RARE BOOK, LITERATURE & COLLECTORS’ SALE May 30th & 31st
141 Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 989. Fishing: [Allan (Robert)] The Sportsman in Ireland, with his Summer Route through the Highlands of Scotland. 2 vols. 8vo (H. Colburn) 1840. First Edn., 2 litho frontis, Vol. II has hf. title & advert leaf at end, adverts end of Vol. I ,also, & 18 wd. cut vignettes in text, orig. embossed cloth, rebacked, orig. spine laid down. (2) €160 - €220 990. Edwards (Bryan) The History, Civil and Commercial, of the British Colonies in the West Indies, 2 vols. 8vo Dublin (Luke White) 1793. First Dublin Edn., Lg. fold. engd. map, 5 fold. tables in 6, orig. tree calf, tooled gilt mor. labels. A very good copy. (2) €280 - €380 991. Attractive Facsimile Book of Hours [Faksimile Verlag Luzern] - Evan (Mark L.)intro. The Sforza Hours, add m/ss 34294 of the British Library - Vol. 1, 12mo, Switzerland (Verlag) 1993, Limited Edn., No. 278 (980) Copies, bound with hand stitching and covered in red velour and decorated with chased silver plated clasps, together with explanatory booklet housed in complimentary velour clam box. (1) €450 - €650 992. Joyce (James) Ulysses, thick 4to, Paris (Shakespeare and Company) [Dijon for Sylvia Beach by Maurice Darantiere 1924] Fifth Printing, hf. title, additional correction at end, (4pps) recased cream cloth gilt lettered spine (blue cloth d.j.) wrappers not present, all edges cut. (1) * This was the Fifth of 11 printings done by Sylvia Beach. €400 - €500 993. Davy (Sir Humphry) Elements of Agricultural Chemistry, In a Course of Lectures for The Board of Agriculture. 8vo Lond. 1814. Second Edn., 10 fold. plts., some spotting, recent rebind, calf backed marble boards, raised bands, gilt lettered spine. Good. (1) €200 - €300 994. Walker (Joseph C.) Historical Memoirs of the Irish Bards; An Historical Essay on the Dress of the Ancient and Modern Irish; and ... Armour and Weapons of the Irish ,2 vols. 8vo Dublin 1818. Second Edn., list of subscribers, 18 engd. plts.(include 2 frontis), some pps. of music, some damp stains Vol. II, recent hf. calf, marble sides, gilt spines. (2) €180 - €240 995. Hind (Henry Youle) Explorations in the Interior of The Labrador Peninsula, The Country of the Montagnais and Nasquapee Indians. 2 vols. roy 8vo London 1863, First Edn. 2 hf. titles, 2 cold. frontis, neat stamp of ‘Museum of Irish Industry Library,’ 2 maps (1 fold.) & 10 cold. plts. (chromo-lithographs) full page bl. & white illus in text, complete. v. good. In orig. green mor., gilt lettered spine. V. good copy. (2) €200 - €300 996. O’Flaherty (Liam) The Wild Swans and other Stories, 8vo L. (Wm. Jackson) 1932, Ltd. Edn., No. 95 (550), Signed Copy, illus. by P.V. Moon, cloth, gilt lettering, good copy; The Fairy Goose and Two Other Stories, sm. 4to, N.Y. (Crosby Gaige) 1927, Signed, unopened, cloth backed decorated boards, d.j. Good copy. (2) €180 - €220 997. Arthur (Helen) The Single Malt Whisky Companion, A Connoisseurs Guide, 8vo, L. (Past Times) 1998, illus., cloth & d.j.; Resnick (Jane) International Connoisseurs Guide to Cigars, tall 8vo, N.Y. (Black Day & Leventhal) 1996, illus., ptd. boards; Heald (Tim) The Best After Dinner Stories, 8vo L. (folio) 2003, illus. by Paul Cox, decor boards. As a lot. (3) €100 - €150 998. Kochanowski (Jan) Laments, trans. Seamus Heaney and Stanislaw Baranczak, Faber 1995; the same, Gallery 2009, both cloth in d.w., fine. (2) €100 - €200 995 991 992 994
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