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

137 Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 755. With Original Sketch by Lucia Joyce Joyce (James) Two Tales of Shem and Shaun Fragment fromWork in Progress, 8vo, L. (Faber & Faber) 1932, First Edn. (trade issue) with abstract watercolour with crowned figure, harp, umbrella etc., tipped in a f.e.p. and inscribed for Charles (Joyce’s Brother) duck egg blue boards, blue lettered spine, orange coloured d.j. Good Assoication Copy. [Slocum & Cahoon A37]. (1) €1200 - €1800 756. Joyce (James) Anna Livia Plurabelle, 8vo L. (Faber & Faber) 1930, First English Edn. (Criterion Miscellany No. 15), ptd. wrappers, recased in full leather, gilt lettered spine. Good copy. [Slocum & Cahoon A33]. (1) €400 - €600 757. Beckett (Samuel), Brion (M.), Budgen (F.)et al An Examination of James Joyce, A Critical Symposium of Finnegans Wake, 8vo Connecticut (New Directions) n.d., uncut, blue cloth, orange d.j. (1) €180 - €220 758 – See page 138 759. Douglas (Lord Alfred) Poems, 8vo, Paris (The Mercure de France) 1896, First Edition, of the Author’s First Book, text in both English & French, frontispiece portrait of the author, original ptd. wrapper, recased in attractive hf. leather marble boards, gilt lettered spine. Good copy. (1) €400 - €600 760. One of 100 Signed Copies O’Flaherty (Liam) The Pedlars Revenge, 8vo, D. (Wolfhound Press) 1976, Signed Limited Edn., No. 12 (100) copies, leather backed boards, matching slipcase. (1) €200 - €300 761. Yeats (W.B.), Dawson (E.) & others, The Second Book of The Rhymers Club, sm. 4to L. (E. Matthews & John Lane) 1894, First Edn., 136pps, Publishers Advertisement at rear (15pps) uncut & unopened, cloth, gilt lettered spine. Good copy. (1) €300 - €400 762. Bindings: Boccaccio (Giovanni) Il Decamerone, 3 vols. 12mo London 1768. Engd. titles, a.e.g., silk endpapers, full cont. crimson mor. with lg. profusely gilt tooled borders, gilt spines, mor. lablels. (3) €220 - €350 763. Pharmacopoeia: Brihuega (Francisco) Examen farmacopoeia gelenico - quimico Teorico - Practico extractado de las mejores farmacopeas, y Autores de Historia natural: 12mo Madrid (Widon & Son of Marin) 1796. Orig. cont. full vellum. Rare. (1) €120 - €180 764. From the Library of a Lady inWaiting Barbauld (A.L.)ed. Selection from the Specator, Tatler, Guardian and Freeholder, 3 vols. 8vo, L. (J. Johnson) 1804, First Edn., Vol. 1 inscribed ‘from her Mother’ each t.p. inscribed ‘F.E. Hastings, March 15th, 1814,’ bookplate to Volume 1, full speckled calf, gilt decor spines, worn. (3) * Flora Elizabeth Hastings was a lady in Waiting to Queen Victoria’s mother, the Duchess of Kent. Her death in 1839 was the subject of a Court scandal that gave the Queen a negative image. The unmarried Lady Flora was alleged to have had an affair with Sir John Conroy, Comptroller ‘favourite,’ and also suspected lover of Queen Victoria’s mother, The Duchess of Kent. €200 - €300 765. Hamilton (Elizabeth) Translation of the Letters of a Hindoo Rajah, 2 vols. 12mo Dublin (for H. Colbert) 1801. Second Dublin Edn.? 2 engd. titles, adverts & glossary end of Vol. 2, cont. tree calf, mor. labels. Bookplate of Frances Viscountess Lorton. Scarce. (2) €200 - €300 766. Smith (Charlotte) Rural Walks: in Dialogues, Intended for the Use of Young Persons, 2 vols. in one, 12mo Dublin 1795. First Dublin Edn., cont. tree calf, reback, mor. label., v. good; also Rambles Farther: A Continuation of Rural Walks: In Dialogues, 2 vols. in one, 12mo Dublin 1796. First Edn., hf. title, 2pp with fore- edge torn (some slight loss of text) cont. tree calf, spine worn. Both V. Scarce. (2) €325 - €450 767. Mathematics: Beveridge (Wm.) Institutionum Chronologicarum Libri II. Una cum totidem Arithmetices Chronologicae Libellis, 4to Lond. (Thos. Roycroft) 1669. First Edn., fine cont. full mottled calf, blind tooled calf. (1) * The St. George copy, with bookplate, and title inscribed ‘E. lib: Arth. St. George.’ €350 - €500 768. [Swift (Johnathan)] Political Tracts, 2 vols., L. (C. Davis) 1738, First Edn., full calf, rebacked, mor. labels. (2) €200 - €300 769. Republican interest: Briollay (Sylvain) Ireland in Rebellion, Dublin 1922; Brennan-Whitmore (W.J.) With the Irish in Frongoch, Dublin 1917. Illus.; Martin (Hugh) Ireland in Insurrection, An Englishman’s Record of Fact. Lond. 1921. map frontis; Boyle (J.F.) The Irish Rebellion of 1916, Lond 1916; Breen (Dan) My Fight for Irish Freedom, Dublin 1924, plts.; O’Hegarty (P.S.) The Victory of Sinn Fein, Dublin 1924, All First Edns.; & 1 other. (7) €150 - €220 770. Stephen de Vere’s Copy Sovege Landor (Walter) Gabir, Count Julian, and other Poems, 8vo Lond. (Ed. Moxon) 1831. First Edn., with some newscutting of poetry by W.S.L. at end, and a transcribed poem by him on Ballyalla, (Ennis, Co. Clare) notepaper, & a bookplate from Monare Library; also [Peacock (Thos. Love)] Gryll Grange, By the Author of ‘Headlong Hall,’ 8vo Lond. 1861. First Edn., both cont. hf. calf. Good. (2) €150 - €200 771. With The East-India Register and Directory Genealogy: The Present Peerage,.. and Baronetage of the United Kingdom, for 1818, 1819, bound with, A Companion to the British Imperial Calendar, for ... 1819; also with, Mason (A.W.) & Owen (Geo.) The East-India Register and Directory for 1819, together with one other item. All sm. 8vo Lond. c. 1819, some with fold. tables engd. coats of arms etc. A.e.g., orig. straight grained crimson mor. (1) €200 - €300 768