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

28 IMPERFECTIONS NOT STATED Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 141. Signed byWm. Smith O’Brien Association Copy - Eyre (Lieut. Vincent) The Military Operations at Cabul, ... with a Journal of Imprisonment in Affghanistan. 8vo L. 1843. First Edn., biro mark on title, cont. hf. calf, new label. (1) * Inscribed on front loose, blank by Wm. Smith O’Brien, & with his bookplate. O’Brien was an Irish Nationalist, and leader of the Young Ireland Movement. €180 - €250 142. [Cooper (James Fenimore)] The Water Witch, or The Skimmer of the Seas, A Tale, 3 vols. 12mo Lond. (H. Colburn & R. Bentley) 1830. First U.K. Edition advert leaf end of Vol. I, gatherings loosening, cont. hf. mor. gilt spines mor. labels; [Chamier (Fred.)] The Life of a Sailor, by a Captain in the Navy, 3 vols. 12mo Lond. (Rich. Bentley) 1832. First Edn., a couple of gatherings loosening, cont. hf. calf. (6) €175 - €250 143. Inscribed Presentation Copy [Slidell Mackenzie (Alexander)] A Year in Spain, By a Young American, 2 vols. Sm. 8vo Lond. (J. Murray) 1831. First Edn., Vol.I, XI, 413pp; Vol. II VII, 377pp, cont. hf. mor. tooled gilt spines, mor. labels. Attractive copy. (2) * Title page Vol. I inscribed, ‘ Lady O’Brien with the writers respect,..’ & Vol. II, with the engraved bookplate ‘ Lucius O’Brien.’ €160 - €240 144. Corrigan (Sir Dominic) Ten Days in Athens, with Notes by the Way, Summer of 1861. 8vo Lond. 1862 First Edn., Hf. title, fold. map, outlined in red, some full page & text illus., orig. gilt lettered blue cloth. V. good. (1) * The author was born in Dublin in 1802, was a famous Irish physician known for his original observations on the heart, & President of the College of Physicians in Ireland. He died in February 1880. €175 - €250 145. Dupuis (Joseph) The Holy Places; A Narrative of Two Years Residence in Jerusalem and Palestine, 2 vols. 8vo Lond. 1856. First Edn., 2 litho frontis, orig. cloth, gilt decorated with Cross of Jerusalem. (2) €160 - €240 146. Du Chaillu (Paul) The World of the Great Forest, How Animals, Birds, Reptiles, Insects, Talk, Think, Work & Live, 8vo Lond. 1901. First Edn., hf. title, frontis & 10 plts., text illus. thro.-out, cont. decor. cloth, spine stained. (1) €80 - €130 147. Bradbury (Ray) The Illustrated Man, 8vo Lond. (Rupert Hart-Davis) 1952. First English Edn., hf. title, clean & tight, in orig. pict. d.w., front with some finger marks & sm. stain, v. small piece lacking from lower top corner. (1) €160 - €250 148. Greene (Graham) & Greene (Hugh) The Spy’s Bedside Book, An Anthology. 8vo Lond. (Rupert Hart-Davis) 1957 First Edn., hf. title frontis, 1 plt. & text illus. in with clean inscription dated 1957, on front loose flyleaf, in v. good orig. pict. d.w., price clipped. A clean copy. (1) €160 - €240 141 144 142 145 147