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

19 Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 142. Alpine interest: Ball (John)editor. Peaks, Passes and Glaciers, A Series of Excursions by Members of the Alpine Club. 8vo Lond. 1859. Fourth. Hf. title, vignette title, 9 fold. maps, 8 coloured chromos., & wd. cut illus. thro.-out text, orig. gilt decor brown cloth. (1) * The editor was a member of Royal Irish Academy. €100 - €150 143. Hume (David) The History of England , 11 vols. 8vo Dublin 1762. cont. Irish calf, raised bands, gilt decor. in panels, mor. labels. (11) €120 - €180 144. [Mandeville] The Fable of The Bees: or Private Vices, Public Benefits. With An Essay on Charity and Charity Schools.... 2 vols. 8vo Lond. 1732-33. Vol. I Sixth Edn., & Vol. II Second Edn., cont. full calf, upper cover of Vol. I loose; also copy of same, Third Edn., Lond. 724, panel calf, needs re- binding; and, A Dissertation upon Parties; in Several Letters to Caleb D’Anvers, Esq. Dedicated to Rt. Hon. Sir Robert Walpole. 8vo Lond. 1739. Fifth Edn., engd. frontis full cont. calf. As a lot. (4) €120 - €180 145. Temple (Sir John) The Irish Rebellion: or The History of The Beginnings and first Progress of the General Rebellion Raised with in the Kingdom of Ireland..., 4to Dublin (Aaron Rhames)1724. Sixth Edn. title in red & black, engd. plt., one leaf loose, cont. calf, raised bands. Emf. (1) €200 - €300 146. Smith (Adam) An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, 3 vols. 8vo Lond. 1802. Tenth Edn., 3 hf. titles, cont. full calf, mor. labels. (3) €180 - €240 147. Luckombe (P.) A Concise History of The Origin and Progress of Printing, with Practical Instructions to the Trade in General, 8vo Lond. 1770. First Edn., Lacks frontis, soiled & dam. copy, orig. calf, worn. Scarce. S.N.S.R. (1) €100 - €150 148. Macpherson (James)trans. The Poems of Ossian, 2 vols. Lond. 1790. New Edn., Hf. titles, cont. full calf, attractive tooled gilt spines; M’Callum (Hugh & John) An Original Collection of the Poems of Ossian, Orrann, Ulin, and other Bards, 8vo Montrose 1816. Pages XCI, 96-241, [2]pp + 59 pages of subscribers, uncut, later cloth. (3) €120 - €170 149. In Ticketed Binding by McKenzie, Dublin Gibbon (Edward) The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire , 6vols. 8vo Dublin 1781. Fifth Edn., Port. frontis Vol. I, 3 fold. maps, cont. full tree calf T.C.D. Prize Binding, with gilt roll tooled borders & spines, mor. labels, & with oval T.C.D. gilt stamp on all covers, joints weak, prize labels for Thomas Goold, & other, bound by McKenzie, 63 Dame St. [Dublin], with some of his tickets. Rare. (6) €500 - €700 150. Fine T.C.D. Prize Bindings: Wakefield (Gilbert)ed. T. Lucretii Cari De Rerum Natura, Libri Sex. 4 vols. 8vo Glasgow 1813. V. good cont. full diced calf bindings, dbl. gilt fillet & roll tooled borders, raised bands mor. labels, each cover with gilt oval T.C.D. stamp & prize labels, for Pierce Somerset Butler, Dublin 1819. Ex. Fine. (4) €220 - €350 151. Binding: [Stepehns (Alex)] A Memoir of the Life of the Rt. Hon. John Philpot Curran, 8vo Lond. 1817. First Edn., a.e.g., cont. full straight grained dark mor., with large blind tooled borders with gilt decorations and gilt decorated spine. V. good copy. Scarce. (1) €150 - €200 152. Murdock (Iris) The Flight from the Enchanter, L. 1956. First Edn.; A Severed Head, Lond. 1961. First Edn., Signed by John Broderick; An Accidental Man, Lond. 1971. First Edns., Signed by John Broderick; The Black Prince, Lond. 1973. First Edn.; 3 others all orig. d.w.’s. (7) €100 - €150 145 149 150 152