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52 info@fonsiemealy.ie 180 Presentation Copy to Henri Gaidoz, Gaelic Scholar Campbell (J.F.)ed. Leabhar na Feinne, Vol. I Gaelic Texts, Heroic Gaelic Ballads collected in Scotland. Folio Lond. 1872. Sole Edition. With orig. letters, manuscript life of author, news cuttings etc. tipped in at front, & with bookplate of Gaidoz, later cloth. (1) €100-€150 181 Poor Law Union - Lunacy Inquiry Commission (Ireland) Report and Evidence. Folio Dublin (A. Thom) 1879. Fold. tables, 15 full page coloured plans, orig. blue wrappers, bound in modern boards. (1) €100-€150 182 Petrie (George) The Ecclesiastical Architecture of Ireland, 4to D. (Hodges & Smith) 1845, Vol. 1 (all published), text illus., blind Celtic design cloth binding. (1) €70-€100 183 Famous Cork Maritime Family Co. Cork Manuscript: Roberts (Capt. R.E.) of “Simla” Glenbrook, Passage West,” Folio Day-book for Cork boat- builder, for 1939. Contains letters to him, drafts of his replies, and notes. Orders range from yachts, and their accoutrements to punts and dinghies. Clients include C.W. Read, solicitor (re insurance claim for gangway accident on the S.S. Amarglin), Miss Hill (‘daughter of H. Hill, Architect, re yacht “Yodash”), A.J. Wolfe (yacht “Marion”), J.F. Quain of Ardmore, etc. etc., cloth. As a m/ ss., w.a.f. (1) * Capt. R.E. was a direct relative of Capt. R.R. Roberts of ‘The Sirius,’ the first steamship to cross the Atlantic entirely on steam. €150-€200