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

44 IMPERFECTIONS NOT STATED Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 292. [Dubois (E.)] ‘Knight Errant’ My Pocket Book; or, Hints for ‘A Ryghte Merrie and Conceitede’ Tour,... to be called The Stranger in Ireland, in 1805. Sm. 8vo Lond. 1808, Third Edn., fold. sepia frontis, plus plts., bound with Libel - Sir John Carr against Hood and Sharpe. Report..., 8vo Lond. 1808. Uncut, orig. boards with ptd. label; & another item, Analysis of a New Work of Travels, 86pp, new boards. Scarce. (2) €150 - €200 293. American Interest [Burke (Edmund)] An Account of the European Settlements in America, 2 vols. 8vo Lond. 1757. First Edn., 2 fold. map frontis. Ex. Libris with stamps, later quarter mor.; Walsh (Rob.) An Appeal from the Judgements of Great Britain Respecting the United States of America, Part 1, Philadelphia 1819, Second Edn., New cloth backed boards; Schoepf (J.D.) Travels in the Confederation, 2 vols. Philadelphia 1911, trans by A.J. Morrison, one port. frontis, orig. cloth. (5) €175 - €250 294. Binding: Dryden - Plutarch’s Lives, With Notes, Explanatory and Critical from Dacier & Others, 6 vols. 8vo Dublin (for J. Williams) 1769. List of subscribers, with engd. vignettes, in fine cont. Irish catspaw full calf, raised bands, orig. mor. labels. (6) €200 - €300 295. Periodical: Anthologia Hibernica: or, Monthly Collections of Science, Belles Lettres and History, January 1793 - December 1794. In 4 vols. 8vo Dublin 1793-1794. List of subscribers, approx. 53 engd plts. fold. maps, ports. etc. some hd. cold., cont. hf. crimson mor. As a periodical, w.a.f. (4) €200 - €300 296. Both Signed Copies Beaslai (Piaras) Michael Collins and Making of a New Ireland, Vol. I only (ex. 2) 4to Dublin 1926. First Edn., Signed by Author, cold. Frontis, 8 plts. cloth; also Gallagher (Frank) Days of Fear, L. 1928. First Edn., Signed Pres. Inscription ‘ From one Hunger Sriker to Another - to Seamus MacCall from Frank Gallagher, Xmas 1928, ’ cloth. (2) €130 - €180 297. With Manuscript Note fromMargaret Pearse Fitzgerald (Rev. T.A.)trans. The Mother (An Mathair) and other Tales by P.H. Pearse, 8vo, Dundalk (Dundalgen Press) 1917, First Translated Edn., (Second) portrait frontis, inscribed “To Seamus Bhrethnach fromMargaret Pearse Mother of the Brothers Pearse in Remembrance of the visit to Foxford, September 1919,” cloth backed boards, some wear. Nice Association. (1) €200 - €300 298. A.E. (George Russell) Selected Poems, 8vo, L. 1935, First Edn., portrait title page, blind decor blue cloth; O’Grady (S.) The Triumph of Cuchulainn, 8vo D. (Talbot) n.d., illus. frontis, gilt lettered Celtic design cloth; Robinson (L.) Lady Gregory’s Journal’s 1916-1930, 8vo D. 1946, First Edn., cloth and d.j.; Coxhead (E.) Lady Gregory A Literary Portrait, 8vo, L. 1961, photo frontis, cloth; Morgan (C.) Epitaph on George Moore, 8vo, L. 1935, frontis, cloth backed marble boards, as a lot, w.a.f. (5) €80 - €120 299. Yeats (W.B.) Poems, L. (T. Fisher) 1914, First Edn., frontis, gilt decor. blue cloth; Reveries over Childhood and Youth, 8vo N.Y. (Macmillan Co.) 1916, First U.S. Edn., frontis illus. Jack B. Yeats, cloth backed decor. boards; Responsibilities, 8vo N.Y. (Macmillan Co.) 1916, First U.S. Edn., cloth backed decor. boards; Plays in Prose and Verse, 8vo, L. 1922 (Reprint), green embossed cloth; The Oxford Book of Modern Verse, 8vo Oxford 1939 (Reprint) blue cloth; Last Poems and Plays, 8vo L. 1940, First Edn., green cloth blind design; Autobiographies, 8vo L. 1955, First Edn., frontis, green cloth, as a lot, w.a.f. (7) €200 - €300 300. [Joyce (James)] Gilbert (Stuart) Letters of James Joyce, 3 vols. roy 8vo Lond. (Faber & Faber) 1957-1966. First Edn., illus., cloth vig. d.w.’s (with cellotape); Cixous (Helene) The Exile of James Joyce, trans. by Sally A.J. Purcell. N. York (David Louis) 1972; & Ellman (Richard) James Joyce, N.Y. 1959. First Edn., d.w., newscutting loosely inserted or tipped in. (5) €160 - €220 301. Barrington (Sir Jonah) Personal Sketches of His Own Times, 2vols. 8vo Lond. 1827. First Edn., Port. frontis. Vol. I, cont. hf. green mor. mor. labels. Good set. (2) €160 - €220 302. With Attractive Coloured Plates Goldsmith (Oliver) A History of the Earth and Animated Nature, 4 vols. 8vo Lond. n.d. [c. 1822] Port. frontis Vol. I + add. hd. cold. engd. title, & 41 engd. hd. cold. plts. (includ. frontis), cont. full calf, git borders, & mor. labels. (4) €250 - €350 296 & detail 302 297 & detail