RARE BOOK & COLLECTORS’ SALE 12th -13th December 2023

15 Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 109. Foulis Press: Pope (Alexander) Poetical Works, 3vols. folio Glasgow (Andrew Foulis) 1785. Engd. port. frontis after Houbracken, marble ends, cont. full mottled calf, lg. gilt tooled floral roll, with gilt tooled red & green mor. labels. Bookplate of Sir Samuel Hannay, Bart. V. good binding. (3) €250 - €400 110. Privately Printed Beard (Chas. R.) A Catalogue of the Collection of Martinware Formed by Mr. Frederick John Nettleforld..., Folio Lond. (Waterlow & Sons) 1936. Privately Printed, port. frontis & full page plts., uncut, cloth. Good. (1) €130 - €180 111. Photographs: Co. Clare, An oblong folio Album with 18 Photographs of Antiquities, and Ancient Buildings in Co. Clare, mostly c. 1880 by Lawrence, also some Continental photos, Italy, some of India, and a good Military Group, with names of Officers. As an Album, w.a.f. (1) €140 - €200 112. Presentation Copy to Mia Cranwill Cuala Press: Yeats (Wm. Butler) Seven Poems and a Fragment, 8vo Dundrum (Cuala) 1922 Lim. Edn. 500 Copies; also Brindley (Louis H.) Poems, 8vo Dublin (Cuala) 1945. Lim. Edn. No. 46 of 100 Copies Only, Signed Pes. Copy to Miss Mia Cranwill, Aug. 23, 1945, both orig. cloth backed boards. Good. (2) €150 - €200 113. Finlay (John) Miscellanies, The Foreign Relations of the British Empire: The Internal Resources of Ireland, Sketches of Character: Dramatic Criticism, etc. etc. etc. sm. 8vo Dublin 1835. First Edn., hf. title, orig. cloth. V. good copy. Scarce. (1) €120 - €180 114. Louvain: Privilegia Academiae Sive Studio Gnerali Louvaniensi, Ab Spostolica Sede, Imperatoribux, Regibus, Aliisque Principibus Concessa., 4to Louvain 1644. Wd. vignette ports. on title, coat of arms on verso, wd. cut initials, decorated heads and tails, some damp stains at edges, cont. vellum. (1) €120 - €180 115. [d’Exiles (Antoine Francois Prevost)] The Dean of Colerain, A Moral History. Founded upon the Memoirs of an Illustrious Family in Ireland. 3 vols. 12mo Dublin (S. Powell) 1742. First Dublin Edn., Engd. port. frontis. Vol. I, titles, inscribed Thos. Acton, cont. full sprinkled calf, raised bands, mor. labels. Good. (3) €200 - €300 116. Galway interest: Wilde (Sir W.) Lough Corrib, its Shores and Islands, With Notices of Lough Mask. 8vo Dublin 1867, First Edn., Pres. Copy from Author, text illus. & fold. map, orig. cloth; [Otway (Caesar)] Tour in Connaught, sm. 8vo Dublin 1839. First Edn., text illus., a fold. map, lacks frontis cloth; Handbook to Galway, Connemara and the Irish Highlands, Lond. 1854. Fold. map, & profusely illustrated, cloth; de Bhaldraithe (Tomas) The Irish of Cois Fhairrge, Co. Galway, Dub. 1944. First Edn. Signed Presentation Copy. Good. (4) €180 - €240 117. “The Tears of Ireland” [Cranford (James)] Yrelandtsche Traenen: Waer in levendisch is affgebee;t. emde a;s om eem Scjo;deroe verthoont Een Lijste, vande noyt gehoorde wreedtheden, ende barbarisehe Verraderpen der bloedt- dorstighe Jesuwijten, met de Papistische factie aldaer. 4to Amsterdam 1642. First Dutch Edn., fold. engd. plt. with 18 separate illustrations. Boards: Sweeney 1243. Important interesting & Rare. (1) €400 - €600 118. Yeats (W.B.)Introduction, Stories from Carleton, sm. 8vo Lond. (Walter Scott) [1889] First Edn., uncut, partly unopened orig. cloth & label, good; The Cutting of the Agate , New York (Macmillan Co.) 1912. First American Edn., green boards & paper labels, d.w. (dam.) Scarce; Autobiographies: Reveries over Childhood and Youth and the Trembling of the Veil , Lond. (MacMilan & Co.) 1926. First Edn., port. frontis, unopened, orig. cloth & decor. d.w. V. good. (3) €200 - €300 109 111 112 117 118