Rare Book & Collectors' Sale June 23rd, 24th & 25th 2026

19 Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 114. Graves (Rev. J.) & Prim (John G. Aug.) The History, Architecture and Antiquities of the Cathedral Church of St. Canice, Kilkenny, Lg. 4to Dubin 1857. First Edn., plts. & illus. recent suede backed cloth; also Ledwich (Ed.) Antiquities of Ireland, 4to D. 1803. Second Edn., plts. L.S. thro.- out, calf backed. As a lot, w.af. (2) * Ex libris Mrs. Margaret Phelan. €160 - €260 115. Select Poetry : Dublin Interest Manuscript: A folio Volume of Poems, Select Poetry, with some news cuttings etc., in a fine copperplate hand, with many blank pages, cont. hf. crimson mor. with mor. label. As a m/ss., w.a.f. (1) *Includes loose page containing rough copies of “Burlesque Poems,” later copied into the volume, one from“John” addressed to R.W. [RichardWogan Talbot, MP for Co. Dublin., urging him to bestir himself and go to London to oppose the government’s bill imposing fresh taxes; the second, evidently Talbot’s reply, addressed to John Roberts Esq. of Old Connaught; both composed on St. Valentine’s Day and Signed “Anthony Valentin”, and much more. €100 - €150 116. South Africa Diary of a Belfast-born Policeman: 1905-1907 Manuscript: “Diary during my time in Ngamiland (2 years, 8 months & 6 days). A. Hatton Cpl of Orderlies B.P.* Police, British Bechuanaland.” Fine modern half-calf binding of green morocco with spine title and supralibros of Letts’s Diary for 1902. Printed endpapers and maps. 188 pp, interleaved with blotting-paper. 10 Jan. 1905 – 16 Sept. 1907. *Bechuanaland Protectorate, now the Republic of Botswana. This is no official report-book but a personal narrative in which the writer describes, often in detail, his journey from Mafeking to Lake Ngami (which took a whole month), his years in charge of the police station at Rakops, and his eventual return to Mafeking. He says little of his police-work, which was evidently routine, but writes absorbingly about the hazards of the climate, the people he meets, and the perpetual shooting of “game”. What makes this work of particular interest and importance is that it is not written by a senior officer or official, but by a corporal - Alexander Hatton was the son of a Belfast linen lapper. The diary may have been compiled for his family. As a manuscript. Important. (1) €200 - €300 117 113. Distillery F & AC, in Peace andWar Distillery Football & Athletics Club (Grosvenor Park, Belfast) . Belfast Minute Book, 1932-1941 . In a thick folio volume, hf. morocco on heavy buckram-covered boards, 474 numbered pages (and a few unnumbered), mostly typescript reports laid down, from June 1939 some manuscript reports directly written in, all duly signed by chairmen. Covers worn but internally in very good condition throughout. Directors’meetings were generally held monthly. The minutes, which are tersely written, usually include attendance of directors and shareholders, applications and correspondence, financial matters, transfer requests and decisions (some to and from English clubs, with much detail about named players), appointments, disputes and disagreements, legal matters, relations with the Irish Football League, etc. From September 1939 onward there are occasional references to war conditions, availability of players who may have returned from England, petrol rationing, air raids (meeting 30 June 1941, p.464, Glentoran offered use of Grosvenor Park as ‘owing to the recent Air Raid’ their own ground was wrecked), war damage insurance etc., otherwise business as usual. [The German air raids on Belfast took place in April and May 1941]. The volume concludes with the meeting of 22 Sept. 1941, followed by minutes of the AGM of 5 July 1940 (out of sequence), countersigned 6.10.41. A volume of particular interest and importance to anyone with knowledge of the players and personalities involved. The Distillery Club was founded in 1879. €400 - €600 117. With Fine Lithographic Plates Roberts (David) Tour in the Holy Land - Plates, oblong folio Lond. (Cassell, Peter & Galpin) c. 1850, 54 full page litho plts. extremely clean, cont. hf. mor., tooled gilt spine, mor. label. With recent mor. label on front cover. (1) €350 - €500 118. Henry Bradshaw Society Warren (F.E)ed. The Antiphonary of Bangor, An early Irish Manuscript in the Ambrosian Library at Milan, 2 vols. folio Lond. 1893 First Edn., A Complete Facsimile. In a very fine recent professional hf. calf binding, blind and gilt tooled decoration. V. good. (2) €200 - €300 119. Co. Cork: Montgomery & Son, Inventory & Valuation of the Buildings, Plant and Machinery, Fixtures & Fittings, Office Furniture & Utensils etc - The Property of Messrs. J. Sullivan & Sons Ltd., Greville Place, Francis Street & Millard St., Cork, For Insurance Purposed Folio Cork c. 1955. Total value £251,892. Cloth. Interesting document. (1) €120 - €180