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

151 fonsiemealy.ie Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 1021. English 18th Century Plays: Vol. I, 1. Hughes (John) The Siege of Damascus, A Tragedy, 12mo Lond. 1735. Engd. frontis, red & bl. title, (84)pp; 2. Fenton (E.) Mariamne. A Tragedy, 12mo Lond. 1735. Engd. frontis & red & bl. title; 3. Anon Abra-Mule: or Love and Empire. A Tragedy, 12mo Lond. 1735 engd. frontis & red & bl. title; 4. Shadwell (T.) Don John: or, The Libertine Destroy’d. A Tragedy, 12mo Lond. 1736. Engd. frontis, red & bl. title; & 1 other sim. together 5 works in one, cont. mottled calf, gilt spine, v. good; Vol. II , No. 1 [Home (John)] Douglas: A Tragedy, 8vo Lond. 1757, hf. title; 2. [Home (John)] Agis: A Tragedy, 8vo Lond. 1758; 3. [Brown (Dr.)] Athelstan, A Tragedy, 8vo Lond. 1756; 4. Dodsley (R.) Cleone. A Tragedy, 8vo Lond. 1759. Third Edn., engd. frontis red & bl. title with engd. vignettes, together 4 works in one, cont. mottled calf, worn; Vol. III No. 1, Whitehead (Wm.) Creiisa, Queen of Athens, A Tragedy, 8vo Lond. 1754; No. 2, [Crisp (Henry)] Virginia. A Tragedy 8vo Lond. 1754; & 2 other items sim., together 4 works in one vol., together 13 separate works in three volumes. As a collection, w.a.f. (3) €300 - €400 1022. Anon: Histoire des Conciles Generaux Commencant Par Le Premier Concile de Nice’e ... 4to Paris (Daniel Hortemels) 1692. First Edn., engd. add. title, red & bl. title with vignette, cont. hf. calf. B.P. Good. (1) €130 - €180 1023. Gaisforth St. Lawrence (M.) Hunting Journal, oblong 8vo c. 1914 - 1927 / 28, a manuscript journal, containing approx. 180pp in a clear hand, detailing the various hunt days with the Kildare’s, The Ward, & Meath Hunts, & some Dublin meets. There are also numerous related newscuttings, photos, etc. tipped in. In a full morocco binding, a.e.g., and with gilt lettering. As a m/ss, w.a.f. (1) * The different Meets include: among others Moyglare, Maynooth, Hamwood, Kilbride, Kilmoon, Cross Keys, Holywoodrath, Rathbeal, Ratoath, Kilmessan, Dunshaughlin, & Batterstown. €300 - €400 1024. Inscribed Presentation Copies Patrmore (Henry) Poems, sm. 4to Oxford (Herry Daniel) 1884. L.P. Copy, Lim. Edn. No. 96 of 125 Copies, outer wrapper, & title within wd. cut borders, wd.-cut heads, cont. hf. crushed dark blue levant mor. by Bedford. Inscribed on front loose blank, ‘Thomas Gaisford from Coventry Patmore.’With T. Gaisford B.P.; also Coventry (Coventry) The Unknown Eros, I - XLVI, sm. 4to L. 1878. Hf. title, inscribed, on front loose blank, ‘J. Gaisford Esq. form the Author,’ orig. cloth, paper label. Both good copies. (2) €250 - €350 1025. Le Roux (Philibert Joseph) Dictionnaire Comique, Satyrique Critique, Burlesque Lira & Proverbial, 2 vols. 8vo Amsterdam 1787. New Edn., hf. titles, red & bl. titles, orig. mottled calf, spine gilt panels, or. labels; Barbier (Antoine Alexandre) Dictionnaire des Ouvrages Anonymes et Pseudonyms, 2 vols. Paris 1806. Hf. titles, full calf, dble gilt fillet borders, spine finely gilt in panels, mor. labels. B.P.’s. V. good. (4) €150 - €200 1026. Children’s interest: Lewis (F.C.) Engraver, The World Turned Upside Down, In Twenty-Eight Plates. From Designs by Giuseppi Salviati. Sm. 4to Lond. 1822. First Eng. Edn., 28 plts, fine hf. crimson mor. gilt spine; Hately (T.L.)ed. The Illustrated Book of Nursery Rhymes and Songs with Music, 4to L. (Nelson & Sons) n.d. [1865] First Edn., frontis, decor. title & illus. thro-out, cont. hf. mor., John Bull and His Wonderful Lamp, A New Reading of an Old Tale. By Homunculus. 4to Lond. 1849. Hf. title & 6 litho plts. (include. frontis) orig. cloth, gilt. (3) €200 - €300 1027. Signed by George Cruikshank, Illustrator O’Regan (Wm.) Memoirs of the Legal, Literary and Political Life of the late Rt. Hon. John Philpot Curran, Once Master of the Rolls in Ireland. 8vo L. 1817. First Edn., hf. title, Signed on top of title page ‘Geo. Cruikshank 1817,’ a.e.g., cont. hf. crimson mor., tooled gilt spine. Good Copy. (1) €140 - €200 1028. Peck (Francis) Disiderata Curiosa; or, A Collection of Divers Scarce and Curious Pieces Relating Chiefly to Matters of English History. 2 vols. in one, lg. 4to Lond. 1779. New Edn. engd. port. frontis, list of subjs., 9 full page engd. plts. cont. hf. calf. B.P. Good. (1) €160 - €240 1023 1024 1027