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

83 fonsiemealy.ie Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 Small Library 600. Shelf: 19th Century English Poetry, mostly some other literary items, and including some First Edns., etc. over 35 items, as a lot, w.a.f. (1) €80 - €120 601. Shelves, 17th, 18th & 19th Century Books, in Italian, Greek, German, Latin, some English items, in orig. leather bindings or boards, a large collection contained on 5 shelves, some attractive bindings, over 200 vols., some old sets worth examining, as a lot, w.a.f. Five shelves, including The Works of Rudyard Kipling. (1) €300 - €400 602. Sporting, Hunting, Racing etc: Mordaunt (Sir. Chas.) & Verney (Hon. & Rev. W.R.) Annals of the Warwickshire Hunt, 1795-1895, 2 vols roy 8vo Lond. 1896. First Edn., fine plts., fold. map, orig. gilt decor. cloth; Snaffles - ‘ I’ve Heard the Revelly,’ 4to Aldershot 1953. Fine cold. & other plts. & illus., cloth & orig. d.w.; Farrell and Snaffles, Red Letter Days, folio Lond. 1933, First Edn., cold. & other plts, cloth; & 27 others sim. A v. good lot, as a shelf, w.a.f. (1) €300 - €400 603. Sporting Volumes: Cricket, Polo, Golf, Billiards, Fox Hunting etc. Bromley- Davenport (W.) Sport, lg. 4to Lond. 1885. Lim. Edn. No. 79 of 250 Copies, illus. vellum backed; Scott (Peter) Wild Chorus, folio L. 1947; Harris (Rt. Hon. Lord) Lord’s & The M.C.C., roy 8vo Lond. 1914, plts. etc., mor. backed boards; Standing (Percy Cross) Cricket of To-day & Yesterday, 2 vols. folio Lond. n.d. c. 1900, profusely illustrated attractive pictorial gilt cloth; & others sim. A lot, w.a.f. (11) €150 - €250 604. Natural History: Lydekker (Richard) Ed. The Royal Natural History, 6 vols. roy 8vo Lond. 1893-94. With fine cold. plts., attractive pictorial cloth; others sim. (6) €150 - €200 605. Catholic Interest: Ward (Bernard) The Dawn of The Catholic Revival in England, 1781 - 1803, 2 vols. Lond. 1909, cloth; together with over 150 other volumes, including family missals, etc. etc., on 5 shelves. As a coll., w.a.f. (1) €200 - €300 606. Irish interest: A shelf of approx. 40 vols., varied interest, as a lot, w.a.f. (1) €100 - €150 607. Sporting & Animals: Remarks on the Condition of Hunters, & The Horse and the Hound , both by Nimrod, 1855 & 1863; Corballis (J.H.) Forty-Five Years of Sport, Lond. 1891; Notes on Shooting, Lond. 1915; & 25 others sim. A shelf, w.a.f. (1) €120 - €180 608. Raeiske (Jo. Jacobus) Theocrati Reliquiae utroque sermone cum Scholiis Graecis et Commentariis .. H. Stephani.. et Isaci Casauboni, 2 vols. in one, 4to Vienne & Leipzig 1765, diced calf; Wyttenbach (Dan.) Plutarchi liber de Sera Numinis Vindicta, 8vo Leyden 1772, fine calf, gilt borders, gilt spine, mor. label; Rover (Matt.) Musaei Grammatici de Herone et Leandro Carmen, 8vo Leyden (T. Haak) 1737 engd. frontis, vignette title, cont. calf; Maasvicius (Pencratius) Polyaeni Strategematum Libro Octo, 8vo Leyden 1691. Engd. frontis, cont. calf; Schneider (J. Gott.) Demetrii de Elocutione Liber, 8vo Altenburgi 1779, cont. calf. All good. (5) €220 - €350 609. Irish interest: O’Sullivan (M.D.) Old Galway, The History of a Norman Colony in Ireland, 8vo Cambridge 1942, First Edn.,; Joyce (P.W.) Irish Names of Places, 3 vols. D. n.d.; Praeger (R.L.) Natural History of Ireland, L. 1950; & The Botanist in Ireland, 1934; Webb (D.A.) An Irish Flora, Dundalk 1943, & others sim. (a lot) €160 - €220 609 & detail 602 & detail 607 608