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

43 Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 240. With Attractive Plates Bury (Lady Charlotte) The Three Great Sanctuaries of Tuscany, Valombrosa, Camaldoli, Laverna: A Poem, Oblong folio Lond. (J. Murray) 1833, First Edn., full page engd. add. title, engd. port. list of subscribers, & 6 lg. full page sepia prints, orig. full cont. cloth, mor. label. (1) * Lady Charlotte Bury, was the mother Harriet Bury, Countess of Charleville, Co. Offaly. €130 - €180 241. Millais (J.G.) The Natural History of the British Surface - Feeding Ducks, Lg. 4to Lond. 1902. Lim. Edn. NO. 312 (600) Cold. frontis & other cold. plts. & bl. & white illus. etc., damp damaged thro.-out, buckram backed boards. S.N.S.R. (1) Provenance: Birr Castle Estate. €150 - €200 242. Stonham (Charles) The Birds of the British Islands, 5 vols. in 20 parts lg. 4to Lond. 1906-1911. First Edn., Hf. titles, titles in red & bl., 2 fold. cold. maps, & 318 attractive plts. after L.M. Medland, with tissue guards etc., all in orig. grey paper portfolio type wrappers. V. good copy. (20) Provenance: Birr Castle Estate. €400 - €600 243. Co. Tipperary: Manuscripts: District Nursing Association, Two folio Minute Books, 1917 - 1933 and 1933 - 1951. Approx. 250pp between both outlining in great detail, every aspect of the workings of the Association, it gives lists of the members and different officers over the period, it lists the manner of fund raising, it lists some of the recipients of the service, it contains printed flyers tipped in, some letters loosely inserted, all minutes are Signed, mostly by members of the ‘Big’ houses in the area. A wonderful social record, needs further study. As a m/ss., w.a.f. (2) €250 - €350 244. With Unusual Coloured Plates Heaphy (Thos.) The Likeness of Christ: Being an Inquiry into the Verisimilitude of the Received Likeness of Our Blessed Lord, 4to Lond. (Soc. for Promoting Christian Knowledge) 1886. Ed. by Wyke Bayliss. Hf. title, full coloured frontis & 11 full page cold. plts., orig. gilt & coloured decor. cloth. V. good. (1) €130 - €180 245. Atlas: Ostell’s New General Atlas, Containing Distinct Maps of All the Principal States and Kingdoms throughout the World. Folio Lond. (Cradock & Co.) n.d. New Edn. 30 full page maps, all finely hand coloured in outline, orig. marble boards, recent professional rebind in hf. calf, orig. mor. label. Good. (1) €280 - €350 246. Lloyd (W.) Lloyd’s Sketches of Indian Life, folio L. (Chapman & Hall) 1890, 18 full page colour plates, orig. cloth backed pict. boards. (1) €100 - €150 247. Dryden (John) Fables Ancient and Modern translated into Verse, from Homer, Ovid, Boccase and Chaucer: With original Poems. Folio, London (Jacob Tonson) 1700, hf. title (dam.), dedit. to The Duke of Ormonde, Preface, [14]pp, 1 - 271pp (complete), mispagnitation but complete 360 - 645, some staining & notes (repaired), new end papers, contemp. full panelled calf. (1) €140 - €180 240 243 241 245 242