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64 info@fonsiemealy.ie 228 Co. Waterford: Smith (Charles) The ... State of the County and City of Waterford, Dublin 1774. Second Edn., port. frontis, lg. fold. map & 2 plts., orig. calf, rebacked; Downey (Ed.) The Story of Waterford, Waterford 1914. First Edn., Signed Presentation Copy, illus. cloth; Irish (Bill) Shipbuilding in Waterford, Bray 2001, First Edn., Signed; Colclough (B.) & O’Neill (W.) Waterford & Thereabouts, 4to Waterford 1993, illus. d.w.; Bonaparte-Wyse (Olga) The Issue of Bonaparte- Wyse, Waterford’s Imperial Relations. Waterford 2004, illus. d.w.; & 4 others sim. (9) €140-€180 229 Dolmen Press: Kinsella (Thos.) Selected Poems 1956-1968, D. 1973; Nightwalker & Other Poems, D. 1968; MacEntee (M.) A Heart Full of Thought, D. 1959. Lim. Edn. No. 81 of 100 Copies, Signed; Clarke (A.) Old Fashioned Pilgrimage & Other Poems, D. 1967; MacDonagh (D.) AWarning to Conquerors, D. 1968; Daly (Leo) James Joyce & The Mullingar Connection, D. 1975, all orig. d.w.’s; also Heaney (Seamus)ed. Soundings ‘72, Belfast 1972; & 2 other books. Ex. Library. (9) €130-€180 230 Engineering Pamphlets: 1. Instructions for Blasting Rock in the Works on the River Shannon, 8vo Dublin 1840, fold. plt.; 2. Manning (Rob.) On the Results of a Series of Observations on the Flow of Water off the Ground in the Woodburn District, near Carrickfergus, Ireland, L. 1866, plate; 3. Neville (Parke) On the Water Supply of the City of Dublin, 8vo Lond. 1874. plts.; & approx. 6 others sim. As a coll. w.a.f., cont. hf. mor. (1)
The late Fred Dixon’s copy, with his bookplate, ‘F.E. Dixon.’ €70-€100 231 Hardy (Francis) Memoirs of ... James Caulfield, Earl of Charlemont, 2 vols. Lond. 1812. Second Edn., orig. uncut boards; Curran and His Contemporaries, 1851; The Works of the Rt. Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan, 8vo Lond. 1872, calf, lacks spine; Lady Morgan’s Memoirs, 2 vols. Lond. 1863, cloth. (6) €75-€100