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

45 Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 253. Fine Hand Coloured Plates: de Moleville (M. Bertrand) The Costume of the Hereditary States of The House of Austria,... Trans. by R.C. Dallas. Folio Lond. (for Wm. Miller .. by Wm. Bulmer & Co.) 1804. First Edn., 50 full page hand coloured plates (include frontis), a.e.g., full crimson mor., with lg. blind & gilt tooled borders. V. good. * Bookplate of Michael, Earl of Rosse. (1) Provenance: Birr Castle Estate. €700 - €1200 254. Engraved French Plates: de Poilly (N.) Chateau de Versailles Sous Louis XIII, 1610 - 1643, Oblong folio 14 engd. plts. by de Poilly mostly, each mounted on 18th Century leaves, and in 18th Century hf. vellum Album. As a coll., w.a.f. (1) Provenance: Birr Castle Estate. €200 - €300 255. Hale (Thomas) A Compleat Body of Husbandry, .. The Whole Business of the Farmer, and Country Gentleman, in Cultivating, Planting and Stocking of Land. Lg. folio Lond. (For T. Osborne and J. Shipton..) 1756. First Edn., engd. frontis & 13 full page plts., orig. calf, dble gilt fillet borders, raised bands, mor. label, joints cracked, a very clean copy. (1) €250 - €350 256. With Coloured Plates Doyle (Richard) illus. & Allingham (Wm.) In Fairyland, A Series of Pictures from the Elf-World. Lg. folio Attractive Reprint of the 1870 Edn. Tokyo 1981. Cold. plts., cloth & slipcase. (1) €180 - €240 257. With 50 Coloured Plates Westwood (J.O.) Palaeographic Sacra Pictoria: Being a Series of Illustrations of The Ancient Versions of the Bible, Copied from Illuminated Manuscripts, executed between the Fourth and Sixteenth Centuries. Folio Lond. (Wm. Smith) 1843-1845. Colour hf. title, & 50 full page colour plates, t.e.g., cont. strongly bound hf. crimson mor. by J. Wright. (1) * A Section on Irish Manuscripts, and includes colour plates from The Book of Kells, & other Irish Manuscripts. €350 - €500 258. Astronomy: Brunnow (F.), Dreyer (J.L.E.), Ball (Rob. S.), Rambaut (A.A.) & Joly (Chas. Jasper), Astronomical Observations and Researches Made at Dunsink, The Observatory of Trinity College, Dublin, Parts II, 1873; IV, 1882, (Signed Pres. Copy to Dr. Otto Boeddicker), V, 1884; VI, 1887; VIII, 1899; & IX, 1900. Together 6 parts, lg. 4to Dublin 1873- 1900. Mostly unopened, orig. pictorial & other wrappers. As a periodical, w.a.f. Clean copies. (6) Provenance: Birr Castle Estate. €220 - €350 259. Irish Country Houses: Blake (Tarquin) Abandoned Mansions of Ireland, 2 vols. folio Cork 2010-2012; Hicks (D.) Irish Country Houses Portraits & Painters, folio Cork 2014; Knight of Glin & James Peill, The Irish Country House, folio Lond. 2010; Stoeltie (B. & René) Living in Ireland, folio 2002; Pfeiffer (W.) & Heron (M.) In the Houses of Ireland, folio N. York 1988. V. good. (6) €100 - €150 260. Ware (James) The Antiquities and History of Ireland, sm. folio D. (A. Crook) 1705, First Edn. Thus., Portrait frontis, single page map, red & bl. title, dedit. To The Duke of Ormonde, list of subscribers, recent hf. tooled green leather marble boards, decor. spine mor. label. (1) €220 - €320 253 258 255 260 257