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

114 IMPERFECTIONS NOT STATED Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 816. Illustrated byW. Heath Robinson Rabelais - The Works of Mr. Francis Rabelais, 2 vols. Lond. 1904. Hf. titles, 2 frontis illus. plts. & text illus. thro.-out, uncut, gilt decor. white buckram. (2) €130 - €180 817. Fine Complete Facsimile Limited Edition Book of Kells: EvangeliorumQuattuor Codex Cenannensus, 3 vols. lg. 4to (each measuring 16” x 9”), Berne, Switzerland (Urs Graf.) 1950. Special Limited Edn. No. 337 of 500 Copies. Fine cold. plts. thro.- out. first 2 vols. in original gilt stamped full vellum, the third volume is bound vellum backed blue boards. A very good copy. (3) €1200 - €1800 818. Maps & Plans: Burgoyne (J.F.), Griffith (R.) & Jones (Harry D.) The Commissioners Appointed ... for the Improvement of the Navigation of the River Shannon, Folio Dublin (Alex Thom) 1837. Second Report. 75 engd. lg. fold. maps & plans, some hand cold. in outline, orig. cloth backed boards, ptd. paper label. As maps, w.a.f. (1) €300 - €400 819. Illustrated Volume: Plunkett (Mrs. Joseph) [Grace Gifford] To Hold as T’Were, 4to, Dundalk (Tempest) [1920], illus., ptd. wrappers, some wear; Beerbohm (Max) The Poets Corner, folio L. (W. Heinemann) 1904, cold. illus. (including Irish Authors) cloth backed boards, worn. (2) €150 - €200 817 818 820. With Contemporary Manuscript Poem [Duns Scotus] Secundus scripti Oxoniensis Doctoris Subtilis fratris Joannis Duns Scoti ordinis Minorum super Sententias. Titulus conueniens scripto & scriptori Mauritio iuentore, Folio Venice (by Simon de Luere for Andreas Torresanus de Asula) 1506, with wd. cut device of A. Torresanus, a Tower on end leaf, 149pp [1-96 [2] 97 - 149]; With a 28 line manuscript Poem by Paulus Ranadldus, in honour of the ‘Subtle doctor’ (Scotus); and continuing with Tortius script Oxoniensis .. (as above) 113pp [1-72 [2] 73-113], with manuscript commentary on margins, a few wd.-cut illus, in cont. vellum backed boards, detached, text v. good., w.a.f. (1) €1000 - €1500 819