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

46 IMPERFECTIONS NOT STATED Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 261. Early Photographs of Northern Ireland etc., c. 1867-70 Original Photographs: A very good large 4to Photograph Album, with many good large photos of Co. Antrim, Drumnasole House, Garron Tower, Blackburn Waterfall, Glenariff, Belleek Red Bay, etc., and including an early small photo of Cushendall Fair Day. There is also a large collection of original portraits, most are captioned with name of sitter, and some are signed by photographer T. Caldwell. Litton, Forbes Whately, & others. Finally there are many photos of a marine nature, portraits of ships etc. In all about 180 photos of varying size. Cont. hf. mor. worn. As photos., w.a.f. (1) €450 - €750 262. Trials: The Tryals of Robert Green, Henry Berry, and Lawrence Hill, for the Murder of Sr. Edmond-Bury Godfrey, Knt.,... in the County of Middlesex, ... Monday the 10th of February 1678/9. Folio Lond. (for Rob. Pawlet) 1679. First Edn., license leaf at front, 92pps some damp stains, recent mor. backed boards. (1) €130 - €180 263. Irish Visitors Book: An oblong folio Irish Visitors Book, for c. 1890-1910, for County Waterford? With hundred of signatures, the majority women, principally, Villiers Stuart, Edith Gordon, Dottie Tottenham, Emily F. Beresford, Gertrude Stopford, Nesta & other Fitzgeralds of Kilkea Castle, Frances Doyne, Clare M. Wingfield of Powerscourt, Beatrice Lloyd, Gertrude Parsons, Harriet Paley, Maggie Tollemarche, Lucy Greenlea, Mabel Gaisford, Clodagh Anson, Eleanor Bruen, Dunsany, and many many more. It also contains some orig. photos. of Shelton Abbey, Kilkea Castle, Powerscourt, Heywood, Co. Leix, etc. some orig. drawings, newscuttings etc. Cont. hf. mor. upper cover Signed ‘Meriel,’ and detached. As an album, w.a.f. (1) €200 - €300 264. Fine Binding: The Book of Common Prayer, ... According to the Use of The Church of England. Lg. 4to Cambridge (Joseph Bentham) 1764. Title inscribed ‘Lady Charlotte Rich,’ a.e.g., in stunning full cont. crimson, with elaborate gold tooled borders, with flowers, birds in flight etc., the covers inlaid with oval dark blue mor. insets, with gilt angels and birds, surrounded by gilt sunburst, the spine in panels gilt tooled with birds, flowers and insects. V. fine example. As a binding, w.a.f. (1) €350 - €500 265. Irish Bindings: McDonnell (Joseph) & Healy (Patrick) Gold Tooled Book Bindings Commissioned by Trinity College Dublin in the Eighteenth Century, Folio Dublin (Irish Georgian Society) 1987. First Edn., fine cold. & bl. & white plts.; also McDonnell (Joe) Five Hundred Years of the Art of the Book, lg. 4to Dublin (Nat. Library of Ireland) 1997. First Edn., cold. & bl. & white plts. thro.-out, both cloth & pict. d.w.’s V. good. (2) €100 - €150 266. Young (R.M.) & Pike (W.T.)ed. Belfast and The Province of Ulster in the 20th Century, folio, Brighton (Pike & Co.) 1909, First Edn., inserted loosely with promotional material and letter from Pike, illustrated gilt decorated leather backed cream cloth. V. good copy; Gaskell (Ernest) Ulster Leaders Social & Political, 4to, L. (Queenhithe Printing) 1914, First Edn., illus., hf. mor. gilt lettered cloth (worn). (2) €150 - €200 266 261 263 264