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

12 IMPERFECTIONS NOT STATED Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 29. Signed Limited Edition Huxley (Aldous) Brave NewWorld, A Novel. Roy 8vo Lond. (Chatto &Windus) 1932. Lim. Edn. No. 228 of 324 Copies, Signed by Author. First British Edition. Uncut, orig. yellow buckram, blue mor. label. Bookplate of Michael, Earl of Rosse. Bromer A29.2. (1) Provenance: Birr Castle Estate. €1000 - €1500 30. Famous IrishWriter & Traveller Presentation Copy Fitzgerald (Wm. Walter Augustine) Travels in the Coastlands of British East Africa and the Islands of Zanzibar and Pemba, Their Agricultural Resources and General Characteristics. Thick 8vo Lond. (Chapman & Hall) 1898. First Edn., Hf. title, photo frontis portrait, all the illus. plts. & illus. some single page cold. maps & 3 lg. fold. maps (ex. 4), orig. wine cold. cloth, gilt lettered. (1) * Inscribed Presentation Copy ‘... to Canon Stanistreet [later Bishop Stanistreet, of Killaloe] October 1909,’ Good Copy. (1) €225 - €350 31. Inscribed Presentation Copy Bellew (H.W.) Kashmir and Kashghar, A Narrative of The Journey of the Embassy to Kashghar in 1873-74 ,8vo London 1875. First Edn., hf. title, orig. wine coloured cloth, with gilt decor. medallion on front cover. V. good copy. Yakushi B119. * Inscribed Presentation Copy to Sir F. Goldsmith. (1) €450 - €750 32. Taaffe (Dennis) An Impartial History of Ireland, 2 vols. Dublin 1809. Wd. cut title vignettes, cont. hf. calf, mor. labels. (2) €80 - €120 33. Co. Tipperary, Author & Traveller: Deasy (Capt. H.H.P.) In Tibet and Chinese Turkestan Being the Record of Three Years Exploration, 8vo London 1901. First Edn., Second Impression. Hf. title, port. frontis, lg. fold. map (loose), 7 plts. & numerous full page & text illus., orig. pict. cloth. Good. (1) * The author was born in Backrock, Co. Dublin, 1866. He had a successful military career and later got interested in travel. He received the Royal Geographical Society’s Gold Founders Medal for his explorations in Tibet. He was a pioneering motorist, and later published “ The Problem of Road Traffic, its Solution,” 1914. He eventually returned to his residence at Carrigahorig, Co. Tipperary. He married Delores, the daughter of Col J.F. Hickie of Slevyre, Borrisokane, Co. Tipperary, and died in 1947. They had two daughters and a son Rickard, who later founded The National Farmer’s Association. Provenance: Birr Castle Estate. €200 – €300 34. Irish Travel: Forbes (Sir John) Memorandums of a Tour in Ireland , 2 vols. in one, 8vo Lond. 1853. First Edn., 2 litho frontis & 2 other litho plts. (some damp stains) fold. map, text illus., a.e.g., orig. cloth; Head (Sir F.B.) A Fortnight in Ireland , 8vo Lond. 1852. First Edn., fold. map, cont. hf. calf. (2) €120 – €180 33 35 34 29 & detail 31 30