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

78 IMPERFECTIONS NOT STATED Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 645. Pamphlet: 1. Langrishe (Sir Hercules) The Speech of the Rt. Hon... on the Bill ‘To improve and amend the State of the Representation of the People in Parliament,’ ... House of Commons, July 19, 1793. 8vo Dublin 1793. First Edn., 46pp; 2. also by same author, Speech... on the Motion of the Rt. Hon. W.B. Ponsonby, in the House of Commons of Ireland,.. March 4, 1794. for a Parliamentary Reform, 8vo Lond. 1794. First Edn., 12pp + 4pp adverts. Both disbound, but good. Scarce. (1) €200 - €300 646. AWicklow Emigrant’s Poems Manuscript: A single sheet of good quality Notepaper , watermarked Ancient Irish Vellum, bearing two manuscript poems, unsigned, probably original, the first commencing ‘In London here the streets are grey, & grey the skies above / I wish I were in Ireland to see the skies I love ..’, and continuing ‘.. I dream I see the Wicklow hills by evening sunlight kissed / An’ every glen & valley there brimful of radiant mist ..’. The second poem, overleaf, describes a windy morning in Co. Wicklow, commencing ‘Last night the air was cold & still / No breeze was moving in Gleanndubh ..’ As a m/ss., w.a.f. (1) * The verse is competent, in a ballad style, and evidently written from personal experience; -hopefully someone may recognise the handwriting. €100 - €150 647 – See page 79 648. A Rare Irish Provincial ‘Coffin’ Handbill Co. Wexford: “ Death of the Very Reverend, Mr. Corrin, P.P. of Wexford which took place, on Saturday April the 4th 1835”, broadside, Wexford (T. Roche) 1835., the document outlines the story of his passing, attendees, the funeral including a chart illustration of the coffin and pallbearers, a list of the stewards, and an extract from the Wexford Freeman, approx. 41cms x 24cms (16” x 9½”) with ornate border mounted. Scarce. (1) €250 - €320 645 649. Elizabethan Foundation Charter of Donegal Town Co. Donegal: (Elizabethan 1st - Ballyshannon) Charter of Elizabeth I The Foundation of the Town of Ballyshannon Co. Donegal: Charter, in Latin on vellum, dated 5 December in the 45th year of Queen Elizabeth (1602), appointing Sir Henry Folyot Governor of Ballyshannon “in the countrie or countie of Farmanagh called Mac Gwyers countrie”. Ballyshannon (now in Co. Donegal) is strategically situated at the mouth of the Erne and played an important role in the wars of the 1590s against O’Neill and O’Donnell. Folliott, who had been active in the suppression of rebellion in Ulster, is here commissioned to develop a township at Ballyshannon “as well for the punishment and reformation of evell subiects as alsoe for the defence and safetie of our good subiects”. He later acquired extensive lands and salmon fisheries and in 1620 was rewarded with a peerage (it became extinct on the death of his grandson in 1716). Ballyshannon became a borough in 1613. This charter marks the foundation of the town and is an important document in the history of the 17th-century settlement of Ulster. As a m/ss, w.a.f. Unique, in custom made cloth presentation Clambox. (1) €2,000 - €3,000 648