), (Vol. 2) fold. litho map frontis, errata slip, 2 bl. & w. plts. (1 fold.) orig. green cloth, gilt lettered spine. (2) €200 - €300 8. Travel: Henderson (Ebenezer) Iceland; or the Journal of a Residence in that Island, during the Years 1814 and 1815, 2 vols. Edinburgh (Oliphant Wayne & Innes) 1818 First Edn., black and white frontis, fold. map and 8 plts. (1 fold.) [Vol. 1], 6 plts. [Vol. 2], m/ss note in f.e.p. contemp. full calf, mor. labels. (2) €180 - €220 9. Arctic Travel: Franklin (John) Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea in the Years 1819-20-21-22, 2 vols. L. (J. Murray) 1824, Third Edn., fold. map frontis, dedit (Vol. 1), three fold maps (Vol. 2), bookplate Viscount de Vesci (Abbeyleix House) contemp. hf calf marble boards, gilt lettered spine. Good set. (2) €250 - €350 1 8 6 9 7