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30 IMPERFECTIONS NOT STATED Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 156. [Vallencey (Charles)]ed. Collectanea de Rebus Hibernicus, Vols. I - IV only, together 4 vols. 8vo Dublin (Thos. Ewing) 1770 - (Luke White) 1786. Together 14 Nos. in 4 vols., with 4 lg. fold.maps, 30 fold. & other engd. plates & 6 fold. tables, Vols. I - III, uniform, & Vol. IV, sim. cont. hf. calf. Scarce Set. (4) €400 - €600 157. Mountague (James) The Old Bailey Chronicle, Containing a Circumstantial Account of the Lives, Trials, and Confessions of the most Notorious Offenders .. in England, Scotland and Ireland,... 1770 - 1788, 4 vols. 8vo Lond. 1788, 4 vols. 8vo Lond. 1788., 38 engd. plts. (include frontis), 1 torn, & a few pages end of Vol. I torn with loss, cont. calf, worn. (4) €120 - €170 158. Americana: Birkbeck (Morris) Letters from Illinois, 8vo Philadelphia: Printed for the Author. Dublin Re-Printed for Thos. Larkin, 1818. First Dublin Edition, advert. slip tipped in at front, pp. XV, 112, uncut, orig. boards, paper label on spine. V. good copy. Scarce. (1) * This volume gives substantial details on emigration., conditions on the ground, & contains important information about economic and social conditions. (1) €220 - €350 159. Signed Presentation Copy Mahony Alfonso (G.) & Richard J.) Recollections of a Tour Through Europe, roy 8vo Chicago (Clarke-McElroy Publishing Co.) 1923. First Edn., title within decorated border, 3 portrait plts. & photo illus. thro.-out, orig. blue cloth, gilt lettered etc. Scarce. (1) * Signed Pres. copy to Rev. D. Mac Namara, April 1924. €180 - €250 160. With Hand-Coloured Plates Martyn (Thos.) Thirty-Eight Plates, with Explanations; Intended to Illustrate Linnaeus’s System of Vegetables, 8vo Lond. 1799., 38 hand cold. plts. (1 loose), uncut, orig. boards, spine dam., plts. v. clean. (1) €220 - €320 161. Boulger (D. Chas.) The Battle of the Boyne, roy 8vo Lond. 1911. Frontis & 9 full page ports., cloth; Wilde (W.R.) The Beauties of the Boyne, Dub. 1850, illus. soiled copy; MacAlister (R.A.S.) Tara A Pagan Sanctuary of Ancient Ireland, Lond. 1931. First Edn., orig. pict. cold. d.w.; & 1 other. (4) €80 - €120 162. Rare First Dublin Edition Arctic Travel: Hearne (Samuel) A Journey from Prince of Wales Fort in Hudson’s Bay, to the Northern Ocean , Undertaken By Order of the Hudson’s Bay Company, for the Discovery of Copper Mines, A North West Passage etc, in the Years 1769, 1770, 1771, & 1772. Thick 8vo Dublin (for J. Rice.. and J. Millikin) 1796. First Dublin Edition Lg. fold. engd. frontis plan map, (some dust staining lower edge) and 4 other fold. plans, with 4 fold. plts., pp. IV, preface [V] - X, contents [XI] - XXV, [XXVI], introd. [XXVII] - L. 1- 459. Uncut, orig. boards, (lacking blue papers) now in fine marbled green mor. backed box. Extremely Rare in this condition. Sabin 31181. (1) €1250 - €1750 156 158 160