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

146 IMPERFECTIONS NOT STATED Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 833. Warburton (J.), Whitelaw (J.) &Walsh (Rev. R.), History of the City of Dublin, 2 vols. thick 4to Lond. 1818. First Edn., 2 frontis maps (1 fold.), & 26 varied engd. plts., (lacks pp. 85/86 of Appendix XIII, & 1 fac-simile), now in recent attractive hf. green mor., raised bands, mor. labels. Good copy. (2) €325 - €450 834. Very Fine Set Plowden (Francis) An Historical Review of the State of Ireland, 2 vols. in Three, lg. thick 4to Lond. 1803. First Edn., Engd. port. frontis Vol. I, plus by same author, A Postliminious Preface to the Historical Review of the State of Ireland, lg. 4to Lond. 1804. First Edn., 45pp. the entire in uniform hf. green mor. mor. labels & marble sides. The Trabolgan Copy, with bookplates. V. fine set. (4) €320 - €420 835. [N.W. English] Hurtagh (Harmen) ed. Irish Midland Studies - Essays in Commemoration of N.W. English, 4to Athlone 1980. First Edn., Signed by Most of the Contributors, illus. d.w.; Finch (T.F.) Soils of Co. Westmeath, 4to Dublin (An Foras Taluntais) 1977, with maps etc; O’Danachair (C.) Folk & Farm Essays in Honour of A.T. Lucas, 4to Dublin 1976. First Edn., illus. d.w. & slipcase. (3) €140 - €200 836. Republican: Sinn Fein Rebellion Handbook, Easter 1916, roy 8vo Dublin (Weekly Irish Times) 1916. Second Edn., illus. recent mor. backed boards; also Wilson (Hartnell & Co.) Dublin and the ‘Sinn Fein Rising,’ oblong folio, Dublin 1916, photo maps & ports., recent full cloth. Both good. (2) €180 - €240 837. [Yeats (W.B.)] The Oxford Library of The World’s Great Books, The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats, 8vo, N.Y. (O.U.P.) 1983, illustrations by J.B. Yeats, leather backed cloth, gilt decor. cover; Pine (R.) ed. Talking About Yeats, Micheál Mac Liammoir, 8vo, Athens (Darrell) 2021, No. 70 (100) copies, illus. ptd. wrappers; Tuohy (F.) An Illustrated Biography Yeats, 8vo N.Y. 1976, illus., ptd. wrappers; Jochum (K.P.S.) W.B. Yeats, A Classified Bibliography of Criticism, 8vo Illinois 1978, cloth; together with four Dolmen Editions relating to Yeats, as a lot, w.a.f. (8) €100 - €150 838. “KnowYour Town” Athlone, Co. Westmeath : Burgess (Dr. J.B.) The Burgess Papers of Athlone.This collection comprises 26 bound volumes in typescript, the entries dating from c. 1571-1881, and has been assembled from Deeds, Directories, Almanacs, Fiants, Published Sources, Manuscripts, Newspaper, Parish Records, Tombstone & Monumental inscriptions etc. A collection of the first importance for Athlone & surrounding area. One of the most helpful aspects of the collection is the liberal use of indexes. Practically every volume has its index often broken down under separate headings, eg. persons; places; births; marriages and deaths; borough voters; streets; subjects; etc. The 26 volumes were all typed by Dr. Burgess between 1939 and 1956, having commenced collecting the information in 1930. On leaving Athlone in 1951 Dr. Burgess entrusted the entire collection to his friend, Mr. J.O. Simmons, with the proviso, ‘ that this collection is for the town of Athlone, and when there is a place suitable for its storage and use, it is to be deposited there permanently for the people of Athlone,’ This unique collection of basic source material was compiled by a dedicated Athlone man for the people of Athlone, and this faithful photocopy of the entire collection for sale here affords some further institution or collector, the chance to acquire one of very few sets of this importance. * For further study, see Source Journal of Old Athlone Society, article by N.W. English in Vol. I No. 4, 1974-75. €450 - €750 839. Shannon Navigation: Various Reports on The Shannon, includ. Mulvany (Wm. T.) Report .. on A Preliminary Examination of the Country between the Rivers Shannon and Erne with the View to the Formation of a Proposed Junction Canal, folio Dublin 1839. With a fold. hd. cold. map, & a fold. plan, recent hf. calf; Other reports from 1835, 1849, 1868, & 1874, all recent hf. mor. Good. As a coll., w.a.f. (4) €200 - €300 840. With Attractive Plates Bury (Lady Charlotte) The Three Great Sanctuaries of Tuscany, Valombrosa, Camaldoli, Laverna: A Poem, Oblong folio Lond. (J. Murray) 1833, First Edn., full page engd. add. title, engd. port. list of subscribers, & 6 lg. full page sepia prints, orig. full cont. cloth, mor. label. (1) * Lady Charlotte Bury, was the mother of Harriet Bury, Countess of Charleville, Co. Offaly. €200 - €300 841. Magnificent Colour Plates Racinet (M.A.) L’Ornement Polychrome Deuxieme Serie Lg. Atlas folio Paris (Lib. de Firmin-Didot et Co.) n.d. c. 1870. First Edn.,? 116 engd. cold. plates (ex. 120, lacking Nos. 76, 78, 80 & 82), cont. hf. crushed green mor., by Little Brown & Co., covers detached. As a coll., w.a.f. V. good. (1) €400 - €600 832. Scarce Coloured Copy Crofton Croker (T.) Researches in the South of Ireland, Lg. 4to Lond. 1824. First Edn., hd. cold. frontis & 16 original coloured plts., uncut, in recent hf. green mor. marble sides, gilt spine. V. good copy. (1) €1000 - €1500