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

21 Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 104. Signed Limited Edition Kernoff (Harry) Woodcuts, lg. 4to Dublin 1942. Limited Edn. No. 14 of 220 Copies, Signed by Artist, 34 wd. cut illus., orig. cloth. V. good clean copy. (1) €300 - €400 105. Limited Editions: Derricke (John) The Image of Ireland, with A Discoverie of Woodkarne, Lg. 4to Belfast (Blackstaff Press) 1985. Limited Edn. NO. 53 of 286 Copies Fold. & other illus., hf. vellum backed boards, & slipcase; also Holinshed’s Irish Chronicle, folio Dublin (Dolmen Press) 1979. Lim. Edn. 850 Copies, wd. cut illus. thro.-out, cloth, d.w. & slipcase. Both v. good. (2) €280 - €350 106. Illustrated by Sean Keating: Synge (John M.) The Playboy of the Western World, lg. sm. folio London 1927. Limited Edition No. 116 of 1000 Copies, with illus. in colour by John Keating R.H.A., uncut, orig. cloth backed boards. V. good. (1) €220 - €350 107. Episcopal Jubilee of Pope Leo XIII Cork Corporation Illuminated Address from the Corporation of Cork to His Holiness Pope Leo XIII on his Episcopal Jubilee,1893, signed by Augustine Roche (Mayor) and Alex.McCarthy |(Town Clerk), presented in a large quarto leather bound Album, with the manuscript reply received from Cardinal Rampolla (signed by him), and an English translation of same similarly illuminated with elaborate floral displays. The Cork Address with a gilt reproduction of the Cork Corporation seal (slightly damaged). Some foxing to edges of internal boards, not affecting the illuminated addresses. The leather binding with title on upper cover within an elaborate gilt double rectangle enclosing alternate star devices, the surface somewhat worn, top of spine torn but holding firm. The illumination by John & Florence Gilbert, Cork (see turn-in on inner front cover), the binding apparently unsigned. As a m/ss, w.a.f. (1) €400 - €600 108. Etchings: A Collection of Original Etchings, .. Consisting of 17 Original Plates by Corn. Bega 1654; 25 Ditto by Claude 1660; ... 52 Ditto by Hollar 1641-1647. ... etc. etc. Lg. folio London (J. M’Creery) 1816. Frontis after Rembrandt, and others by Rembrandt together approx. 192 plts. in all, in various sizes from 6 to a page to full page, some plts. lacking, a.e.g. in full purple straight grained mor. lg. gilt tooled and sm. blind tooled borders spine gilt in panels. Good. Sold as a coll. of prints, not subject to return. (1) €650 - €950 109. Both Signed Copies The Shannon: Delaney (Ruth) By Shannon Shores, sm. folio Dublin 1987. First Edn., Signed Presentation Copy to Dr. Eamon Norton; also The Shannon Navigation, folio Dublin 2008. First Edn. Signed. Both illus., orig. pict. d.w.’s; also The Shannon Guide, by Shell & B.P. Lg. oblong folio Dublin c. 1963, illus. thro.-out, wrappers. (3) €130 - €180 110. In Magnificent Celtic Binding Robinson (Rev. Stanford F.H.) Celtic Illuminative Art, in the Gospel Books of Durrow, Lindisfarne, and Kells. Folio Dublin (Hodges, Figgis & Co.) 1908. First Edn., cold. frontis & 49 others (bl. & white), uncut, green end papers, tooled gilt doublures, in full heavy tooled gilt green mor., with lg. borders etc., a fine copy. (1) €400 - €600 104 & detail 105 107 110 108 106