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

14 IMPERFECTIONS NOT STATED Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 104 108 98. Limited Editions Club: The Sonnets of Petrarch, folio Verona 1965. Signed Lim. Edition No. 1158 of 1500 Copies. Port. frontis mor. backed boards, d.w. & slipcase. (1) €160 - €240 99. Nelson (E.C.) &Walsh (W.)illus. Flowers of Mayo - Dr. Patrick Browne’s Fasciculus Plantarum Hiberniae 1788, folio, D. (Ed. Burke) 1995, O/S Limited Edition, cold. plts., calf back hand pressed paper boards, ptd. label, gilt lettered spine, matching slip case. Good copy. (1) €400 - €600 100. Crane (Walter) Echoes of Hellas, The Tale of Troy and The Story of Orestes from Homer & Aeschylus, with Introductory Essay... Presented with 82 Designs. Folio Lond. (Marcus Ward & Co.) n.d. [1887]. Hf. title, red & bl. title & designs, attractive pict. gilt and red decor. cloth, rebacked (1) €160 - €240 101. de Gavarni: Oeuvres Choisies de Gavarni, Special Edition, lg. folio Paris (Aux Bureaux du Figaro) 1857. Hf. title. Illustrations thro- out (520), cloth backed boards, mor. label. (1) €150 - €250 102. Gardens: Lutyens (E.L.) Houses and Gardens, described by L. Weaver. Folio Lond. (Country Life) 1914. Second Edn., illus. thro.-out, Includes Chapter on Lambay, Ireland, 1908-1912; Tipping (H. Avray) English Gardens, lg. folio Lond. (Country Life) 1925. First Edn.,; Elgood (Geo. S.) Italian Gardens, folio Lond. 1907. Signed Presentation Copy, cold. illus., & 1 other. All cloth. (4) €130 - €180 103. Georgian Society: Records of Eighteenth Century Domestic Architecture and Decoration in Ireland, Vols. III & V, together 2 vols. (ex. 5) lg. 4to Dublin 1911 & 1913. First Edns. Limited, illus. plts. thro.-out, orig. cloth, joints of one vol. worn. (2) €200 - €300 104. House of Lords TheWicklow Peerage - Minutes of Evidence taken before The Committee for Privileges on The Earl of Wicklow’s Claim to Vote for Representative Peers for Ireland, 2 vols. folio, plus Speeches of Counsel, together 3 vols. folio 1869 - 1870 Session. Each volume interleaved, and with manuscript indexes, uniform limp crimson mor. Octavius O’Brien’s Copy, a witness, with his name in gilt lettering on spines, worn.(3) €225 - €325 105. Goodwin Smith (R.) English Domestic Metalwork, folio Lond. 1937. First Edn., Orig. full page photographic plts. & text illus. etc. orig. cream buckram. V. good. (1) €120 - €180 106. Ussher (James) Britannicarum Ecclesiarum Antiquitates:... Historia, Folio Lond. (Benj. Tooke) 1687. Imprim. leaf at front, cont. panel calf, professional reback, raised bands, orig. mor. label. Good copy. Emf. (1) €220 - €350 107. American Senate Proceedings Southwick (S.) printed for , Journal of the Senate, [-Assembly] of the State of New York, Thirty-Sixth Session, 2 vols. in one folio Albany 1813., wd. cut device on titles, 8 fold. tables or lists, rebacked hf. calf, orig. label & marble sides. Scarce. (1) €80 - €130 108. With Very Clean Plates Grose (Francis) The Antiquities of Ireland, 2 vols. lg. 4to London 1791. First Edn., 2 engd. titles, & 268 engd. plts. (includ. frontis), later hf. mor. good set, v. clean plates. (2) €300 - €400 98 99 100