Rare Book & Collectors' Sale 1st & 2nd October 2025

27 Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 194. Architecture: Pugin (A. Welby) The True Principles of Printed or Christian Architecture, lg. 4to din. 1895. cold. frontis, bl. & white illus. & plts. thro.-out, orig. cloth; also A Treatise on Chancel Screens and Rood Lofts, 4to Lond. 1851, illus. cloth; Ecclesiastical Architecture in England, 8vo Lond. 1843, lg. pls. cloth; Bury (T. Talbot) Remains of Ecclesiastical Woodwork, folio Lond. 1847, engd. title & 20 plts. orig. mor. backed boards; & 3 others sim. (7) €120 - €180 195. Most Desirable Copy with large Coloured Plates Houghton (Rev. W.) British Fresh-Water Fishes, 2 lg. folio vols. in one, Lond. [1879] Fist Edn., illus. with 41 fine full page cold. plts., text illus., a.e.g., now bound in fine bright crushed crimson levant mor., raised bands, spine tooled gilt in panels with fishing motifs etc. An extremely fine copy. (1) €600 - €800 195 196. 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) €2000 - €3000 198. Very Fine Illuminated Address, by J.W. Carey Carrickfergus: Carey & Thomson, Illuminators, Belfast , Address to the Rev. George Chamberlain, Rector of St. Nicholas, Carrickfergus, V. large sq. 4to, March 1907. With 5 large (some full page) original watercolours by J.W. Carey (one Signed) and 6 smaller sepia & watercolour sketches, all pages illuminated. With signatures etc., and four page list of subscribers, silk ends, full tooled gilt mor. binding. A delightful item. (1) €700 - €1000 197 197. Atlas: Smith (C.) Smith’s New General Atlas, lg. atlas folio Lond. 1826. Engd. title page & 56 full page engd. plates, hand-coloured, later hf. calf, mor. label. Garrycloyne bookplate. (1) * A very good clean copy. €450 - €750