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68 info@fonsiemealy.ie 244 Chesterfield - Letters Written by The Late Rt. Hon. Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, to His Son,... 2 vols. lg. 4to Lond. (J. Dodlsey) 1774. First Edn., Engd. port. frontis, 2 hf. titles, cont. full calf, raised bands, gilt tooled mor. labels, joints weakening. (2) €35-€50 245 O’Reilly (Ed.) An Irish-English Dictionary, lg. 4to Dublin 1817. First Edn., list of subs., damp stains thro.-out, cont. hf. mor.; Brooke (C.) Reliques of Irish Poetry, 4to Dublin 1789. First Edn., last few leaves supplied in a neat manuscript hand, rebacked. As a lot, w.a.f. Ex. library. (2) €80-€140 246 Astronomy: Memoirs of The Astronomical Society of London, Volume I, only, 4to London (Baldwin, Cradock & Joy) 1822. First Edn., 6 engd. plts. (some fold.), fold. table, cont. hf. calf, piece from top of spine lacking. As a periodical, w.a.f. Good Scarce. (1) * Charles Babbage was one of the founders of the Society. €75-€100 247 Capel - Letters written by His Excellency Arthur Capel, Earl of Essex, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, in the Year 1675, Lg. 4to London 1770. Hf. title, cont. full calf, tooled gilt borders & circular armorial bearing of the Earl of Gosford, with motto ‘Vigilantibus,’ gilt flat spine with mor. label. (1) €60-€100