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

75 fonsiemealy.ie fm All contents and images are subject to copyright 400 Yeats (Jack B.) illus. Broadside Characters, lg. 4to D. (Cuala Press) 1971, Limited Edn., No. 60 (300) copies, hand coloured plts., cloth, ptd. label; Broadsides A Collection of Old and New Songs 1935, D. (Cuala) 1971, illus, cloth backed boards, glassine cover; A Little Book of Drawings - Gathered from ‘A Broadside,’ 8vo, D. 1971, Limited No. 14 (200) hand coloured copies, blue cloth, ptd. label; MacGreevy (T.) Jack B. Yeats, 8vo D. (Three Candles) 1945, Special Edition, cloth backed boards; Yeats (J.B.) In Sand, 8vo D. (Dolmen) 1964, cloth & d.j., as a lot, w.a.f. (5) € 200 - 300 401 In Attractive Fine Binding Goldsmith (Oliver) The Traveller, 4to, L. (T. Carnan & F. Newbery Junior) 1770, First Edn., engd. title page, dedit (4pps) 23pps., in later full mor. with ornate gilt panel, and gilt lettered spine. Scarce. (1) € 400 - 600 402 Binding: Fitzgerald (Ed.)trans., Hanson (A.) & Cumming (B.)illus. The Rubayat of Omar Khayyam, 4to L. (G.G. Harrap & Co.) n.d., cold. frontis & 27 cold. plts., in full leather with peacock feather gilt design to front cover and spine. A desirable copy. (1) € 200 - 300 403 Watson (W.) & Bean (W.) Orchids: Their Culture and Management, thick 8vo, L. (L. Upcott Gill) 1890, First, hf. title, text illus., plates (some folding), recent mor. backed marble boards, gilt lettered label. Clean Copy. (1) € 180 - 220 404 Temple (John) The Irish Rebellion: or a History of the Beginnings and First Progress of the General Rebellion,... 4to D. (Aaron Rhames) 1724, First, engd. frontis, red & black title page, XVI, 245pps., contemp full calf, professionally rebacked, mor. label. (1) € 250 - 320 405 Binding & Coloured Plates: Wright (Thomas) Womankind in all Ages of Western Europe, 4to L. (Groombridge & Sons) 1869, First, cloth frontis, add. illus. t.p., dedit., text illus & 9 cold plts., in full gilt decor. mor. with triple fi llet border, raised band. Clean Copy. (1) € 180 - 220