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

76 IMPERFECTIONS NOT STATED info@fonsiemealy.ie fm 406 Voiart (Mme Elise)trad. Le Robinson Suisse, 8vo Paris (Garnier Fréres) [1818] frontis & 12 plts. (complete), text illus., adverts at end, contemp. mor. backed buckram, gilt decor. panels and gilt text. (1) € 150 - 200 407 In Ornate Binding Holland (Clive) & Snowdon (Douglas)illus. Unknown Hampshire, 4to L. (J. Lane) 1926, cold. frontis, & plts., blue cloth bound in, profusely tooled gilt decorated binding and fl oral design with overlaid green and red mor. rosettes, desirable copy. (1) € 300 - 400 408 Yeats (W.B.) The Cutting of An Agate, 8vo L. (Mac Millan & Co.) 1919, First, hf. title, gilt decor. blue cloth, d.j.; Hone (J.)ed. J.B. Yeats - Letters to his Son W.B. Yeats, 8vo L. 1944, cloth; Kirby (S.)comp. The Yeats Country, 8vo, Dolmen 1962, cloth & d.j.; Mc Hugh (R.) Jack B. Yeats, A Centenary Gathering, 8vo D. (The Dolmen) 1971, ptd. wrappers; also some pamphlets and brochures relating to W.B. Yeats, Cuala Press etc., as a lot, w.a.f. (1) € 120 - 180 409 Tolkien (J.R.R.) The Lord of the Rings, 3 vols., L. (The Folio Society) 1977, illustrated by I. Grathmer and E. Fraser, gilt decor. boards in matching slipcase. Clean Set. (1) € 120 - 140 410 Russian Interest: De Vogue (Le Vicomte E.M.) trans. The Russian Novel, 8vo L. (Chapman & Hall) 1913, portrait frontis & illus., hf. calf, marble boards, mor. labels; Calderon (G.) Reminiscences of Tolstoy, 8vo L. (Chapman & Hall Ltd) 1914, port. frontis, numerous illus., hf. calf, marble boards, mor. labels; Dillon (E.J.) The Eclipse of Russia, 8vo L. (J.M. Dent) 1918, hf. calf, marble boards, mor. labels; Garnett (C.) trans. The Letter of Anton Pavlovitch Tchehov to Olga Leonardovna Knipper, 8vo L. (Chatto & Windus) 1926, frontis, leather backed marble boards; Zvegintzo ff (C.) The Reign of Rasputin, An Empire’s Collapse, 8vo L. (A.M. Philpot) 1927, frontis, leather backed marble boards, all clean and desirable copies. (5) € 250 - 350 411 Brabazon (Wallop) The Deep Sea and Coast Fisheries of Ireland, with Suggestions for the Working of a Fishing Company. 8vo D. 1848. First Edn., 21 engd. plts. (8 lg. fold.) 111pp. recent quarter calf, gilt lettered spine. (1) * Important work on Irish Fishing, written during the Famine. € 180 - 250