RARE BOOK & COLLECTORS’ SALE 12th -13th December 2023

102 IMPERFECTIONS NOT STATED Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 734. Kipling (Rudyard) The Jungle Book, 8vo L. (MacMillan & Co.) 1895 (Reprint / twice) frontis, text illus., blue cloth, gilt decor. front cover and spine; The Second Jungle Book, 8vo, L. (MacMillan & Co.) 1895, First Edn., some illus., advert leaf at end, blue cloth, gilt decor. front cover & spine. (2) €300 - €400 735. Byron (Lord), & Rogers (Samuel) Lara, A Tale, and Jacqueline, A Tale, Sm. 8vo Lond.(for J. Murray) 1814. First Edn., First Issue, hf. title, 4pp. Catalogue at end, [VIII] 128pp uncut, orig. boards, spine dam. but with orig. label, now in cloth holder, & mor. backed slipcase. V. good; also, Mazeppa, A Poem, 8vo Lond. (J. Murray) 1819. First Edn., hf. title, & leaf at end with advertisements, 8pp catalogue for Murray, [IV], 71pp, recent full mor. rebind, gilt line decor., red mor. label down spine, & in cloth slipcase. Clean copies. (2) €200 - €300 736. O’Conor (C.C.) The Ogygia Vindicated, 8vo, D. (G. Faulkner) 1775, First Edn., list of subs., contemporary full calf, later mor. label; Hely (Rev. James)trans. Ogygia or a Chronological Account of Irish Events, 2 vols. 8vo, D. (M’Kenzie) 1793, First Edn., contemporary calf (rebacked), Ex. Libris Copy and cloth (Variant bindings), as a lot, w.a.f. (3) €150 - €200 737. Both Signed Presentation Copies Fishing: Pickard (F.W.) Sixteen British Trout Rivers, 8vo N. York 1936. First Edn., frontis & plt. orig. cloth; and Trout and Salmon Fishing in Ireland, 8vo N. York 1938. First Edn., frontis & plts., orig. cloth, both orig. illus. d.w.’s V. good; Hofland (T.C.) The British Angler’s Manual, or The Art of Angling in England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland, Sm. 8vo Lond. 1839. First Edn., engd. frontis & 13 full page plts. & 39 wd. cut illus.in text, orig. blind stamped cloth. With a Library Stamp. (3) €130 - €180 738. 284 Attractive Hand Coloured Plates [Sibley (E.)] A Universal System of Natural History including The Natural History of Man; The Orang-Outang; and the Whole Tribe of Simia... 13 vols. (ex. 14, lacks vol. 8) London (for the Proprietor, and Sold by Champante andWithrow) n.d. Engd. add. title Vol. I, & 284 hand cold. plts., in cont. full tree-calf, gilt decor. line border, tooled gilt flat spines (worn) mor. labels. As a coll. w.a.f. (13) €750 - €1000 739. Giovio (S.Paulo) Dialogue des Devises D’Armes et d’Amours, Avec un Discourse de M. Loys Dominique sur le mesme subjet. Traduit d’Italien par le S. Vasquin Philieul... Gabriel Symeon. Sm. 4to Lyon (Guillaume Roville) 1561. Wd. cut device on title, with wd. cut port. on revese, title repaired at edges, add. title with printers device & wd. cut oval on reverse, & 138 wd.-cut illus. each with elaborate borders, some damp stains, & some minor repairs, later full calf, blind roll borders, w.a.f. (1) * Purchased in Falkner Grierson, Dublin, in 1978. €300 - €400 740. Davy (Sir Humphry) Elements of Agricultural Chemistry, In a Course of Lectures for The Board of Agriculture. 8vo Lond. 1814. Second Edn., 10 fold. plts., some spotting, recent rebind, calf backed marble boards, raised bands, gilt lettered spine. Good. (1) €170 - €220 741. Hall (R.N.) Great Zimbabwe, Mashonaland, Rhodesia, An Account of Two Years.. on behalf of The Government of Rhodesia 8vo Lond. 1907, frontis plts. & fold. map; Musters (G. Chaworth) A Home with The Patagonians, Lond. 1871. First Edn., fold. map with tears; Hudson (W.H.) Idle Days in Patagonia, N.Y. 1917, plts.; Talbot Kelly (R.) Egypt Painted and Described, L. (Black) 1912, cold. plts.; & 1 other all orig. cloth. (5) €80 - €130 734 736 739 738