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38 IMPERFECTIONS NOT STATED Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 246. Walker (Joseph C.) Historical Memoirs of the Irish Bards,... also An Historical and Descriptive Account of the Musical Instruments of the Ancient Irish, Lg. 4to Dublin (Luke White) 1786 First Edn., engd. port. frontis, engd. vignettes, heads & tails, fold. plts. & 4pp engd. music, in attractive hf. crushed brown mor., raised bands & gilt decor. spine by Bayntun Binder, Bath, stamped. (1) €300 - €400 247. With Fine Coloured Plates by MarcusWard [Trench (Henry)] Shannon Floods, Lough Derg Level - The 25 Miles North from Killaloe, 4to [Jan. 1880] Sole Edition. 7 cold. illus. (1 dble. page) by Marcus Ward, & 1 dble. page cold. map, 14pp in all, orig. cloth backed boards, printed covers, & in recent cloth folder. V. Rare. (1) €300 - €400 248. Mitchell (Flora H.) Vanishing Dublin, D. (Allen and Figgis) 1966, First Edn., illustrated throughout, cloth & d.j., some foxing, otherwise good copy. (1) €250 - €350 249. Fine Co. Longford Illuminated Manuscript Co. Longford: Address of the Inhabitants of the Town and County of Longford to John Kennedy Esq., and Reply returned by him thereto July 1863, illuminated Manuscript, 7pp on vellum, 4to with list of subscribers in cont. full crimson mor. with fine lg. tooled gilt borders & decoration, and with gilt lettered front cover. As a m/ss., w.a.f. Fine. (1) €600 - €800 250. In Dun Emer Binding Lewis (Samuel) A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, 2 vols. lg. 4to Lond. 1837. First Edn., lg. list of subscribers, in later hf. green mor., vellum sides, raised bands, gilt lettered spine, ‘Hand Bound by Norah Fitzpatrick, Dun Emer, Dundrum,’ Signed. V. good. Rare. (2) €500 - €700 251. Architecture: Gray (Wm. J.) A Treatise on Rural Architecture, Folio Edin. 1852. First Edn., 48 full page plates, some text illus., recent calf backed cloth boards, raised bands, mor. label. Good. (1) €225 ‑ €350 252. Mudie (Robert) Hampshire: its Past and Present Condition, and Future Prospect s, 3 vols. First Edn., 4 engraved vignette titles, 9 hand coloured maps, some folding, and 123 engraved plates only (of 130 ?), Vol. 1 lacking list of plates, original cloth, spines lettered in gilt, large, 8vo, Winchester, [1838-39]. Very clean Copy. * Includes Isle of Wight and Channel Islands. (3) €200 - €300 246 249 251 250 & detail 247 248