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

16 IMPERFECTIONS NOT STATED Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 119. Binding: Book of Common Prayer, .. According to the Use of the Church of Ireland. 8vo Dublin (Boulter Grierson) 1765. Cont. manuscript name on title, with genealogical notes on verso, & on end blanks, a.e.g., cont. full crimson mor. tooled gilt panels on covers, & attractive gilt tooled decorations on panelled spine. (1) €200 - €300 120. [Edgeworth (Maria)] Castle Rackrent, An Hibernian Tale, Taken from Facts and from The Manners of the Irish Squires before the Year 1782. 12mo Dublin (for P. Wogan ... R.E. Mercier, and Co.) 1800. First Edn., XLIV, 182pp., cont. tree calf, lacks label, upr. joint cracked, but a very clean copy. (1) €200 - €300 121. Scarce Life of Irish Monk Desmay (M. Jacques) La Vie de S. Fursy, Patron de la Ville de Peronne , 12mo Peronne 1715. New Edition, engd. frontis, Bound with, Histoire de la Vie de S. Fursy, Patron de Peronne avec, les Vies de S. Foillain, et de S. Ultain ses freres Par Mons. Mignon 12mo Peronne 1715. First Edn., cont. French calf, gilt spine. Emf. (1) * S. Fursy, was an Irish Saint, born near Lough Corrib, he established a monastery in East Anglia, c. 630. He was patron saint of Travellers. €350 - €500 122. Porter (Fr. Francis) Syntagma Variarum Ecclesiae Definitionum, in materia fidei, & morum,... 8vo Rome 1681. First Edn., Hf. title, wd. cut heads & tails & initials, orig. full vellum, cont. mor. label. Emf. V. good copy. Sweeney 3499. (1) €350 - €500 123. Horn (George) Rerum Britannicarium Libri Septem, Quibus Res in Anglica, Scotia, Hibernia, ab Anno 1645 bello gestae, exponuntur. 8vo; Leyden (Franc. Hackii) 1648. First Edn., Device on title, cont. full vellum, mor. label. V. good. Rare. (1) €220 - €350 124. Stanihurst (Rev. Wm.) Verteris Hominis Per Expensa Quatuor Novissima Metamorphosis et Novi Genesis, 8vo Antwerp 1670. First Edn., add. engd. title, & 3 engd. plts. lacks paste-downs, full orig. vellum. Emf. (1) €200 - €300 119 122 120 123 121 124