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

140 IMPERFECTIONS NOT STATED Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 780. Motor Cycle Racing: Brindley (Basil) Irish Motor Cycle Road Races, 1954 & 1955, 2 vols. 8vo Tralee (Kerryman) 1954 & 1955. First Edn., profusely illustrated, cloth, stained, pictorial d.w.’s. Scarce. (2) €100 - €150 781. Louvain Printing: Privilegia Academiae Sive Studio Gnerali Louvaniensi, Ab Spostolica Sede, Imperatoribux, Regibus, Aliisque Principibus Concessa., 4to Louvain 1644. Wd. vignette ports. on title, coat of arms on vers, wd. cut initials, decorated heads and tails, some damp stains at edges, cont. vellum. (1) €200 - €300 782. Browne - Posthumous Works of the Learned Sir Thomas Browne, Kt. M.D. Late of Norwich, 8vo Lond. 1712. First Edn., engd. port. frontis, & 22 engd. pls. (some of which are folded), orig. panel calf, rebacked, worn, but clean. (1) €180 - €250 783. Signed Presentation Copy In Very Fine Binding France (Anatole) Le Genie Latin, 8vo Paris (Alphonse Lamerre) 1913. First Edn, Lim. Edn. No. 20 ex. 225 copies on Hollande Paper. Signed Presentation to a Eugene Richtenburger (with his bookplate) and with 3 sheets of autograph notes by Franc, 2 of which have sketches, bound in, and with bookplate of P. Brunet, also, uncut, with orig. printed green wrappers bound in, in fine full straight grained crimson mor., t.e.g., lg. gilt tooled borders¢re roll panel, spine profusely gilt in panels, urn decorations by Tnerry Sr. stamped, and in matching slipcase. (1) €600 - €800 784. Micks (Wm. L.) An Account of the .. Congested Districts Board for Ireland from 1891 to 1923, roy 8vo Dublin 1925. First Edn., port. frontis, pls., orig. cloth, v. good. Scarce. (1) €130 - €180 785. All Signed Copies O’Malley (Ernie) On Another Man’s Wound, Second Edn., Lond. 1936. Inscribed Pres. Copy from the Author, d.w.; Gaughan (J. Anthony) Memoirs of Constable Jeremiah Mee, Dublin 1975. First Edn., Signed by Author, port. fold. map, orig. d.w.; Mac Manus (M.J.) Eamon de Valera - A Biography, Dublin 1945. Signed by Eamon de Valera, boards; Ua Ceallaigh (S.) ‘Sceilg,’ Cathal Brugha, 8vo D. 1942. First Edn., Inscribed to Austin Stacks’ wife by Sceilg, cloth & d.w. All good. (4) €250 - €350 786. [Henry Grattan] Grattan (H.)ed. Memoirs of the Life and Times of Rt. Hon. Henry Grattan, 5 vols. Lond. 1839. Engd. port. frontis. Vol. I, bookplates of Monteagle & Brandon cont. hf. mor. mor. labels; plus 2 extra vols. hf. calf. (7) €120 - €160 787. Art Catalogues: Royal Hibernian Society - Exhibition Catalogues, 1996-1999, 2001- 2007, together 11 catalogues, profusely illustrated, orig. pict. wrappers. V. good. (11) €120 - €170 788. Peppercannister Series Kinsella (Thomas) Butcher’s Dozen, 8vo D. (Peppercannister No. 1) 26th April 1972. Original of Peppercannister Series. Together with numbers 2 A Selected Life, folio 1972; No. 4, The Good Fight, 1973. Signed by Author; NO. 5, One, folio Dublin 1974. Special Lim. Edn. No. 11 of 124 Copies, Signed by the Author with drawings by Anne Yeats, & from her Library with her bookplate, quarter calf; also Numbers 6,7,8,11,12,13,14,15,16,17 ,20,21, & 22. Together with Downstream - Poems, Dolmen Press 1962 First Edn., d.w.; Another September, Dolmen 1962,; Nightwalker, Dolmen 1967; & 4 other vols. by Thos. Kinsella. Some signed copies, approx. 24 items in all v. good. As a lot. (24) €250 - €350 789. Signed Limited Edition Yeats (W.B.) The Trembling of the Veil, 8vo, L. (T. Werner Laurie Ltd.) 1922, Privately Printed, Signed Subscribers Copy No. 845 (1000) copies, portrait frontis, uncut, cloth backed boards, ptd. label, d.j. Good copy. (1) €500 - €700 790. Signed byW.B. Yeats Yeats (W.B.) A Vision, An Explanation of Life..., 8vo, L. (T. Werner Laurie Ltd.) 1925, Privately Printed Signed Subscribers Copies No. 321 (600) copies, portrait frontis, uncut, paper backed blue boards, ptd. label. Good copy. (1) €600 - €800 791. Signed byW.B. Yeats Yeats (W.B.) The Winding Stair, 8vo, N.Y. (The Fountain Press) 1929, Signed Lim. Edn. No. 263 (642 copies, decor. t.p., damp stained at foot, blue cloth, mor. labels on spine. (1) €350 - €420 789 & detail 791 & detail 790 & detail