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

34 IMPERFECTIONS NOT STATED Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 184. Astronomy: Brennand (W.) Hindu Astronomy, roy 8vo Lond. (Chas. Staker) 1896. First Edn., 13 ilus. plts. numerous diagrams, pp [XV], 329, a.e.g., cont. full mor. dble gilt fillet borders, raised bands, gilt spine. V. good. (1) * Pres. Copy to Earl of Rosse by Rajendra Narayan Rai Bahadur, of Bhowal, Dacca., Nov. 1896, with tipped-in printed slip. Provenance: Birr Castle Estate. €225 - €350 185. Signed by First Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany, Konrad Adenauer [Konrad Adenauer] Ettighoffer (P.C.) 75 Jahre F. Soennecken Bonn, 4to Bonn 1950. Sole Edition, illus. etc., in fine full tan mor. blind tooled decor & gilt lettering. Signed on hf. title ‘ Adenauer 1950’ With also a typed letter, Signed by Adenauer to Sir Ivone Kirkpatrick, of Donacomper, Co. Kildare. V. good. Rare. * Kirkpatrick was born in Wellington, India, & died in Celbridge, Co. Kildare. A Roman Catholic, educated in Downside, he was a diplomat, and expert on German Politics & had met with Benito Mussolini & Adolf Hitler. When Rudolph Hess fled to Scotland in May 1941, it was Kirkpatrick who was sent to formerly identify him, as he had met him in the 30’s. (2) €300 - €400 187 – See page 35 188. Astronomy: Russell (H.C.) Results of Astronomical Observations made at The Sydney Observatory, New South Wales, In the Years 1877 and 1878, roy 8vo Sydney (Thos. Richards) 1881. First Edn Frontis & 2 plts. plus lg. fold. map; also Results of Double Star Measures made at the Sydney Observatory, New South Wales, 1871 to 1881, roy 8vo Sydney (T. Richards) 1882. First Edn., diagrams at end. Both orig. gilt decor. cloth, second item badly stained. (2) Provenance: Birr Castle Estate. €185 - €250 189. Townshend (Dorothea) The Life and Letters of the Great Earl of Cork, roy 8vo Lond. 1904. First Edn., frontis & plts., buckram; Cathy (James)ed. A Genealogical History of the O’Reilly’s, Dublin 1959, and Poems of the O’Reilly’s, Dublin 1950, both d.w.’s; Sheehan (Rev. M.) Sean-Chaint na nDeise, The Idiom of Living Irish, D. 1944; O’Hanlon (Terence) The Highwaymen in Irish History, D. 1932, illus. & d.w. (5) €75 - €125 184 186. Wilde (Oscar). Pamphlets. A handsomely bound volume in blue morocco gilt, spine gilt with raised bands, marbled e.p.’s, armorial bookplate of CALM (?), containing the following pamphlets by Wilde, each with front cover (only) bound in: - Rose-leaf and Apple-leaf. L’Envoi. Printed for private circulation, 1904, no. 107 of 200 copies, pp. 30; - Children In Prison and other Cruelties of Prison Life, L., Murdoch 1898, pp. 16; - Impressions of America, ed. Stuart Mason, Keystone Press, Sunderland 1906, one of 500 copies, 40 pp; - Wilde v Whistler, being an Acrimonious Correspondence on Art. L. , privately printed 1906, pp. 20; - Poems in Prose. Paris, privately printed 1905, one of 50 copies on Imperial Japanese paper, 38 pp. A fine collection, well presented. All the items are scarce, the second particularly so. (1) €1000 - €1500 188 185