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

70 IMPERFECTIONS NOT STATED Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 493. Patrons Limited Edition, 50 Copies Only Sex (Susan) & Sayers (B.) Ireland’s Wild Orchids, lg. atlas folio Dublin 2004. Patrons Copy No. 40 of 50 Copies Only. Signed by Both. 35 full page pltsνmerous cold. illus., hf. mor. cloth, gilt lettered label, in cloth slipcase. Also, together with the Portfolio of loose cold. plts., Limited Patrons copy also, and in a sim. design cover box. In addition, this lot includes, Ireland Wild Orchids, A Field Guide, 8vo, Lim. Edn., No. 55 of 850 copies, Signed by both, in mor. backed cloth boards profusely illustrated, and in slipcase. There is also some orig. m/ ss correspondence, and envelopes with stamps by the above artists. A wonderful complete lot. (1) €1000 - €1500 494. Street (Geo. Edmund) The Cathedral of the Holy Trinity, Commonly Called Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, Lg. atlas folio Lond. 1882. First Edn., Pres. Copy inscribed by Publisher. Frontis port., with engd. plans, plates, ports., text illus. etc. t.e.g., in full gilt & colour decor. full vellum, with shamrocks & oval armorial. V. good. (1) €300 - €400 495. Estate of Lord Castlemaine Town of Athlone : Sale by Public Auction - Estate of Albert Edward Baron Castlemaine, Rental, Maps, Particulars & Conditions of Sale, of Valuable Head Rents, and House Property, & Portion of .. Arcadia, .. to be Sold .. on Monday 8th September 1908. With 5 large fold. coloured maps, orig. ptd. wrappers, now bound in cloth. V. good. As an Atlas, w.a.f. (1) €300 - €400 496. Feehan (John) & Rosse (Alison) An Atlas of Birr, lg. oblong atlas, folio Offaly n.d. [c. 2015] Signed by both Authors; also Cuirrech Life - The Curragh of Kildare, Ireland, lg. oblong atlas folio Dublin n.d. [c. 2015], Signed by John Feehan, profusely illustrated, orig. pict. boards. (2) €130 - €180 497. Folio Society: Illuminated Manuscript - Tractatus de Herbis, British Library Egerton M/ss 747. Folio Lond. 2002. A fine exact coloured fac-simile, Limited Edn., NBO. 873 of 1000 copies, with separate Commentary Volume, in full goatskin leather with leather on lays, in orig. cloth box. V. fine production. (2) €325 - €450 498. Butler (Patricia) The Silent Companion, an illus. History of the Watercolour Society of Ireland, L. 2010, thick qto, d.w., profusely illus. From the library of Anne Yeats, with book label. Invitation to launch laid in; illus. other work at p. 200. (1) €70 - €100 499. Inscribed Copy Hajba (Anna-Maria) Houses of Cork . Vol. I - North [all pub.]. Ballinakella Press, Whitegate, 2002. Profusely illustrated with line drawings by Michael O’Sullivan, 10 pp of photos at rear. Fully indexed. Foreword by Peter Pearson. Folio cloth, d.w. Inscribed by author on t.p. Very Scarce. (1) €120 - €180 493 496 & detail 494 & detail 497 495 498