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

92 IMPERFECTIONS NOT STATED Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 737. Cuala Press: A group of four attractive hand coloured Prints, to include: * Midir and King Eochy play a game of Chess; * The Stooping Angels, (Beatrice Glenavy); * The Christ Child, (Mary C. Yeats); * A Cradle Song, (B. Glenavy) as a lot. (4) €180 - €220 738. Co. Roscommon: Advertisement Poster, The Right Flag in the Right Place,.. and the Right Place to call for Suits, Caps and Ties, F. Connnolly and Co’s, Strokestown, (Style, Fit and Finish exceptionally good), illustrated with image of Irish House of Commons, as a Poster. (1) €150 - €200 739. Co. Roscommon: [High Court Order] Town of Strokestown, Valuable House Property and lands in Undermentioned Six Lots. Mr. Frank F. Maguire, Auctioneer (Public Auction at Courthouse, Strokestown 9.9.1927, Sale of Lands at Lisrayne & Killdalloge (6 lots), Solicitor Ernest W. Proud, broadside, Roscommon (Messenger) 1927, as a Poster, w.a.f. (1) €150 - €200 740. Sally Laverty, Irish Contemporary “The Blacksmith,” stained glass roundel, approx. 37cms (14½”). (1) €500 - €700 741. Sally Laverty, Irish Contemporary “The Piper,” stained glass mosaic, approx., 61cms x 44cms (24” x 17¼”). (1) €800 - €1000 742. Sally Laverty, Irish Contemporary “Three Diamonds, ” a group of three colourful micro mosaic stained glass Panels, with central diamond patterns, each approx. 41ccms x 41cm (16” x 16”). (3) €400 - €600 743. Sally Laverty, Irish Contemporary “The Spiral,” a large colourful micro mosaic stained glass Panel, with decorative turned serpent pattern, approx. 69cms x 69cms (27” x 27”). (1) €450 - €500 744. After Viktor Mikhailovich Vasnetsov (1848-1926) Menu for the Coronation Banquet of Emperor Nicholas II and his Consort Alexandra Feodorovna, on 14 May 1896 , Signed in Cyrillic and dated 1896 in the plate, chromolithograph printed in gold, silver and various colours, some staining and wear holes, - sheet: 89cms x 28cms (35" x 11"), framed. (1) €800 - €1000 745. Hinkson (Katharine Tynan) Two good ALs. on her headed paper, from Claremorris, Co. Mayo, dated Dec. 21 1916 and Christmas Eve 1917, to her friend May, asking for her prayers for ‘poor Toby’ [her son] ‘in the mountains of Macedonia’ [1916] and ‘fighting in Palestine’ [1917]. ‘I pray that Peace, which is on the horizon, I think, may arrive before there is a ‘Spring push’’. Also with news of her daughter Pamela, later a writer, and her other son Patrick, who ‘has the reputation of being the greatest talker in the Batt. .. an assiduous democrat. He can quote page after page of Connolly’s ‘Labour in Ireland;’. I think he will be a Labour leader one day.’ [In fact he became a journalist, a foreign correspondent for the Times]. Both letters signed with initials, K.T.H. As m/ss., w.a.f. (1) Katharine Tynan, born on a farm in Tallaght, was a friend of W.B. Yeats in their young days. She married a lawyer and writer, H.A. Hinkson, and lived in England after her marriage, but returned to Ireland about 1911, and came to Claremorris when her husband was appointed Resident Magistrate there. Letters from her are scarce. €160 - €220 746. A Joy and an Unspeakable Mercy’ Somerville (E.OE.) ALs. to Mrs. Holdsworth, 2 pp (single sheet), on her headed paper from Drishane House, Oct. 8 1942, thanking her for her most charming and sympathetic letter, ‘especially in your comprehension in what I have written about my continued collaboration with my dear Cousin. To have discovered, suddenly & quite unexpectedly, six dark months after she had left me, that she had not gone far away, & was still able to be with me in spirit, was indeeed what you say, a joy, and an unspeakable mercy.’With a good signature. As a m/ss, w.a.f. (1) After the death of her collaborator, Violet Martin [‘Martin Ross’], Somerville continued writing under their joint names, and maintained that she was in communication with her dead cousin. €160 - €220 737 740 744 741