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

25 Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 202. Chesterfield - Letters Written by The Late Rt. Hon. Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, to His Son,... 2 vols. lg. 4to Lond. (J. Dodlsey) 1774. First Edn., Engd. port. frontis, 2 hf. titles, cont. full calf, raised bands, gilt tooled mor. labels, joints weakening. (2) €300 - €400 203. Fine Presentation Item Le Brocquy (Louis) The Irish Landscape. Gandon Editions, Dublin 1992. Oblong folio grey cloth, titled in silver, black morocco spine, slipcase. With an interview in several languages and 36 full colour reproductions (two folding) of original watercolours by Le Brocquy. (1) Limited edition, numbered and signed by the artist, no. 56 of 250 copies specially bound by Kenny’s of Galway. A superb production, one of the finest Irish books of the period. Fine copy, rare. (1) €350 - €450 204. Addison - The Works of the Rt. Hon. Joseph Addison, Esq., 4 vols. 4to Lond. (Jacob Tonson) 1721. First Edn., engd. port. frontis. Vol. I, list of subscribers end of Vol. IV, some stains, cont. mottled calf, raised bands, labels lacking. (4) €160 - €250 205. Bindings by Andrew Grieve, Edinburgh Ruskin (John) Modern Painters, 5 vols. sm. folio Lond. 1857-60 Sixth Edn.; also The Stones of Venice, 3 vols.sm. folio Lond. (Smith Elder) 1851. Fine engraved full page plts. & illus. thro.-out, a.e.g., all uniform full green mor. dble gilt fillet borders, corner decorations, raised bands & gilt decor. panels, bound by Andrew Grieve, Edinburgh. V. good set. (8) €350 - €500 206. Hennessy (Wm. M.) Annals of Ulster, 4 vols. sm. folio Dublin (H.M.S.O.) 1887- 1901. First Edn., some fold. tables, orig. mor. & cloth backed boards. Good. Emf. (4) €300 - €400 207. Very Clean Plates Coloured Plates: Donovan (E.) The Naturalist’s Repository or Miscellany of Exotic Natural History, ... Foreign Birds, Insects, Shells... Second Issue with ‘Advertisement’ page after title Vol. I dated Lambeth 1823. 180 hand coloured engd. plts. by & after Donovan, partly unopened, orig. cont. cloth, printed labels. V. good set. (5) €1250 - €1750 208. Mitchell (Flora H.) Vanishing Dublin, lg. 4to Dublin 1966. First Edn., hf. title, 50 cold. plates, cloth & orig. pict. dust wrappers. V good copy. (1) €220 - €350 209. Audubon (J.J.) Audubon’s Birds of America, by R.T. Peterson & Virginia M. Peterson - Baby Elephant Folio N. York (Abbeville Press) 1990. Fine Coloured Plates, cloth, pict. d.w. & slipcase. Mint copy. (1) €150 - €220 210. Jekyll (Gertrude) & Hussey (Christ.) Garden Ornament, lg. folio Lond. (Country Life) 1927. Second Edn. profusely illustrated; & Elgood (G.S.) Jekyll (G.) Some English Gardens, folio Lond.1910. New Edn., attractive cold. plts., buckram. V. good. (2) €140 - €200 208 203 209 205 207