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

9 Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 10. Polar Interest: Bryce (G.) The Siege and Conquest of the North Pole, 8vo L. 1910, First Edn., 9 maps, advert page at end, green cloth, gilt lettered spine; Simpson (Com. C.J.W.) North Ice, The British North Greenland Expedition, 8vo, L. 1932, First Edn., cold. frontis, photo plts., green cloth, gilt lettered spine. (2) €180 - €220 11. O’Siadhail (Michael) Springnight, 8vo D. 1983. First Edn., Signed, d.w.; A Fragile City, Dublin 1995. Signed Pres. Copy; Hail! Madam Jazz, New & Selected Poems. Dublin 1992 d.w.; Aus Heiterem Himmel, in English and German 1999. First Edn. Signed, d.w.; also 4 others, some in Japanese. A lot. (8) €80 - €120 12. Signed by Darrell Figgis Fitzhenry (Edna C.) Nineteen - Sixteen: An Anthology, 8vo, D. 1935, cloth and d.j.; Hobson (B.)ed. The Letters of Wolfe Tone, 8vo D. (Lester Ltd.) n.d., ptd. wrappers; Figgis (Darrell) A Chronicle of Jails, 8vo D. (Talbot Press) 1917, First Edn., with tipped-in signature in Irish & English on dedit page, ptd. wrappers; Johnston (Joseph) Civil War in Ulster, Its Objects and Probable Results, 8vo D. (Sealy) c. 1914, ptd. wrappers, as a lot, w.a.f. (4) €80 - €120 13. Molyneux (Wm.) The Case of Ireland’s Being Bound by Acts of Parliament in England, Stated, 8vo Lond. 1720, also Edition of Dublin 1725, both orig. calf, rebacked. (2) €130 - €180 14. Leet (A.) A Directory to the Market Towns, Villages, Gentlemen’s Seats and other Noted Places in Ireland, 8vo Dublin 1814. First Edn., cont. calf, rebacked; Lavelle (Rev. P.) The Irish Landlord since the Revolution, Boston 1870, cloth; and Leeper (Rev. A.) Historical Handbook to ... St. Patricks’ Dublin, Dublin 1878. Plain frontis, a.e.g., later full mor. Presentation Copy. (3) €120 - €180 15. Lambarde (Wm.) Eirenarcha, or Of The Office of the Justice of Peace, in Four Books Reused, corrected and enlarged,... Thick sm. 12mo Lond. 1602. Title within wd.-cut border, B.L. wd. cut initials; Bound with, The Duties of Constables, Borsholders, Tythingmen,... Lond. 1602 some text stained. Recent mor. backed boards, mor. label, w.a.f. (1) €100 - €150 16. Hunting - Co. Meath, Annals of a Record Season: Being A Diary of Sport with the Meath Hounds, during 1895-96. By ‘Wanderer’ 8vo D. 1896. First, port. frontis; O’Connor Morris (M.) Hibernia Venatica, Lond. 1878. First Edn., orig. photo frontis of The Marchioness of Waterford, & other sim. photos of other Irish sportswomen, both cloth. (2) €100 - €150 17. Loftus (Chas.) My Life from 1815 to 1849, 2 vols. Lond. 1877. First Edn., hf. titles, orig. decor. cloth; The Diplomatic Reminiscences of Lord Augustus Loftus P.C., G.C.B. 1837- 1862, 2 vols. in one, sm. 8vo Leipzig (B. Tauchnitz) 1891. Port. frontis, cloth. Scarce. (3) €120 - €170 18. Bindings: Scott, The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart, 12 vols. sm. 8vo Edin. n.d. (c. 1830) Engd. frontis, & engd. titles, attractive hf. green mor. raised bands gilt mor. labels by M. Ward & Co. Binders, Belfast, with tickets. V. good set. (12) €160 - €240 19. T.C.D. Prize Binding Binding: Macaulay (T. Babington) The History of England, 4 vols. Lond. 1854. In full cont. calf, lg. gilt tooled borders with fillets etc., & central oval T.C.D. Prize Stamp on each cover, tooled gilt spines. V. good. (4) * With T.C.D. prize bookplates to Wm. Roper. €220 - €350 20. Flynn (Paul J.) The Book of the Galtees and The Golden Vein, A Border History of Tipperary, Limerick & Cork. 8vo Dublin 1926. First Edn., fold. map frontis plts., buckram; Smith (C.) ... The County and City of Cork, 2 vols. Reprint, rebound; Gibson (Rev. C.B.) The History of the County and City of Cork, 2 vols. Cork 1974, Reprint, cloth; and one other by Maxwell (Constantia) Country and Town in Ireland under the Georges. (6) €120 - €180 21. Aberdeen (Countess of,) Irish International Exhibition, 1907, Home Industries Section - Irish Rural Life and Industry, with Suggestions for the Future, 8vo, D. (Helys Limited) 1907, cold. frontis, illus., decorated blue cloth; Siggins (Brian) The Great White Fair - The Herbert Park Exhibition of 1907, 8vo, D. 2011, illus. & ptd. wrappers. Scarce. (2) €100 - €150 22. Dublin Printing: Les Pseaumes de David, Mis en vers Francois, avec La Liturgie, le Catechisme & la Confession de Foi des Eglises Reformees. 8vo Dublin (S. Powell) 1731. New Edn., Engd. frontis, some printed music, cont. calf, rebacked, in recent box. (1) €150 - €200 23. [Thompson (Hugh) Artist] Tales from Maria Edgeworth, 8vo Lond. n.d.; Barrie (J.M.) Quality Street, Lond. n.d. cold. frontis & mounted cold. plts. etc. thro.,- out; also The Admirable Crichton, 8vo Lond. n.d., cold. frontis & plts.; also Dickens (Chas.) The Chimes, L. n.d., cold. plts. All in fine orig. cloth, with attractive gilt decoration. V. good. (4) €140 - €200 24. Scottish interest: M’Crie (Thos.) The Life of John Knox, 2 vols. Edin. 1814. Third Edn., 2 port. frontis, cont. hf. vellum; de Johnstone (Chevalier) Memoirs of The Rebellion in 1745 and 1746, Lond. 1822, 2 ports & 1 fold. plan, cont. hf. calf. Good. (3) €70 - €100 16 19