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

52 IMPERFECTIONS NOT STATED Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 453. Signed Irish Binding: Missale Romanum, folio Dublin (J. Duffy) 1858. Hf. title, one full page illus. a.e.g. In fine cont. full crimson mor. tooled gilt, & blind tooled borders with cross in centre of both covers, raised bands, spine attractively tooled gilt in panels, Signed J.Duffy, Binder, Dublin. In recent cloth box, with mor. label by Antiquarian Bookcrafts, Dublin. A most attractive example. (1) €300 - €400 454. Wright (Thos.) Louthiana: or, An Introduction to the Antiquities of Ireland, Lg. 4to Lond. (Wm. Faden) 1748. First Edn., port. frontis, red & bl. title, 67 full page plts. & engd. vignettes, map & views, lacks front loose blanks, clean copy, cont. hf. calf. (1) €300 - €400 455. Annesley (The Earl) Beautiful and Rare Trees & Plants, With Seventy Illustrations from Photographs taken at Castlewellan. Lg. 4to Lond. (Country Life) n.d. [1903]. Lim. Edition No. 108 of 300 Copies. 69 full page photo plts., orig. gilt decor. green cloth. V. good. (1) €200 - €300 456. Highland Society of Scotland: Dictionarium Scoto - Celticum, A Dictionary of the Gaelic Language. 2 vols. thick 4to Edinburgh 1828. First Edn., cloth. (2) €130 - €180 458. Meyer (Kuno) & Stern (L. Chr.) Zeitschrift fur Celtische Philologie, Vols. 2 - Vol. 13 together 11 vols. Orig. hf. purple cloth. (11) €220 - €350 459. With Illustrations by Bewick Thompson (James) The Seasons, Roy 8vo London (by T. Bensley for James Wallis) 1805. First Edn., Large Paper, with engravings by Bewick from Thurston’s Designs. A.e.g. attractive hf. green mor. raised bands, gilt decor. in panels, by Tout, Binder. V. good. Scarce Edition. (1) €200 ‑ €300 460. Very Attractive Copy Heath’s Picturesque Annuals: Ritchie (Leitch) Ireland Picturesque and Romantic, First & Second Series, 2 vols. sm. folio London 1837-1828., 39 engd. views, plates, portraits etc., a.e.g., in attractive full crimson mor. with blind tooled block decor., gilt spines. Good set. (2) €200 ‑ €300 461. Yeats (Jack B.) Life in the West of Ireland, 4to Dublin & L. (Maunsel & Co.) 1912. First Edn., 8 tipped-in colour plts. & other bl. & white plts.(some tipped-in) complete, some spots, recent fine half green mor., raised bands, mor. label, in recent slipcase. Good copy. (1) €600 ‑ €800 462 – See page 53 463. Foppens (Joh. Francisa) Bibliotheca Belgica, 2 vols. thick 4to Brussels 1739. Engd. port. frontis red & bl. titles, engd. heads, & 145 engd. portraits (8 fold.) cont. mottled calf, tooled gilt spines. Good. (2) €100 ‑ €150 464. Hogarth: The Works of Mr. Hogarth Moralized, Folio London (J. Goodwin) n.d. Port. frontis., some text illus. & 71 full page plts. (ex 72, lacks No. 4, page 79) cont. full green mor. lg. gilt tooled, & blind tooled borders. (1) €130 ‑ €180 465. Commonwealth Soldiers: An Act for Stating and Determining the Accompts of such Officers and Soldiers as are or have been Imployed in the Service of the Commonwealth in Ireland, Folio Lond. (John Field) 1652. Sole Edn., wd.-cut armorial on title, B.L., 18pp recent mor. backed cloth. (1) €220 ‑ €350 466. Ussher (James) Annales Veteris et Novi Testamenti, a Prima Mundi Origine Deducti, Una cum Rerum Asiaticarum et Aegyptiacarum Chronico,... Quibus omnibus praefixa est J. Usseri Vita, a Th. Smitho S.T.D. conscripta. Lg. folio Geneva (G. de Tournes et Filios) 1722. New Edn., Hf. title, red & bl. title with vignette, wd. cut heads, tails & initials, cont. mottled calf, raised bands, orig. gilt tooled mor. label. V. good copy. Emf. (1) €300 ‑ €400 453 454 458 461 466