Fonsie Mealy Auctioneers Rare Books & Collectors' Sale December 9th & 10th, 2020

100 IMPERFECTIONS NOT STATED info@fonsiemealy.ie fm 544 Box: Collection of odd Volumes of late 18th Century and early 19th Century Irish Magazines, include Hibernian Magazine, Sentimental Magazine, etc. some with engraved plts., some cold. fashion prints etc. As a box lot, w.a.f. (1) € 80 - 120 545 Box, English Literature, Novels etc: Rider Haggard (H.) Ayesha - The Return of She, 8vo L. 1905. First Edn., frontis & plts. hf. title, orig. blue cloth, with gilt decor.; Llewellyn (R.) Mr. Hamish Gleave, L. 1956. First Edn., d.w.; Walpole (H.) Judith Paris, roy 8vo L. 1931. Signed Lim. Edn. of 350 Large Paper Copies, unopened, cloth backed boards, d.w.; Belchin (Nigel) The Borgia Testament, L. 1948. First Edn., d.w.; & 15 others, as a box lot. (1) € 120 - 170 546 Attractive Gilt Decorated Cloth Bindings Box: Illustrated Volumes: Thompson (Hugh) illus. Tales of The Canterbury Pilgrims, L. 1904; Somerville (W.) The Chase, 4to L. 1896; Dobson (A.) Tales fromMaria Edgeworth, L. 1903; & 5 others illustrated by Hugh Thompson; also books illustrated by Chas. E. Brock; Arthur Rackham; R. Caldecott; Arthur Layard; Joseph Pennell; J.L. Kipling; Chris Hammond etc., together 20 vol. all cloth bindings attractively decorated and in fi ne condition. As a box lot. (1) € 200 - 300 541 Box: Dublin Almanacs A collection of Dublin Almanacs, Watson 1773, 1778, 1782, 1785, 1794, 1827, Treble Almanacs, 1805, 1812, & 1829 and Post O ffi ce Annual Directory for 1845 & 1846. Together 11 vols. Sm. 8vo D. 1773 - 1846, varying condition; also A New Disquisition Philosophical and Political concerning The Society of the Jesuits, 8vo L. n.d. boards. As a box lot, w.a.f. (1) € 300 - 400 542 Box: Berkeley (George) A collection of over 30 modern volumes on Berkeley, but including a few on Toland, Francis Hutcheson, Peter Brown & Wm. Molyneux, many presentation copies to Prof. Berman, and some with orig. A.L.s. from authors. As a box lot, w.a.f. (1) € 200 - 300 543 Attractive Bindings: Warburton ed. The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq., 10 vols. 12mo L. 1757. Engd. frontis & plts. red & bl. titles, orig. mottled calf; Carlyle (Thos.) The French Revolution, 3 vols. L. 1842. Second, full calf by White; Bentley’s Miscellany, Vols. I - IV, 4 vols. L. 1837 - 38, engd. plts. hf. mor.; Ainsworth (W. Harrison) Jack Sheppard, A Romance, 8vo L. 1854. Fist Edn., engd. plts., attractive hf. green mor.; Walton (O.) & Cottton (Chas.) The Complete Angler, 2 vols. 20mo Chiswick 1826, in block tooled crimson mor.; Ray (J.) English Proverbs, L. 1818, hf. mor.; & many others in fi ne tooled mor., attractive tree calf, mostly English, some French, mostly poetry but some novels, in all approx. 80 vols .A very attractive lot, in 2 boxes. As bindings, w.a.f. (2) € 400 - 500