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

116 Imperfections Not Stated info@fonsiemealy.ie 836. Binding: Stobaeus (Johannes) Gnomologia Graecolatina: Hoc est Insigniores & uetustiores Septentiae Philosophorum, Poetarum, Oratorum & Historicorum, ex magno Anthologia Joannis Stobaeus excerptae, & in Locas supra bis centum digestae.... [Edited] Per Michaelem Neandrum Sorauiensem. 8vo Basilae (Ex Officina Jacobi Parci, sumptibus Joannis Operini..) 1557. 30, (2), 80, 316pp; Bound with, Luciani Samosateni Somnium seu Gallus, Dialogus Iucundissimus, In quo delira Scholae Pythagoricae de Metemphychosi,... Basle 1557, 83pp + colophon leaf. In fine cont. embossed pictorial calf, decor. with numerous heads & heads & shoulders of Saints, raised bands. V. good. Ex. Scarce. (1) €1000 - €1500 829. Lover (Samuel) Legends and Stories of Ireland,.... with Etchings by the Author. 12mo Dublin 1831. First Edn., hf. title, engd. frontis & 5 engd. plts.; [Carleton (Wm.)] Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry, 2 vols. in One, 12mo Dublin (Wm. Curry, Jun.) 1830. First Edn., 2 hf. titles, 2 engd. frontis & 4 engd. plts. Both uniform hf. green mor., gilt spines with shamrock motif, by Leighton, Brewer St. V. good. (2) €250 - €400 830. Elliot (Ebenezer) The Poetical Works of ..., 3 vols. Sm. 8vo London (B. Steill) 1844. Cont. hf. calf, raised bands, mor. labels. B.P.s. (3) €200 - €300 831. Scarce Irish Poetry Collection Laurence - Poetical Remains of French Laurence, D.C.L., M.P. and Richard Laurence, D.C.L., Archbishop of Cashel, Sm. 8vo Dublin 1872. Sole Edition, hf. title, 2 orig. port. photo frontis., errata leaf at end, some browning on loose ends, cont. full dark blue mor. dble gilt fillets, raised bands, with gilt line décor. Very Rare. (1) * Inscribed presentation copy form Dr. Henry Cotton to T. Gaisford. Cotton was an ecclesiastical historian Bibliographer, etc. His father-in-law was Richard Laurence, Archbishop of Cashel. Cotton was probably responsible for the publication of the above work, which has the bookplate of Thos. Gaisford. €300 - €400 832. Zenobius: Zenobiou epitome ton tarraiou kai didumou paroimion - Zenobii compendium ueterum prouerbiorum ex tarraeo Didymo collectum, opus luculentum & utile. Sm. 8vo Haganoae anno XXXV [1535] Lg. wd. cut initials, 149pp plus final leaf, with device on verso, later hf. calf. B.P. (1) €200 - €300 833. Hermogenes? - Progymnasmata, 8vo Florence, Impressum Florentiae in aedibus Philippi lunta Florentini Anno ab incarnatione 1515 mense Iulio Leone Decimo Pontifice. Lacks t.p., (46), (386)pp wd. cut device on verso of last leaf, later mottled calf, gilt borders, & spine, worn, w.a.f. B.P. (1) €150 - €200 834. ThreeWorks in One Terence - M. Terentii Varronis Pars LibrorumQuattour et Viginiti de Lingua Latina, M. Vertranius Maurus recensuit. 8vo London (Apud Haeredes Seb. Gryphii) 1563. title, with device lined in red, 330, (11) (92) with errata on verso of last leaf; Bound with, Josephi Scaligeri Iulii Caesaris filii coniectanea in M. Terentium Varronem de lingua Latina. Ad Nobiliss. & eruditiss. iuuenem Ludouicum Casteneam Rupidozeam, 8vo Paris (... Rob. Stephani typographi Regii) 1565. Wd. cut printers device on title, 4ff, 221pp; Bound with, Adriani Turnebi Commentarii et Emendationes in libros M. Varronis de lingua Latina, 8vo Paris (Andream Wechelum) 1566. Printers device on title, 8ff., 192pp. Together 3 works in one volume, later full diced calf, joints cracked. B.P. (1) € 450 - €750 835. Profusely Annotated by Thos. Gaisford Greek Testament: White (Joseph)Ed. Novum Testamentum Graece, Lectiones Variantes, Griesbachii Judico iis quas Textus Receptus... 2 vols. 8vo Oxford (Clarendon Press) 1807. Two hf. titles, cont. tan calf, triple gilt filet borders, gilt spines with mor. labels. B.P. (2) * Profusely annotated in black and red thro-out, with 14pp of notes by Gaisford tipped-in at front of Vol. I. €300 - €400 829 832 834 834