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

22 IMPERFECTIONS NOT STATED Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 99. Johnson - The Works of the late Reverend Mr. Samuel Johnson, Sometime Chaplain to the Rt. Honourable William Lord Russel, Folio Lond. 1713. Second Edn., cont. blind tooled panel calf, cover loose. S.N.S.R. (1) Provenance: Birr Castle Estate. €60 - €90 101. Atlas: Joly (Joseph-Romain) Atlas de l’Ancienne Geographie Universal Comparee a la Moderne, precede D’Une Table Generale, en Forme de Dictionnaire, ... Folio Paris 1801, 18 lg. fold. maps, cont. hf. calf. As an Atlas, w.a.f. (1) Provenance: Birr Castle Estate. €200 - €300 102. Irish Houses: Mulligan (Kevin V.) Ballyfin - The Restoration of an Irish House & Demesne, folio 2011; O’Byrne (Robert) Luggala Days - The Story of a Guinness House, folio 2012; Castletown Decorative Arts, Castletown Foundation (O.P.W.) 2011; Craig (Maurice) Classic Irish Houses of the Middle Size, folio London 1976, First Edn., all d.w.’s. (4) €130 - €180 101 100. Inscribed Presentation Copy Hand-Coloured Plates: Maw (George) A Monograph of The Genus Crocus, Lg. 4to Lond. (Culau & Co.) 1886. First Edn. Hf. title, dble page cold. map, 4 cold. plts. A - D, & 78 others Nos. 1 - 67, together 82 hand coloured plates, plate numbered 17, appear to be lacking, two double page tables, a.e.g. cont. full green mor., rebacked with orig. spine, some wear, but a clean copy. (1) Provenance: Birr Castle Estate. €1200 - €1500 103. Siren (Osvald) A History of Early Chinese Art, 4 vols. folio Lond. (Ernast Benn) 1929. First Edn., numerous illus. plts. complete, all uniform blue buckram, light staining on Vol. IV. Engd. pictorial Bookplates of Michael, Earl of Rosse. V. good set. (4) Provenance: Birr Castle Estate. €1200 - €1800