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

156 IMPERFECTIONS NOT STATED Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 937. In Fine Binding [Kay Nielsen] illustrator Fleur-de-Neige, et d’Autres Contes de Grimm. Folio Paris (L’Edition D’Art) [1929] Lim. Edn. No. 1232 of 2400 Copies. 12 attractive mounted colour plates, with tissue guards, decorative title & heads & tails, text within triple ruled borders, with orig. decorative printed wrappers, now in fine full citron mor. binding, with tooled borders, & large decoration on upper cover, by Cottage Bindery, Bath, stamped, cloth slipcase. Now in. V. good. (1) €1000 - €1500 938 & 939 – See page 157 941. Pyle (Hilary) Jack B. Yeats - A Catalogue Raisonne of the Oil Paintings, 3 vols. lg. 4to Lond. 1992. Lim. Edition No. 594 of 1500 Copies Only. Illus. thro-out, orig. full cloth, & matching slipcase. (3) €400 - €600 942. Genealogy: Burke (J.) & Burke (J.B.)ed. A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain & Ireland, 2 vols. sm. folio Lond. 1846. First Edn., attractive hf. calf, mor. labels; O’Hart (John) The Irish and Anglo-Irish Landed Gentry, roy 8vo Dublin 1884. First Edn., orig. gilt decor. cloth. V. good. (3) €180 - €250 943. O’Grady (Standish) Silver Gadelica, 2 vols. roy 8vo Lond. 1892. First Edn., uncut, orig. brown cloth. Good copy. (2) €140 - €180 944. O’Brien (Barry) The Autobiography of Theobald Wolfe Tone 1763-1798, 2 vols. roy 8vo Lond. 1893. First Edn., illus., later hf. calf, mor. labels by Corrib Binders, Galway, with tickets. (2) €125 - €175 945. Murray (Paddy) Oracles of God, The Roman Catholic Church and Irish Politics, 1922-37. Roy 8vo Dublin 2000. First Edn., recent attractive mor. backed boards, raised bands, mor. labels, & gilt decor. in panels; also Church of Saints Peter and Paul Athlone, folio Athlone 2007. First Edn., illus. thro.-out d.w. (2) * Both Signed Pres. Copies to Noel Heavey. €100 - €150 946. Very Attractive Set Grose (Francis) The Antiquities of Ireland, 2 vols. Lond. 1791; The Antiquities of Scotland, 2 vols. Lond.1789; The Antiquities of England and Wales ,4 vols. plus 2 Supplements, 6 vols. Lond. 1773- 1787. Together 10 vols. lg. 4to Lond. 1773-1791. Numerous engd. maps (some cold.) plates, vign. titles etc. some blank preliminary leaves with some damp stains. & a few plates, generally all plates v. clean, now in recent fine crushed crimson levant, profusely gilt spine in panels, raised bands. As a coll. of plts.,w.a.f. Very attractive copy. (10) €1000 - €1500 947. Heavey (Aidan) The Aidan Heavey Collection, Books & Manuscripts of Irish Interest at Athlone Library, oblong folio Athlone (The Old Athlone Society) 2008. Lim. Edn. No. 1 of 37 Coies Only, Signed by Donor & the Publisher. Profusely illustrated, & with some relevant newscuttings inserted full cloth,πct. d.w., in orig. pict. slipcase. Now contained in special full green mor. box with decor. borders, red mor. label & raised bands. Also included loosely are the typescripts of the speeches from the launch of this book in 2008. A delightful lot. (1) €500 - €750 940. With Twelve hand-coloured Plates Synge, J.M. The Aran Islands, with [twelve] drawings by Jack B. Yeats. Maunsel, D. & L. 1907, quarto wheaten cloth gilt, First Edn., large paper edition, No. 134 of 150 copies on handmade paper, Signed by both Synge and Yeats. A very good copy, the plates well coloured, in a recent pigskin folding case with ‘Island Man’ device on upper cover. Copies with both signatures are particularly rare; Synge did not sign the entire limited edition, perhaps because of his ill-health. (1) €4000 - €5000