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

13 Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 89. Walsh (Wendy) & Nelson (C.) An Irish Florilegium - Wild & Garden Plants of Ireland, and An Irish Florilegium II, 2 vols. L. (Thames & Hudson) 1983-1987, First Edn., illus. cloth, decor. d.j., good copies. (2) €400 - €500 90. Signed Limited Edition of 100 Copies Nelson (E.C.) & Sayers (B.) Orchids of Glasnevin, folio D. (Strawberry Tree) 2002, Signed Limited Edn., No. 15 (100) copies, cold. plts., leather backed green cloth, gitl lettered spine, matching slip case. (1) €350 - €500 91. Illustrated & Children’s Books: Dahl (Roald) The Witches, illus. by Quentin Blake, roy 8vo Lond. 1983. First Edn., pict. d.w.; Greenaway (Kate) An Apple Pie, oblong, Lond. n.d. cold. plts., lacks loose ends, cold. boards; Gibson (C.D.) Eighty Drawings including the Weaker Sex, lg. oblong folio Lond. 1903, illus. thro.-out, boards; Whitman (Walt) Leaves of Grass, lg. folio N.Y. (Doubleday, Doran & Co.) 1940. Cold. & other illus., cloth. (as a lot). (4) €160 - €220 92. Georgian Society: The Georgian Society Records of Eighteenth Century Domestic Architecture and Decoration in Dublin, 5vols. folio Shannon (I.U.P.) 1969. Second Edn., (Reprint of First Edn.), illus. etc., green cloth. V. good. (5) €350 - €500 93. Malcolm (Col Sir John) The History of Persia, from the Most Early Period to The Present Time, 2 vols. lg. 4to Lond. (for John Murray) 1815. First Edn., Fold. map frontis Vol. I & 23 engd. views or ports, on 22 full page plts., all damp stained, some text also stained, recent hf. mor. mor. labels. Engraved bookplates of Michael, Earl of Rosse. (2) Provenance: Birr Castle Estate. €180 - €240 94. Knowler (Wm.) The Earl of Strafford’s Letters and Dispatches, with.. His Life by Sir George Radcliffe. 2 vols. folio Dublin 1740. First Edn., list of subscribers, first few leaves of Vol. I damp stains, cont. calf, mor. labels good. Emf. (2) €180 - €250 95. Irish Census, 1851: The Census of Ireland, Part V. Tables of Deaths, folio Dublin (A. Thom.) 1856, 560pp, later cloth. (1) €130 - €180 96. Maps: Stafford (Thos.) Pacata Hibernia, bound volume of maps, from 1810 Edition, lg. fold. Map of Mounster, lg. Map of Battle of Kinsale, & 17 other lg. fold. maps etc., cont. hf. calf. V. good. As an Atlas, w.a.f. (1) €200 - €300 97. Signed Limited of 100 Crookshank (Anne) & ‘The Knight of Glin’ Irelands Painters 1600-1940, folio, L. (Yale University Press) 2002, Signed Limited Edition 43 (100) copies, illus. hf. leather marble boards, mor. labels, matching slip case. Good copy. (1) €120 - €140 92 89 94 90 97 96 91