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

122 Imperfections Not Stated info@fonsiemealy.ie 880. Juvenalia: Walter Crane’s Toy Books, New Series, 4to Lond. (Geo. Routledge) n.d. Containing, Little Red Riding Hood; Blue Bears; The Forty Thieves; Chattering Jack; King Luckieboy’s Picture Book, Old Mother Hubard; Valentine & Orson; Jack and the Beanstalk; The Sleeping Beauty; & Cinderella, together 10 works bound as one, with orig. pict. boards, fine hf. crimson mor. V. clean set. (1) €200 - €300 881. De Stael (Madame) Oeuvres Completes de Madame la Baronne de Stael-Holstein, 2 vols. folio Paris (Firmin Didot Freres) 1838. Engd. port. frontis, cont. full vellum, tooled gilt spines, red & blue mor. labels. A good set. (2) €100 - €150 882. Anon. Herculanensium, Voluminum, Pars Prima [-Secunda] 2 vols. imp. 8vo Oxford (Clarendon Press) 1824 - 25. Approx. 288 litho pages by N. Whittock, uncut, orig. wrappers, paper labels. (2) €150 - €200 884. Editio Princeps of Parallel Lives Plutarch: Sapientissimi Plutarchi paralellum, Vitae Romanorum & GraecorumQuadraginta novem. Title in Greek and Latin. Large folio Florence (Filippo Giunta) 1517. Editio Princeps., 544ff., title page loose, text v. clean, later calf, spine lacking, front cover loose, needs rebinding. B.P. of Dean Gaisford. Greek text of Plutarch’s Lives of the Noble Greek and Romans, arranged in 23 pairs (but this edition contains 49 lives). Latin dedication to Marcello Virgilio Adriani, humanist scholar and chancellor of Florence, and certificate from Pope Leo X, dated 15th Feb. 1516. The Giunti family established themselves as printers in Florence in 1489. Filippo Giunta (1450 - 1517) set up a separate press from his brother Lucantonio; this may be the last work from his press?? (1) €600 - €900 885. In Fine Contemporary French Armorial Bindings Manuscripts: Recuel de tous les actes concernant les Ducs & des Grands d’Espagne. Depuis l’an 900 jusqu’en 1660, Vols. II & III only (ex. ?) Lg. 4to c. 327 and 391ff respectively. Bound in contemporary mottled calf, triple gilt fillet borders, profusely gilt spine in panels, mor. labels, with armorials on each cover. As manuscripts, w.a.f. The arms embossed on each cover are those of Gabriel Bernard, comte de Rieux (1687-1745), a member of the Parlement de Paris and from 1727 president of the Chambre des Comptes. In this capacity he presumably needed works such as these, reproducing the decrees associated with the peerage of France. In his fine pastel portrait by Maurice Quentin de la Tour, now in the Getty Center, Los Angeles, he is shown wearing his official robes, seated in his library; on the table beside him repose two volumes very similar in appearance to those now on offer. €400 - €700 885 880 882 883. Howth Castle Visitors Book: An oblong folio Album of Autographs, of Visitors to the Castle and to their other house, Offington in England, between 1905 and 1962, last entry dated 24th April. Approx. 220pp., together with m/ss notes of gratitude, poems, some newscuttings and photographs loosely inserted or tipped in. Attractive wooden binding the leather back, with tooled decoration, vine and leaves, and with orig. tie. As a m/ss, w.a.f. (1) €500 - €800