Fonsie Mealy's THE LIBRARY HOWTH CASTLE September 22nd & 23rd, 2021

102 Imperfections Not Stated info@fonsiemealy.ie 744. 250 Copies Only Lambarde (Wm.) Dictionarium Angliae Topographicum & Historicum, An Alphabetical Description of the Chief Places in England andWales, 4to Lond. 1730, 250 Copies Only Printed?. Engd. port. frontis red & bl. title, advert leaf at end, Cont. calf, joints cracked, worn spine. B.P. (1) €150 - €200 745. Binding: Valckenaer (Ludov. Casp.) Euripidis Tragoedia Hippolytus, quam, Latino carmine conversam a Georgio Ratallero. 4to Leyden (J. Luzac, & J. le Mair) 1768. Lacks front loose blanks?, fine engd. headpiece, text in Latin & Greek, cont. full vellum with gilt tooled panel decor & with large gilt armorial on each cover, mor. label. B.P. (1) €250 - €400 746. Moore (Stuart A.)Ed. Cartularium Monasterii Sancti Johannis Baptiste de Colecestria, 2 vols. lg. 4to Lond. (Chiswick Press) 1897. Two fold. frontis cold. illus. etc., uncut, opened, mor. backed boards. (2) * Thomas Gaisford’s copy form The Roxburghe Club. €120 - €180 747. [Sleidan] Le Courrayer (PierreFrancois) trans. Histoire de la Reformation ou Memoires de Jean Sleidman, Sur l’Etat de la Religion et de la Republique sous l’Empire de Charles Quint, 3 vols. 4to The Hague (Fred. Staatman) 1767 Three red & bl. titles, cont. calf backed boards. B.P.’s. (3) €160 - €260 748. Orrery: The Orrery Papers, Edited by the Countess of Cork and Orrery, 2 vols. Roy 8vo Lond. (Duckworth & Co.) 1903. First Edn., 2 frontis ports. & several others thro.-out, t.e.g., orig. gilt decor. blue buckram. V. good. (2) €220 - €350 749. de Beausobre (M.) Histoire Critique de Manichee et du Manicheisme, 2 vols. 4to Amsterdam (J. Fred. Bernard) 1734 - 1739. One red & bl. title with engd. vignette, cont. blind stamp vellum. B.P.’s. Good. (2) €200 - €300 750. Special Limited Edition, 50 Copies Only Genealogy: Adams (PercyW.L.) A History of the Douglas Family of Morton in Nithsdale (Dumfrieshire) and Fingland (Kirkutbrigebshire) and their Descendants, Thick 4to Bedford (Sidney Press) 1921. Frontis illus. fold. tables, views, portraits etc., uncut, orig. vellum backed cloth boards. Signed Lim. Edn. with A.L.s. from Author. V. good. (1) €200 - €300 751. Presentation Copy Monk (James Henry) The Life of Richard Bentley, D.D. Master of Trinity College, ... in the University of Cambridge, Lg. 4to Lond. 1830. First Edn., hf. title, engd. port. frontis, engd. illus. vignette, orig. cloth. (1) * Inscribed Presentation Copy, & with A.L.s. to Dean Gaisford, and another item loosely inserted. €150 - €200 752. Parkinson (John) Paradisi in Sole Paradisus Terrestris, Faithfully reprinted from the Edition of 1629. Tall folio Lond. (Methuen & Co.) 1904. Hf. title, & with reproduced orig. title & plts. thro-out, uncut, orig. oatmeal cloth backed blue boards, (some wear) paper label. (1) €200 - €300 753. “The Sportsman” Publisher: British Sports and Sportsmen - Racing and Coursing, 2 vols. lg. folio London 1911, also Shooting and Deerstalking, lg. folio London 1913, together 3 vols., All Limited Editions, lg. plts. & illus. thro.-out, orig. two-coloured buckram. (3) €130 - €180 754 – See page 103 755. Wood (Anthony A.) Athenae Oxonienses, An Exact History of the Writers and Bishops who have had their Education in the University of Oxford, New Edn., by Philip Bliss, 4 vols. lg. 4to Lond. 1813 - 1820. Hf. titles, 2 ports. loosely inserted. Cont. hf. calf. B.P.’s. (4) €200 - €300 756. Binding: [Hobbs (Thomas)] The History of Thucydides, folio London c. 1629. Lacks title page, 2 lg. fold. maps, damp stained thro.-out, in cont. full mor. binding, with gilt corner decorations & central gilt lozengers, spine gilt in panels, damp stained. B.P., w.a.f. (1) €400 - €600 757. Lenygon (Francis) Decoration in England from 1660 to 1770, and Furniture in England from 1660 to 1760, 2 vols. lg. folio Lond. (Batsford) 1914; also, Jourdain (M.) English Decoration and Furniture, 1500 - 1650 and 1760 - 1820, 2 vols. lg. folio Lond. (Batsford) 1920. all profusely illustrated, all uniform crimson cloth. V. good. (4) €300 - €400 749 750 756