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

64 IMPERFECTIONS NOT STATED Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 448. Very Rare Poetry of Donegal Interest [Donegal] Cassidy (Patrick Sarsfield) The Borrowed Bride, A Fairy Love Legend of Donegal. Roy 8vo N. York (Holt Brothers) 1892. First Edn. Presentation Copy. Illus. frontis, add. decorated title, with illustrations & decorations thro.-out, a.e.g., in orig. gilt decorated green cloth. Ex. Scarce. V. fine copy, in later box. (1) * Inscribed ‘ To Mrs. F.F. Millen with the Sincere Regards of The Author New York, June 28th, 1893.’ €300 - €400 449. Very Fine Copy Scale (Bernard) A Hibernian Atlas: or General Description of the Kingdom of Ireland, 4to Lond. 1776. First Edn., Engd. title (somewhat soiled), dedit, preface & index, also 37 hand coloured full page maps (one dam. by pen & ink), recent hf. calf, raised bands, mor. label. (1) €700 - €1000 450. Farrell (James P.) History of the County Longford, Illustrated, 4to Dublin1891. First Edn., Litho frontis & 32 full page plts., & fold. table. Fine recent hf. green mor.; also, MacNamee (James J.) History of the Diocese of Ardagh, 8vo Dublin 1954. First Edn., fold. map & 12 illus., recent quarter mor. raised bands, mor. label. Both v. good. (2) €200 - €300 451. Hennessy (Wm. M.)ed. The Annals of Loch Cé, A Chronicle of Irish Affairs. 2 vols. roy 8vo Lond. 1871. First Edn., Fold. cold. frontis, orig. cloth backed boards, in recent slipcase. (2) €160 - €240 452. Engraved Plates: Wright (G.N.) Ireland Illustrated, 4to Lond. 1834. First Edn., engd. add. title, & 80 views on 40 plts., cont. mor. backed cloth boards, clean copy; also O’Callaghan (Newenham (Rob.) Picturesque Views of the Antiquities of Ireland, Vol. 1 only, 4to Lond. 1830, 49 full page sepia plts., orig. mor. backed printed boards. All v. clean plts. (2) €160 - €240 453. Americana: [Barron (Wm.)] History of the Colonization of the Free States of Antiquity, applied to the Present Contest between Great Britain and Her American Colonies, 4to Lond. 1777. First Edn., hf. title uncut, orig. boards. Howes B. 182. Stevens Rare Americana 104; also The History of the British Dominions in North America, 4to Lond. 1773. title inscribed ‘D. of Grafton, 1781,’ Ex. libris copy, cont. calf, worn. As a lot. (2) €200 - €300 454. Coloured Plates: Sidney (S.) The Book of the Horse, thorough-bred, half-bred & cart-bred. Lg. 4to Lond. (Cassell) n.d. [c.1875] Cold. frontis & 24 cold. plts., text illus., cont. hf. mor. (1) €140 - €200 455. Leland (Thomas) The History of Ireland, 3 vols. 4to Lond. 1773. Full sprinkled calf, raised bands, mor. labels (four ex 6). (3) €140 - €200 449 453 451 450 454 448 & detail