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

121 fonsiemealy.ie Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 874. Retzsch (Moritz) Goethe’s Faust, oblong folio Stuttgart 1836, 40 engd. outline plates; Von Schiller (F.) The Song of the Bell, oblong folio Lond. 1840, 43 outline plts., & 2 other vols. sim., all uniform hf. mor. gilt labels. B.P.s. As a lot, w.a.f. (4) €200 - €300 875. Paciaudio (Pauloo) Monumenta Peloponnesia, Commentariis Explicata, 2 vols. in one, Folio Rome (Ex. Typo. Palladis, Nicolai et Marci Palearini) 1761, 2 hf. titles, 2 full page engd. frontis, 2 red & bl. title with engd. vignettes, some full page plts., & with numerous engd. vignettes thro- out text, uncut, unopened, orig. hf. mor. worn on spine, top of spine dam., but good clean copy. B.P. (1) €500 - €700 876. With A.L.s from Dean Gaisford The English Bible Controversy: A bound Volume containing various items concerning the controversy over the printing of the Bible, cloth 4to volume containing the following: (1) The Book of Genesis, an exact reprint page for page of the Authorised Version published in the year MDCXI. Oxford University Press, 1832. (2) Thomas Curtis, Interleaved pages. The existing monopoly, an inadequate protection of the Authorised Version of Scripture. Four letters to ... the Bishop of London. London, 1833. (3) Letter from Dean Gaisford to the Rev. Dr Tournay, Peterborough, 12 August 1831, re Curtis's charge of errors in the printing of recent editions of the Bible (on which the university presses of Oxford and Cambridge held the monopoly), and re the archbishops' proposed ecclesiastical commission on the Bible. "In other times I should have advised that no notice should be taken of such a farrago of cant and sophistry. We must however now deal with it otherwise, and I shall be glad of an opportunity of sifting the matter to the bottom when we meet ..." As an Album, w.a.f. (1) €200 - €300 877. Travel Album: An impressive and comprehensive album recording the Travels to Hong Kong of T.J. Gaisford St. Lawrence in 1925. It is attractively laid out from start to finish with maps of travel, original photographs of sites and natives, cuttings etc., all captioned, seating arrangements at events, menus, some original letters, 60pp in all, oblong folio, cont. hf. crimson mor. As an Album, w.a.f. (1) €250 - €400 878. Dean Gaisford’s Copy Sturz (F. William)Ed . Etymologicum Graecae Linguae Gudianum et Alia Grammaticorum Scripta e Codicibus Manuscriptis nunc Primum Edita, Lg. 4to Leipizig (Apud Joa. Aug. Gottl. Weigel) 1818. Dean Gaisford’s interleaved copy with his copious notes in red ink, & signed on title. Cont. hf. calf, lacks label. Based on a m/ss in the Herzog August Bibliothek at Wolfenbűttel, this was the first printed edition of the complete text of the Etymologicum Gudianum, a Greek lexicon encyclopaedia compiled in Southern Italy during the tenth century. Not only is the Gudianum a rich and valuable source of citations from lost Greek works, it represents the high point of medieval encyclopaedia-writing and Greek scholarship. It was one of the main sources of the 12th-century Encyclopaedia Magnum, and Sturz's edition was a key reference work for Gaisford's edition of this work. Pasted at end: "Collatio Etymologici Fraiectini"; by C.M. [Cornelis Marinus] Francken, 7 pp, MS copy sent to Gaisford by Dr Gehle, 1845. €300 - €400 879. Bibliography of Ancient Greek Authors Manuscript: Gaisford (Dean Thos.) Syllabus librorum ex quibus petenda est rei typographiae amplior et accuratior notitia, Lg. 4to volume, approx. 150pp of notes in the Dean’s hand. it consists of Greek authors, listing in each case the published books in which their works appear. cont. hf. calf, spine worn. As a manuscript, w.a.f. (1) €400 - €600 875 876 877 878