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

216 IMPERFECTIONS NOT STATED info@fonsiemealy.ie fm 1204 Algoud (Henri) Les Arts de la Soie - Le Velours, Atlas folio Paris n.d. hf. title & 50 plts. (ex. 52, lacking plates 19 & 45) some coloured, loose in orig. hf. cloth portfolio. As a coll. of plts. (1) € 150 - 200 1205 Batenham (G. &W.) & Musgrove (J.) Ancient Chester: A Series of Illustrations of the Streets of this Old City,... Lg. folio L. & Manchester 1880. Lim. Edn. (300), red & bl. title, & 29 engd. full page plts. (include. plan), title & fi rst 4 leaves loose, orig. cloth, joints cracked. (1) € 80 - 120 1206 Clouet - The Hundred French Portraits, Representing Personages of the Courts of Francis I, Henry II, and Francis II. Auto- lithographed from Originals at Castle Howard, Yorkshire by Lord Ronald Gower. 2 vols. lg. folio L. 1875. 300 full page plts. (include frontis), both in orig. gilt decor blue cloth, plts. loose form binding. (2) € 200 - 300 1201 Photographs: Algeria, N. Africa etc., lg. oblong folio Album containing approx. 82 full page Photographs, 23cms x 29cms (9” x 11 ½ ”) landscape views, interior scenes, group scenes and good portrait images, c. 1875-1890, and some smaller photos., cont. hf. mor.; also a Military Album of Photographs taken in India, principally, the fi rst is of an Detachment, 1st Gn. Bt. Royal Scots Fusiliers, dated Aberdeen, Aug. 1915, the last dated in Nasik [India] Sept. 1918. Approx. 250 photos in all, mostly small format, but some full page group photos., cont. hf. mor. As albums of photos, w.a.f. Good. (2) € 220 - 350 1202 Photographs: A very good large Album of Original Photographs of S. France, Spain & some of Egypt, etc . c. 1878-1879. The Album consists of approx. 47, full page photos c. 14” x 10”with Spanish views by J. Laurent, Madrid and some of the Egyptian photos by A. Beato, P. Savah etc. There are also approx. 38 hf. page photos & about 60 other smaller ditto. In an oblong folio album, hf. mor. broken binding. As a coll. of photos, w.a.f. (1) € 250 - 350 1203 Photographs: A good folio Album of Photographs, c. 1870 / 80, mostly Italian views,of Naples, Pompei, Milan, Venice, Florence, Palermo, Pisa, also N. Africa, Tunis etc., approx. 50 full page c. 28cms x 38cms (11” x 15”), 36 hf. page & 23 smaller ditto. In a heavy hf. green mor. Album. As a coll. of photos., w.a.f. (1) € 180 - 250