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

98 Imperfections Not Stated info@fonsiemealy.ie 718. Potts (Robert) Euclid’s Elements of Geometry, 8vo Cambridge 1845. Inscribed Pres. Copy from Author to Rev. T. Gaisford, cloth; Greswell (Edw.) Joannis Miltoni Fabulae Samson Agonistes et Comus Graece, 8vo Oxford 1832. With A.L.s. from Author to Gaisford, tipped in; & 1 other Presentation Copy, with A.L.s., boards. (3) €200 - €300 719. Poetry etc: Watson (S. James) The Legend of the Roses: A Poem. Ravlan: A Drama , 8vo Toronto (Hunter Rose & Co.) 1876, cloth; Lindsay (Sir Coutts) Boadicea: A Tragedy, 8vo Lond. 1857. Presentation Copy, inscribed, cloth; Legends, Ballads, etc., sm. 4to Calcutta 1854, cloth; Sir Guy de Guy: A Stirring Romaunt, roy 8vo Lond. 1864. Illus. by Phiz, gilt pict. cloth; Freeland (Humphrey Wm.) The Fountain of Youth, Lond. 1867. Illus., cloth, gilt; Mc Crea (Geo. Gordon) The Man in the Iron Mask, A Poetical Romances, 8vo Melbourne (Geo. Robertson) 1873. First Edn., hf. title, gilt cloth. (6) €180 - €250 720. Knowles - The Dramatic Works of James Sheridan Knowles, 3 vols. Sm. 8vo Lond. 1841. First Edn., engd. port. frontis. Vol. I, attractive cont. hf. crimson mor. profusely gilt spine in panels. (3) €220 - €350 721. Children’s interest: Lang (Andrew) The Violet Fairy Book, Lond. 1901. First Edn., cold. frontis., & with cold. & bl. & white illus. thro-out, attractive gilt pictorial cloth; Rossetti (Christina) Sing-Song. A Nursery Rhyme Book, Lond. 1872. First Edn., illus., gilt pict. cloth; Rix (Herbert) Prince Pimpernel.. A Fairy Story, 4to Lond. 1909. First Edn.,, cold. & other illus., cold. pict. cloth; Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll, Lond & N. York 1872, illus. somewhat soiled, orig. cloth, worn. (4) €160 - €220 722. In Fine Bindings Philobiblon Society: Bohn (Henry G.) The Biography and Bibliography of Shakespeare, Large Paper Copy, [London c. 1864] Presented to T. Gaisford, member by the Society. Engd. port. frontis, & other plts., t.e.g., with some newscuttings tipped-in, in fine crushed dark green levant mor., finely tooled gilt spine in panels, mor. labels, by F. Bedford; also by same author, A Hand-Book of Proverbs, sm. 8vo L. 1855. In unusual & attractive full mor. with cold. floral type decor., gilt fillet and tooled borders, gilt spine, mor. label, by Leighton, Brewer St., B.P.’s Both v. good. (2) €300 - €400 723. Editio Princeps Pindar - Opera [Odes], 4to Rome (Zacharias Kallierges) 1515. title with wd. cut devices on title, of Benigno (caduceus, Kristeller 149) and Kallierges (double headed eagle, Kristeller 206) with printers device reprinted on final verso, 240 leaves includ. 2 blanks, some wd. cut initials, & ornaments, a few lines and letters printed in red, title page inscribed by T. Gaisford, with his B.P. and with another cont. owners signature, and with later ink stamp of ‘G.W. Ormerod B.N. Coll., on front loose blank, the top sixth of volume with damp stains (dam.), the title dam. & repaired on verso but not affecting text, early 18th Century panel calf, mor. labels. Ex. Rare. (1) €2000 - €3000 724. Thomas Magister. Thoma tou Magistrou Kat’Alphabeton, Onomaton Attikon Eklogai, ex dispositione Nicolai Blancardi... Collegit partim, digessitque Johannes Stephanus Bernard, 8vo Leyden (Apud P. Vander Eyk, & Cornelium de Pecker) 1757. Red & bl. title, cont. vellum. B.P. Good. (1) €250 - €350 718 721 722 723 724