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

123 fonsiemealy.ie Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 886. de Boisgelin (Louis) Ancient and Modern Malta: ... A Full and Accurate Account of the Present State of the Islands of Malta and Goza, The History of the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem... 3 vols. in one (2 ptd. titles) 4to L. 1805. Lg. fold. plt. of Port of Malta & fold. key to the former, 3 lg. fold. tables & 21 engd. views, portraits, antiques etc., later mor. cloth boards. (1) €250 - €350 887. French Illustrations: Cham - L’Art d’Engraisser et de Maigrir a Volonte, Lg. folio Paris n.d. c. 1860. Illus. title, & 20 full page plts. all lithos., orig. decor. wrappers; Histoire de Mr. La Jaunisse, lg. oblong 8vo Paris (Chez Aubert) n.d. [c. 1870] Decor. title & 35 plts., partially hd. cold., wrappers; & 1 other cold. illustrated volume. As a lot, w.a.f. (3) €120 - €170 888. Leech (John) Pictures from Life and Character, 1st - 5th Series in 2 vols. oblong folio Lond. n.d., illus. thro.-out, cont. hf. green mor. V. good; du Maurier (Geo.) English Society at Home, folio Lond. 1880, 63 illus. text loose, orig. cloth; & 2 others sim. As a lot of prints. (5) €120 - €180 889. IllustratedWorks: Cruikshank (George) Scraps and Sketches, oblong folio Lond. (Geo. Cruikshank) 1828., 24 full page sketches, orig. ptd. wrappers, cloth backed; Seymour’s Sketches. The Book of Cockney Sports, Whims and Oddities, Oblong folio Lond. (J. Camden Hotten) n.d. 180 designs, cont. hf. mor. pict. sides; Doyle (Richard) The Foreign Tour of Messrs Brown Jones & Robinson, folio Lond. (Bradbury & Evans) 1855. First Edn., hf. title, decor. title & illus. thro.-out, orig. blue cloth, gilt; also by same author, Manners and Customs of ye Englysne, oblong folio Lond. (Bradbury 7 Evans) n.d. [1849], red & bl. title, & 40 illus. plts., orig. hf. mor., gilt decor. boards. A good lot. (4) €200 - €300 890. S. Gorin, c. 1840’s Watercolour Album: Mes Beaux Jours, 1847, A very good large oblong folio Album, with orig. watercolour title, and over 40 full page (or two to a page) drawings and watercolours, plus 4 leaves with multiple designs, mostly signed and with locations identified, in a full mor. binding. As a coll. of drawings, w.a.f. V. good. (1) €400 - €600 891. Flaxman Illustrations Dante - La Divina Comeodia di Dante Alighieri cioe l’Inferno, il Purgatorio, ed il Paradiso, Composta Giovanni Flaxman Scultore Inglese ed inciso da Tommaso Piroli Rom. Oblong folio Rome 1802. Title, & plates 38, 38, 1, 33. Together 111 full page outline plts., all v. clean, cont. hf. crimson mor., raised bands, spine gilt in panels. B.P. V. good copy. (1) €400 - €600 892. Stobaeus: Keras Amalthaias Joannou tou Stobaiou... Joannis Stobaei Sententiae ex thesaurus Graecorum delectae, quarum autores circiter ducentos & quinquaginta citat: et in Sermones siue Locos communes digeste A Conrado Gesnero Doctore Medico Tigurino in Latinum sermonem traductae, sic ut Latina Graecis e regione respondeant. Folio Basle. (Ex Officina Joannis Oporini, sumptibus Chris. Froschoveri) 1549, title with piece torn from fore-edge / not affecting text, wd. cut initials, annotated in margins in red & bl. through out, in cont. calf, rebacked, both paste-downs consists of leaves from a medieval musical manuscript, upr. cover detached. B.P. (1) * This Edition was edited by Swiss philologist Conrad Gessnar (1515 - 1565). This is the 2nd Edition (the first was published in Zurich in 1543); a Third appeared in Zurich in 1559. Thomas Gaisford produced a fresh edition in 4 volumes in 1822. €500 - 700 893. Engraved Plates: Landseer (Thos.) Characteristic Sketches of Animals, with descriptions ... by John Henry Barrow, folio Lond. 1832. Engd. frontis, add. engd. title (loose) & with 32 full page plts. plus 32 engd. vignette illus., some few browned, orig. cloth, spine dam. B.P. (1) €150 - €200 886 891 892 890