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

126 IMPERFECTIONS NOT STATED info@fonsiemealy.ie fm 697 She ffi eld (John, Lord) Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon, Esq., 3 vols. 8vo D. 1796. First Edn., silhouette frontis Vol. I & 2 hf. titles, cont. hf. calf, tooled gilt spines, mor. labels. (3) € 160 - 220 698 Martyn (Thos.)ed. Letters on the Elements of Botany, addressed to a Lady by the Celebrated J.J. Rousseau. 8vo L. 1794. Fourth, fold. table, hf. mor; [Jackson (Maria Eliz.)] Botanical Dialogues between Hortansia and Her Four Children, Charles, Harriet, Juliette and Henry. Designed for the Use of Schools. By a Lady. 8vo L. 1797. 11 engd. plts. cont. hf. calf. Both good. (2) € 120 - 180 699 Co. Wicklow Interest: Walsh (Rev. W.J.) Evidence Given in the Case of O’Kee ff e V. M’Donald at the Wicklow Summer Assizes 1875, 8vo D. (McGlashan & Gill) 1875, First, 71pps., contemp. hf. leather, buckram boards. Clean copy. Scarce. (1) € 120 - 150 700 Hamilton (Hugh) An Attempt to prove the Existence and Absolute Perfection of the Supreme Unoriginated Being, in a Demonstrative Manner, 8vo D. 1784. First Edn., Lacks front loose blank, otherwise v. good in orig. full calf. (1) * The author was later Bishop of Ossory. € 200 - 300 701 Lawson (John) Lectures concerning Oratory, Delivered in Trinity College, Dublin. 8vo D. 1760. Third cont. hf. calf, tooled gilt spine; Price (Uvedale) An Essay on the Picturesque, 8vo L. 1796. New Edn., title inscribed by “John Kearney,” cont. tree calf, v. good, mor. label. (2) € 130 - 180 702 Wexford Interest: Kirk (Rev. Francis J.) Some Notable Conversions in the County of Wexford, 12mo L. (Burns & Oates Ltd) 1901, First, 114pps., & 16pps of adverts at back, gilt lettered green cloth. (1) € 100 - 150