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23 Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 104. Text in German and French Astronomy: Bode (J.E.) Description et Connoissance Generale des Constellations avec Un Catalogue del’Ascension Droite et de la Declinaison de 17240 Etoiles, Doubles, Nebuleuses et Amas d’Etoiles, (Pour Servir de Suite a son Uranographie) Lg. folio Berlin 1801. Text in German & French, 20 Tables, orig. full tree calf, dble gilt fillet borders, gilt decor. spine, mor. label. Good. (1) Provenance: Birr Castle Estate. €300 - €400 105. Perry (T.M.) & Simpson (D.H.)ed. Drawings by WilliamWestall, Landscape artist on board H.M.S. Investigator during the Circumnavigation of Australia, folio, L. (Royal Commonwealth Society) 1962, illus., cloth, w.a.f. (1) €100 - €150 106. Limited Edition Coloured Plates: Millais (J.G.) The Natural History of British Game Birds , Folio Lond. 1909. First Edn., Limited No. 233 of 550 Copies. 18 lg. cold. plts. & 17 lg. bl. & white plts., in brown buckram backed cloth boards. (1) Provenance: Birr Castle Estate. €350 - €500 107. Millais (John Guille) A Breath from the Veldt, folio Lond. (Henry Sotheran) 1895. First Edn., 13 etched type plts. (include frontis) vignette title, & 12 other plts., text illus., orig. pictorial white buckram. Good copy. (1) Provenance: Birr Castle Estate. €280 - €380 108. [Borlase (Ed.)] The History of the Execrable Irish Rebellion, Folio Lond. (Rob. Clavel) 1680. First Edn., red & bl. title, lg. fold. chart table, 327pp + 138pp recent re- cased hf. calf. (1) €200 - €300 109. Laurence (John) A New System of Agriculture, Being a Complete Body of Husbandry and Gardening .., Folio Dublin (J. Hyde & E. Dobson) 1727. First Edn., engd. frontis wd.-cut headpieces, 2 engd. full page plts., title torn with loss, photocopy supplied, top rt. hand corner of first few pages damp stained lacks loose free blank ends. V. good cont. Irish panel calf. (1) €250 - €400 110. O’Donovan (Donal) God’s Architect - A Life of Raymond McGrath, folio Bray 1995. First Edn.,; McGrath (R.) & Frost (A.C.) Glass in Architecture and Decoration, folio Lond. 1961, New Edn., revised by Mc Grath, both illus. thro.-out, both orig. d.w. (2) €100 - €150 108 104 109 107 106