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

36 IMPERFECTIONS NOT STATED Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 261. Fine tall Copy Keating (Jeoffry) The General History of Ireland, Lg. folio Westminster (J. Cluer & A. Campbell) 1726. Second Edn., including ‘Appendix’ Red & bl. title, engd. port. frontis. lg. fold. map of Ireland, outline map of Europe & 26 engd. genealogical plts., plus 12 plts of armorial bearings, in 19th Century hf. calf, mor. label. V. clean copy. (1) €650 - €850 262. Coloured Plates: [Mason (Geo. Henry)] The Punishments of China, Thin folio Lond (For William Miller) 1804. 22 full page hand cold. plts., a.e.g., in fine cont. full straight grained tan mor., lg. gilt tooled borders. (1) €350 - €450 263. Coloured Plates: [Alexander (Wm.)] The Costume of the Russian Empire, lg. folio Lond. (For Wm. Miller, by Wm. Bulmer) 1804. With 73 full page hand cold. plts. a.e.g. in fine full cont. crimson mor. profusely gilt tooled borders & decoration. V. good. (1) €350 - €450 264. Knowler (Wm.) The Earl of Strafforde’s Letter and Dispatches, 2 vols. in one, folio Lond. 1739. First Edn., Port. frontis & full page plt. cont. full calf, joints weak, tooled gilt spine, clean copy, bind. worn. (1) €170 - €250 265. Martineau (Harriet) The Hour and the Man, A Historical Romance, 3 vols. 8vo Lond. (Ed. Moxon) 1841. First Edn., fold. cold. map Vol. I, cont. hf. mor. joints cracked, spines rubbed. Ex. Rare. (3) * Written during the peak of the abolitionist movement, providing a portrait of a black hero [Toussaint Louverture, the leder of the Haitian Revolution] who fought against slavery. This Novel focuses on struggle for freedom and was widely read, and highly regarded by Frederick Douglas, Harriet Beecher Stowe and others. Provenance : De Veres of Curragh Chase and O'Briens of Dromoland Castle. €300 - €400 266. From the Library of the Ladies of Llangollen Hunter (A.) Cuina Famultarix Medicmae: or Receipts in Modern Cookery, with a Medical Commentary Written by Ignotus, 8vo, York (T. Wilson & R. Spence) 1806, Fourth Edn., engd. frontis, inscribed on t.p. ‘Gift of Lady Eleanor Butler and Miss Ponsonby,”marble endpapers, gilt border decorated mottled calf, mor. label. (1) €300 - €400 261 265 262 266 263