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

26 IMPERFECTIONS NOT STATED Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 211. With Folding Maps & Plates Adrichomio - Theatrum Terrae Sanctae et Biblicarum Historiarum cum tabulis geographicis cere experessis, Authore, Christiano Adrichomio, Delpho. Folio Coloniae Agrippinae (In Officiana Birchmanni sumptibus Arnoldi Mylii) 1590. Full engd. title, & 10 fold. or dble - page maps (ex 12, appears to lack ‘Jerusalem’) 286pp plus Index etc., text browned in part, orig. limp vellum. Good. (1) €550 - €750 212. A ScarceWorkWith Illustrations from Japan’s First Collotype Press Ogawa (K.)Tokio , Panoramic Japan, Folio Tokio n.d. [c.1902] 57 chromo collotype full page illustrations, a.e.g., in fine floal decorated silk binding with large orig. coloured inset paintings. Good. (1) €350 - €500 213. Irish Bindings: McDonnell (Joseph) & Healy (Patrick) Gold Tooled Book Bindings Commissioned by Trinity College Dublin in the Eighteenth Century, Folio Dublin (Irish Georgian Society) 1987. First Edn., fine cold. & bl. & white plts.; also McDonnell (Joe) Five Hundred Years of the Art of the Book, lg. 4to Dublin (Nat. Library of Ireland) 1997. First Edn., cold. & bl. & white plts. thro.-out, both cloth & pict. d.w.’s V. good. (2) €75 - €120 214. Topsell (Edward) The History of Four- Footed Beasts and Serpents:... collected out of the Writings of Conradus Gessner and other Authors,... whereunto is now added the Theatre of Insects.. by T. Muffet. Folio London. (E. Cos, for G. Sawbridge,... T. Williams .. and T. Johsnon) 1658. First Edn. Half-title. Three parts in one volume, some with separate titles, wd.-cut vignettes, numerous woodcut illustrations, some full page, cont. full calf, upr. cover loose, raised bands & orig. mor. label. Good copy. (1) €550 - €750 215. Royal Canal: The Second Report of the Commissioners appointed to inquire into and examine, the Claims of the Creditors of the Royal Canal Company, Folio Lond. (House of Commons) 1815. Recent hf. calf, v. good clean copy. (1) €160 - €240 216. The River Shannon Maps etc: River Shannon Navigation, Copies of a Letter from the Chief Secretary of Ireland, Respecting the River Shannon, and of Answers to Same, Lg. folio London (House of Commons) 11th August 1832. Bound with Report from Select Committee on Shannon Navigation, folio Lond. 1834. First Edns., 42 (44, Plts. 8 & 10 in two parts) lg. fold. hand - coloured maps & plans, recent buckram, mor. label. As maps, w.a.f. Very clean set. (1) €300 - €400 217. The River Shannon Maps & Plans: River Shannon Navigation. Letter from Colonel John F. Burgoyne to the Rt. Hon. Sir John Cam. Hobhouse, Bart.; and further Reports of Mr. Rhodes on the Improvement of the Navigation of the River Shannon, Lg. folio Lond. (House of Commons) 1833. First Report Part I, 42 lg. engd. hand-coloured fold. maps & plans (lacks Gen. Map of the Shannon & Chart of Lough Ree), some damp stains, & m/ ss notes, recent buckram, mor. label. As maps, w.a.f. (1) €300 - €400 211 212 216 217 214