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

39 Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 214. With Fine Hand-coloured Plates Brackenbury (George) The Campaign in the Crimea: An Historical Sketch, First Edn., a few spots, Second Series. Sm. folio L. 1856. Add. cold. litho title, & 40 fine hd. cold. plts., a few spots, a.e.g., orig. red cloth, profusely gilt after M. Digby Wyatt. Good. (1) €300 - €450 215. Signed by Signatory of The Irish Proclamation MacDonagh (Thomas) Lyrical Poems, 4to, D. (The Irish Review) 1913, First Edn., Signed, ‘With Authors Affectionate Regards, 6.XII.1913, Thomas MacDonagh,’ hf. title, uncut, orig. blue cloth, gilt lettering. V. good copy. (1) €600 - €800 216. Beckett (Samuel)trans - Zone by Guillaume Apollinaire, 4to, D. (Dolmen Press) 1972, Signed Limited Edition No. 187 (250) copies, also Signed by Liam Miller, uncut, leather backed boards, & orig. slipcase. Clean Copy. (1) €300 - €400 217. Du Monceau (M. Duhamel) A Practical Treatise of Husbandry: wherein are contained, many Useful and Valuable Experiments and Observations in the New Husbandry. Translated and edited by John Mills, 4to Lond. Printed for J. Whiston & B. White 1759. First English Edn., Red & bl. title, 6 engd. plts. (4 are folding) & a folding table, end leaf with adverts., lacks front & end loose blanks, cont. sprinkled calf, gilt fillet borders, raised bands, mor. label, upr. joints cracked. (1) €300 - €400 218. 1798 etc: Musgrave (Sir Richard) Memoirs of the Different Rebellions in Ireland, 4to Dublin 1801. First Edn., hf. title, 10 fold. maps & plans, with extra loose port. plt. of George III, cont. calf, rebacked, mor. label. (1) €160 - €220 219. Astronomy: Copeland (Ralph) & Dreyer (J.L.E.) editors, Copernicus, An International Journal of Astronomy, Vols. I, II, & III together 3 vols. in one, sm. folio Dublin (Alex Thom & Co.) 1881 - 1884, First Edns, 16 plts. (some fold.) cont. hf. mor. upr. cover loose. As a periodical. (1) Provenance: Birr Castle Estate. €300 - €400 220. Plumptre (Anne) Narrative of a Residence in Ireland, during The Summer of 1814 and that of 1815, 4to Lond. 1817 First Edn., hf. title, engd. port. frontis & title browned, and 12 other sepia views on 11 plts. (some dble page) complete, some browning, cont. hf. mor., worn. Scarce. (1) €200 - €300 221. Signed Limited Edition Thompson - The Collected Poetry of Francis Thompson, 4to London (Hodder & Stoughton) 1913. Lim. Edition No. 56 of 500 Copies Only, Signed by Publishers. Hf. title, portrait, blue coloured initials, uncut, orig. full limp vellum, gilt lettered & decor. V. good. (1) €130 - €180 213 217 214 219 215 & detail