RARE BOOK, LITERATURE & COLLECTORS’ SALE May 30th & 31st

100 IMPERFECTIONS NOT STATED Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 653. Maxwell (W.H.) Rambling Recollections of a Solider of Fortune, 8vo Dublin 1842 First Edn., Hf. title, engd. port. frontis, & 4 plts. 12pp cat at end, lacks front loose end, orig. cloth, with gilt harp on front cover & lettering. (1) * The author, was born in Newry, Co. Down, & was the author of several works, including, ‘ Wild Sports of of the West [Ireland]’ € 180 - €250 654. Co. Down Born Author - Presentation Copy Americana: Chesney (Capt. C.C.) A Military View of Recent Campaigns in Virginia and Maryland, 8vo Lond. 1863. First Edn., hf. title, fold. map frontis & 3 other maps on one fold. plt., orig. cloth recased, spine dam. (1) * Hf. title inscribed ‘From the Author.’ €160 - €240 655. Dublin Printing: Vertot (Abbe de) The Revolutions of Portugal... Trans by Gabriel Roussillon. 8vo Dublin (George Grierson) 1724. First Dublin Edn.? some sm. worm holes, repaired, not affecting text, cont. full blind Dublin calf, some slight wear. (1) €100 - €150 656. Signed by John Mitchel, Young Irelander San Bartolomeo (Fra Paolino) A Voyage to the East Indies, Containing An Account of the Manners, Customs etc., of the Natives, With a Geographical Description of the Country. Trans. from German by William Johnston. With Notes and Illustrations by John Reinhold Forster. 8vo London (J. Davbis) 1800. First English Edn. Hf. title, engd. frontis, advert. leaf at end, cont. tree calf, some wear, mor. label. V. Scarce. (1) * Title page Signed by John Mitchel, Irish Republican, Young Irelander, etc. €400 - €600 657. Astronomy: Slugg (J.T.)ed. Observational Astronomy, and Guide to the Use of the Telescope; .. By a Clergyman. Lond. (Simpkin, Marshall & Co.) c. 1862. First Edn. Thus, 20 plts., & text illus. Mentions ‘The Rosse Nebulae,’ attractive gilt decor. cloth; Herdman (Wm. G.) Thoughts on Speculative Cosmology and The Principles of Art, 8vo [Liverpool, 1869]. Subscribers Copy, and Airy (G.B.) Six Lectures on Astronomy, delivered at .. The Ipswich Museum, 8vo Lond. n.d. [1848]. Fourth Edn. 7 fold. plts., orig. cloth. (3) €150 - €200 658. [Story (GeorgeW.)] Eye-Witness, A True and Impartial History of The Most Material Occurrences in the Kingdom of Ireland During the Two Last Years, With the Present State of Both Armies, Sm. 4to Lond. (Ric. Chiswell) 1691. Pages repaired, stains thro-out, recent calf backed marble boards. S.N.S.R. (1) €120 - €180 659. Oliphant (Laurence) The Russian Shores of the Black Sea in the Autumn of 1852, 8vo Edin. & L. 1854. Third Edn., tinted litho frontis text illus. & 1 single page map & a fold. map, cont. hf. calf, mor. label, spine worn. (1) €100 - €150 660. Astronomy etc: Heschel (Sir J.F.W.) Outlines of Astronomy, 8vo Lond. 1875. New Edn., frontis, good plts. & text illus., cont. full prize calf, Hereford Cathedral, gilt spine; Olmsted (Denison) The Mechanism of the Heavens, sm. 8vo Lond. 1850. Frontis, vign. title, cold. plts. some after Lord Rosse, attractive tooled gilt green mor.; The Orbs of Heaven, sm. 8vo Lond. 1865. Engd. frontis, title with vignette of Lord Rosse’s Telescope, Parsonstown, text illus. & cold. plts., calf joints cracked; Buckley (A.B.) The Fairy-Land of Science, 8vo Lond. 1880, plts. & text illus. orig. full prize crimson mor. (4) €150 - €200 660 654 656 658 657