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

53 info@fonsiemealy.ie 184 Box - Irish Biography - A very good lot, mostly hardback books, on Irish biography, history, lives etc., and others, mostly Irish interest, approx. 40 volumes. As a coll, w.a.f. (1) €70-€100 185 18th Century Legal Manuscript Co. Kerry: The answer of Daniel Mahony, dated 16 April 1737, to the bill of complaint of Dermod McCarthy regarding the tenure and rents of Claghanelynahane (Cloghanlinaghan), Co. Kerry, recording details of transactions from 4 May 1697, when the deponent’s father leased the premises to the complainant, and mentioning many local names. Contemporary manuscript copy, 26 pp. Folio, some damp damage & repairs. Bound in later cloth, with manuscript note dated Oct. 1910 by Rev. John Begley (historian of the diocese of Limerick) recounting the purchase of this and other manuscripts from a city dealer. As a manuscript, w.a.f. (1) €150-€200 186 Borholm (H.C.), Larsen (W.P.) & G. Skjerne, The Lures of the Bronze Age, An Archaeological, Technical and Musicological Investigation. Folio Copenhagen 1949 First Edn., 30plts. text illus., orig. pict. wrappers, later hf. mor. cloth box. V. good. Scarce. (1) €60-€100 187 Blackburn (Mrs. Hugh) Birds Drawn from Nature, folio, Glasgow (James Maclehose) 1868, 2 parts, illustrated title pages, Part 1 (123 plts.) Part 2 (24-45) complete, hf. calf, cloth boards, raised bands, gilt lettering. Good copy. (1) €140-€200