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

15 fonsiemealy.ie Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 52. Strickland (Agnes) Lives of the Queens of England, 12 vols. sm. 8vo L. 1844 - 48. Engd. port. frontis & vignette title, cont. hf. calf, mor. labels. (12) €150 - 200 53. Periodicals: Acta Regia: or, An Account of the Treaties, Letters and Instruments, Between the Monarchs of England and Foreign Powers, published in Rymer’s Foedera... . Trans. from French of Mr. Rapin and published by M. le Clerc. 2 vols. 8vo L. 1726. Published Monthly. Engd. portraits thro-out, cont. panel calf; The Anti-Jacobin or Weekly Examiner, 2 vols. roy 8vo L. 1799., cont. hf. calf, gilt décor. spines. B.P.s. (4) €130 - €180 54. Ascham (Roger) The Schoolmaster; or, A Plain and Perfect Way of teaching Children to Understand, Write and Speak The Latin Tongue, 8vo L. (... for Benj. Tooke..) 1711. Hf. title, [10], XIII, 212, engd. plt., 40pp & 4pp catalogue, cont. panel calf, mor. label; Nugent (T.) A NewMethod of learning with Facility the Latin Tongue, 2 vols. roy 8vo Lond. 1791. New Edn., sprinkled calf, lacks labels. (3) €200 - €300 55. Blackstone (Sir Wm.) Commentaries on the Laws of England, 4 vols. lg. 8vo L. 1791. Eleventh Edn., lacks port. frontis., cont. calf, mor. label. (4) €150 - €200 56. Religious interest: [Newman (J.H. Saint)] & others Lives of The English Saints, by various authors by Saint J.H. Newman, J.A. Froude, Mark Pattison & others of the house at Littlemore, 6 vols. sm. 8vo L. (James Toovey) 1844-45, approx. 17 parts, mostly with an engd. frontis after Pugin, etc., a.e.g., in fine full speckled calf, gilt tooled roll borders, profusely gilt spines in panels, mor. labels. B.P.’s Very good set. Scarce; Leighton (Robert) D.D. A Practical Commentary upon the First Epistle General of St. Peter, 2 vols. 12mo L. n.d. c. 1850, a.e.g. cont. full crimson mor. gilt; 1 other (9) €220 - €350 57. Kett (Rev. H.) The Flowers of Wit, or A Choice Collection of Bon Mots,.. 2 vols. 12mo L. 1814. Hf. titles, cont. mor. backed boards; The Encyclopaedia of Wit, 16mo L. n.d. New Edn., engd. vign. title, full cont. tan calf, fine gilt spine, by Bedford; Poole (J.) The Comic Miscellany, 8vo L. 1851. Engd. port. frontis, & plate by Phiz, fine hf. green mor.; Fun for the Million or, the Laughing Philosopher, ... Humorous Stories. thick sm. sq. 4to, L. 1835. New Edn., Engd. frontis., mor. backed boards; Hazlitt (W.C.)ed. New London Jest Book, L. 1871, cont. hf. mor. B.P.’s. (6) €200 - €300 58. Rapin - The History of England, as Well Ecclesiastical as Civil, by Mr. de Rapin Thoyras. Trans. & Edited by N. Tindal. Vols. 1 - XV, together 15 vols. 8vo L. 1726 - 1731. Engd. port. frontis, red & bl. titles, fold. maps & tables; with An Abridgement of the History of England, 3 vols. L. 1747. Port. frontis & copper plts; also The Continuation of Mr. Rapin’s History of England, .. 9 vols. 8vo L. 1758 - 1759. All uniform cont. sprinkled calf, gilt fillet borders, mor. labels, some lacking. As a set, w.a.f. (27) €200 - €300 59. Middleton (Conyers) The History of the Life of Marcus Tullius Circero, 3 vols. L. 1767, cont. full calf, raised bands, mor. labels; Stanhope (Geo.) Epictetus His Morals, with Simplicius His Comment. 8vo L. 1700. Second Edn., cont. panel calf, lack label. B.P.’s. (4) €100 - €150 60. Bindings: Sully (Duke of,) Memoirs, 6 vols. sm. 8vo L. 1763. Fourth, port. frontis fold. map; Taylor (Ed.) trans. Memoirs of Guy Joli, 3 vols. L.1775; [Hawksworth (J.)] The Adventurer, 4 vols. L. 1788. New Edn.; Duncombe - The Works of Horace in English Verse, 4 vols. L. 1767. Second Edn., engd. title, all cont. calf, mor. labels. B.P.’s. (17) €170 - €250 61. Southey (Robert) Specimens of the Later English Poets, with Preliminary Notices; 3 vols. L. (for Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme) 1807. First Edn., adverts. on verso of final leaf Vol. III, cont. hf. green mor.; Ellis (Geoge) Specimens of Early English Metrical Romances, 3 vols. L. 1805. Adverts on verso of last leaf Vol. III, cont. full calf. B.P.’s Good. (6) €200 - €300 62. Chapman (John) Eusebius: or The True Christian’s Defense Against a Late Book Entitul’d The Moral Philosopher, 2 vols. 8vo Cambridge 1739. First Edn., advert. leaf at end of Vol. II, sprinkled calf, raised bands, mor. labels. (2) €125 - €175 63. Gother (Rev. John) The Spiritual Works of ...., 16 vols. 8vo Newcastle n.d. c. 1790, cont. full calf, mor. labels, some worn. (16) €120 - €180 54 58