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31 Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 186. Co. Westmeath: Vallencey (Major Chas.) A Chorographical Description of the County of West-Meath, By Sir Henry Piers., 8vo Dublin 1770. First Edn., lg. fold. Map, fold. plt., cont. calf, rebacked, new label. (1) €200 - €300 187. All Signed First Editions Heaney (Seamus) Station Island, Lond. (Faber & Faber) 1984. First Edn. Signed 22/11/85, black paper boards, orig. pict. d.w.; The Haw Lantern, Lond. (Faber & Faber) 1987. First Edn., Signed on title, red paper boards, orig. d.w.; Seeing Things, Lond. (Faber & Faber) 1991. First Edn., Signed, & Inscribed ‘... Another Case of Signing Things - Seamus Heaney, August 1991.’ grey cloth, pict. d.w.; The Government of the Tongue 1986 T.S. Eliot Memorial Lectures... Lond. (Faber & Faber) 1988. Reprinted, Signed & dated 23.11.89, red boards, orig. d.w.; Beowulf - A New Translation, Lond. (Faber & Faber) 1999. First Edn. Signed, dark blue boards, & cold. d.w. All v. good. Brandes & Durkan: A36; A41; A50; A44; A72. (5) €450 - €700 188. [Bolingbroke (Henry St. John, Viscount)] A Dissertation upon Parties; in Several Letters to Cabeb D’Anvers, Esq. , 8vo L. 1739. Fifth, Engd. frontis XXXI, 252pp., cont. calf, dble. gilt fillet borders, raised bands. V. good copy. (1) €100 - €150 189. Hoare (Sir R. Colt) Journal of A Tour in Ireland, A.D. 1806, 8vo Lond. 1807. First Edn., engd. frontis, hf. calf, rebacked, orig. mor. label. (1) €180 - €240 190. Kirk (Mr.)ed. Outline from Figures and Compositions upon The Greek, Roman and Etruscan Vases of the Late Sir William Hamilton; with Engraved Borders. roy 8vo L. 1814. Second Edn., 62 engd. plts., later hf. blue mor., mor. label. V. Clean Copy. (1) €100 - €150 191. Folio Editions: A collection of 19 fine printings, volumes of poetry, after Yeats, R. Graves, Emily Dickinson, Wm. Barnes, W. Owen etc., & prose by Bronte Sisters, Henry James, Macaulay, James Hogg etc., all uncut, some unopened, all colourful cloth backed marble boards. As a lot. (19) €200 - €300 192. 1798 etc: Teeling (Chas. Hamilton) Personal Narrative of the ‘Irish Rebellion’ of 1798, 8vo Lond. 1828. First Edn., recent attractive hf. calf, mor. label; Barrington (Jonah) Rise and Fall of The Irish Nation, 8vo Paris 1833. First Edn., engd. port. frontis, & 4 plts., cont. hf. mor. (2) €150 - €200 193. Rare First English Edition Dumas (Alexander) The Count of Monte- Cristo, 2 vols. roy 8vo Lond. (Chapman & Hall) 1846. First Edn. Two engd. frontis & 18 engd. plts. by M. Valentgin, one plt. loose & frayed at edges, another loose with leaf of text, some soiling, finger marks etc., & some spotting, cont. hf. mor. mor. labels. V. scarce. (2) €1250 - €1750 194. Smith O’Brien (William) Principles of Government; or Meditations in Exile , 2 vols. D. 1856. First Edn., titles inscribed by ‘S.L. M’Elroy, Ballymoney,’ orig. embossed green cloth. V. good. (2) €160 - €220 195. Signed by Austin Stack Austin Stack and The Hunger Strike [Stack (Austin)] - Motley (John L.) Life and Death of John of Barneveld, Advocate of Holland, 2 vols. L. 1904. Orig. buckram. Good. (2) * Inscribed in Vol. I, on front loose blank ‘Aibhistin de Staci, 24.4.23’ and again on verso of frontis ‘Aibhistin de Staic / Traighli / Kilmainham Prison 29.X.23 (16th Day of hunger strike)’; the second volume, also with name ‘Aibhistin de Staic, Kilmainham 5.XI.23’; with a related news cutting and with Mrs. Austin Stack’s visiting card loosely inserted. Austin Stack, from Tralee, was involved in Casement’s unsuccessful attempt to land arms in Kerry prior to the 1916 Rising. A founder member of The Irish Volunteers, formerly a tax inspector in Dingle, he was elected to the First Dail and later became Minister for Home Affairs 1921 - 22. He was a close colleague and supporter of Eamon de Valera, opposed the Treaty, and was imprisoned in 1923, taking part in the hunger strike which severely weakened his health. He died in 1929. A Poignant Memento. (1) €450 - €750 186 187 195 191