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

25 Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 121. Bird (Isabella L.) Unbeaten Tracts in Japan, 2 vols. Lond. 1880. Second Edn., Fold. cold. map, plts. (frontis), & text illus., decor. cloth. (2) €130 - €180 122. Douglas (Arthur) Ostrich Farming in South Africa, 8vo Lond. [1881] First Edn., hf. title, lg. fold. cold. map frontis, & 10 plts. (some fold) pp. VIII, 251, [4pp] publishers list., in orig. brown blind stamped cloth, lettered in gilt. A good copy. (1) €130 - €180 123. Huish (Marcus B.) Japan and its Art, 8vo London (Fine Art Society) 1892 Second Edn. Revised & Enlarged, hf. title, frontis & plts. & illus. thro.-out, orig. silk type cloth wrappers bound in at end, now in fine hf. mor. top edge gilt, raised bands, gilt lettered spine by Bumpus Ltd., stamped. V. good. (1) €130 - €180 124. With Fine Coloured Aquatint Frontis Alexander (James Edward) Sketches in Portugal, During The Civil War of 1834. 8vo Lond. (J. Cochrane) 1835. First Edition, hand coloured aquatint frontis, title with wd. cut vignette, engd. map XVI prelims., 328 pages, some occasional light browning, in cont. diced calf, tooled gilt spine mor. label. Generally a v. good copy. See J.R. Abbey “Travel in Aquatint.” (1) €300 - €400 125. Craven (Lady Eliz.) A Journey through The Crimea to Constantinople, In a Series of Letters .. MDCCLXXXVI, 8vo Dublin (.. for H. Chamberlaine, R. Moncrieffe.. etc.) 1789. First Dublin Edn. Lg. fold. map frontis & 2 fold. plts., cont. full calf, gilt bands & mor. label. V. good. (1) €180 - €250 126. [Clemens (Sam. L.)] ‘Mark Twain’ The American Claimant, 8vo New York (Chas. L. Webster) 1892. First Edn., hf. title frontis & illus. thro.-out, 8pp publisher cat., orig. olive green cloth, titled in gilt with black illustrated front cover & spine. V. good copy. (1) €180 - €250 123 120 126 125 122 124 121