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

147 Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 1052. The Lindisfarne Gospels [Illustrated Volumes] EvangeliorumQuattuor, Codex Lindisfarenis , 2 vols., Ottent Lausanne (Urs Graf ) 1956 - 59, sm. folio, No. 600 (680) Copies, Facsimile Edition, 34 tipped in colour plts., and various other monochrome plts., Vol. 1 in full blind decorated vellum, & Volume 2, hf. vellum, oatmeal cloth boards, paper wrappers, and original card boxes as issued. (2) * A fine facsimile Copy of one of the most significant books from Anglo-Saxon England. €700 - €1000 1053. The Book of Durrow: Evangeliorum Quattuor Codex Durmachensis , 2 vols. folio Olten, Lausanne, and Freiburg (Urs Graf-Verlag) 1960. No. 373 of Lim. Edition, 650 Copies Only. Numerous coloured & other plts. Volume of illustrations, in orig. blind stamp tan mor. in Celtic design, text volume in orig. tan mor. backed boards, spines uniformly titled in green, orig. plain dust wrappers, & in publisher’s box. V. good set. (2) €600 - €800 1054. [Duft (J.) & Meyer (Peter)] The Irish Miniatures in the Abbey Library of St. Gall, Folio Olten, Berne & Lasuanne 1954. Lim. Edn. 172 (600) Copies, 19 cold. plts., orig. full calf, with blind Celtic design, good in orig. slip case. (1) €500 - €700 1055. Crotch (Wm.) Specimens of Various Styles of Music Referred to in A Course of Lectures Read at Oxford and London and Adapted to Keyed Instruments, Folio 2 vols. in One, Lond. c. 1808, First Edn.,? recent hf. tan calf, tooled gilt spine, mor. labels. V. good copy. Rare. (1) €100 - €150 1056. Irish Music: Moffat (A.) The Minstrelsy of Ireland, 200 Irish Songs. Folio Lond. n.d. [1897] Second Edn., attractive gilt decor. cloth harp & shamrocks; Balfe (M.W.) Moores Irish Melodies, folio Lond & N.Y. n.d. cloth; Stanford (C. Villiers) Songs of Erin, folio Lond. (Boosey & Co.) 1929, recent cloth; Moloney (Colette) The Irish Music Manuscripts of Edward Bunting (1773-1843) An Introduction and Catalogue. Folio Dublin 2000. First Edn., illus. pict. boards. (4) €100 - €150 1057. [Faksimile Verlag Luzern] Der Neue Michelangelo, 3 vols., Switzerland (Verlag Luzern) 1989, Limited Edn., illustrated (fold. plts.), each volume full red leather, gilt leather in associated decorated slipcases. Fine Set. (3) €700 - €900 1058. One of 200 Signed Copies Pinter (Harold) & Cohen (H.) illus. , The Home Coming, folio, L. (Karnac Curwen) 1968, Signed Limited Edn., No. 177 (200) Copies, illus., green decor cloth, matching slipcase. (1) €300 - €400 1059. T.C.D. Catalogue: [Todd (J.H.) & others] Editors, Catalogus Librorum Impressorum qui in Bibliotheca Collegii Sacrosanctae et Individuae Trinitatis, Reginar Elizabethae Juxta Dublin, Adservantur, 8vols. plus Supplement. Together 9 vols. lg. folio Dublin (E. Typographeo Academico) 1864-1887. All orig. full cloth. V. clean set. (9) €150 - €200 1060. One of 25 Numbered Copies Scott (Paul) After the Funeral, 4to, L. (The Whittington Press) 1979, Signed by illus. and contributor, No. XV (XXV) Copies, illus., bound in full Nigerian goatskin by Weatherby Woolnough, with marbled endpapers, in matching slipcase. (1) €350 - €420 1051. The Book of Kells Most Sumptuous Edition Facsimile - Verlag, Luzern, Publishers: The Book of Kells , the most precious illuminated manuscript of the early Middle Ages, now reproduced, the FIRST AND ONLY COMPLETE FINE ART FACSIMILE EDITION, published by Authority of the Board of Trinity College, Dublin. Lg. thick 4to, Luzern 1990, LIMITED EDN., in fine white tawed leather over wooden boards. Contained in a specially created presentation box, the embossed surface with blind & gilt tooled Celtic decoration and silver and brass mounts. Together with a large Commentary Volume, with illus., leather backed cloth, and orig. advertising portfolio. An unique opportunity to acquire a complete facsimile of one of the World’s greatest Art Treasures. As a lot. (2) €3000 - €5000