Fonsie Mealy Auctioneers RARE BOOK & COLLECTORS SALE 6th & 7th, December 2022

43 Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 283. Wilde (Oscar) Sebastian Melmoth First Edn., sm. 4to L. (A.C. Humphrey) 1905. Bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe with stamp, clean copy. (1) €200 - €300 284. Fine Binding: Hearn (Lafcadio) Kokoro: Hints and Echoes of Japanese Inner Life. 8vo Lond. (Osgood, McIlvaine & Co.) 1896. First London Edn. V. attractive full green mor. with inset decoration on front cover, raised bands in green & red on gilt lettered spine. Signed by binder, H.G. Robinson, 1967. (1) €200 - €300 285. Darwin (Charles) On the Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs; and Geological Observations.... 8vo Lond. (Ward, Lock & Co.) 1890. With fold. map & 5 plts. illus. etc. orig. cloth; & Figuier (L.) The Insect World, 8vo Lond. n.d. New Edn., plts. & illus. orig. cloth, gilt. Clean copies. (2) €100 - €150 286. With Fore-Edge Painting by Edwards of Halifax Binding: Specimens of Early English Poets, 8vo Lond. (For Edwards, Pall Mall) 1790. A.e.g. with fine fore-edge painting of an English Manor House in landscaped grounds. In cont. full calf bindings with gilt tooled roll decoration & Etruscan designed borders, gilt spine (worn),mor. label. (1) €500 - €700 287. [Molesworth (Lord)] An Account of Denmark, 8vo Lond. 1694. Third Edn., orig. panel calf, rebacked, new spine & mor. label, in recent slipcase. Wing M. 2383. (1) €130 - €180 288. Binding: Stokes (Margaret) Early Christian Art in Ireland, 8vo Lond. 1887. First Edn., illus. thro.-out, in recent full vellum binding, with gilt Celtic decoration on front cover. In recent slipcase. Good. (1) €150 - €200 289. Attractive Illuminated Volume: Stanesby (Samuel) The Bridal Souvenir, sm. 4to Lond. (Griffith & Farren) n.d. c.1880. Decor. photo frontis, title & all pages decorated by S. Stanesby, & printed in colour by Ashber & Dangerfield, a.e.g. in fine decor. green cloth with overlaid decoration & profusely gilt full by W. Bond & Son, with ticket. (1) €200 - €300 290. Healy (Dermot) A Fools Errand, 8vo Gallery Press 2010, Signed, cloth and d.j.; Molloy (A.) The Important Things, 8vo Gallery Press 2021, Signed Card inset, cloth & d.j.; Clifton (H.) The Walls of Carthage, 8vo Gallery Press 1977, ptd. wrappers; together with Moya Cannon Collected Poems & Donegal Tarantella; Michael Gorman Fifty Poems, ; Burke (R.) Joyce Country, and two others, as a lot, w.a.f. (a lot) Note: Being sold for the Yeats Society, Sligo €150 - €200 291. [Goldsmith] Prior (James) The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B., 4vols. Lond. 1837. Four engd. titles, cont. full blind tooled green mor., triple gilt fillets, recased, mor. labels; Forster (J.) The Life and Times of Oliver Goldsmith, 2 vols. Lond. 1854. First Edn., cont. hf. purple mor. Good. (6) €170 - €240 284 288 286 & detail 289