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

130 IMPERFECTIONS NOT STATED Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 938. Postal History: David Feldman Ltd - The Countess Peel Collection of The Postal History of Ireland, Lg. 4to Dublin 1971 Sole Edition, with original photographic illustrations, in fine full blue mor. mor. label, gilt fillet borders & Celtic roundels on corners, spine sim., in clamshell box. V. good. (1) €130 - €180 939. Fine Binding: Bartlett (W.H.) The Scenery and Antiquities of Ireland, 2 vols. in one, 4to Lond. (James S. Virtue) n.d. Two engd. titles, engd. map, & 119 engd. plts., some spotting or browning a.e.g., in cont. full green mor. with gilt fillet, & shamrock borders, & with large shamrock covered harp on each cover, raised bands, tooled gilt panels, with centre shamrock, v. good. (1) €225‑€350 940. A Delightful Copy Hand-Coloured Plates: Shaw (Henry) Dresses and Decoration of The Middle Ages, 2 vols. sm. folio London (Wm. Pickering) 1843. First Edn., titles printed in red and black, hand cold. title Vol. I, & 94 hd. cold. plates & text with hand coloured woodcuts & initials in text, in fine hf. crimson mor. profusely gilt spine, in panels, raised bands, by Arthur S. Colley, Bookbinder. V. good copy. (2) €600 - €800 941. Pepper (T.) & Troupeteler (H.) Audrey Hepburn - Portrait of an Icon, 4to, L. & N.Y. 2015, illus., cloth & pictorial d.j.; Dherbier (Y.B.) & Verlhac (P.H.)eds. Grace Kelly, A Life in Pictures, 4to L. (Pavillion) 2006, illus., cloth & d.j.; Baldridge (L.) In the Kennedy Style - Magical Evenings in the White House, 4to, N.Y. (Double Day) 1998, profusely illus., cloth and d.j.; Dherbier (Y.B.) & Verlhac (P.H.)ed. John Fitzgerald Kennedy - A Life in Pictures, 4to L. (Phaidon Press Ltd.) 2003, illus., cloth & d.j. As a lot. (4) €70 - €120 942. Burton (Capt. Sir R.F.) The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, 12vols. sm. folio Lond. (H.S. Nichols) 1897 Library Edition., illustrated after Albert Letchford., uncut, attractive profusely decor. gilt cloth. (12) €220 - €350 943. Irish Language: Mac Hale (Most Rev. Dr.) An Irish Translation of the Holy Bible, 4to Dublin 1861. Published in Tuam; also An Irish Translation of The Book of Genesis, 4to Published in Tuam 1868. Both vols. with engd. port. frontis; also An L’Iliad, An Chead Leabhar, le Seaghan Ard Easbog Thuama. 8vo Dublin 1844. First Edn., all green cloth. (3) €100 - €150 944. Wittman (William) Travels in Turkey, in Asia - Minor Syria and Across the Desert into Egypt, during the Years 1799, 1800 and 1801,... 4to Lond. (Rich. Phillips) 1803. First Edn., lg. fold. frontis lg. fold. map, & single page map hd. cold. in outline & 21 engd. plts. (include. 16 hand cold. & 1 lg. fold. bl & white plt.) some browning on bl. & white plts. cont. mottled calf, worn, cover loose & spine dam. Scarce. (1) €400 - €600 End of Book Shelves 944 938 939 942 940 & detail