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

102 IMPERFECTIONS NOT STATED Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 670. Wright (Thos.) St. Patrick’s Purgatory; An Essay on the Legends of Purgatory, Hell and Paradise, current during The Middle Ages. 8vo Lond. 1844. First Edn., Name on title, 24pp catalogue at end, orig. cloth. Clean copy. (1) €90 - €150 671. Americana : Stewart (C.S.) Brazil and La Plata: The Personal Record of a Cruise. 8vo New York (G.P. Putnam & Co.) 1856. First Edn., 2 litho frontis, 428pp. plus 16pp. catalogue at end, orig. embossed cloth, recased, gilt spine. Good copy. (1) €170 - €250 672. Dedicated to Oliver Cromwell [Titus (Col.)] Allen (Wm.) Killing No Murder, Briefly Discours’d, In Three Questions, Fit for Public View, To Deter and Prevent Tyrants from Usurping Supreme Power, Now Reprinted and Addressed to the French King, Sm. 4to Lond. 1708? 28pp title & first leaf shaved, slightly affecting text, browned thro-out, recent cloth backed boards. (1) €130 - €180 673. Co. Mayo: Fitzgerald (George Robert) An Appeal to the Public, 8vo D. 1782. First Edn., 463pp errata leaf at end, cont. calf recent prof. reback, mor. label. V. good. Scarce. (1) * The author lived at Turlough Park, Castlebar. €120 - €180 674. Inscribed Presentation Copy Americana: Dowding (Rev. W.C.) Africa in the West: Its State; Prospects; and Educational Needs: With Reference to Bishop Berkeley’s Bermuda College, 8vo Oxford and London 1852, First Edn., 27pp recent full cloth mor. label down spine, v. good. Rare. (1) * Inscribed by author on t.p. to ‘His Grace the Archbishop of Armagh, with the author’s best respects.’ €140 - €220 675. With Attractive Coloured Plates Japanese Illustrated: Picture Story of Silkworm and Raw Silk, 8vo [China] n.d. 10 hand coloured plates on silk mounts, the entire in concertina form, text in Chinese and English, within cloth boards, with Chinese paper label. V. good. (1) €150 - €200 676. Map: Stanford (Ed.) Publisher, Hull (Ed.) Geological Map of Ireland, Founded on the Maps of the Geological Survey of Richard Griffith and of Prof. J. Beete Jukes. Folded 8vo Lond. 1878. A lg. folding hand- coloured linen backed map, in orig. cloth slipcase. v. good. (1) €350 - €500 677. Heaney (Seamus) Poems 1965-1975, N.Y. 1980, First American Edn., Signed on title, orig. cl. in d.w., fine, Signed on t.p; with the same. Uncorrected Proof, wrappers, 1980. (2) €200 - €300 669. Fine Vellum Binding, by Cedric Cheevers in Pre-Raphaelite Style Binding: Tennyson - The Works of Lord Tennyson Poet Laureate, 8vo Lond. (Macmillan & Co.) 1900. Hf. title, port. frontis a.e.g., in full vellum binding decorated on front cover with King Arthur Pendragon, the lower cover with Guinevere His Queen, & the spine with flowers, all in the Pre-Raphaelite style by Cedric Cheevers, Bath, Signed. Beautiful example. (1) Provenance: Birr Castle Estate. €700 - €1000 675 672 677 674