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

24 IMPERFECTIONS NOT STATED Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 111. Chaucer (Geoffrey) c. 1343-1400, The Workes of Our Ancient and Learned English Poet, Geoffrey Chaucer, Newly Printed, folio, London (Adam Islip) 1602; B.L. Second Speght Edition, woodcut title border (lacks frontis), first 13 leaves & 7 end leaves strengthened at edge, errata leaf at end damaged & relined, engd. armorial shield, woodcut initials throughout, recent hf. calf marble boards, mor. label. (1) Ref: Pforzheimer 178 STC (2nd Edn.) Provenance: Birr Castle Estate. €550 - €750 112. 1851 Census of Ireland Report on the Status of Disease - Part III (Census of Ireland for the Year 1851), folio, D. (A. Thom) 1854, recent cloth. (1) * Reporting on the various people sick at home, in prison, workhouses and asylums around Ireland shortly after the famine years. €80 - €120 113. Early French Printing [Stephanus (Robertus) Typographer] Dionis Romanorum Historiarum Libri XXIII; In Greek thro-out, Lutetrae Parisiorum [Robertus Stephanus) 1548, First Edn., woodcut title page, and printers device on end leaf, later full calf, worn, upper cover detached. (1) Provenance: Birr Castle Estate. €180 - €250 114. Co. Cork Illuminated Address Co. Cork: Gilbert, Cork, Illuminator : Sunday’s Well Boating and Tennis Club, Address to James Hurst, Esq., Secretary of the above, with cold. photo. decorated border Signed Gilbert, Cork and one other sim., plus 4 pages of signatures, in a fine full crimson mor. binding, the front cover with tooled gilt border, decorated with flowers & other designs, outside inscription ‘Address to James Hurst, Esq., Secretary Sunday’s Well Boating and Tennis Club on the Occasion of His Marriage,’ As a m/ss., w.a.f. Attractive item. (1) €300 - €400 115. O.P.W.: Archaeological Inventories, of County Carlow, 1993; County Laois, 1995; County Wexford, 1996; and County Wicklow, 1997. Together 4 vols. folio Dublin 1993-1997. Maps, plans & illus. in all, orig. pict. d.w.’s. (4) €75 - €125 116. Johnston (Robert) Historia Rerum Britannicarum, Ut et Multarum Gallicarum, Belgicarum, & Germanicarum, tam Politicarum, quam Ecclesiasticarum ab anno 1572, ad Annum 1628. Folio Amsterdam (Joannis Ravesteynii) 1655, Wd. cut heads & tails, orig. blind stamped vellum, spine dam. (1) €80 - €130 117. Pyle (Hilary) Jack B. Yeats: A Catalogue Raisonne of the Oil Paintings, 3 vols. lg. 4to Lond. (Andre Deutsch) 1992. First Edn., profusely illustrated, orig. green cloth, in slipcase. Good. (3) €300 - €400 118. Tredgold (T.) .. On the Steam Engine Locomotive and Stationary Engines, The Principles and Practice of their Construction, Exemplified. Lg. 4to Lond. (James S. Virtue) n.d., 58 of 60 mostly fold. plts., cont. hf. mor. tooled gilt spine, mor. label. As a coll. of plts. (1) €140 - €200 119. Robertson (James George) Antiquities and Scenery of the County of Kilkenny, oblong folio Kilkenny (Boethuis Press) 1983. Limited Edn. of 585 Copies, full page plts. & other illus., hf. cloth, mor. label on marble boards. (1) €180 - €250 SECTION 2: Lots 120 - 269 120. Americana: Newlight (Rev. Aristarchus) [Wm. Fitzgerald, D.D.] Historic Certainties Respecting the Early History of America, ... 8vo Lond (John W. Parker) 1851. First Edn., hf. title [VIII], 62pp + advert leaf at end, orig. ptd. boards bound in, recent cloth. (1) €130 - €180 111 117 114 113