CHATSWORTH SUMMER FINE ART SALE May 28th & 29th 2024

139 Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 1197. A fine quality Middle Eastern Carpet, the central panel with cream ground and bouquet of flowers within a large blue ground with wide borders, approx. 488cms x 335cms (192” x 132”), as a fabric, w.a.f. (1) €400 - €500 1199. A fine quality Middle Eastern possibly Persian silk Carpet, the central platform with multiple floral panels inside a slim conforming border, with frill ends, approx. 381cms long x 274cms wide (150” x 108”). (1) €600 - €800 1200. Irish Books: A good collection of approx. 100 very clean, mostly modern Irish literature by or about J. Joyce, Flann O’Brien, W.B. Yeats, Sam. Beckett, J.P. Dunleavy, P. Kavanagh, Ulick O’Connor, James Plunkett, but also some Republican material on Michael Collins, Kevin Barry etc., some Limited editions, etc. A v. good lot, w.a.f. (1) €160 - €220 1201. Fine Leather Bound Volumes Bindings: Large collection of fine leather bound sets of bindings, & individual books, include: Gibbon (E.) The Roman Empire, 12 vols. 8vo Edin. 1832, uniform hf. calf, gilt spines; The Spectator, 8vols. roy 8vo Lond. 1789, in fine full tree calf, gilt borders & spines; The Essays of Michal de Montaigne, 3 vols. roy 8vo Lond. 1811, full calf; Pictures from Punch, 6vols. in 3, folio Lond. 1894, illus. etc., hf. mor.; Master Humphrey’s Clock, by Charles Dickens, 3 vols. sm. folio Lond. 1840 & Bleak House, Lond. 1853, illus. hf. mor.; Pope’s Works, 8 vols. sm. 8vo Lond. 1812, diced calf; Mason (W.) The Poems of Mr. Gray, 4 vols. York 1778, full calf; Robertson’s Works, 12 vols. Lond. 1822 diced calf; & others, together approx. 75 vols. in all. As a coll., w.a.f. (1) €250 - €350 1202. Modern Novels: A good collection of approx. 40 modern Novels, by Iris Murdoch, Agatha Christie, Dennis Wheatley, Daphne du Maurier, Len Deighton, John Masters, Hammond Innes, C.P. Snow, Morris West, Wm. Trevor & others, all in orig. dust jackets & v. clean. As a lot, w.a.f. (40) €150 - €180 1203. Books: Irish Literature, Synge, Kavanagh, etc., Theatre, some female biography, some legal interest and a few general interest, approx. 30 vols. modern hard backs. As a lot, w.a.f. (32) €50 - €80 1204. Hunting: Fitzpatrick (B.M.) Irish Sports & Sportsmen, 8vo Dublin 1878. covers all the different Packs of Hounds in Ireland, cloth dam; Neville (Geo.) Horses and Riding, Lond. 1877. Second Edn., frontis plts. & text illus. cloth, gilt; Bedford (P.) Thoughts Upon Hare and Fox Hunting, Dublin n.d. illus. fine full calf, ‘Mr. T. Milward, 1815,’; & Hillingdon Hall or The Cockney Squire, A Tale of Country Life, Lond. 1888, with fine Lond. cold. plts. cont. hf. mor., gilt spine. V. good copy. (17) Provenance: The Russell Family, Seafield, Co. Waterford. €100 - €150 1205. Francis (Dick) Odds Against, Lond. (M. Joseph) 1965; Bonecrack, Lond. 1971; Slay-Ride, L. 1973; Knock Down, Lond. 1974. Signed by Author; In the Frame, L. 1976; Risk, L. 1977; Banker, L. 1982; The Danger, L. 1983; Break In, L. 1985; Straight, L. 1989; Come to Grief, L. 1995. All First Edns., & orig. pict. d.w.’s; plus 3 others sim. (14) €120 - €140 1206. Illustrated Sporting interest: Bathurst (Earl) The Breeding of Foxhounds, 4to Lond. 1926. First Edn., illus. Signed Pres. Copy from author to Sir F. Villiers Forster; The Sport of Our Ancestors, 4to Lond. 1921 & With Horse and Hound, 4to Lond. 1911, Both with fine cold. plts. etc; & 2 other sim. V. good. (5) Provenance: The Russell Family, Seafield, Co. Waterford. €80 - €120 1207. Cork interest: O’Donoghue (F.) The Burning of Cork City, Cork 1978. Limited Edition; Petit (Dr. S.F.) This City of Cork 1700 - 1900, Cork 1977, d.w.; O’Sullivan (D.J.) The Cork School of Medicine, Cork 2007; O’Callaghan (A.) Cork’s St. Patrick’s Street, A History, 2010; Mc Namara (T.F.) Portrait of Cork, folio 1981; O’Tuama (L.) Where We Sported and Played - Jack Lynch, 2000; & others approx. 13 vols. As a lot, w.a.f. (1) €75 - €120 1208. Sex (Susan) & Sayers (Brendan) Irelands Wild Orchids, folio, Belfast (Nicholson & Bass) 2004, Signed Limited Edition, No. 561 (799) copies, coloured plts., cloth backed ptd. boards, matching slip case. (1) €250 - €320 1199 1201