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

43 Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 314. Cuisine: The Family Magazine: In Two Parts... House-Keeping and Cookery & Part II Body of Physick. 8vo Lond. 1743. Second Edn., calf; Mason (Charlotte) The Lady’s Assistant.. Being A Complete System of Cookery, 8vo Lond. 1801, calf; Viard (A.) Le Cuisinier Imperial, .. 8vo Paris 1806, calf; Beauvilliers (A.) L’Art du Cuisinier, 2 vols. Paris 1816. Signed, on Vol. I, 2 hf. titles, & engd. titles, 9 fold. plts. recent full cloth. (5) €200 - €300 315. Cuisine: Careme (M. Antonin) Le Patissier Royal Parisien, 2 vols. 8vo Paris 1828. Second Edn., add. engd. title, fold. plts.; also Le Patissier Pittersque, 8vo Paris 1828, Third Edn., add. engd. title, 125 full page plts., cloth backed; Le Conservateur, Paris 1842, 5 plts. calf backed; & L’Art de la Cuisine Francais au XIX Siecle, 3 vols. Paris 1833. First Edn., add. engd. title, text illus., cloth backed. (7) €225 - €300 316. Lace & Needlework,: O’Ceirigh (N.) & Veronica Rowe, Limerick Lace - A Social History & Makers Manual, 1995; Hardship & High Living - Irish Women’s Lives 1808 - 1923, D. 2003, Signed Pres. Copy; Mitchel (Lillias) Irish Spinning Dyeing and Weaving, Dundalk 1978 Inscribed Pres. Copy, illus. & d.w.; Earnshaw P.) The Identification of Lace; Bain (I.) Celtic Knotwork, L. 1990; Blanchard (J.) Mealmesbury Lace, 4to L. 1990; & 4 others same subject. A lot. (1) Provenance : De Veres of Curragh Chase and O'Briens of Dromoland Castle. €70 - €100 317. O’Donoghue (John) Historical Memoir of the O’Brien’s, 8vo D. 1860. First Edn., hf. title, orig. cloth; O’Brien (Hon. Don) History of the O’Brien’s, L. 1949, d.w. Presentation Letter included; by same author, Miniatures in the XVIIIth & XIXth Centuries, 4to L. 1951. First Edn., Pres. Copy illus. d.w.; Touhill (B.M.) William Smith O’Brien, 1981, illus. d.w. (4) Provenance : De Veres of Curragh Chase and O'Briens of Dromoland Castle. €100 - €150 318. Rooney (Sally) Beautiful World, Where are You, 8vo L. 2021, Signed, blue boards, d.j.; Perry (Sarah) The Essex Serpent, 8vo L. 2016, Signed, black cloth, d.j.; Yanagihara (Hanya) A Little Life, thick 8vo, L. 2015, Signed, red cloth, d.j. (3) €100 - €150 319. Boyne (J.) The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, 8vo Oxford 2006, Signed, grey cloth & d.j. (together with paperback edition); Haddon (Mark) The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, 8vo, Oxford 2003, Signed, red cloth, d.j.; Toibin (Colm) House of Names, 8vo L. 2017, Signed, blue cloth, d.j. (4) €150 - €220 320. Pullman (Philip) Northern Lights, 4to, L. 2007, Signed Ltd. Edn., blue boards, d.j., and slipcase; Once Upon a Time in the North, sm. 8vo, Oxford 2008, Signed Limited Edition, (Author & Illustrator John Lawrence), pocket map at back, blue cloth, label, slipcase; Lyras Oxford, sm. 8vo Oxford 2003, Signed, illus. red cloth, label. (3) €250 - €320 321. Signed by Hilary Clinton Clinton (Hilary Rodham) Living History - Memoirs, 8vo N.Y 2003, Signed, illus., cloth & d.j. (1) €120 - €140 322. The Great Dune Trilogy Herbert (Frank) The Great Dune Trilogy, “Dune” “Dune Messiah,” and “Children of Dune,” thick 8vo L. 1979, red cloth, d.j. (1) €120 - €140 323. Martin (George R.R.) Fire and Blood, thick 8vo, N.Y 2018, Signed, illus., red and black boards, d.j; Tolkien (C.)ed. The Fall of Gondolin by J.R.R. Tolkien, 8vo, L. 2018, Signed by the illustrator Alan Lee, black cloth, d.j. (2 copies); Narn; Chin Hurin, The Tale of the Children of Hurin by J.R.R. Tolkien, 8vo L. 2007, Signed by the illustrator, Alan Lee, cloth and d.j. (4) €200 - €300 324. Signed by Author [Galbraith (Robert)] pseudo (J.K. Rowling) The Silkworm, A Cormoran Strike Novel, 8vo L. 2014, Signed, black cloth & d.j., (with gold card and envelope inserted); Rowling (J.K.) The Casual Vacancy, 8vo L. 2012, black cloth, d.j. (2) €300 - €400 325. Le Carre (John) A Legacy of Spies, 8vo L. 2017 Exclusive Signed Edition, black cloth & d.j.; Agent Running in the Field, 8vo L. 2019, Signed cloth & d.j.; Our Kind of Traitor, 8vo L. 2010, cloth & d.j., as a lot. (3) €250 - €320 315 322 319 323 321