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

110 Imperfections Not Stated info@fonsiemealy.ie 795. In Fine Contemporary Irish Bindings Almanacs, etc: Watson (Samuel) The Gentleman’s and Citizen’s Almanack, For the Years of Our Lord, 1770 & 1771, each Bound with Exhaw (John) The English Registry, For the Year of Our Lord, 1770 & 1772. Two Volumes, sm. 8vo, a.e.g. First volume in full crimson mor., typical tooled gilt roll border, spine profusely gilt in panels, & mor. date label; the second, in fine full crimson mor., lg. gilt tooled borders of interlaced drawer handles with tassels and dots, and with lion motif in centre of each cover, the spine profusely gilt with acorns, thistle in panels, mor. title label, and with lion motif in fourth panel. Both extremely good. (2) €600 - €800 797. Greek NewTestament: Tes Kaines Diathekes hapanta... Novum Jesu Christi Domini Nostri Testamentum. Geneva (e typographia joannis opisrini) 1553. Library stamp erased from title, wd. cut heads, a.e.g., cont. full vellum. Good. (1) €300 - €400 798. With the Creighton Stuart Arms on Cover Elsevir Press: Charron (Pierre) De la Sagesse, Trois Livres, 24mo Leiden 1646. First Elzevir Edition, one leaf of the ‘Explanation’ in fine manuscript, a.e.g., in full green mor. tooled gilt borders, tooled gilt spine and mor. label, with the arms of the Creighton Stuart family on both covers. B.P. V. good. (1) €200 - €300 799. Juvenilia : Edgeworth (Maria) The Parent’s Assistant; or, Stories for Children, 6 vols. 12mo Lond. 1815. New Edn., cont. tree calf, tooled gilt spines, mor. labels. B.P.’s. Very attractive set. (6) €250 - €350 800. Illustrations by George Cruikshank & others; Grimm (M.M.) German Popular Stories, 2 vols. in One, 12mo Lond. 1834. Two hf. titles, 2 engd. titles & plts., thro.- out, a.e.g.; Thomas (Jos.) Thomas’s Burlesque Drama, 12mo Lond. 1838. With 62 engraved designs, a.e.g. both uniform straight-grained tan calf, gilt fillets, mor. labels, by Leighton, Brewer St.; & 2 other attractive items. (5) €180 - €250 801. Bulwer Lytton (Ed. Ld. Lytton) Walpole or Every Man has His Price - A Comedy in Rhyme, In Three Acts. Sm. 4to Edin. & L. (Wm. Blackwood & Sons) 1869. First Edn., hf. title with adverts on verso, endpapers browned, a.e.g. full calf, dbl. gilt fillets, spine profusely gilt in panels, mor. label. V. good; also The Poetical and Dramatic Works of Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton, Bart, 5 vols. sm. 8vo L. 1852 - 1854., 5 hf. titles, 5 add. engd. titles, t.e.g., cont. hf. dark blue mor., gilt spines. Good B.P.s. (6) €200 - €300 795 798 800 801 797 796. Earl of Howth’s Copy Sedan Chairs: A List of the Proprietors of Licenses on Private Sedan Chairs, [-in Dublin] at 25 March 1787. 12mo [Dublin, 1787] Sole Edn., engd. frontis, fold. plan, plt. of engd. arms, view of Lying-in Hospital, Dublin, & 1 other engd. plan, cont. full calf, with mor. label on front cover, ‘Earl of Howth Licensed Chair Proprietor, No. 130’. Very Rare. (1) €700 - €1000