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

107 fonsiemealy.ie Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 774. M.W.D.L.C. - Les Oracles Divertissans, ou L’On Trouve la decision des Questions les plus curieuses pour se rejouir dans les Compagnies, Avec un traite tres-recreatif des Couleur, aux armoires, aux livrees, & aux Faveurs; & la signification des Plantes, Fleurs, & Fruits. Sm. 8vo Gouda (G. de Hoeve)1649. First Edn., [10]ff., 71pp; Bound with, Traite Curieux et Recreatif des Couleurs,... Sm. 8vo Gouda 1649, 89pp., wd. cut decor., orig. vellum; [Fremaut (P.)] Sentences Remarquables & Actes heroiques des Martijrs qui des le temps de la Reformation, ont Souffert pour le nom de Jesus..... Sm. 8vo Embden (D. Henry) Amsterdam (Elzevier) 1660., 238pp., cont. full vellum; Aglione D’Asti, 12mo Turin 1628, lacks title page, some leaves closely shaved, orig. vellum, w.a.f. Together 3 vols., B.P.s. (3) €200 - €300 775. Inscribed Presentation Copy fromThomas Moore, Poet Moore (Thomas) The Epicurean, A Tale, 12mo L. 1827. Second Edn., pp. VIII, 332; Bound with, Odes upon Cash, Corn, Catholics, and Other Matters, 12mo L. 1828. First Edn. in Bk. Form, hf. title, Cont. hf. calf, paper label, joints cracked. B.P. of Charles Fielding. * Hf. title inscribed ‘ To Lady Elizabeth Fielding, with the best regards of the Little Unknown, Dec. 22nd, 1828, ’ Moore had used the pseudonym Thomas Little in a book of his poems published in 1801. Lady Eliz. Fox-Strangeways, daughter of the 2nd Earl of Ilchester, married in 1796, William Davenport Talbot and was the mother of pioneering photographer Wm. H. Fox Talbot of Lacock Abbey, Wiltshire. Talbot died in 1800, and in 1804 she married Rear-Admiral Charles Fielding, by whom she was the mother of Caroline (b. 1808) and Horatio (b. 1809). Thomas & Bessy Moore were neighbours and friends of the Talbots, and Moore requested Caroline to illustrate some of his works. A Fox Talbot photograph of 1844, perhaps the first photograph of an Irishman, features a group including Moore, with Horatia standing to his left. In 1850 Horatia married Thomas Gaisford of Offington, Sussex, but died in the following year shortly after the birth of their son Horace. €300 - €500 774 776. Rare Early Edition of Italian Herbal Anon: Herbolario Volgare: nel quale se dimostra conoscer le herbe et le sue vrtu: et il modo di operale: con molti altri simplici: di novo venute in luce; et di latino in volgore tradutte ... Sm. 8vo Venice (Gio Maria Palamides)1539. [6] 151, [1], [22], title printed in red & bl. with lg. wd. cut illus of Saints Cosma and Damian, with 151 wd. three quarter page illus. depicting plants, herbs, roots etc., also with full page wd. cut illus. on ff. 2a6 of Virgin Mary and Angel Gabriel, and with full page illus. on recto of final leaf with image of Christ the Lord, a.e.g., rebound, with good margins, by F. Bedford, stamped, of sprinkled calf, gilt tooled corner decoration and lined panels, spine gilt in panels, mor. labels. A very good example. (1) €3000 - €4000