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49 Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 419. Illustrated Volumes: Birmingham (Geo.) Irishmen All, 8vo Lond. & Edin. 1913. First Edn., 12 attractive tipped-in cold. illus. by Jack B. Yeats, uncut orig. gilt buckram; Ni Chriagain (M.) Sean-Eoin, sm. 4to Dublin 1938. First Edn., 5 cold. & 5 bl. & white illus. by Jack B. Yeats, orig. cloth & pict. d.w.; Cregan (Mairin) Old John, sm. 4to Lond. 1937. First Edn., frontis & 10 plts. plus text illus. by Helen Sewell, orig. cloth & pict. d.w. All good. (3) €130 - €180 420. [Egan (Pierce)] Boxiana or Sketches of Modern Pugilism, 2 vols. 8vo With 25 fold. & other plts. some dam., lacks titles & a few pages, attractive hf. mor. tooled gilt spines, w.a.f. (2) €100 - €150 421. Poor Relief in Ireland: Eleventh Annual Report of The Commissioners for Administering the Laws for Relief of the Poor in Ireland, with Appendices. 8vo Dublin (Alex Thom & Sons) 1858. Three lg. fold. tables etc., orig. ptd. blue wrappers. (1) * With numerous letters about conditions in every town & village in Ireland. A Social Record. (1) €130 - €180 422. Illustrated Plates: Gay (John) Fables, 2 vols. 8vo Lond. 1737-38. Two engd. vignette titles, engd. frontis & 16 plts. in Vol. II, & 51 engd. hf. page vignette illus. by G. Van de Gucht in Vol. I, late full tree calf, worn. As a coll. of plts., w.a.f. (2) €100 - €150 423. Cork Printing: Pamphlet, Croly (Rev. David O.) Parish Priest of Ovens & Aglis, An Essay Religious and Political on Ecclesiastical Finance, As Regard the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland. 8vo cork (Barry Drew) 1834. First Edn., 94pp + [2] cont. full marble boards. Good & Rare. (1) €180 - €250 424. Wilde (W.R.) Irish Popular Superstitions, sm. 8vo Dublin (James Mc Glashan) n.d. c. 1885. First Edn., frontis of Paddy Welsh, The Fisherman of the Suck, dedit. to Speranza (Lady Wilde), 140pp. Cont. mor. backed cloth boards. V. good. Rare. (1) €180 - €240 425. Armenia: Norman (C.B.) Armenia and the Campaign of 1877, London n.d. Second Edn., hf. title lg. fold.map frontis & 7 other fold.maps, orig.cloth, gilt & bl. decoration; Curzon (Hon. Robert) Armenia: A Year in Erzeroom, and on the Frontiers of Russia, Turkey and Persia, Lond. 1854. Third Edn., Frontis, vignette title, plts. & fold. map, orig. cloth; Toynbee (Arnold J.) Armenian Atrocities - The Murder of a Nation, 8vo Lond. 1915. Dble. page map, orig. ptd. wrappers. (3) €140 - €200 426. In Fine Binding Hunt (John) The Ascent of Everest, 8vo London 1953. First Edn., Hf. title, cold. frontis, plates and illus. t.e.g. in crushed hf. blue mor. raised bands, gilt decoration in panels, by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. (1) €160 - €240 427. Trials of Young Irelanders Trials: Hodges (John George) Report of the Proceedings under the Treason Felony Act, 11 Vict. Cap 12, at the Commission Court, Green Street, Dublin, August and October, 1848. First Edn., lacks front loose blanks, orig. cloth backed boards. Emf. (1) €160 - €240 428. With 360 Hand-Coloured Plates Donovan (E.) The Natural History of British Insects, Vols. 1 - 10. In all 10 vols. roy 8vo Lond. (F. & C. Rivington) 1792-1801. First Edn., 360 hand-coloured full page plts., uncut, cont. hf. calf, marble sides, worn, & some covers loose. (10) €500 - €800 423 424 428 429. Loudon (J.C.) Arboretum et Fruticetum Brittanmicum, 8 vols. 8vo Lond. 1838. With numerous plts. & text illus., cont. hf. green mor. red mor. labels. V. good set. (8) €350 - €500