Fonsie Mealy's RARE BOOKS & COLLECTIBLES December 7th & 8th, 2021

75 Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 521. All First Editions Heaney (Seamus) Field Work, Lond. (Faber & Faber) 1979; Beowulf, Lond. (Faber & Faber) 1999; Human Chain, Lond. (Faber and Faber) 2010. All First Editions, cloth, & orig. d.w.’s. V. good. (3) €300 - €400 522. Heaney (Seamus) The Spirit Level, 8vo Lond. (Faber & Faber) 1996. First Edition, Signed by Author; also Opened Ground, Poems 1966-1996, Lond. (Faber & Faber) 1998. First Edn., both cloth & orig. d.w.’s. V. good. (2) €300 - €400 523. Periodical: The Yellow Book, An Illustrated Quarterly. Vols. 1 - XIII. [All Published] together 13 vols. 4to L. 1894 - 1897. With attractive illus. thro-out in orig. decorated yellow cloth, with designs by Aubrey Beardsley etc. As a periodical, w.a.f. Good set. (13) €450 - €700 524. Travel: Bowring (Sir John) The Philippine Islands, 8vo, L. (Smith, Elder & Co.) 1859, First Edn., frontis, plts. & text illus., green cloth, with gilt decoration, some staining. (1) €120 - €180 525. Blake (Robert) An Essay on the Structure and Formation of the Teeth in Man and various Animals, 8vo D. (Wm. Porter) 1801, First Edn., 9 fold. plts. (complete) contemp. hf. calf marble boards. (1) €180 - €220 526. [Campbell] A Philosophical Survey of the South of Ireland, in a Series of Letters to John Watkinson, M.D., 8vo Lond. 1777. First Edn., engd. fold. frontis & 5 engd. plts. (4 fold.) cont. full calf, mor. label, upr. cover detached. Clean Copy. (1) €160 - €240 527. American Declaration of Independence Annual Register: The XIX Volume of The Annual Register, Contains one of the First Printings outside of America, of The American Declaration of Independence, In Congress July 4th, 1776, on pp. 263-270. 8vo Lond. (J. Dodsley) 1777. Lacks front and end loose blanks, cont. full calf, raised bands, mor. label. V. Rare. (1) €200 - €300 528. Rutty (J.) An Essay Towards a Natural Experimental and Medicinal History of the Mineral Waters of Ireland, 8vo D. (J. Rutty) 1757, First Edn., dedit, list of subs., 6pps, later cloth; Ebbs (Jhn)comp. Pharmacopoeia Collegii Medicorum Regis et Reginae in Hibernia, 8vo D. (Hodges) 1826, First Edn., contemp. hf. calf, marble boards; [Grannard & Nash (Fras. J.)] The Characters Bye Laws and Ordinances of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, 8vo D. (J. Porter) 1851, First Edn., green buckram, gilt motif, as a lot, w.a.f. (3) €150 - €200 529. Russel (James) F.R.S. A Practical Essay on a Certain Disease in the Bones Termed Neurosis, 8vo Edin. (Neill & Co.) 1794, First Edn., 6 plts., original paperbacked boards. Ex. Library Copy. Scarce. (1) €180 - €220 530. Hillary (Wm.) Observations on the Changes of the Air and the Concomitant Epidemical Diseases in the Island of Barbadoes to which is added a Treatise on the Putrid Bilious Fever Commonly called the Yellow Fever, 8vo, L. (L. Hawes et al) 1766, Second, Ex. Libris Copy, full leather (front cover loose). Scarce. (1) €200 - €300 527 530 522 & detail 523 524