NEWPORT HOUSE October 20th & 21st 2026

116 IMPERFECTIONS NOT STATED Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 800. Books (Office) - Irish interest, varied, 6 Shelves, approx. over 150 volumes, plus numbers of Irish Periodicals, a good lot. (1) €300 - €400 801. Books (Small Front Room) - A large collection of modern hardbacks, novels, biography, history, and some earlier volumes, approx. 125 vols. As a lot, contents of Open Bookcase. (1) €120 - €180 802. Collection of Leather Bindings Books: ( Back Hallway) Collins (Arthur) The Peerage of England, 8vols.plus ‘Supplement’, together 9 vols. 8vo Lond. 1779-1784, engraved Coats of Arms thro.-out, orig. full calf, tooled gilt spines, mor. labels; Johnson and Steevens - The Plays of William Shakespeare, Vols. 2 - 10, 8vo Lond. 1778, plus ‘Supplement,’ 2 vols. 8vo Lond. 1780, together 11 vols. cont. full calf, mor. labels; and approx. 85 other vols., include Blackwood’s Magazine, & others, an attractive lot, all leather bound. (1) €250 - €400 803. Genealogy etc: Kelly’s Handbook of the Titled Landed Gentry; Debretts, Who’s Who; & Dictionaries etc., 12 lg. vols. As a lot, w.a.f. (1) €70 - €100 804. Lilford (Lord) Notes on the Birds of Northamptonshire and Neighbourhood, 2 vols. roy 8vo L. 1895. First Edn., 1 frontis & lg. fold. linen backed map, & numerous illus. & plts. by A. Thornburn and G.E. Lodge, t.e.g., fine cont. hf. mor. V. good set. (2) €80 - €130 805. Taxidermy: Ward (Rowland) The Sportsman’s Handbook to Practical Collecting and Preserving Trophies, 8vo Lond. 1906. Illus. thro.-out, orig. full calf, worn. (1) €100 - €150 806. Dolmen Press: Ussher (Arland) An Alphabet of Aphorisms, 8vo Dublin 1953. Illus. cuts by Michael Morrow, orig. decor. boards, and pict. d.w. (torn). (1) * Twelfth book from the Dolmen Press. €100 - €150 808. Dublin Street Illustrated Shaw (Henry) The Dublin Pictorial Guide and Directory of 1850, roy 8vo Belfast 1988. With illustrated sketches of the streets, advertisements etc., cloth and pict. d.w. (1) €80 - €120 809. Roads of Ireland Taylor (G.) & Skinner (A.) Maps of the Roads of Ireland, roy 8vo Shannon (I.U.P.) 1969. Lg. fold. map of Ireland, & 289 maps of roads, orig. cloth. (1) €100 - €150 810. O’Crohan (Tomas) The Islandman, D. 1984, frontis, cloth; also An t-Oileanach, Dublin 1973, illus. cloth & d.w.; Ni Chriagain (Mairin) Sean - Eoin, D. 1974, Illustrated by Jack B. Yeats, pict. d.w. (3 €80 - €120 802 807. Adam Buck, Irish (1750-1833) "The Infant Roscius, Master William Henry West Betty," watercolour, depicting a young boy standing on a landscape in acting pose, with a city in the distance, approx. 31cms x 25cms (12" x 10"), also a coloured Print published by Edward Orme (London Jan. 1st 1805) of "The Young Roscius in the Character of Douglas," approx. 30cms x 24cms (12" x 9½"), both framed; Harley (G.D.) An Authentic Biographical Sketch of the Life, Education and Personal Character of W.H.W. Betty, The Celebrated Young Rosicus , 8vo L. (T. Gillet 1804) First, portrait frontis, hf. calf marble boards. (3) Note: Illustrated in The Dictionary of Watercolour Artists up to 1920 , by H.L. Mallalieu. €2,000 - €3,000