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

16 IMPERFECTIONS NOT STATED Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 82. Cescinsky (Herbert) English Furniture of the Eighteenth Century, 3 vols. folio Lond. (Geo. Routledge & Sons) n.d. Hf. titles, frontis & numerous plts. & text illus, cont. hf. mor. strongly bound, very good copy. (3) €150 - €300 83. Fishing Flies: Mann (Chris) & Gillespie (R.) Shrimp & Spey Flies for Salmon and Skealhead, Folio Ludlow 2001; also Featherwing & Hackle Flies for Salmon, folio Ludlow 2006; Bates (J.D.) The Art of the Atlantic Salmon Fly, folio Shrewsbury 1990; Wakeford (Jacqueline) Flytying Techniques - A Full Colour Guide, Lond. 1988; and Frodin (M.) Classic Salmon Flies - History and Patterns, folio Gothenburg 1991, all fine cold. plts. & illus. d.w.’s. (5) €80 - €120 81. Rare First Edition of a ClassicWork [Stafford (Thos.)] Pacata Hibernia, Ireland Appeased and Reduced. Or, A Historie of the Late Warres of Ireland,.. Folio Lond. (Aug. Mathewes for Robert Milbourne) 1633. First Edn., Two engd. portraits (re-mounted), title re-backed, lg. fold. map of Munster, (later issue) & 16 other engd. maps (some dble. page & some fold.) some stains or small repairs, in fine 19th Century full calf, blind tooled panel & decoration, rebacked with orig. spine laid down. Good copy.(1) €1500 - €2000 84. With Hand Coloured Illustrations Arctic Interest : Facsimile of the Illustrated Arctic News, Published on Board H.M.S. Resolute: Captn. Horatio T. Austin, C.B. in Search of the Expedition under Sir John Franklin... Dedicated... by their Lordships Very Obedient Servants, Lt. Sherard Osborne, & Mr. Geo. F. McDougall, Editors. Large folio London (Ackermann & Co.) 1852. Title with hd. cold. vignette, one full page hand-cold. illus., numerous lithographic illustrations and some hand coloured (4), 57pp folio some fold. marks at corners etc. (2 sm. pieces of corners lacking no text loss), orig. gilt stamped blue cloth, some stains. (1) €2000 - €3000