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127 Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 915. Wood-Martin (W.G.) The Lake Dwellings of Ireland, Sm. folio Dublin 1886. First Edn., hf. title, frontis, plts., & other illus., orig. gilt decor. green cloth. V. good. Emf. (1) €130 - €180 917. Early Printing: P. Virgilii Maronis Opera, Mauri Seruii Honarati grammatici in eadem Commentarii.. Bound with, Castigationes & Varietates Virgilianae Lectionis, per Joannem Pierium Valerianum . Folio Paris (Robert Stephani) 1532. title page with device, with fine woodcut initials, text within ruled red lined borders, some damp dam. in top rt. corner of t.p., the second portion with full page wd. cut title, generally good and later calf rebacked with tooled gilt spine laid down. (1) €350 - €500 919. Early Printing: Quin Horatii Flacci Poetae Venusini Opera Poemata cum Ratione carnunum,... necon Jodoco Badio Ascensio, viris eruditissimis. Folio Venice (Venturinum Rossinellum) 1546, title with printers device, dam., & repaired, some wd.-cut vignettes in text, wd.-cut initials, some damp stains & finger marks, 19th Cent. mor. backed marble boards. (1) €250 - €400 916. [O’Fehily (Maurice)] Commentaria doctoris subtilis Joannis Scoti in XII libros metaphysicae Aris[totelis]. Emendata et quattationibus atque annotationibus decorate per fratremMauricium Hibernicum, Commentary of John Scotus on the 12 books of Aristotle’s Metaphysics, corrected by O’Felily. Folio Venice (By Ottaviano Scoto by Boneto Locatello) 1507, cont. m/ss inscriptions on title page, woodcut initials, sm. engraved vignette of saint on page 1, woodcut initials, some wd. cut diagrams in text, device of Ottaviano Scoto on end leaf, 162 leaves, some mis-pagination. In later decorated board. V. good copy. (1) €1500 - €2000 917 919 918. Incunabula: Expositio Ugonis Senesis super aphorismos Hypocratis [et] super comentum Galieni eius interpretis, Folio Venice (... per Bonetum Locatellum Bergomensem) 1498. Title repaired with patch (no loss of type) 157 leaves (ex 159) some mis-pagination; Bound with another sim. item, (Defective) wd. cut initials thro.-out, some hand coloured, later hf. vellum. S.N.S.R. (1) €800 - €1200