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

150 IMPERFECTIONS NOT STATED Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 875. Signed Limited Edition Ormsby (F.), Heaney (S.), & Carson (C.) The Blackbird’s Nest, 8vo, Belfast (Blackstaff Press) 2003, Limited Edn., Signed, No. 198 (250) copies, mor. backed hand-made boards, with matching slipcase. Good copy. (1) €200 - €300 876. Moore (David) & More (A. Goodman) Contributions towards a Cybele Hibernica, 8vo Dublin 1866. First Edn., dble page cold. map of Ireland, orig. gilt decor blue cloth, stained. The Brown’s Hill Copy, Signed by R. Clayton Brown, Jnr. 1866. (1) €130 - €180 877. Beaslaí (Piaras) Michael Collins and the Making of a New Ireland , 2 vols. thick 4to Dublin (Phoenix) 1926., 2 cold. frontis & 16 illus., orig. gilt decor. green cloth. Good. (2) €275- €350 878. Fine Signed Bindings: Opere di Pietro Metastasio, 17 vols. roy 8vo Padova nel Seminario 1811 - 1812. Engd. port. frontis. Vol. I, & engd. plts. thro.-out, all edges gilt, in fine full marbled calf, dble gilt fillet borders, profusely gilt spines in panels, red & green mor. labels & with gilt armorials on each cover, signed ‘R. Ingalton Drake, Binder, Eton.’V. good set. (17) €500 - €600 879. Murtagh (Harman) Athlone History and Settlement to 1800, roy 8vo Athlone 2000. Signed by Author; also Athlone in the Victorian Era, Athlone 2007. Signed by Author, Desmond Egan, & Aidan [Heavey], illus. d.w.’s; Thomas (Avril) The Walled Towns of Ireland, 2 vols. Dublin 1992, First Edns., illus. d.w.’s. (4) €100 - €150 880. The Midlands: Cahill (S.), O’Brien (Gearoid), & Casey (Jimmy) Lough Ree and It’s Island’s, 8vo Athlone 2006. First Edn., Signed by three Authors; Slevin (Fiona) By Hereditary Virtues: A History of Lough Rynn, 2007. First Edn., Signed; Farrell (Mary)ed. Mullingar, Essays on the History of a Midlands Town..., Mullingar 2002. First Edn.; & 6 other sim. (9) €100 - €150 881. Wilde (Oscar) A House of Pomegranates’, 4to, L. (James R. Osgood McIlvaine & Co.) 1891, First Edn., 1000 copies, 158pps., illustrated and designed by C. Ricketts and C.H. Shannon, uncut & unopened 4 full page illus. decorative endpapers, decorated cream cloth with Peacock design, green spine. (1) €400 - €500 882. Lewis (C.S.) & Baynes (P.) illus. The Works of C.S. Lewis, 7 vols., 8vo, L. (Folio Society) 1996, illus., uniform green cloth, gilt design front cover, gilt lettered spine, slip box. Good Set. (7) €150 - €200 883. [Wilde (Oscar)] The Works of Oscar Wilde, 10 vols., 8vo, Boston & N.Y. (C.T. Brainard) 1909, hors commerce of 1000 copies, hf. title, frontis, uncut, t.e.g., hf. leather, marble boards, gilt lettered and decor. spines, raised bands, handsome set. (10) €700 - €900 884. Swift - Letters to and from Dr. J. Swift, D.S.P.D. from the year 1714-1738, 8vo Dublin (Geo. Faulkner) 1741. First Edn., page before title torn out, mottled calf, worn. (1) €120 - €180 885. With Bookplate of Andrew Carnegie Howison (John) Sketches of Upper Canada, Domestic Local and Characteristic , 8vo Edin. 1821. Hf. title, Bookplate of Andrew Carnegie, full sprinkled calf, double fillet borders, gilt spine by Riviere. Good copy. (1) €150 - €200 886. Bindings: Belsham (W.) Memoirs of the Reign of George III, 4 vols. Lond. 1795, cont. hf. calf, spines faded; Cooke Taylor (W.) Life and Times of Sir Robert Peel, 4 vols. Lond. n.d. c. 1840, engd. title Vol. Iνmerous engd. ports., cont. hf. tan calf, tooled gilt spines mor. labels. (8) €130 - €180 887. State Trials: Shaw (Henry) Authenticated Reports of the Irish State Trials, 1844. 8vo Dublin (H. Shaw) 1844. First Edn., cont. cloth. Scarce. (1) €130 - €180 888. Republican interest: Dublin’s, Kerry’s, & Limerick’s Fighting Stories; Rebel Cork’s Fighting Story; With the I.R.A. in the Fight for Freedom 1919 to the Truce; also Roche (R.) Here’s Their Memory, A Tribute to the Fallen of Republican Wexford , and Wells (W.B.) & Marlowe (N.) A History of the Irish-Rebellion of 1916, Dublin 1917, cloth, as a lot, w.a.f. (7) €160 - €240 875 881 883