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

8 IMPERFECTIONS NOT STATED Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 22. Griffin (James) Tratatus de Intellectu, et Voluntate Dei, Ad Mentem Joannis Duns- Scoti, .. Collegii Imaculatae Conceptionis Beatae Virginis Mariae R.R. Patrum Hibernorum Pragae, ... 4to Prague 1740. First few leaves frayed at fore-edge, some damp stains, cont. calf. Emf. (1) * A thesis defended at the Irish College at Prague, an Irishman. €180 - €250 23. [Boate (Ger.) Molyneux (Thos.)etc.] A Natural History of Ireland, in Three Parts, 4to Dublin (Geo. Grierson) 1726. First Edn., 11 engd. plts. some fold. (1 dam.) some damp stains, cont. panel calf. Emf. (1) €200 - €300 24. Porter (Fr. Francis) Syntagma Variarum Ecclesiae Definitionum, 8vo Rome (Typis Reu. Cam. Ap.) 1681. First Edn., wd. cut device ontitle & decor. thro.-out text, some browning, cont. decor. paper covers. Sweeney 3499. Rare; also same author, Securis Evangelica, In Two Parts, 4to Rome 1722., title dam. & browned damp stain thro.-out, cont. vellum. Emf. (2) €200 - €300 25. Early Dublin Printing Ussher (James) Britannicarum Ecclesiarum Antiqiutates, sm. 4to Dublin (Ex. Officina Typographica Societatis Bibliopolarum) 1639. First Edn., wd.-cut device on title, [20]1196pp, lacks front loose blank, orig. full calf, raised bands, gilt in panels, mor. label. Emf. Sweeney 5351. Good. (1) €300 - €400 26. Dodwell (Henry) Annales Velleiani, Quintilianei, Statiani. Seu Vitae P. Velleii Paterculi,... . 8vo Oxford (Sheldon) 1698. Engd. vignette title, cont. full speckled calf, raised bands, gilt decor. in panels & label worn; also Dodwell (H.) Exercitationes Duae: Prima, De Aetate Phalardidis; Secunda, De Aetate Pythagorae Philosophi, 8vo Lond. (R. Smith) 1704. First Edn., cont. panel calf, joints cracked. Both v. scarce. Emf. (2) €200 - €300 27. Neilson (Rev. Wm.) An Introduction to the Irish Language, In Three Parts, 8vo Dublin 1808. First Edn., list of subs., 6 plates, cont. hf. calf. Clean copy. Emf. (1) €160 - €220 28. Provincial Printing Association Copy: Temple (Sir John) The History of the General Rebellion in Ireland, ... 1641., 8vo Cork 1766. Seventh Edn., Cont. name on title, title & last leaf finger marks, later hf. mor. (1) * Front loose blank inscribed, ‘Isaac Butt to Joseph Lefanu March 7th, 1840.’ As an association copy. Emf. (1) €170 - €220 29. Clarendon - The Life of Edward, Earl of Clarendon, 3 vols. 8vo Dublin (For Peter Wilson) 1759-60; also The State Letters of Henry Earl of Clarendon, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, 2 vols. 8vo Oxford (Clarendon Press) & Dublin re-printed, 1765. List of subscribers, all uniform full cont. calf, raised bands, mor. labels (1 dam.) Emf. (5) €180 - €250 30. Smith (Thos.) Vitae Quorundam Eruditissimorum et Illustrium Virorum, 4to Lond. (David Mortier) 1707. Port. of James Ussher as frontis, with oval wd. cut port. of Erasmus on title, covers various lives include. James Ussher, orig. full vellum, lettered spine. V. good copy. Emf. (1) €250 - €350 31. Picardi (Joannis) De Prisca Celtapaedia, libri quinque, Quibus admiranda priscorum Gallorum doctrina & eruditio ostenditur,... 4to Paris (Mat. Davidis) 1556. Woodcut heads & initials, orig. vellum, fore-edge of front cover, & top of spine, some minor dam. otherwise good. Emf. (1) €220 - €320 32. Blunt (W. Scawen) The Land War in Ireland, roy 8vo Lond. 1912.; Sigerson (George) History of the Land Tenures and Land Classes of Ireland, Lond. 1871; King (D. Bennett) The Irish Question, Lond. 1882, all First Edns., & cloth. (3) €75 - €125 33. Waterford interest: Egan (P.M.) History, Guide & Directory of City and County of the City of Waterford, Kilkenny c. 1880. First Edn., fold. map, plts., illus. & adverts. orig. cloth; Power (P.) Waterford & Lismore A Compendious History of the United Dioceses, Cork 1937, & The Place-Names of Decies, 8vo Cork 1952. Both First Edns., & d.w.'s; Sheehan (Rev. M.) Sean-Chaint na nDeise - The Idiom of Living Irish, Dublin 1944, First Edn., Emf. Good. (4) €120 - €170 34. O’Connell (Philip) The Schools and Scholars of Breiffne, Dublin 1942. First Edn., port. plts. & fold. map, d.w.; Dowling (P.J.) The Hedge Schools of Ireland, Dub. n.d. First Edn., d.w. Emf. (2) €100 - €150 35. Hayes (Richard) Irish Swordsmen of France, Dublin 1934; The Last Invasion of Ireland, Dublin 1937; Biographical Dictionary of Irishmen in France, Dub. 1949. All First Edns., & d.w.’s; and 1 other same author. Emf. (4) €80 - €130 36. Co. Tipperary: Maher (James) Romantic Slievenamon, Mullinahone, also Chief of The Comeraghs - A John O’Mahony Anthology, Mullinahone, 1957, Both First Edns., Signed, d.w.’s; Fogarty (Canon P.) Tipperary’s G.A.A. Story, Thurles 1960. First Edn., illus. d.w. & 1 other item. Emf. (4) €90 - €140 37. Fine Illustrated Irish Books Gore-Booth (Eva) The Death of Fionavar from The Triumph of Maeve, 8vo Lond. 1916. First Edn., Decorated by Countess Markievicz; Campbell (Joseph) Earth of Cualann, 8vo Dublin 1917. Lim. Edn. NO. 100 of 500 Copies, decorated by the Author, d.w.; Campbell (Joseph) Freamhacha na h-Eireann, 8vo Belfast 1906. First Edn., with Celtic decorations; & 1 other, book of poetry. (4) €140 - €200 25