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

226 IMPERFECTIONS NOT STATED info@fonsiemealy.ie fm 1263 Dublin Printings: Bolingbroke (Ld. Viscount) A Letter to Sir WilliamWindham..., also some Re fl ection on the Present State of the Nation, 12mo D. 1760. Second Edn., recent boards; de Fontenelle (Ms.) Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds, 12mo D. 1761. 4 fold. plts., cont. calf, mor. label, v. good.; Leland (Thos.) A Dissertation on the Principles of Human Eloquence, 12mo D. 1765. Second Edn.; [Campbell (Archibold)] Lexiphanes, A Dialogue, Imitated from Lucian and suited to the present Times, 12mo D. 1774. Fourth Edn., cont. calf. (4) € 130 - 180 1264 Plays & Poetry: 1. Gay (John) Plays Written by John Gay... 12mo L. 1772. Engd. port. frontis cont. full calf, upr. cover loose; 2. Wycherley - Plays Written by Mr. WilliamWycherley, sm. 8vo L. 1731, disbound; 3. [Goodenough (R. Jocyln)] The Cottages, A Musical Entertainment, 8vo L. 1768. First Edn., 47pp; 4. Cibber (Colley) The Careless Husband. A Comedy, 12mo L. 1714. Fourth Edn., engd. frontis; 5. O’Keefe (John) The Wicklow Gold Mines; or, The Lads of the Hills, A Comic Opera. 12mo D. 1801. 36pp; Also, Overbury - The Miscellaneous Works in Verse and Prose of Sir Thomas Overbury, sm. 8vo L. 1756. Tenth Edn., some leaves loose, hf. mor.; [Byron (Ld.)] Don Juan, Centos IX, X, XI, 1 2mo L. 1823. First Edn., 4pp cat. at end, & with cont. m/ ss annots & comments, uncut, orig. boards. As a lot, w.a.f. (1) € 175 - 250 1265 Tracts & Pamphlets: Collection of Tracts Includes; 1. Ralling (J.) The Poor Man’s Spiritual Instructor, In a Letter from a Young Man to his Sister. Sm. 8vo L. 1780. Second Edn., engd. frontis, VI, 132pp; 2. An Antidote to Popery; or the Protestant’s Memory jogg’d in Season;.. By a Clergyman of the Church of England, sm. 8vo L. 1778. Fold. ptd. frontis; 3. The Christian Indeed; Described in a Letter from Gaifer on his Conversion to Christianity in England, to Aly-Ben- Hayton, his friend in Turkey, Sm. 8vo L. 1767, 22pp; & 2 others sim. 5 works in all, cont. calf; also Volume of later ditto, including 1. Leslie (Chas.) A Short and Easy Method with the Deists, sm. 8vo L. 1819, New Edn., 64pp; 2. Leslie (C.) The Truth of Christianity Demonstrated, in a Dialogue betwixt a Christian and a Deist, Sm. 8vo L. 1820, 76pp; 3. Horne (Rev. G.) A Letter to Adam Smith, L.L.D. On the Life and Death, and Philosophy of His Friend David Hume, Esq., L. 1820 16pp; & 7 other sim, 10 works in all, hf. calf, dam. As a coll., w.a.f. (2) € 200 - 300 1260 Jamieson (Alexander) Universal Science, or the Cabinet of Nature and Art, 2 vols. L. (G. &W.B. Whittaker) 1821, hf. title, text illus., contemp. full calf, gilt fi llet border, mor. labels; [Hand coloured illus.] Book of Common Prayer, 8vo Oxford (J. Baskett) 1716, red & bl. t.p., cold. port. frontis and additional cold. t.p., hd. cold. plts., contemp. full calf, gilt Greek key border, gilt decor. panel spine. (3) € 120 - 170 1261 Dublin Printings: [Hopkins (Wm.)] The Book of Bertram, or Ratham Priest and Monk of Corbey, 12mo D. (G. Grierson) 1753. List of subs., including the late Geo. Berkeley, Ld. Bishop of Cloyne; Boswell (James) An Account of Corsica, The Journal of a Tour to that Island; 12mo D. 1769, Fifth, port. frontis loose; Beattie (James) An Essay on the Nature and Immutability of Truth, in Opposition to Sophistry and Scepticism, 12mo D. 1773. Third; The Life of the late Earl of Chester fi eld: or, The Man of the World, 12mo D. 1774, all orig. calf, worn; also [Usher (James)] A Free Examination of the Common Methods employed to Prevent the Growth of Popery, 12mo D. 1774, later wrappers. As a lot. (5) € 180 - 250 1262 Fenelon (Francois de Solignac de la Motte) Les Avantures de Telemacque Fils U’Ulysse, 2 vols. sm. 8vo L. 1738. Engd. port. & engd. frontis + 24 engd. pls. after Picart & others, 2 L.S. (on loose ends), cont. calf, tooled gilt spines, mor. labels. (2) € 100 - 150