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

153 Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 905. Co. Longford etc: Monaghan (Rev. J. Canon) Records Relating to the Diocese of Ardagh and Clonmacnoise, 8vo Dublin 1886. First Edn., Presentation Copy, cold. map frontis cloth; Farrell (J.P.) History of the County Longford, Illustrated, 4to Cork Reprint 1973; Gillespie (R.) & Moran (G.) Longfort: Essays in County History, Dublin 1991; Devaney (Rev. O.) Killoe - History of a County Longford Parish, Cavan 1981, Signed by Author, illus.; & 1 other sim. (5) €120 - €170 906. Ball (F. Elrington) The Judges in Ireland, 1221 - 1921, 2 vols. Lond. 1926. First Edn., 2 frontis orig. cloth, good. Scarce. (2) €160 - €220 907. Fahey (J.) The History and Antiquities of the Diocese of Kilmacduagh, 8vo D. 1893. First Edn., plts., unopened, cloth; O’Hara (B.)ed. Mayo Aspects of its Heritage, Galway 1982, illus. d.w.; & Reilly (Terry) Dear Old Ballina, Ballina 1993. First Edn., Signed, illus. etc. cloth. (3) €120 - €170 908. Rare First Edition Lehndorff (Georg) Horse Breeding Recollections, 8vo, L. (Horace Cox) 1883, First Edn., 13 genealogical tables (all present) some tears, 124pps, same annotations throughout, green cloth, gilt lettering. (1) €120 - €180 909. Ordnance Survey: Index to the Townland Survey of the Counties of Westmeath, Galway, & Wicklow, 3 lg. fold. linen backed maps, hand cold., all c. 1860, 2 in orig. cloth slipcase. As maps, w.a.f. (3) €200 - €300 910. O’Hanlon (V. Rev. J. Canon) & O’Leary (Rev. E.) History of The Queen’s County, 2 vols. roy 8vo Dublin 1907. First Edn., fold. cold. mapsνmerous photo illus. orig. blue cloth. (2) €250 - €350 911. Binding: Kirkpatrick (T. Percy C.) The History of Doctor Steevens’ Hospital Dublin 1720-1920, Lg. 4to Dublin 1924. First Edn., illus. recent attractive mor. backed boards, tooled gilt spine, raised bands, mor. labels, by J.F. Newman, Binders, & a reprint of same volume, Dublin 2008, d.w. (2) €80 - €130 912. Natural History: Praeger (Rob. Lloyd) The Way that I Went, An Irishman in Ireland. Roy 8vo D. 1937. First Edn., port. frontis illus., uncut, cloth & orig. d.w.; de Buitleár (E.) Ireland’s Wild Countryside, folio Lond. 1993; Mitchell (F.) The Way that I followed, A Naturalist’s Journey around Ireland. Sm. folio Dublin 1990. Signed by Author; Cabot (D.) Irish Birds, Dublin 2004; Whelan (Ken) The Angler in Ireland, 4to Dublin 1989; & 1 other sim. (6) €120 - €170 913. Signed Presentation Copy to Very Good Friends Kavanagh (Patrick) Collected Poems, roy 8vo Lond. (Macgibbon & Kee) 1964. First Edn., linen covers & orig. grey ground d.w. (some tears), blue spine. (1) * Front loose blank inscribed, ‘ Patrick Kavanagh for Elinor and Reggie August 1966,’ Elinor was an O’Brien, later Wiltshire, both she and her husband Reggie ran The Green Studio (a photographic studio). She was a very important photographer & her work is represented in the National Photographic Archive, Nat. Library of Ireland as ‘The Elinor Wiltshire Collection,’ where numerous photographs of Kavanagh appear. Reggie accompanied Patrick Kavanagh during his libel action in the High Court in 1954. Patrick Kavanagh wrote an appreciation of Elinor’s father H.M.V. O’Brien in the Irish Times, 7 June 1955. €500 - €800 914. Yeats (Jack B.) Life in the West of Ireland, 4to Dublin (Maunsel & Co.) 1912. First Edn. for General Circulation. Hf. title, cold. frontis & 7 other tipped in cold. illus., also other tipped in bl. & white reproductions & line drawings, t.e.g. orig. gilt decor. blue cloth. A very fine copy. (1) €500 - €700 915. Specially Bound Limited Edition Taylor & Skinner- Maps of the Roads of Ireland, tall 8vo Shannon (I.U.P.) 1969. Facsimile Reproduction, with maps etc. Lim. Edition No. 49 of 50 Copies Only, in decor suede binding, blind tooled, mor. label, signed by Binder, Patrick Kavanagh. V. good. (1) €350 - €450 916. Pratchett (Terry) The Carpet People, 8vo, L. (Doubleday) 2004, Signed and numbered Collector’s Edn., No. 20 (1000) copies, cloth and decor. d.j. matching slipcase; Mort, 8vo L. (Folio Society) 2016, illustrated by Omar Rayyan, cold. plts., black suede binding illus. paste-down on front cover, matching slipcase; Small Gods, 8vo L. (Folio Society) illustrated by Omar Rayyan, cold. illus., full red suede, illus. paste down on front cover, matching slipcase. (3) €150 - €200 913 & detail 916 914