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

138 IMPERFECTIONS NOT STATED info@fonsiemealy.ie fm 769 With Coloured Plates Periodical: Les Sports Modernes, May 1905 - Dec. 1905 and Jan. 1906 - Dec. 1906, 2 vols. lg. 4to Paris 1905 - 1906. Profusely illustrated with full page coloured plts. etc. some after Cecil Aldin & others, orig. cloth, gilt. As a periodical, w.a.f. (2) * Covers every sport but particularly motor sport, aviation, horse racing, hunting, dog shows, fencing, tennis, yachting etc. etc. Some illus. of Lee Guinness in his Darracq car. (2) € 200 - 300 770 Photographs etc: An oblong folio Album of Japanese Photographs, colour tinted, c. 1890, 50 photographs in all, each titled and approx. 7 ½ ” x 10”, in orig. calf, binding dam. but photos good; together with Shanghai of To-day, intro. by F.L. Hawks Pott, folio Shanghai (Kelly & Walsh) 1930. Third, orig. mtd. photos full mor.; and Pictorial Chosen and Manchuria, folio Seoul. Chosen 1919. Compiled for Bank of Chosen, profusely illus. cloth. As a lot, w.a.f. (3) € 150 - 200 771 Co. Cork: Hodges (Rev. R.J.) & Pike (W.T.) Cork and County in the Twentieth Century - Contemporary Biographies, lg. 4to Brighton (W.T. Pike) 1911, cold. illus. frontis, text illus. throughout, full gilt decor green leather. Good copy. (1) € 200 - 300 772 Nonesuch Press: Plutarch - The Lives of the Noble Grecians & Romanes, edited by Thos. North. 5 vols. folio L. 1929. Lim. Edn. No. 1374 of 1550 Copies, engd. ports., uncut, orig. buckram. (5) € 200 - 300 773 With Signed Original Etching [Swift (Jonathan)] Gulliver (Lemuel) Travels into several remote Nations of the World, newly illustrated by Peter Stuart, L. (The Folio Society) 2011, Ltd. Edn. of 1000 Copies with Signed Etching, cold. frontis & 16 cold. plts. (complete) in attractive vellum backed decorative boards, gilt lettered spine, in matching clam box. (1) € 350 - 500 774 Walker (T. Larkins) The History and Antiquities of The Vicars Close, Wells, ...; The History and Antiquities of The Manor House and Church at Great Chal fi eld, Wiltshire, ...; The History and Antiquities of The Manor House, at South Wraxhall and The Church of St. Peter at Biddstone, Wiltshire: Forming Parts I - III of “Examples of Gothic Architecture,” after Pugin 3 vols. bound as one, lg. 4to L. 1836-1838. Hf. titles, plates throughout, cont. hf. green mor. (1) € 200 - 300