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

98 IMPERFECTIONS NOT STATED Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 707. With Tinted Illustrated Plates Mecham (Clifford Henry) Sketches and Incidents of the Siege of Lucknow, .. with descriptive notices by George Couper. Lg. atlas folio Lond. (Day & Son) Lithographers 1858. Illus. full title, & 27 tinted illus. on 18 leaves (include. title), lacks frontis, a few tears, all foredges frayed, good clean images, orig. cloth, recent re-case & re- back. As a coll. of plts. (1) €250 ‑ €400 708. Atlas: Danville (Mons.) An Atlas of Ancient Geography, large atlas folio Lond. (Published by R.H. Laurie) n.d. 12 lg. dble page hand cold. maps, by Laurie & Whittle, dated 1794, all v. clean, orig. hf. calf, marble boards, spine dam. As an Atlas, w.a.f. (1) Provenance : Birr Castle Estate. €100 - €150 709. Harrison (J.C.) The Birds of Prey of the British Islands, lg. atlas folio Wiltshire (Fine Bird Books) 1980. Lim. Edition, No. 246 of 275 Copies, Signed by Author. With 20 fine full page coloured prints, complete, v. good cont. hf. mor. cloth sides, & in matching slip case. Very good. (1) €270 - €350 710. Melot (Michel) Henri de Toulouse - Lautrec Eldes, L. (The Toulouse - Lautrec Circle) 1969, in association with the Sunday Times, Limited Edn. 1186 (1250) Copies, end plate embossed stamped or numbered, cloth back, colourful decorative boards and matching slip case. (1) €250 - €350 711. Mc Lean (Thos.) Publisher. Large Scrap Album, containing 47 pages with approx. 77 engd. illustrations after H.B., [Richard Doyle] political illustrator, printmaker, painter etc. There are 13 full page illus., & 68 hf. page ditto, all of a Political nature, featuring Wellington, Peel, Daniel O’Connell etc. (1) Provenance: Birr Castle Estate. €100 - €150 712 – See page 99 713. Celtic Society: O’Donovan (John) Leabhar na gCeart or The Book of Rights, 8vo Dublin 1847, also Miscellany of The Celtic Society, 8vo Dublin 1849. Both First Edns., & orig. cloth backed boards. Good. (2) €100 - €150 714. French Italian Tests: Pamphlets: 1. Laget (M.) L;Influence de la Religion Chretienne sur le Bonheur de la Societe Civile..., Amsterdam 1774. 126pp + advert. leaf; 2. [Dubois - Fontanelle (J. Gasp)] Essai sur Le Feu Sacre et sur Les Vestales, Amsterdam 1768. Hf. title, [110]pp; 3. Algarotti (Conte) Ragionamento Intorno al Saggio, Turin 1773. 150pp; 4. [Renoul (Valentin Jean)], Traite de l’Autorite des Parents sur le Mariage des Enfants de Famille. Lond. 1773. Lond. 1773. [181]pp; 5. Saggio sopra la Politica e la Legislazione Romana, Del Conte B.... di C... . Sm. 8vo [Firenze O Livorno]1772. 286pp & errata leaf; 6. Michaelis - De L’Influence des Opinions sur le Langage, et du Language sur les Opinions, Sm. 8vo Breme (George Louis Forster) 1762. 208pp. Together 6 Tracts or Pamphlets in 2 volumes, cont. full calf, raised bands, mor. labels. An important collection. w.a.f. Very good copies. (2) €300 - €400 715. Photographs: European Leaders, A small Carte-de-Visite Album containing approx. 42 carte-de-visite portrait Photographs of Queen Victoria, Prince Albert & other members of Royal Family, members of British Government, Gladstone, Ld. John Russell, Lord Palmerstown, Pope Pius IX, Cardinal Antonelli, members of the French, Russia, Prussian, Greek, Italian & other royal families, Prince of Morocco and many others, all c. 1860, in sm. leather bound Album. As a coll., w.a.f. (1) €150 - €200 707 714 708 715 709