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

38 IMPERFECTIONS NOT STATED Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 319. Coloured Plates: Combe (Wm.) The Tours of Dr. Syntax, 3 vols. roy 8vo Lond. n.d. With 79 hd. cold. plates (Complete) by Thos. Rowlandson, include. frontis? & titles, orig. gilt & pictorial cloth. V. good clean set. (3) €200 - €300 320. Engraved Plates: Froissart (Sir John) Chronicles, Volume of 57 full page 4to plates plus map (in all 58 items) Lond. (Longman Hurst,) c. 1806. Cont. hf. calf, upr. cover loose. As a coll. of plts. w.a.f. (1) €100 - €150 321. Bound by C. Kalthoeber [White (Gilbert) The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne, .. 4to Lond. (T. Bensley) 1789. First Edn., Lg. fold. frontis add. engd. title, & 7 other engd. plts. includ. 1 fold. together 9 plts. complete, pp. 441 / 442 missed in numbering, cont. sprinkled calf, triple gilt fillets and corner decorations, flat spine, with line and other decor. mor. label. Binders label ‘C. Kalthoeber, London.’V. good clean copy. (1) €800 - €1000 322. Ex Libris, Mr. HoraceWalpole Fine Clean Copies of BothWorks Walker (Joseph C.) An Historical Essay on the Dress of the Ancient and Modern Irish, To which is subjoined. A Memoir on the Armour andWeapons of the Irish. 4to Dublin (Geo. Grierson) 1788. First Edn., Hf. title, engd. frontis 13 full page plts. (1 hand coloured) 1 text illus. & a few m/ ss annotations. With bookplate of Mr. Horace Walpole on hf. title; Bound with, Historical Memoirs of the Irish Bards, 4to Dublin (Luke White) 1786. First Edn., Engd. heads & tails, engd. ports. engd. vignette illus., fold. plt. & 4pp of music. In cont. marble boards, recently recased in hf. green mor. A delightful association copy. Fine. (1) €800 - €1200 323. Duke of Leinster’s Copy Binding: The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments. According to the Use of The United Church of England and Ireland. Lg. 4to Oxford (Clarendon Press) 1828. A.e.g. Cont. full crimson mor. with fillet & lg. tooled gilt borders, front cover lettered in, gilt ‘Duke of Leinster, Seat Maynooth Church’. V. good copy. (1) €275‑€350 324. Cescinsky (Herbert) &Webster (M.R.) English Domestic Clocks, folio London n.d. [c.1910], profusely illustrated, orig. half morocco binding. Scarce. (1) €80 - €120 325. Limited Edition, No. 2 of 37 Copies Murray (Patrick) The Aidan Heavey Collection - Books and Manuscripts of Irish Interest at Athlone Library, Oblong folio Athlone 2009. Sole Edn., Signed by Author, & donors Aidan Heavey & Maureen Heavey, & Noel Heavey. Profusely illustrated, orig. pict. boards & matching slipcase. An attractive publication. (1) €100 - €150 326. Crofton Croker (Thomas) Researches in The South of Ireland, lg. 4to L. (John Murray) 1824, engd. frontis., advert, 16 engd. litho plts., some text illus., slight foxing, contemp. full diced calf, with triple fillet and blind tooled border, gilt decor. spine in panel, joints cracked. Upr. cover loose. A very good clean copy. (1) €220 - €350 327. Pogany (Wm.)Illustrator. The Tale of Lohengrin, Knight of the Swan, after the Drama by RichardWagner. Folio Lond. (G.G. Harrap & Co.) n.d. With fine cold. & other plates, illus. thro.-out, & all pages decorated by Pogany, orig. gilt decor. suede binding. V. good. (1) €130 - €180 328. Macpherson (James) Fingal, An Ancient Epic Poem, In Six Books; together with several other Poems, composed by Ossian the Son of Fingal. Lg. 4to Lond. (for T. Becket and P.A. de Hondt) 1762. First Edn., red & bl. title with engd. vignette [16], [1] - XVI, ‘advertisement’ leaf, 270pp uncut, orig. boards, later mor. re-back. V. clean copy. (1) €225‑€350 329. [Rackham (Arthur) illus.] Barrie (J.M.) Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, 4to Lond. 1906. First Edn., 50 mounted cold. plates, gilt decor. russet coloured cloth; also Milton (John) Comus, 4to Lond. n.d. With 23 tipped in cold. plts. orig. gilt decor. green cloth, some stains. (2) €300 - €400 330. With Fine Coloured Plates Rawstorne (Lawrence) Gamonia: or, The Art of Preserving Game, Roy 8vo Lond. 1929. New Edition, coloured frontis & 14 cold. plts., a few spotted, unopened, orig. green cloth. (1) €140 - €200 319 329 322 323