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

144 Imperfections Not Stated info@fonsiemealy.ie 958. For Private Circulation Only, Signed Presentation Vuilliamy (B.L.) A Portion of the Papers Relating to the Great Clock for the New Palace at Westminister, Printed by Order of the House of Lords, With Remarks. For Private Circulation Only. 4to Lond. (Wm. Clowes) 1848. 56pp orig. wrappers, paper label. Scarce. (1) * Signed Presentation Copy, and with copy of a circular letter, dated May 24, 1848, to Dean Gaisford. €250 - €350 959. Piranesi (Gio. Batista) Raccolta Delle Piu Belle Vedute Autiches di Roma, Disegnate, ed incise... Oblong folio Rome 1802. Letterpress title, plate with 2 port. medallions, 1 engd. plan, & 26 engd. plts. (include. 8 by Laura & one by Francisco), mostly heavy thick paper, all plates extremely clean, orig. stitched coloured floral wrappers, with signature & B.P. of Charles Fielding. V. good. V. Scarce posthumous collection of Roman Views. (1) €1200 - €1700 960. Lithographic Views: Gerard, Publisher, Brussels, Collection de Douze Vues de Waterloo, Oblong 4to Brussels c. 1850. Fold. plan of Battlefield, partly hand coloured & 12 litho views, some spotting, sewn, in orig. grey printed wrappers. (1) €180 - €250 Back on Shelves 961. Sporting Verse etc: Warburton (R.E. Egerton) Hunting Songs, sm. 8vo Lond. (Basil Montagu Pickering) 1873. Hf. title, vignette title, orig. cloth backed boards; also by same author, Poems Epigrams and Sonnets, 8vo Lond. (Pickering) 1877. Hf. title, mor. backed boards; Whyte - Melville (G.J.) Songs and Verses, sm. 8vo Lond. 1875. Fifth, fine decorated calf, stained to floral desing, profusely gilt spine in panels by Riviere; Cholmondeley - Pennell (H.) Modern Babylon and Other Poems, sm. 8vo Lond. (J.C. Hotten) [1864]. Now First Collected, hf. title, 16pp. Catalogue & other adverts at end, orig. cloth, gilt. All good. (4) €150 - €200 962. Fawcett (Henry) Manual of Political Economy, 8vo L. (Macmillan) 1869. Third Edn., hf. title, cont. fall sprinkled calf, gilt fillet borders, spine profusely gilt in panels, mor. label, by F. Bedford; [Helps (Sir A.)] The Claims of Labour, An Essay on The Duties of the Employers to the Employed. Sm. 8vo Lond. (W. Pickering) 1845. Second Edn., orig. sprinkled calf, for Wm. Pickering & Co., gilt spine, mor. label, upr. cover loose; Higgins (Mathew James) Essays on Social Subjects, 8vo Lond. 1875. First Edn., 2 orig. photo illus., t.e.g., some newscuttings tipped in, cont. hf. mor. B.P.’s. (3) * Higgins, the author of the third item was born at Benown Castle, Co. Meath. €220 - €350 963. Tuscan Language: Crudeli (T.) Rime e Prose del Dottor Tommaso Crudeli Toscano, 12mo Parigi (Parma) Presso Gio Claudio Molini, 1805. Hf. title, engd. port. frontis., uncut, orig. hf. vellum, mor. label; Poesie Toscane, Alla Santita di Nostro Signore Papa Clemente XII, Tributo di Venerazione, e Gratitudine della Citta di Cesena Per li decorosi, ed utili Privilegi della Santita sua ad essa restituiti. 8vo Padua (Giuseppe Comino) 1732. vignette title, full cont. vellum, tooled gilt spine mor. label; Corticelli (Salvatero) Regole ed Osservazioni della Lingua Toscana, 12mo Reggio (P. Fiaccador) 1826. Engd. frontis., cont. hf. vellum, tooled gilt spine, mor. label. All good. B.P.’s. (3) €160 - €200 964. Rare Collection of Popular Italian Poetry Italian Poetry: Recueil de poesies populaire italiennes, An important collection of approx. 90 chapbook type Italian poems, printed principally in Treviso, Lucca & Venice, c. 1787 - 1823, each approx. 12mo & of between 8pp & 26pp but mostly 8 - 12pp., & every title page with a quaint and crude woodcut illus., bound as one in 3 volumes, 12mo, in uniform early 19th Century mor. backed boards, tooled gilt spine in panels, mor. labels. B.P. of Thos. Gaisford. A very good collection, in fine condition. (3) €600 - €800 958 959 964