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

177 fonsiemealy.ie fm All contents and images are subject to copyright 974 An unusual small scale Architectural three dimensional Diorama, of Castle Howard, North Elevation, approx. 12cms x 32cms (5” x 12 ½ ”), mounted and framed. (1) € 180 - 250 976 Ferns: A very large (approx. 29” x 21”) Album of Dried Specimens of Ferns, approx. 31 full pages with hundreds of specimens, v. large and small, a few loose and some extras, c. 1840’s, a few signed CBG, mostly identi fi ed with Latin names on small notes attached. There is also a manuscript note on verso of a printed fl yer dated Dublin 1842, for a meeting concerning the formation of a Botanical Society in Dublin, Signed F. Whitlas, Sec. pro. tem. In orig. hf. mor. album. As an Album, w.a.f. (1) € 600 - 800 975 Francis Nicholson, British (1753 - 1844) Watercolour, “Abbey at Sligo,” approx. 30cms x 41cms (12” x 16”) Exhibition Number 190, inscribed on the reverse, mounted and framed. (1) € 200 - 300 977 With fi ne Fore-Edge Paintings Bindings: Bible in Greek, 24mo Lond. (Bagster) 1820. A.e.g. full cont. blue mor., gilt fi llet & corner decorations in gilt. With attractive Fore-Edge Painting, “Landscape with birds in foreground, church in background.”Together with Bible in Hebrew, 24mo., gau ff ered gilt edges, in cont. full crimson mor. With fore-edge painting, Coastal Scene with Boat in foreground, Cottage beyond. As paintings, w.a.f. (2) € 300 - 400 978 With Fore-Edge Painting Binding: Scott (Sir W.) Rokeby, 12mo Edin. 1845. A.e.g. with attractive gilt tooled purple mor. (1) * With attractive hand painted watercolour view, “Edinburgh from Craigmillan”. € 200 - 300 979 Tolstoy (Leo) Letters to Friends on The Personal Christian Life, sm. 8vo Maldon, Essex (The Free Age Press) 1900. 40pp orig. ptd. wrappers; Lenin (N.) Lenin’s Thesis on Bourgeoisie Democracy and Proletarian Dictatorship, 8vo Glasgow (Socialist Labour Press) n.d. [c. 1910] 40pps plus adverts, orig. ptd. wrappers. Both scarce and good. (2) € 80 - 120