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46 IMPERFECTIONS NOT STATED Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 313. Lyng (Tom) Castlecomer Connections - Exploring History, Geography and Social Evolution in North Kilkenny Environs, 4to, Kilkenny (Wellbrook Press Ltd) 1984, First Edn., illustrated throughout, maroon cloth, d.j. designed by Peter Sluis. Good copy. Scarce. (1) €180 - €220 314. Signed Limited Edition - 30 Copies Only Feehan (John) The Landscape of Slieve Bloom, A Study of its Natural and Human Heritage. 4to Dublin (Blackwater) 1979. Lim. Edn., No. 3 of 30 Copies Only. Signed by Author & Publisher. Illus. thro.-out, a.e.g., in special gilt decor. full green mor. V. good copy. (1) €350 - €450 315. Hibernian Society: Campbell (John H.) History of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick and of the Hibernian Society, For the Relief of Emigrants from Ireland, ... 1771-1892, thick roy 8vo Philadelphia 1892. First Edn., fine cold. frontis, ports. thro.-out, orig. gilt decor. cloth; also sim. vols. for 1892-1951 and 1951-1981, ed.by Maurice J. Bric & others. All cloth. (3) €130 - €180 316. Facsimile Edition: McKitterick (David) ed. The Trinity Apocalypse - Die Trinity - Apokalypse Kommentar, 2 vols. sm. folio Luzern (Faksimile Verlag) 2004/2005. First Edn. Thus, cold. & other plts., cream mor. backed boards & cloth, both in orig. slipcases. (2) €160 - €240 317. Signed Presentation Copy ‘Corinthian’ [ ] History of Yachting in the South of Ireland, 1720-1908, Lg. 4to Cork 1909. Sole Edn., cold. frontis & numerous photo illus., green paper covers, gilt lettered. V. Scarce; also 3 other books sim. (4) €160 - €220 318. In Fine Mullen Prize Binding Petrie (George) The Ecclesiastical Architecture of Ireland, ... Comprising an Essay on The Origin and Uses of The Round Towers of Ireland. Sm. folio Dublin 1845. Second Edn., illus. thro.-out, a.e.g., fine full cont. calf. T.C.D. Prize Binding, with large tooled gilt borders, oval college stamp, & engd. prize label, stamped ‘Bound by George Mullen, Dublin.’ (1) €220 - €350 319. Maps: Admiralty Maps of the River Shannon, No. 2 - 7, together 6 lg. fold. linen backed maps, approx. 68cms x 99cms each, Lond. c. 1843, in orig. cont. full calf box, with gilt armorial. As maps, w.a.f. (1) €300 - €450 320. All Signed by The Author Cunningham (George) The Anglo- Norman Advance into the South-West Midland In Ireland, 4to Roscrea 1987. Special First Edn. No. 232 of 500 Copies, Signed by Author; also The Modern Story of St. Cronan’s Roscrea, sm. folio Roscrea 2001. Signed Presentation Copy, d.w.; and The Roscrea Conference, sm. folio Roscrea 2007. Special Limited Edn. No. 4 of 20 Copies Only, Signed, in special binding. (3) €175 - €225 321. Murphy (Ignatius) The Diocese of Killaloe, in 3 vols. roy 8vo Dublin (Four Courts Press) 1991-1995. First Edn., Thus, illus., orig. pict. d.w.’s, in slipcase. V. good. (3) €120 - €180 322. Engraved Views: McClise & Creswick, Views in Ireland and Belgium, 8vo Lond. c. 1840, 48 full page plts., full cont. mor.; also Ritchie (L.) Ireland Picturesque and Romantic, 2 vols. roy 8vo London 1837 & 1838, together 40 engd. views, cont. suede bindings. As a coll. of plts., w.a.f. (3) €120 - €170 319 320 314 & detail 317 313