RARE BOOK & COLLECTORS' SALE April 30th & May 1st 2025

121 info@fonsiemealy.ie 452 Portfolio: Mostly Irish interest - A good mixed collection of coloured and other prints, caricature portraits, many fromWeekly Freeman (some framed), other earlier black and white portraits, maps etc. As a coll., w.a.f. (1) €40-€60 453 Hawkey Classics: P. Virgilii Maronies Opera, Sm. 8vo Dublin (E. Typographia Academiae) 1745 With vignette of T.C.D. Printing House on title, in cont. Prize calf, with T.C.D. gilt stamp on both covers, & prize bookplate awarded to William Cavendish, upr. cover loose; also P. Terentii afri Comaediae, Dublin (E. Typographia Academiae) 1745, with engd. vignette on title, cont. mottled calf, T.C.D. Prize stamp on both covers. (2) €150-€200 454 [Sterne (Laurance)] A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy, by Mr. Yorick. 4 vols. in 2, 16mo Lond. (for T Bcket and P.A. de Hondt - S. Bladon) 1768-1769. Two hf. titles (Vols. I & II) Subscribers List, engd. coat of arms of Sterne on p. 38 Vol. II, recent full calf, blind fillet border, raised bands & mor. labels, now in cloth slipcase. (2) €200-€300 455A Heaney (Seamus) FieldWork, 8vo, L. (Faber & Faber) 1979, First Edn., cloth & d.j.; Station Island, 8vo, L. (F. & F.) 1984, First Edn., cloth & d.j.; Selected Poems 1965-1975, 8vo, L. (F. & F.) 1980, First Edn., cloth & d.j.; In their Element, 4to Belfast (Dorman & Sons) 1977, ptd. wrappers; From the Republic of Conscience, 8vo, D. 1985, Ltd. Edn., illustrated by John Behan, ptd. wrappers; The Makings of Music,... 8vo Liverpool 1978, First Edn.,ptd. wrappers; and a paperback of Seeing Things, as a lot. (7) €180-€220