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

47 Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 267. [Fox (Patrick O’D.) Publisher] Shirley (Evelyn) The History of the County of Monaghan, folio, Bangor (Clogher Historical Society) 1989, Limited Edn., of 600 copies, cold. litho frontis, marbled end papers, hf. green leather, marbled boards, mor. labels. Good copy. (1) €150 - €200 268. Photographs: An oblong folio Photograph Album, c. 1875 with 10 large photos c. 20cms x 27cms (8” x 10½”), of a Lord Lucan’s? House in Co. Mayo. In full décor. green mor., with front cover gilt lettered with The ‘Old House at Home,’ As an album, w.a.f. (1) €600 - €800 269. Ferns etc. Collected in Vanuatu, Madagascar, etc. Natural History Album: Dunlop (Dr. James) A large oblong Album of pressed ferns & other flowers, collected in the years 1881 - 1882 from Ambrym, Aneitewn etc., Vanuatu, also in Madagascar, Tamatave, Comoro, and in Sandwich Island, & Tenerife. Together approx. 26 mounted specimens, all collected by Dr. James Dunlop, a fleet surgeon/doctor during his travels. In orig. hf. mor. binding. As a coll., w.a.f. (1) €350 - €500 SECTION 3: Lots 270 - 418 270. Astronomy: Chambers (Geo. F.) A Cycle of Celestial Objects, Observed Reduced and Discussed. 8vo Oxford (Clarendon Press) 1881. Second Edn., Reused, Condensed and Greatly Enlarged. Hf. title, cold. frontis, text illus., 36pp Cat & 8 other pps. of adverts., Birr Castle with Coronet, stamp on hf. title, & title, orig. cloth, faded. (1) Provenance: Birr Castle Estate. €150 - €200 271. Astronomy: Airy (Geo. Biddell) Mathematical Tracts on The Lunar and Planetary Theories, ... 8vo Cambridge 1842 Third Edn., hf. title, 5 fold. plts. orig. cloth backed boards, and, On the Undulatory Theory of Optics, Lond. & Cambridge 1866, New Edn., cloth; also Lindsay (James Bowman) The Chrono-Astrolabe: Containing a Full Set of Astronomic Tables, Dundee 1848. First Edn., cloth. All copies inscribed ‘Rosse’. (3) Provenance: Birr Castle Estate. €200 - €300 272. Somerville (Mary) On the Connection of The Physical Sciences, sm. 8vo Lond. 1836. Third Edn., frontis & text illus.; Ball (Sir R.) The Cause of the Ice Age, Lond. 1891. First Edn., frontis, orig. cloth; Merriman (Mansfield) Elements of the Method of Least Squares, Lond. 1877; & 2 others on Use of Globes, 1826 & Of Telescopes, 1825. As a lot, w.a.f. (5) Provenance : Birr Castle Estate. €80 - €120 273. Belfast Printings [General Synod of Ulster] The Constitution and Discipline of the Presbyterian Church , with a Directory,... sm. 8vo, Belfast (J. Smyth) 1825, First Edn., full calf, (cover loose); Rogers (Ed.) Memoir of the Armagh Cathedral with an Account of the Ancient City, 8vo Belfast (w. & G. Baird) n.d., illus., adverts at end, blue cloth. (2) €100 - €150 274. Mawe (Th.) & Abercrombie (J.) Every Man his Own Gardener, being a New and Much More Complete Gardener’s Calendar, thick, 8vo, Lond. 1800, engd. frontis, full tree calf. (1) €80 - €120 275. Society of Friends: Some Account of the Life and Labours of Sarah Grubb, with An Appendix containing An Account of Ackworth School,.. . Sm. 8vo Lond. 1796. Third Edn., Advert leaf at end, lacks end loose blanks, cont. hf. calf; also Leadbeater (Mary) Biographical Notices of Members of the Society of Friends who were Resident in Ireland, 12mo Lond. 1823. First Edn., cont. hf. mor. Good. (2) €140 - €200 268 271 269 270