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22 IMPERFECTIONS NOT STATED Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 173. [Hely Hutchinson (John)] The Commercial Restraints of Ireland, Considered, In a Series of Letters to a Noble Lord.. An Historical Account of the Affairs of that Kingdom . Roy 8vo Dublin (Wm. Hallhead) 1779. First Edn., hf. title, 3 fold. tables, cont. calf, with gilt stamp of the Signet Library on covers, extremities worn. (1) €275 - €350 174. Genealogy: Mac Carthy Glas (Daniel) A Historical Pedigree of the Sliochd Feidhlimidh - The Mac Carthys of Gleannacroim, 8vo Exeter (Wm. Pollard) n.d. [c. 1890] First Edn., orig. brown cloth, gilt lettered spine. V. good. Scarce. (1) €80 - €120 175. Genealogy: Hewitson (Anthony) Diary of Thomas Bellingham, an Officer under William III, 4to Preston 1908. First Edn., ports. & illus., orig. mor. backed. (1) €150 - €200 176. Inscribed Presentation Copy Americana: Amory (Thos. A.) The Military Services and Public Life of Mayor - General John Sullivan, of the American Revolutionary Army, roy 8vo Boston (Wiggin and Lunt) 1868. First Edn. engd. port. frontis [VI], [III] - 320pp,some finger marks or stains, orig. green cloth (some stains) gilt lettered spine. (1) * Inscribed on front loose blank, ‘ George McSweeney, Railway Hotel Macroom / From Thomas C. Amory Esq. Boston.’ €100 - €150 177. Pratt (Anne) The Flowering Plants, Grasses, Sedges and Ferns of Great Britain, 4 vols. roy 8vo Lond. 1898. New Edn., with 284 cold. engraved plts. (ex 319), orig. decorated cloth, one spine stained. (4) €150 - €250 178. Moran (Rev. P.F.) Bishop, Spicilegium Ossoriense: Being a Collection of Original Letters and Papers, illustrative of the History of the Irish Church, 3 vols. 4to Dublin 1874-1884. All published. First Edn., cont. mor. backed cloth boards. V. Scarce (particularly Vol. III). Emf. (3) €175 - €225 179. Attractive Coloured Plates [Combe (Wm.)] The Tour of Doctor Syntax, In Search of the Picturesque, A Poem, roy 8vo Lond. (Ackermann’s Repository) 1813. Hd. cold. vignette title, hd. cold. frontis & 29 hd. cold. plts. after Rowlandson, one plt. dam. with loss, uncut, in fine crushed olive levant mor. by Riviere. Book plate of Henry Salvin, of Barn Hall, Co. Dublin. (1) €300 - €400 180. Stanley (H.M.) Through the Dark Continent, or, The Sources of the Nile... to the Atlantic Ocean. 2 vols. roy 8vo Lond. 1899. With ports. full page plts., fold.& other maps, text illus. etc., a.e.g., in orig. gilt decor. pictorial cloth. V. good copy. (2) €200 - €300 181. Banville (John) Conversation in the Mountains . (With) Paintings and drawings by Donald Teskey. Gallery 2008, No. 220 of Lim. Edn. 350 copies Signed by Banville, brown cloth in unprinted d.w.; Mahon (Derek) Somewhere the Wave . (With) Drawings and watercolours by Bernadette Kiely, No. 79 of Lim. Edn. 450 copies Signed by Mahon, dark blue cloth in unprinted d.w. Two fine Gallery productions, fine copies. (2) €375 - €450 179 180 173 176 177