CHRISTMAS RARE BOOK & COLLECTORS’ SALE December 11th & 12th, 2024

109 Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 821. Ward (Marcus) & Co. Five Chromo- Lithographic Drawings Representing An Irish Ecclesiastical Bell, and the Several sides of the Jewelled Shrine in which it is Preserved. Folio Belfast (Marcus Ward) 1850. Sole Edn., colour printed title, 5 full page coloured litho plts. orig. green ptd. boards (worn), now in full green cloth. (1) €225 - €350 822. Limited Edition: Millais (J. Guille) British Deer and Their Horns, folio Lond. 1982. Lim. Edn. No. 91 of 250 Copies. Cold. frontis & other fine bl. & white plts. orig. cloth, gilt. V. good. (1) €75 - €125 824. Borholm (H.C.), Larsen (W.P.) & G. Skjerne, The Lures of the Bronze Age, An Archaeological, Technical and Musicological Investigation. Folio Copenhagen 1949, first Edn., 30plts. text illus., orig. pict. wrappers, later hf. mor. cloth box. V. good. Scarce. (1) €100 - €150 825. Blackburn (Mrs. Hugh) Birds Drawn from Nature, folio, Glasgow (James Maclehose) 1868, 2 parts, illustrated title pages, Part 1 (123 plts.) Part 2 (24-45) complete, hf. calf, cloth boards, raised bands, gilt lettering. Good copy. (1) €200 - €300 826. Young (Rob. M.) Belfast and the Province of Ulster in the 20th Century, lg. sq. folio Brighton 1909. New Contemporary Biographies. Cold. frontis & illus. & port. thro.-out, orig. mor. backed silk cloth, tooled gilt spine with shamrock & flowers. V. good. (1) €200 - €300 827. With large full page Coloured Plates Robinson (Wm.) Flora and Sylva, A Monthly Review for Lovers of Garden, Woodland, Trees or Flowers, Vol. I, No. 1 - Vol. III, No. 33. In 3 large 4to vols. Lond. 1903-1905. First Edn., With 66 full page cold. plts. tissue guards, orig. blue cloth. V. good set. (3) * Robinson was born in Ireland, in 1838, and studied at the National Botanic Gadens at Glasnevin. €375 - €450 828. Bennett (Douglas) Irish Georgian Silver, 4to Lond. 1972. First Edn. Signed by Author, d.w.; Farrell (M.J.) & Snaffles, Red Letter Days, lg. 4to Lond. 1933. First Edn., cold. plts. d.w.; Nelson & McCracken. The Brightest Jewel, folio Kilkenny 1987, illus. lacks d.w. (3) €180 - €250 823. With Fine Hand-Coloured Plates Tenore (V.) & Pasquale (G.A.) Atlante di Botanica Popolare, ossia Illustrazione di Piante Notevoli di Ogni Famiglia. 3vols. in 4, lg. folio, Naples 1872-76. Two cold. litho titles, & two printed, 428 full page plts of which 397 are hand coloured, in Italian hf. crimson mor. An extremely fine set. (4) €5500 - €7500 827 821