Rare Book & Collectors' Sale June 23rd, 24th & 25th 2026

124 IMPERFECTIONS NOT STATED Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 963. Illustrations by Samuel Lover Magrath (T.W.) Authentic Letters from Upper Canada; with an Account of Canadian Field Sports. Edited by The Rev. T. Radcliff. Lg. 12mo Dublin (Wm. Curry Jun. & Co.) 1833. First Edn., Engd. frontis & 3 plts., by Samuel Lover, 330pp., some slight stains, orig. embossed brown cloth, recased, gilt lettered spine. Very good Copy. Ex. Scarce. (1) €225 - €350 964. de ‘ Costumi d della morte di Maria Clementina, Regina d’Inghilterra, di Francia, e d’Irlanda. 8vo In Roma ed in Bologna (Nella Stamperia di Lelo dalla Volpe) 1737. First Edn., wormed at gutter, cont. mottled calf. Scarce. Emf. (1) €150 - €200 965. Signed by P.F. Moran, later Cardinal Early Italian Printings: De Persecutione Angliccana Libellus, Duo Explicantur Affictiones, Calamitates, cruciatus, & acerbissima martyria, quae Angli. Catholici nunc ab fide patiuntur . Sm. 8vo Rome (Ex. Typo. Georgii Ferrarii) 1582. Red & bl. title with coat of arms, 112pp., L.S. removed from title, damp stains thro.-out, but good, orig. limp vellum. Emf. (1) * Inscribed ‘P.F. Moran’ on title, later Cardinal & Archbishop of Sydney in Australia. Arms on title page are of Cardinal Filippo Boncompagni. The work is about the sufferings of the English Catholics, following the trial and execution of Edmund Campion & others. Rare. (1) €400 - €600 962. “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of aWife” [Austen (Jane) (1785-1817] Pride and Prejudice, 3 vols. sm. 8vo, L. (T. Egerton) 1813, Second Edn., uniform contemporary full calf, gilt decorated and lettered spine (professionally rebacked), bookplate of O’Brien’s (inscribed) Curraghchase, Co. Limerick, Signed by Eleanor O’Brien on f.e.p. Good copy. (3) Note & Ref: After an early rejection by the publisher Cadell, the first edition of Pride and Prejudice was finally bought by Egerton in 1812 and published in late January 1813. The second edition is thought to have been published in October that same year. Chapman notes that there is “no external evidence that the author had any part in the second edition; and it contains no changes that can be attributed to revision.” It is a complete resetting of the first, however, from which it differs by occasional variants in the setting of the page and spelling or punctuation. Pride and Prejudice was written between October 1796 and August 1797 when Austen was not yet twenty-one, the same age, in fact, as her fictional heroine Elizabeth Bennet. A nice example of this landmark work in English literature. Ref: Gilson A3; Grolier English 69; Keynes 3; Sadleir 62b. “A lady’s imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration, to love, from love to matrimony in a moment” Provenance: De Veres of Curragh Chase and O’Briens of Dromoland Castle. €5,000 - €8,000 963 965