RARE BOOK, LITERATURE & COLLECTORS’ SALE May 30th & 31st

8 IMPERFECTIONS NOT STATED Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 1. Bindings: Carleton(Wm.) Traits and Stories of The Irish Peasantry, 2 vols. Lond. 1868. Engd. plts. after Phiz MacManus etc., hf. titles, attractive hf. mor. tooled gilt spines in panels, mor. labels, v. good; and another copy of same work in full prize mor. binding. (3) €150 - €200 2. Shaw (Bernard) The Plays of Bernard Shaw, 12 vols. sm. 8vo Lond. (Constable & Co.) 1929. All top edge gilt, orig. dark blue mor. tooled gilt spines, v. good. In orig. fold. box. (12) €120 - €180 3. Rare Cork Printing King (William) Archbishop of Dublin The State of the Protestants of Ireland Under the late King James’s Government, 8vo Cork (Phineas Bagnell and Comp.) 1768, First Cork Edn., marbled edge, hf. calf, marble boards, gilt lettered spine. Good Copy. (1) €200 - €300 4. Presentation Copy Conran (M.) The National Music of Ireland containing The History of the Irish Bards, The National Melodies, The Harp and other Musical Instruments of Erin, 8vo, D. (J. Duffy) 1846, First Edn., inscribed on t.p. ‘ Mrs. Segrave with M. Conran’s respect and Esteem, July 1846,’ also Signed on front pastedown, ‘ George Noble Plunkett,’ green embossed cloth, rebacked. (1) €200 - €300 5. [McCollum (Rev. Randall)] Sketches of the Highlands of Cavan and of Shirley Castle in Farney, taken during the Irish Famine, 8vo Belfast (J. Reed) 1856, First Edn., blind decor cloth; Anderson(Christopher) Historical Sketches of the Native Irish and their Descendants, 8vo Edin. (Oliver & Boyd) 1830, Second Edn., full calf, double fillet border, professional reback, mor. labels. (2) €150 - €220 6. Wicklow interest: O’Toole (John) The O’Tooles, Anciently Lords of Powerscourt (Feracualan), Fertire and Imale, With Some Notices of Feagh MacHugh O’Byrne, Chief of Clan-Ranelagh. Sm. 8vo Dublin n.d. First Edn, port. frontis attractive gilt green cloth; de Celtis (Emelobie) The Pale and the Septs: or, The Baron of Belgard and The Chiefs of Glenmalure, 8vo Dublin 1876. First Edn., orig. cloth. Both v. good. (2) €150 - €200 7. Illustrations of Lord Rosse’s Telescope Astronomy: Mitchel (O.M.) The Planetary and Stellar Worlds, 8vo Lond. n.d. Frontis & 15 plts.; with a later copy of same work, both frontis of Lord Rosse’s Telescope, both orig. cloth; Nichol (J.P.) The Phenomena and Order of the Solar System, 8vo Edin. 1838. First Edn., hf. title, 10 plts. incomplete, disbound; & 1 other vol. sim. As a lot, w.a.f. (4) Provenance: Birr Castle Estate. €100 - €150 1 4 3 5 7 6 SECTION 1: Lots 1 - 119