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

19 Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 81. Presentation Copy with Fine Coloured Plates Lydekker (R.) Wild Oxen, Sheep & Goats of All Lands Living and Extinct, Folio London (RowlandWard) 1898. First Edn., Limited Edn. No. 74 of 500 Copies Signed by Publisher, vignette title, & 28 full cold. engd. plts. (all v. good), text damp stained on early pages, some still stuck together, later buckram backed boards. (1) Provenance: Birr Castle Estate. €550 - €750 82. Brockhaus (Albert) Netsuke, Versuch Einer Geschichte Der Japanischen Schnitzhunst. Sm. folio Leipzig 1905. First Edn., hf. title, 53 full page coloured plts. (1-53), a couple of tissue guards torn, silvered endpapers, t.e.g., orig. gilt stamped lettered & decor. mottled grey calf, top and bottom of spine somewhat worn, but a very good copy. (1) Provenance: Birr Castle Estate. €1000 - €1500 83. Astronomy: Nasmyth (James) & Carpenter (James) The Moon: Considered as a Planet, a World, and a Satellite. Lg. 4to Lond. 1874. First Edn., frontis & 2 full page plts., some text illus., diagrams etc., advert leaf at end, t.e.g., orig. blue cloth (stained), with mor. inset gilt image on front cover. V. Scarce. (1) Provenance: Birr Castle Estate. €700 - €1000 84. With Coloured Illustrations New Zealand: Montrose (C.O.) Picturesque New Zealand, No. 2 Pt. II, Auckland Dec. 1882, 23 lg. plts. & plans include. E. Rawlings, orig. cloth, worn; also New Zealand Berries , lg. 4to Nelson, N.Z. (H.D. Jackson) n.d. [c. 1890] Decor. title, & 12 full page plts., decor. ptd. boards. As a coll. of plates. (1) €150 - €250 85. O’Callaghan Newenham (Robert) Picturesque Views of the Antiquities of Ireland, Vol. I [All Published] lg. 4to Lond. (Thos. &Wm. Boone) 1830. First Edn. title, dedit & list of subs., 110 full page litho plts. cont. hf. crimson mor. (1) Provenance: Birr Castle Estate. €200 - €300 86. Astronomy: Copeland (Ralph) Annals of the Royal Observatory, Edinburgh, Vols. 1 & 2. Together 2 vols. lg. 4to Glasgow 1902- 1906. First Edns., text illus. thro.-out, ends loosened by dampness, orig. dam. (2) Provenance: Birr Castle Estate. €150 - €200 85 81 83 86 82