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

58 IMPERFECTIONS NOT STATED Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 402. Leadbeater (Mary) The Leadbeater Papers, 2 vols. sm. 8vo Lond. 1862. First Edn., orig. cloth. V. good copy. (2) €180 - €250 403. [Hickey (M.)] Doyle (Martin) Works, include. Hints... Road-Making and on Ventilation, and Hints to Small Holders on Planting and on Cattle, also Irish Cottagers, plus, one other, all bound as one, Sm. 8vo D. 1830, recent mor. back. As a lot, w.a.f. (1) €120 - €170 404. Strabane Printing: Crawford (Wm.) A History of Ireland, 2 vols. 8vo Strabane (John Bellew) 1783. First Edn. list of subscribers, recased, attractive hf. calf, raised bands, mor. labels. Good. (2) * Pierce Mahony’s copy with his bookplates. €220 - €350 405. Synge - The Works of John M. Synge, 4 vols. 8vo Boston (John W. Luce & Co.) 1912. Four portrait frontis, full cloth, mor. labels. (4) €175 - €250 406. Americania: Rush (Richard) Memoranda of a Residence at the Court of London, Comprising Incidents Official and Personal from 1819 to 1825. Including Negotiations on the Oregon Question, and other Unsettled Questions Between United States and Great Britain., 8vo Philadelphia (Lea and Blanchard) 1845. First Edn., hf. title, attractive hf. crushed crimson levant mor. tooled gilt spine. (1) €200 - €300 407. Toller (Sir Samuel) A Treatise on the Law of Tithes, roy 8vo Lond. 1822. Third Edn., full calf, mor. label, also A Full and Authentic Report of All the Debates that have taken place on The Irish Tithe Question, 8vo Dublin 1833. First Edn., Uncut, unopened, orig. cloth backed boards. Both good. (2) €120 - €180 408. Stokes (Wm.) The Life and Labours in Art and Archaeology of George Petrie, L.L.D. M.R.I.A., roy 8vo Lond. 1868. First Edn., numerous cont. newscuttings loosely inserted. Scarce. Good. (1) €160 - €220 409. Dufferin (Rt. Hon. Lord,) Irish Emigration and the Tenure of Land in Ireland, 8vo Lond. 1867. First Edn., Title inscribed, ‘ With Lord Dufferin’s Compliments.’ Orig. cloth. (1) €140 - €200 410. Andrews (C.S.) Dublin Made Me, and Man of No Property, An Autobiography, 2 vols. Dublin & Cork 1979 & 1982. First Edn., Vol. I Signed, cloth & d.w.’s. (2) €130 - €180 411. Carey (Matthew) Vindiciae Hibernicae, or, Ireland Vindicated: 8vo Philadelphia (M. Carey & Son) 1819. First Edn., cont. hf. mor. tooled gilt spine, mor. label. Good. (1) €150 - €200 411 401. Signed by Patrick Kavanagh Faber & Faber: Heath Stubbs (J.) &Wright (D.) The Faber Book of Twentieth Century Verse, 8vo Lond. 1953. First Edn., orig. cloth. (2) * Inscribed on front loose blank, ‘Patrick Kavanagh Dec. 1952, a token for Elinor,’ also Kavanagh (Patrick) Self-Portrait, Dublin (Dolmen) 1964. First Edn., cloth backed boards, pict. d.w. Clean copies. €200 - €300 403 405