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

52 IMPERFECTIONS NOT STATED info@fonsiemealy.ie fm 268 With Coloured Portraits Lodge (Edmund) Portraits of Illustrious Personages of the Court of Henry VIII, Engraved in Imitation of ... Hans Holbein. Lg. thick 4to L. (Wm. Bulmer & Co.) 1828. Published by John Chamberlaine. First Edn., list of ports., 82 full page port. plts. printed on pink & white paper, including ports. of Holbein & his Wife, & 2 small hd. cold. portraits of Henry & Charles Brandon, a.e.g., heavy well bound hf. crimson mor., profusely tooled gilt spine in panels, mor. label. V. good copy. (1) € 800 - 1200 269 Dryden (John) The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgies and Aeneis. Folio L. (Jacob Tonson) 1697. First Edn., engd. frontis, red & bl. title, list of subscribers, & 99 full page plts., some underlining in red pencil in text, some pages and plts. with corners cut away, without losing text, some damp stains, cont. panel calf, worn. As is. (1) € 200 - 300 270 Italian Travel: A lg. oblong folio Album of Postcards, some photos & other ephemera, collected on a trip to Italy in 1926, and with some m/ss notes added, full heavy mor. As an Album, w.a.f. (1) € 70 - 100 271 Evelyn (John) Silva: or, A Discourse of Forest- Trees, 2 vols. lg. 4to York 1786. New Edn., Engd. port. frontis and 42 engd. plts. cont. sprinkled calf, upr. cover Vol. I loose, mor. labels. (2) € 200 - 300 272 Binding: La Commission Europeene du Danbue et Son Oeuvres de 1856 a 1931, Lg. thick 4to Paris (Imprimerie Nationale) 1931. Lim. Edition 1200 Copies Only, illus. with photos., & numerous fold. cold. maps, & tables etc. in heavy hf. crushed royal blue mor. V. good. (1) € 200 - 300 273 Dorchester House: [Benson (Rob.)]ed. The Holford Collection, Dorchester House, With 200 illustrations from the Twelfth to the End of the 19th Century., 2 vols. folio Oxford (Uni. Press) 1927. Signed Lim. Edn. No. 366 of 400 Copies. Illus. thro.-out, full page etc., cont. hf. vellum. Good. (2) € 150 - 200