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

106 Imperfections Not Stated info@fonsiemealy.ie 767. Scrap Album: An early 19th Century Scrap Album, mostly 1800 - 1830, extensive collection of varied items, including visiting cards, from all over the Continent & Britain, invitations to Balls, Exhibitions, to dine etc., numerous m/ss letters and notes. Some lottery tickets, some orig. sketches, concert programmes, ballad sheets, poster etc., and with most interesting contemporary newscutting thro-out, hundreds & hundreds of items. An unusual collection, as an Album, w.a.f. (1) * It appears the Album was assembled by Lady Elizabeth Fielding, who was the mother of Wm. Henry Fox Talbot, the pioneering photographer. €500 - €800 768. Album: A very good 19th Century Album of litho views, engravings etc., a few portraits, all of Continental interest, many part sets include Vues de la Suisse, etc., also several coloured examples, some attractive watercolours, also some earlier items of the masters, over 110 full page prints. As an album, w.a.f. V. good condition. (1) €400 - €600 769. English Poetry: Green (Matthew) The Spleen and Other Poems, 12mo L. 1796, full calf; others by C. Marlowe, Mark Akenside, & James Beattie; also Bownes (James) A Story without Names and Other Poems, 8vo L. (Ward, Lock & Tyler) n.d., orig. décor. cloth, gilt; Taylor (B.F.) Old Time Pictures and Sleaves of Rhyme, 8vo Chicago (S.C. Griggs) 1874, orig. cloth, gilt; together 8 vols. As a lot. (8) €120 - €170 770. The Jesuits: [Monpersan (Louis de)] La Politique des Jesuits, 12mo London 1688. First Edn.? Engd. add. title, 454pp orig. full vellum; also, de Ravignan (Fr. R.P.) De l’Esistence et de l’Institut des Jesuits Sm. 8vo Paris 1845. Fifth Edn., hf. title, cont. hf. mor. by Leighton, Brewer St., B.P. (2) €300 - €400 771. With Rules and Laws of Cricket Evans (T.) Publisher. The Sky Lark: Containing a new, elegant, and much more numerous collection of well chosen English Songs, Than any Book hitherto Published;... sq. 12mo Lond. (T. Evans) 1772. Engd. frontis., [6], B1 - Z8 (last leaf advert leaf ), cont. hf. calf, upr. cover & front loose blank detached, lacks labels, but a very good copy of this very scarce volume. B.P. (1) * Contains in addition to songs other items like ‘A Short Account of River and Pond Fish;’‘The Art of Swimming;’ ‘Toasts and Sentiments;’‘A List of Regular [Masonic] Lodges;’ and ‘Rules to be Observed by the Players of Cricket.’ €400 - €600 772. [Helps (Sir A.)] Friends in Council: A Series of Readings and Discourse thereon. 2 vols. 8v Lond. (Wm. Pickering) 1852. Hf. titles, a.e.g., cont. full calf, dble. gilt fillet borders, spine gilt in panels, mor. labels, by Leighton, Brewer St.; also Essays Written in the Intervals of Business, 8vo Lond. (Wm. Pickering) 1843. Third Edn., hf. title, t.e.g., calf, gilt spine, by Pickering, upr. cover loose. B.P.s. (3) €100 - €150 773. Cobett (William) Paper Against Gold; or, The History and Mystery of the Bank of England, of the Debt, of the Stocks... carried on by the means of Paper Money, Sm. 8vo L. 1828. First Edn. Thus, full cont. vellum, mor. label; also A Treatise on Cobbett’s Corn, 12mo Lond. 1828, 3 plts., title page soiled, cont. full mor. mor. label. (2) €200 - €300 771 767 768 770