Fonsie Mealy Auctioneers RARE BOOK & COLLECTORS SALE 6th & 7th, December 2022

111 Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 622. A Licence to Play Cards Ephemera: Wide Street Commissioners - Serrard (Thos. & D.) Wide-Street, House Licence, for Lord Ashtown for house in Gt. Denmark St., dated 25th Day of March 1814, Signed by T. & D. Sherrard, framed. (1) * This was a licence to play cards. Rare. €180 - €240 623. Ferns & Leighlin: [Synge] Edward, Lord Bishop of Ferns and Leighlin, Two Affidavits in Relation to the Demands of Tythe-Agisment in the Diocese of Leighlin; with An Introduction, 12mo Dublin (S. Powell) 1736. First Edn., 48pp, disbound. V. Scarce. (1) €150 - €200 624. Early Newry Printing: Oliphant (James) Minister at Kilmarnock , A Sacramental Catechism, Designed for Communicants Old and New, Sm. 8vo Newry (D. Carpenter) 1783. First Newry Edn., 64pp. browned thro-out, disbound, new wrappers. Very Rare. (1) €300 - €400 625. Early Limerick Printing Fine Binding: Yachting - Members of the Royal Western Yacht Club - Irish division, 8vo Limerick (R.F. Canter, Corner of Francis Street) June 1834. Title with Royal cipher, [26]pp a.e.g., orig. green endpapers & full crimson mor. with gilt tooled chain- link borders, tooled gilt spine. In fine condition. Ex. Scarce. (1) €450 - €650 626. Early Irish Printed Catholic Book: Grou (Fr.) The Christian Sanctified by The Lord’s Prayer, Trans. from the French, 24mo Dublin (J. Hanvey) 1828. Wd. - cut vignette on title, [IV], 58pp., orig. hf. sheep blue paper boards. V. Scarce. (1) €35 - €50 627. Very Rare First Issue Irish Cricket: Lawrence (John) Handbook of Cricket in Ireland, Sm. 8vo Dublin (J. Lawrence) 1866. First Number 1865-66. VIII, 91pp., include. some illustrated advertisements, one leaf pp. 71/72 lacking plied in photostat, in orig. pictorial printed, orange-coloured boards. (1) * This copy was the property of R. [Richard] Cooke Esq., who was a member of Castlecomer C.C., Co. Kilkenny, & one of the most noted players in Ireland. Extremely Rare. €350 - €500 628. [Stoker, Bram] Athletic Sports [T.C.D.] 1878. June 11-12. Small, printed programme, circa 20pp, listing events, participants, committee etc. The Vice- Presidents of the University Athletic Club for 1878 are listed on first page, including one A[braham] Stoker, later to win fame as the author of Dracula. In very good condition, a remarkable survival, very rare. (1) €1000 - €1500 629. Scarce Travels in Norway Newry Printing: T.B. & F.W . Up and Down in ‘Gamle Norge’ 12mo Newry (Telegraph) 1880. First Edn. in Bk. Form, 3 full page illus., errata slip, 56pp., orig. decor. cloth backed boards. V. good. V. Scarce. (1) €200 - €300 630. Fitzgerald, Edward (trans) The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, London (A. & C. Black) 1930, frontis & other illus., full green leather gilt motif on front cover, decor. spine. Clean copy. (1) €120 - €180 631. Laler (Richard), compiler Map of the Kildare Hunting District. Folding map, cloth backed, printed in colours, covering Kildare and the adjacent counties, scale 1 inch to 2 statute miles, based on Ordnance Survey, showing railways etc., circa 18” x 22½” opened, folding into a pocket-sized red cloth case, gilt titled. Hodges Figgis, D. n.d., c. 1893. Not found in NLI online catalogue (which has a similar map for Meath/Louth), only 3 locations in COPAC. Attractive item, scarce. (1) €120 - €180 632. Sennett (A.R.) Carriages Without Horses Shall Go, 8vo Lond. 1896. Illus. frontis plts. & illus., orig. pict. printed wrappers, some dam. to front cover. Scarce. (1)€130 - €180 633. Barry (Rev. John) Clonmel - Workhouse Iniquities Unveiled or An Impartial Account of the Way in which Harpies and Cormorants Taint and devour the Substance of Papers and Rare Papers, 8vo Clonmel 1888, First Edn., ptd. wrappers, worn. Scarce. (1) €150 - €200 625 628 627