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

57 Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 343. Boate (Gerard), Molineaux (Th.) & others A Natural History of Ireland in Three Parts, 4to, D. (G. & A. Ewing) 1755. With woodcut head & decorations and 11 plts., (7 fold), some bright damp stains, full leather, recently rebacked, mor. label. Nice copy. (1) €250 - €350 344. Society of Friends: Leadbeater (Mary) Memoirs and Letters of Richard and Elizabeth Shackleton, late of Ballitore, Ireland, 8vo Lond. 1849. New Edn.,; also Cottage Biography, 8vo Athy 1987. Reprint Lim. Edn. NO. 111 of 200 Copies; & 4 others on Quakers in Co. Wicklow, Eliz. Smith, etc. (6) €130 - €180 345. Prout (Wm.) Chemistry Meteorology & The Function of Digestion, 8vo Lond. 1834; Millar (A.A.) Climatology, Lond. 1931. First Edn., text illus., cloth; Thompson (Sir W.) & Tait (P.G.) Treatise on Natural Philosophy, 2 vols. Cambridge 1879. New Edn., unopened cloth. All good. (4) Provenance: Birr Castle Estate. €80 - €120 346. Astronomy: Monthly Notices of the Astronomical Society of London, Vols. I, II & XI. Together 3 vols., 8vo Lond. 1831, 1833 & 1851. Some text illus. unopened, orig. blue wrappers. As a periodical, w.a.f. (3) Provenance: Birr Castle Estate. €100 - €150 347. Signed by Otto Boeddicker Astronomy: Zollmer (Johann Carl Friedrick) Uber die Natur der Cometen, Beitrage zur Geschichte und Theorie der Erkenntniss. Roy 8vo Leipzig 1872, 10 full page plts., hf. mor. rebacked. Signed by Otto Boeddicker [Birr], 1874. (1) Provenance: Birr Castle Estate. €150 - €200 348. Famous Co. Cork Female Astronomer Astronomy: Clerke (Agnes Mary) Problems in Astrophysics, 8vo London (Adam & Charles Black) 1903. First Edn., hf. title, frontis & 31 plts. complete, text illus., orig. green cloth, v. good. The title is signed ‘Rosse’. Rare. (1) * The author was born in Skibbereen, Co. Cork, & was educated at home in Latin, Greek, Mathematics & Astronomy. The above title is her third book. Provenance: Birr Castle Estate. €200 - €300 349. Photography: Draper (JohnWm.) Scientific Memoirs Being Experimental Contributions to a Knowledge of Radiant Energy , 8vo Lond. 1878. First Edn., hf. title, engd. port. frontis, text illus., 32pp. cat at end, orig. brown cloth. V. good. (1) Provenance: Birr Castle Estate. €200 - €300 350. Inscribed Presentation Copy Astronomical: Lawson (Henry) A Paper on the Arrangement of an Observatory for Practical Astronomy and Meteorology, roy 8vo Bath (J. Hollway) 1844. Sole Edn., 5 fold. plates, orig. cloth, upr. cover lacking. (1) * Title inscribed ‘For The Astronomer Royal - Edinburgh.. with the author’s regards’ Thomas Henderson, retired in 1844. Provenance: Birr Castle Estate. €200 - €300 343 349 347 & detail 350 348