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

42 IMPERFECTIONS NOT STATED Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 358. With Attractive large Coloured Plates Religious Tract Society - Bible Pictures, lg. folio London (Kronheim & Co.) c. 1860., 34 full page coloured plts., cloth, v. good copy. (1) €100 - €150 360. R.D.S. Rawson (Thos. James) Statistical Survey of the County of Kildare, 8vo Dublin 1807. First Edn., lg. engd. fold. map, 2 single page maps, 5 engd. plts. (some fold.) & 3 wd. cut illus., marbled wrappers. Clean copy. (1) €180 - €250 361. Bookplates: Labouchere (Norna) Ladies Book-Plates. An illustrated handbook for Collectors and Book-lovers, 8vo Lond. 1895. First Edn., illus. thro.-out; also Castle (Egerton) English Book-Plates, Ancient and Modern, 8vo Lond. 1894. Third Edn. cold. frontis & numerous other illus., both uniform green cloth, gilt lettered spines. Scarce. (2) €170 - €250 362. UNRECORDED Very Scarce Almanack & Register Almanack: The City and County Calendar; or Irish Court Registry, for the Year of Our Lord 1796, Lg. thick 12mo Dublin 1796. Bound with Exshaw’s, The English Register, 1796, and a.e.g., in orig. full calf, gilt borders, recent reback . * Extremely rare Almanack. In Evans ‘Bibliographical Account of Almanacks, Directories,’ 1897, he states its first appearance was in 1794, & the Second Year, 1795 was its last publication. “There had been only the two volumes published, which are now exceedingly Scarce; we are not sure if any of our libraries possess a copy.” From the collection of the late collector, F.E. Dixon, with his bookplate. €500 - €700 363. Hibernicum (Thomas) Flores Omnium Pene Doctorum, Qui tum in Theologia, tum in Philosophia hasenuis claruerunt , ... Sm. thick 8vo Venice (Joan. Mariani Lenum) 1576. Wd.-cut device on title, & at end, [8], 399pp., orig. limp vellum, covers dam. but a clean copy. (1) €300 - €400 364. Early Printing: [Piccolomini (Enea Silvio)] La discrittione de l’Asia et Europa di Papa Pio II, e l’historia de le cose memorabili fatte in quelle, conl’aggionta de l’Africa, secondo diversi scrittori, 16mo Venice (Appresso Vincenzo Vaugris) 1544., 380, [20]pp. Printers device on title & at end, wd. cut initials, cont. limp vellum, small crack on front cover, v. clean copy. Emf. (1) €400 - €600 365. Presentation Copy from The Author to his Mother Henry (James) M.D. An Account of the Proceedings of the Government Metropolitan Police in the City of Canton, sm. 8vo Dublin (Hardy &Walker) 1840. First Edn., Engd. frontis, 79pp orig. brown cloth. V. good copy. Ex. Scarce. (1) * Inscribed on front loose blank, and dated Dublin July 15, 1840. €130 - €180 366. Two Rare Dublin Variants Johnson (Dr. Samuel) A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland, 12mo Dublin (for J. Williams) 1775; also A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland, 12mo Dublin (Printed by Thomas Walker) 1775. Both First Dublin Editions, both orig. full calf, tooled gilt spines, mor. labels (1 lacking) some wear. Rare pair. (2) €200 - €300 358 360 362 363 364