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

75 Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 605. Antrim Interest. Typescript legal declaration Signed by Francis Joseph Bigger of Belfast, Solicitor, relating to sale of lands at Moyarget in the County Antrim, by Jane Hill Phelps to Wm. B. Mc Conaghy, dated 10 Nov. 1925, on legal notepaper & with revenue stamp. As a m/ ss., w.af. . (1) * Francis J. Bigger was a distinguished antiquary writer and book collector. €75‑€125 606. Neville Roberts (H.) ‘Y.E.S.’ A Free State in Fetters , 8vo D. (Fodhla Printing Co.) 1933; The Fruits ... A New Ireland through Economic Nationalism, 8vo D. (Talbot Press) n.d.; The Breaking of the Bonds, .. Plenty for All, Poverty for None. 8vo D. (Talbot Press) n.d.; Gauntlet, Being a Series of Open Letters Challenging Certain Eminent persons to Mortal Combat with Realities , 8vo D. (Three Candles) 1934. First Edns., together 4 pamphlets, all orig. ptd. wrappers. Scarce. (4) €80 - €120 607. Early Poetry byW.B. Yeats [Yeats (W.B.) etc.] Poems and Ballads of Young Ireland, 1888, 12mo Dublin (M.H. Gill & Son) 1888. First Edn., hf. title, dedicated to John O’Leary, 80pp. orig. gilt lettered white buckram. Ex. Scarce. (1) €200 - €300 608. James Stephens, Fenian - WANTED Proclamation: Stephens (James) Fenian . The Police Gazette, or Hue- and-Cry, Dublin, Tuesday December 6, 1866. With the Governor-General’s Proclamation, offering a reward of One Thousand Pounds for the arrest of James Stephens, following his escape from Richmond Prison in Dublin; also gives lists of deserters, etc. Lg. folio 4pp., approx. 42cms x 26cms (16½” x 10¼”), now loosely framed. (1) *Probably the most celebrated issue of this entire publication. Stephens’ escape from custody rocked the administration to its foundations. In spite of the enormous reward, he was not re- captured and made his escape to Paris & America. Stephens was the founder of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, better known as the Fenian Movement. (1) €200 - €300 609. 1916 Travel Permit: A cyclostyled Travel Permit, with manuscript details, issued to Mr. R.A. Dunlop, from Town Hall, Blackrock on 3th May, 1916, allowing him to travel to and from Amiens St. Station, this day, 4th May, signed by W.W. Rhodes P.M., and by recipient. As a m/ss. (1) * This was the day that, Padraig Pearse, one of the founder members of the Easter Rising, and author of the Proclamation of Independence was executed. €160 - €220 610 & 611 – See pages 76 –78 612. Eye-Witness Account of 1916 Easter Rising Manuscript: Steven (Capt. George) A 20 page handwritten eyewitness account of the 1916 Rising in Dublin, by Captain George Steven, Inspector of Fisheries. Steven cycled around Dublin City throughout the Rising watching the fighting in different quarters. his account of Monday April 24 includes a description of “Sinn Feiners” inside St. Stephen’s Green shooting dead an unarmed drunken man “of the labouring class”who had removed a trunk from a barricade. On Tuesday he witnessed the Fire Brigade attending a fire in Dunn’s on Sackville Street and describes how an urchin raised barbed wire “on a pike” to allow the engine through and despite heavy firing on the street, the “firemen were not interfered with”. “Early Wednesday morning our Fisheries Cruiser “Helga,” now a formidable gun boat, slipped up the Liffey and threw a few shells under Butt Bridge right into Liberty Hall.”Written in a clear hand thro.-out, as a m/ss, w.a.f. * A most interesting first hand account of The Rebellion. €450 - €750 613. [1916 & Politics] The Sinn Fein Revolt Illustrated, oblong 8vo, D. (Hely’s Ltd.) 1917, illus. ptd. wrappers; A Record of the Irish Rebellion of 1916, D. (Irish Life) 1917, illus. & adverts, later cloth binding, as a lot, w.a.f. (2) €150 - €200 605 608 612