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

77 Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 639. Broadside: R.D.S. - Farming Society of Irland - Under the Patronage of The Dublin Society, Right Hon. John Foster, President, c. 1810. A large printed Poster, advertising the various Premiums offered by the Society, approx. 39.5cms x 32cms (15½” x 12½”), printed by Wm. Sleater, unframed. Rare. (1) €150 - €200 640. Co. Louth: Singleton (J.R.) Sheriff County of Louth, South Division, Notice of Parliamentary Election.. in the Event of the Election, being contested, the Poll will take place on Friday 19th day of January 1906. Broadside Poster, Dundalk (Tempest) 1906. Scarce. (1) €150 - €200 641. Foul Play in Galway Election, 1833 Browne (Augustus), Manuscript Letter dated Galway, 18 Feb. 1833, to Martin J. Blake in London, enclosing affidavit of Laurence Scahill, slater, detailing instances of bribery and intimidation in the recent election. 5pp. The popular repealer John James Bodkin had been elected MP for Galway Town in 1831. However, he resigned at the dissolution of parliament on 3 Dec. 1832, denouncing the “niggardly”measures proposed for Ireland. The new parliament was elected under the terms of the Reform Act, by which Galway was now accorded two seats. In the ensuing campaign, these were bitterly contested between (on the one hand) two barristers, Andrew Henry Lynch and Lachlan MacLachlan, and (on the other) Martin Joseph Blake, the recipient of this letter. Lynch topped the poll, with MacLachlan coming in second. However, following these and other allegations, MacLachlan was unseated on petition and Blake was awarded his seat. (On the abolition of slavery in that year the defeated allies were no doubt comforted by the award of compensation for the loss of income on a slave plantation on which they held a mortgage.), as a m/ss. (1) €200 - €300 642. Co. Limerick: Speech of The Lord Emly [Tervoe, Co. Limerick] at the Unionist Meeting in Limerick, on Wednesday 22 March 1893, Published by the Catholic Unionist’s Association, 4to single page folded, 3pp., loose. Scarce. (1) €120 - €170 643. Renting of Rathmines Castle, 1843 Co. Dublin: Letter (3 pp) written by Jane Arthur of Sea Point, Blackrock, Co. Dublin, 14 February 1843, to Messrs Stewart and Kincaid, Leinster Street (agents for Lord Palmerston), re the letting of Rathmines Castle. Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, one of the great prime ministers of the Victorian era, inherited considerable estates in Ireland. Rathmines Castle was rented to the Arthur family, whose lease was due to expire shortly. In this letter, Jane Arthur, writing on behalf of her brother and sister, puts the case for renewing the lease, pointing to improvements that have been carried out and the potential for further development. As a m/ss., w.a.f. (1) €100 - €150 639 641 Langrishe (Sir Hercules) A highly important and detailed 8pp A.L.s. to Burke, discussing in detail the position of the Roman Catholics of Ireland, looking for his approval and support for his thoughts therein. It is written in a very clear hand, and dated Dublin Dec. 10, 1791. “From the moment in which I was first capable of forming an opinion on Civil Policy or moral Duty, I was struck with the imprudence and immorality of what we call our Popery Laws as a system of Jurisprudence, subversive of integrity, and as a scheme of government which, whilst by its severity it alienated the Body of the People, by its ill Policy forbad them to vest in the state any hostage for their Fidelity,” “ Whether it was or was not wise at the time to have made so broad an exclusion of the Catholic Body, this is not the reason to enquire. But the spirit of the Times, enlightened by the genius of enter prize and emancipated from the bonds of authority, has raised some difficulties on our way.” “ Innumerable publication breath those sentiments - and some of them have injuriously attributed them to the Catholic Body in General - I say injuriously, for such are neighter their sentiments, their hopes or their wishes; and I understand they are to have a general meeting here in a few Days, for the purpose of asserting and vindicating their real Principles...”I know very well that the respectable part of the Body are anxious to disclaim such doctrine and assert their own...” “ I have now, my Dear Burke, confidentially laid before you my private opinions, and faithfully related to you such transactions concerning this important subject as have fallen within my Information.” With approx. 1500 words written in a clear hand, in 1791, it achieved a response from Edmund Burke, in his published work, “Letter to Sir H. Langrishe, 1792”, advocating a gradual complete removal of the Catholic disabilities. There is a recent typescript of the contents of the above sold with this lot. Extremely important. Provenance: Purchased in 1959 from Sotheby’s by the Langrishe Family and by direct descent. €1000 - €1500 644. Highly Important ALs to Edmund Burke ‘Re Relief of Roman Catholics’