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

54 IMPERFECTIONS NOT STATED Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 467. North (Sir Thos.) Translator, The Lives of the Nobel Grecians and Romaines, Compared together by that Grave Learned Philosopher and Historiographer Plutarch of Chaeronea... . Folio Lond. (Richard Field) 1612. Bound with, The Lives of Epaminondas, of Philip of Macedon, of Dionysius the Elder, and of Octavius Caesar Augustus: Collected out of Good Authors, Lond. (R. Field) 1610. Two titles with wd. cut device, wd. head & tails & initials letters, decor. wd. cut portraits, throughout, 1244 + pages top one third of text with varying degree of damp stains thro-out, cont. full calf, raised bands, professionally rebacked with orig. spine laid down, some dam., orig. mor. label. (1) €300 ‑ €400 468. Early Printing by Froben: En Amice lector. Thesaurum damus inaestimabilem D. Basilium Vere nagnum sua lingua dissertissime... Folio Basle (Ex. Officina Frobeniana) 1532, printers device, on title & last leaf. Text in Greek thro.-out, some wd.-initials (2 cut-out),one leaf badly stained, and one page of preliminaries lacking, in later full calf, mor. label, sound copy, w.a.f. (1) €160 ‑ €240 469. St. Ambrose: Omnia Quotquot Extant D. Ambrosii Episcopi Mediolanensis Opoera, primum per Des Erasmum Rotterodamum, mox per Sig. Gelenium...Vols. 1-3 (ex 5) bound as one. Lg. folio Basle 1567. Wd. cut devices on titles, wd. initials, lacks front loose blanks, text v. clean, in cont. heavy leather backed wooden boards, profusely blind decor. lacks clasps, upr. cover loose, some dam. (1) €200 ‑ €300 470. Harris (Walter) The History and Antiquities of Ireland, ... with The History of the Writers of Ireland. Folio Dublin (Rob. Bell) 1764. First Edn., engd. port. frontis & 21 plts. (some fold.) complete, clean text, cont. full calf, mor. label, joints cracked, upr. cover loose. Emf. (1) €200 ‑ €300 471. Illustrated Volume: Ross (Martin) & Somerville (E.O.) A Patrick’s Day Hunt, oblong 4to, L. (A. Constable & Co.) [1902], First Edn., illus. green cloth, decor. covers, some wear. (1) €150 ‑ €200 472. Manaton Edition - Signed by Author Galsworthy (John) The Works of John Galsworthy, Vols. 1 - 25, together 25 vols., 8vo Lond. (Wm. Heinemann Ltd.) 1923-29. Lim. Edn. No. 251 of 530 Sets, Vol. I Signed by the Author., uncut, orig. vellum backed boards, gilt lettered. (25) €350 ‑ €500 473. Marini (Gaetano) I Papiri Diplomatici, Raccolti ed Illustrati . Lg. folio Rome (Nella Stamperia della Sac. Congr. de Prop. Fide). 1805. First Edn., hf. title, red & bl. title with engd. vignette, head & tails, initial letters, wd.-cut text illus. & 22 lg. fold. & other plts., orig. paper wrappers. Emf. (1) €250 ‑ €400 474. Wadding (Fr. Luke) Scriptores Ordinis Minorum, Quibus accessit syllabus illorum qui ex eodem ordine pro Fide Christi fortiter occubuerunt. Lg. folio Rome 1806, uncut, later hf. mor., marble sides. Good. Emf. (1) €220 ‑ €350 475. Mahr (Adolf) Christian Art in Ancient Ireland, Selected Objects Illustrated and Described. 2 vols. lg. folio Dublin (Stationery Office) 1932-41. First Edn., full page plts., orig. cloth. Emf. (2) €170 ‑ €250 476. By Co. Cork Theologian Ponch (John) Theologiae Cursus Integer, Ad Mentem Scoti. Editio Novissima Indicibus necessariis locupletata. Folio Lyons (L. Arnaud & P. Borde) 1671. Red & bl. title with engd. vignette, hf. title, full cont. vellum, raised bands. V. good. Emf. (1) €300 ‑ €400 477. Dance (George)R.A. Sketches drawn from Life by George Dance, R.A. and Engraved by William Daniell, A.R.A., Lg. folio Lond. (W.M. Thiselton) 1808. 54 full page engraved portraits (all clean), in cont. hf. crimson mor. As a coll. of plates, w.a.f. V. good. (1) €200 - €300 479. The Authentic Edition - Signed Wells (H.G.) The Works of H.G. Wells, 28 vols. roy 8vo Lond. (T. Fisher Unwin Ltd.) 1924-27. Limited Edition No. 477 of 620 Sets - Signed by the Author, frontis etc., t.e.g., cont. crimson buckram, gilt spines, stained. (28) €700 ‑ €900 474 476 477 469 467 468