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

78 IMPERFECTIONS NOT STATED Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 541. A Corkman’s Voyage to NewYork in the Year of the Titanic Manuscript: A fascinating eight-page M/ ss Journal of a Voyage to New York aboard the RMS Baltic from 17 to 20 September 1912. The Baltic, once the world’s largest ship, was a White Star liner that sailed the Atlantic between 1904 and 1933. she was involved in several dramatic incidents, including sending the famous iceberg warning to Titanic. The writer, who signs with his initials ‘’B.H.’’ is thought to be Benjamin Haughton (1855 - 1932), a Quaker merchant of Cork who worked actively on behalf of various charitable organisations in the city; he was a member of the Senate of the Irish Free State from 1922 to 1928. On the voyage he was accompanied by his daughter (?) Marjorie, whose 19th birthday was celebrated the day before their arrival. Fellow-passengers includedWilliam Redmond, the passionate Irish nationalist MP and inveterate traveller, the socialite Adele Countess of Essex, and the former Bishop of Ripon William Boyd Carpenter, who preached a lugubrious sermon after a fireman named Doyle threw himself overboard and drowned. There are comments on fellow passengers and on the entertainments provided, which included lectures by two celebrated missionaries, Henry Hodgkin on ‘’China’’ and Ralph Wardlow Thompson on ‘’The Menace of Moslemism’’ As a m/ss. Rare. (1) €200 - €300 542. ‘... Wanton destruction of houses’ Manuscript Journal : A manuscript Notebook, c. 1922 - 1923, containing mostly legal notes etc., but some daily notes, all in pencil, including one which mentions ‘Wanton destruction of houses.’ Probably a student, studying at the start of the Irish Free State. As a m/ss., w.a.f. Interesting, would benefit from further study. (1) €80 - €120 543. Book of German Aerial Photos of 1923 Photographs: “Luftbild und Luftbildmessung” [Aerial photos and measurements]. Deutscher Aero Lloyd A-G, Luftbildabteilung, November 1923. Ex Air Ministry Library, Adastral House. [Air Ministry HQ, Kingsway, London]. Aerial photos (pasted in) of industrial installations, railway bridges, forest plantations, etc. with accompanying text. 31 pp. As a coll., w.a.f. Unusual. (1) €100 - €150 544. Weather Records from a Shropshire Home, 1938-1949 A Record of Rain and Temperature kept at Burwarton – Dingle Leys [Shropshire], 1 Jan 1938 to 30 Sept 1949. Oblong roy 4to., strongly bound. Also gives monthly summaries, such as: “A lovely summer month. A splendid hay harvest and partridges look promising” (July 1940). “Coldest month recorded for many years – probably since 1895 – 21 days of continuous frost – easterly current / winds and probably the most sunless month on record. Snow lay very deep but due to drifting impossible to measure. The equivalent would have resulted in over 3’. (February 1947; it was indeed the most severe winter of the century up to that time, and also coincidentally the first year of the ColdWar). And the final entry: “A remarkable month, bringing summer to a splendid end. Undoubtedly the best since 1921” (Sept 1949). As a m/ss., w.a.f. (1) €120 - €180 545. Manuscript: Dublin interest: Hume Street Hospital Ladies Guild - Minute Book, A 4to notebook for minutes of meetings held by the above group, from approx. December 15th, 1954 - to approx. 10th January 1962. Minutes mostly Signed by Eileen Hill Tulloch. Interesting details about fund raising events, monies raised, people helped and other information. cloth backed boards. As a m/ss., w.a.f. (1) €150 - €250 546. Detailed Map of Dublin Property Map: An attractive hand coloured Map , 42cms x 61cms, of a house, garden and environs (unidentified) with covering note to the effect that it was presented on 9 November 1962 by George O’Donnell to Count and Countess Donal O’Kelly de Gallagh ‘’as a small memento of a great occasion in their lives,’’The recipient has not been identified, as there appears to have been no member of this family called Donal in modern times. Its most famous member was the diplomat Gerald Edward O’Kelly de Gallagh et Tycooly (1890 - 1968), whose ancestor had been created a Count of the Holy Roman Empire in 1767. As a m/ss, w.a.f. (1) €100 - €150 547. Co. Carlow: 1830s - 1840s including the period of the Reign of Terror in Carlow and the Great Famine. Over 500 applications from Carlow residents registering to vote on forms titled “Oath of Householder” / Oath of Rent Charger / Oath of Freeholder / Oath of Resident Freeman / Affirmation of £50 freeholder. Recording name, address, occupation and Signed by each householder. Witnessed and Signed by Assistant Barristers, H. Hutton and James Bessonnet and Clerks of the Peace, Alex Humprey and Thomas Richardson. Among the unusual surnames documented are Haly ( Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin ), Galbraith, Silk, Gilder, Ebbs, Garagin, Spong, Voss, Gerrard, Hammel, Bagenal, Rich, Vigors, Budds, Bruen, Hone, Spearing, Stoyte, Annesley, Foyle, Hazelton, Tennant, Forth, Strahan, Hoburne, Stone, Rawson, Barden, Huband, Woodhouse, Faircloth, Sweetman, Birkett, Furney, Wellwood, Bowles, Ruddix, Bossford, Lancaster, Boardman, Kilfoil, Bacon, Barrington. Among occupations listed are Sergeant Major of Militia, Counting House keeper, Apothecary, White Smith, Delft Man, Glazier, Chandler, Hatter, Boat Builder, Jaunting Car Owner, Clothes Broker, Coffee House Keeper, Yeoman, Fruiterer, Attorney at Law. Printers of the documents were R. Price, F. Kavanagh, J. Wyer, J. Cahill, J. Lahee, J. Kirkwood and J. Browne. Housed in folders, as a collection, as m/ss., w.a.f. (1) €400 - €500 543