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

123 Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 839. Northampton: Kip (Wm.) Northamtoniae Comitatus Descritio, c. 1690, hd. cold.in outline; Morden (Rob.) Northamptonshire, dbl. page engd. & folding map, Sold by Abel Swale and Awnsham, and John Churchill, [London], c. 1720; Letts, Son & Co. - Northampton, hd. cold.; Cary (J.) Northamptonshire, c. 1790, hd. cold. in outline; & 4 others sim. As a lot of maps, w.a.f. (8) €125 - €175 840. Italian Plates: Werner (Chas.) Views of the Siege of Rome in 1849, oblong folio Rome [1849], 12 full page plts. engraved by Domenico Amici, orig. ptd. wrappers; also Grassi (Ranieri) Rappresentazione degli Edifizj piu Cospicui de Pisa. Sm. oblong folio Pisa (Ranieri Prosperi) 1852. First Edn. 12 full page plts. with letterpress, orig. printed wrappers. Both volumes with exceptionally clean plates. As a collection, w.a.f. (2) €225‑€350 841. Tasso (Torquato) Il Gonzaga Secondo, overo del Givoco, 8vo Venice (Bernado Giunti) 1582. First Edn., Wd. cut device on title, wd.-cut initial on dedication page, 20pp., L. Stamps on front & end leaf, later paper wrappers. V. Rare. (1) €140 - €200 842. South America: Vergara (Jose Ignacio) Observationes Meteorolojicas Observatorio Astronomico de Santiago, roy 8vo Chile 1885. Vignette title, tables etc., cloth backed boards, damp dam. at spine; Parsons (Hon. R. Clere) The Sanitary Works of Buenos Ayres: Sewage, Drainage andWater-Supply, Ed. by James Forrest. 8vo Lond. 1896. First Edn., Presentation Copy to the Hon. The Earl of Rosse, inscribed. With 3 lg. fold. plts., sewn. As a lot, w.a.f. (2) Provenance: Birr Castle Estate. €200 - €300 843. West Indies: Jamaica A collection of 12 octagonal Doyleys made from the bark of the Lagetta - Lintearia tree growing in Jamaica, the borders are cut out of the Sparta, the sheath of the fruit of the Mountain - Cabbage palm, the centres are designed with Ferns collected from different parts of Jamaica, in an attractive blue cover. The Doyleys are sold for the benefit of the Orphanage for Girls, in Kingston, Jamaica. As a coll., w.a.f. Scarce. (1) €200 - €300 844. Binding: A 19th Century French carved wooden Renaissance style gilt gesso decorated painted Binding (no contents) depicting an elegant Lady with red hair, and coat of arms, worn. Scarce. (1) €180 - €220 845. A rare old Ethiopian Coptic Manuscript Prayer Scroll, in red and black script on sheep skin written in Ge’ez, the ancient liturgical language of Ethiopia, headed with the portrait of a Cleric and the bottom with an angel, c. 1900, approx. 172cms x 9cms (68” x 3 ½ ”). (1) €300 - €500 846. Photograph: A three-quarter length Photograph of ‘Mussolini,’ approx. 31.5cms x 21.5cms (12 ½ ” x 8 1/4”), Signed ‘Fot. Petitti - ROME,’ Portrays the subject looking right in trench coat, bowler hat & with binoculars hanging around his neck, mounted on card, inscribed, ‘ Mussolini, sent me by Commindator’s daughter from Florence,’ As a photo, w.a.f. (1) €120 - €180 850. Forde (H.A.) The Fruit of Spirit, 8vo, L. (The de La More Press) n.d., illustrated by I. de B. Lochyer, unopened, ptd. wrappers. (1) €80 - €120 851. Cuala Press: The Ancient Mare, a hand coloured Card with printed verse, by Cuala Press, Dublin, No. 99, approx. 16cms x 13cms. Good. (1) €80 - €120 852. Yeats (W.B.)editor, The Arrow, Vol. I, No. 2, & No. 3, together 2 numbers (ex. 5?) 4to Dublin November 24th, 1906, & February 23, 1907, First Edns., orig. decorated wrappers; also, Abbey Theatre, Dublin Twenty-first Birthday Anniversary Performance 27th December, 1925, a souvenir programme, lg. 4to with 3 portrait illus. tipped-in of Lady Gregory, W.B. Yeats and John M. Synge, orig. pict. wrappers; & 1 other item on The Gate Theatre, All good. (4) €100 - €150 841 843 846 845