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

85 Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 742. Important Set of early 18th-century Manuscript Maps Co. Monahan & Cork: Collection of 8 manuscript maps (3 large, folded), all hand-coloured in outline, mostly with MS legends, all surveyed in July 1719 by Will. Dowell for Sir John King, Bart, and Thomas Crofton Esq., mostly in counties Monaghan and Cork, with some lands in Roscommon andWicklow. With rental, succession account, and receipt from Inland Revenue for payment by Henry Morgan Earbery Crofton of Inchinappa, Co. Wicklow, on the death (2 April 1862) of Rev. Henry William Crofton. Old cloth binding. As a m/ss atlas, w.a.f. Important. (1) €350 - €500 743. Co. Galway: Irish Sea Charts: Co. Galway & [West Coast] Bedford (Comm. G.A.) surveyor, a group of 5 large engraved Charts for the Galway Coast, including: Slyne Head; Clifden and Mannin Bay to Aughrim Point; Ballynakill and Killary Bays; Roundstone, Birterbuy Kilkiernan, Greatman and Cashla Bays; and Inishbofin and adjacent Coast of Galway between Rinvyle and Augrus Points; all folding, some engd. cartouche, engd. J.&L. Walker, L. (published by the Admiralty) 1860, housed in custom made cloth portfolio, gilt lettering. (5) €350 - €420 744. Irish Map: [Royal Irish Academy] Taylor (Lieut. A.) A Map of the County of Kildare 1783, portfolio, D. (R.I.A.) 1983, folding sheets, ptd. wrappers & label. (1) €150 - €200 745. Irish Maps: a group of folding Maps etc., to include: *Betts’s Road & Railroad Map of Ireland (fold.) hand coloured, cloth cover; *Black’s Travelling Map of Ireland, folding, hand coloured in outline, cloth cover; *Fraser’s Map of Dubin and its Environs including Co. Wicklow, 1855; fold. hand coloured, blue cloth; * Tramway Guide to Dublin & Suburbs,” folding, ptd. wrappers; *Dublin Police Carriage Fares & Bye Laws 1918, D. 1918, cloth and one other, as a collection, Maps & Plans: [London] a collection of late 19th Century / early 20th Century folding Plans of London and its Environs, by Bacons, W.H Smith & Sons, Bartholomew’s, Philips and others, all folding, ptd. boards. As a collection, w.a.f. (1) €150 - €200 746. La Touche Family Atlas Manuscript: A fine Atlas containing maps of many countries, both in Europe and beyond U.S.A., South America, West Indies etc, approx. 50 maps, all intricately detailed and beautifully coloured. Signed by “La Touche major” and “La Touche minimus” and evidently compiled as school exercises. Endorsed with initials of masters, “W.D.” (W. Drury in one instance) and “W.M.”, with dates between 1823 and 1825. In full 4to mor. binding, gilt fillet borders. As a m/ss., w.a.f. (1) €350 - €500 747. Atlas of Co.’s Leitrim and Meath: Valuation Survey of Estates situate in the Counties of Leitrim and Meath, 4to With engraved title page supplied by Hodges and Smith, Dublin, with attractive vignette, 1849, with 5 hand coloured maps of Ballyrankin (2), Shannon Lower, Clonagonnell and Breandrum. The total acreage of the estates, 9351 acres, with details of occupiers, areas held, valuation & comments in manuscript of 17 different townlands. In cont. attractive full mor. tooled gilt borders, etc., and labelled ‘Tenement Valuation’ on front cover. As a m/ss., w.a.f. (1) €350 - €500 748. Detailed Map of Dublin Property Map: An attractive hand coloured Map , 42cms x 61cms, of a house, garden and environs (unidentified) with covering note to the effect that it was presented on 9 November 1962 by George O’Donnell to Count and Countess Donal O’Kelly de Gallagh ‘’as a small memento of a great occasion in their lives,’’The recipient has not been identified, as there appears to have been no member of this family called Donal in modern times. Its most famous member was the diplomat Gerald Edward O’Kelly de Gallagh et Tycooly (1890 - 1968), whose ancestor had been created a Count of the Holy Roman Empire in 1767. As a m/ ss, w.a.f. (1) €100 - €150 742 743 747