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58 IMPERFECTIONS NOT STATED Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 496. Engraved Plates: Allom (T.) &Wright (G.N.) China, in a Series of Views Displaying The Scenery, Architecture and Social Habits ..., 4 vols. 4to Lond. (Fisher & Co.) n.d. 4 add engd. vignette titles & 126 engd. plts. a.e.g., orig. gilt decorated pictorial cloth. Clean. (4) €500 - €700 497. Australia: Booth (Edwin Carton) Australia, 2 vols in 3, lg. 4to Lond. (Virtue & Co.) n.d. (c. 1870), engd. title, cold. maps, & engd. plts. by Samuel Prout, all v. clean, full dark blue mor.; also Walsh (Garnet) Victoria in 1880, folio Melbourne (Geo. Robertson) 1880. First Edn., full page plts. & text illus. thro.-out, orig. pict. gilt cloth, clean copy. (4) €200 - €300 498. Pennant (Thomas) British Zoology, Vols. I & II, Quadrupeds & Birds, & Vol III, Reptiles & Fish, together 3 vols. (ex 4) 4to Warrington (Wm. Eyres for B. White at Horace’s Head) 1776. Fourth Edn., 190 engd. plts., recent hf. calf, raised bands, marble sides. V. clean attractive copy. (3) €225 - €350 499. 1798: Chart (D.A.) The Drennan Letters, roy 8vo Belfast 1931. First Edn., port. & illus. cloth; Elliott (Marianne) Wolfe Tone Prophet of Irish Independence, Yale Uni Press 1989, illus. d.w.; Agnew (Jean) Luddy (Maria) The Drennan-McTier Letters, 1776-1819, 3 vols. Dublin (I.M.C.) 1998-1999, illus. paperback; & 5 others, same subject. (10) €150 - €200 500. Americana: Owen (D. Dale) Second Report of a Geological Reconnoissance of the Middle and Southern Counties of Arkansas, sm. folio Philadelphia 1860. First Edn., lg. fold. map, frontis & 4 cold. tinted views & 9 plts., cloth; also The Sanitory Commission of the United States Army, N. York 1864, cloth. (2) €130 - €180 501. Bradshaw (Henry) A Catalogue of the Bradshaw Collection of Irish Books in the University Library Cambridge, 3 vols. roy 8vo Cambridge 1916. First Edn., black buckram. V. clean set. (3) €200 - €300 502. Boats & Shipping: Brady (Karl) Shipwreck Inventory of Ireland - Louth, Meath, Dublin and Wicklow, Folio D. (Stationary Office) n.d. [c. 2010] Profusely illustrated; Mac Carthaigh (Criostoir) ed. Traditional Boats of Ireland, History, Folklore and Construction, lg. 4to Dublin 2007; Anderson (E.B.) Sailing Ships of Ireland, 8vo Dublin 1984; O’Gibne (C.) The Boyne Currach, Dublin 2012; Bourke (E.J.) Shipwrecks of the Irish Coast, 2 vols. Dublin 1994-1998. (6) €100 - €150 503. Glin (Knight of) & Peill (James) Irish Furniture, Woodwork and Carving in Ireland from the Earliest Times to the Act of Union. Lg.4to Yale Uni Press 2007; Kinmonth (Claudia) Irish Rural interiors in Art , lg. 4to Yale Uni Press 2006; Skinner (David) Wallpaper in Ireland , folio Tralee 2014. All First Edns., Good. (3) €50 - €80 504. Periodical: Matrix, A Review for Printers & Bibliophiles, Numbers 12-23, and a Reprint of Number 2, together 13 vols. folio Winter 1992 - Winter 2003. Limited Editions, profusely illustrated, decorated boards, & orig. decor. d.w.’s. V. good clean run. (13) €350 - €500 505. Co. Louth: Steele (John A.R.) A Contribution to a Bibliography of Printed Material Relating to County Louth, Thesis submitted for Fellowship of the Library Association of Ireland. Folio, 1978, corrected typescript in folder, with addition notes by late Noel Ross; Edwards (J.A.) A Rural Geography of Co. Louth, A Dissertation submitted for M.A. Degree at National University of Ireland, 1965, thick 4to in folder. (2) €150 - €200 506. Fine Large Paper Copy Grose (Francis) The Antiquities of Ireland, 2 vols. v. large 4to Lond. 1791. First Edn., L.P. Copy, 2 engd. titles with oval vignette illus., & 264 views & other plts. recent hf. green mor. gilt raised bands mor. labels. V. clean large copy. (2) €650 - €900 496 497 504