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

67 Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 472. Ware (Sir James) The Antiquities and History of Ireland, Folio Dublin (A. Crook) 1705. First Edn., engd. port. frontis, red & bl. title, list of subscribers?, 2 single page maps & 2 plts., some pps. browned errata leaf at end, a.e.g., in attractive full diced calf, tooled gilt fillet & roll borders, raised bands, spine profusely gilt in panels. (1) €275 - €350 473. The Shannon & Irish InlandWaterways: A collection of approx. 50 varied Pamphlets, Booklets, Offprints etc., & including 12 early issues of Canaliana, and a copy of Ruth Delany’s Ireland’s Royal Canal 1789-1992, Dublin 1992 First Edn., signed by author, d.w. etc. In three matching modern cloth boxes, mor. labels. As a coll. w.a.f. (3) €180 - €250 474. Barrington (Sir Jonah) Historic Memoirs of Ireland, Comprising Secret Records of the National Convention, The Rebellion and The Union, 2 vols. lg. 4to Lond. (Henry Colburn) 1833. First Edn., 36 engd. ports. (include. frontis) 5 facsimiles, and an engraved plate of the ‘Round Robin’marbled ends. V. fine cont. Russia, with blind tooled borders, gilt narrow chain borders & gilt fillets, tooled gilt spines in panels, raised bands etc. V. good copy. (2) €350 - €500 475. The Castletown Copy Pratilli (Francesco Maria) Della Via Appia riconoscuita e descritta da Roma a Brindisi, Libri IV. Folio Naples (Giovanni di Simone) 1745. First Edn., Red & bl. title with engraved illustration, 3 lg. fold. engd. maps & 1 full page engd. map, complete [8] 566 [2]pp. In cont. full vellum, bookplate of Thomas Conolly, & gilt armorial stamp on spine, upr. joint cracking. (1) €700 - €900 476. The Castletown Copy Doria (Giovanni Francesco) Della Storia di Genova dal trattato di Worms fino alla pace d’Aquisgranda, Libri Quattre. Folio Leida (Moderna) 1750. Red & black title with engd. vignette, lg. engd. fold. map of Genoa, [2] 563pp., with bookplate of Thomas Conolly, in v. good cont. full vellum, raised bands, mor. labels, one with Carton gilt armorial motif. V. good. (1) €350 - €500 477. A Typographic Gem in Fine Original Condition Glasgow Printing: Homer - Iliad and Odyssey, 4 vols. in 2, Glasgow (Robert Andrew Foulis) 1756-1758. With 4 hf. titles, text Iliad, XI, 312pp., & Odyssey, [IV], 336pp., marble end papers, in cont. full mottled calf, narrow gilt borders, finely tooled gilt spines in panels, mor. labels. The entire in fine original and clean condition. (2) * The masterpiece of the Foulis Press, and one of the finest editions of Homer, in rare binding. €1000 - €1500 472 474 476 477 475 & detail