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

60 IMPERFECTIONS NOT STATED Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 366. With Engraved Plates Seward (Wm. Wenman) Topographia Hibernica; or The Topography of Ireland, Ancient and Modern,... 4to Dublin 1795. First Edn., lg. fold. map of Ireland, & 13 engd. full page plts., uncut, orig. boards, recent calf back, gilt spine, mor. label. Scarce. (1) €200 - €300 367. Crofton Croker (T.) Researches in the South of Ireland, 4to Lond. 1824. First Edn., Frontis & 16 full plts., text illus., recent hf. calf, marble boards, mor. labels. A very clean copy. (1) €200 - €300 368. Belfast interest: Municipal Affairs of the Borough of Belfast, Ireland, Report of the Commissioners, folio Dublin (Thom) 1859. three lg. fold. hd. cold. maps, orig. hf. mor. recent buckram backed spine; City of Belfast, Minutes of Evidence taken before Special Committee appointed on August 1st, 1896, to Consider and Report upon the High Death Rate of Belfast, & The Condition of the Public Health of the City, 4to (W. & G. Baird) 1896. Cont. full gilt lettered mor. As a lot, w.a.f. (2) €140 - €200 365. Astronomy etc: Rosse (Lord) Rosse Scientific Papers A unique collection of approx. 42 original articles, pamphlets, offprints etc., c. 1840 – 1908. Many were first published by Royal Dublin Society, the Royal Society of London, Royal Astronomical Society, Philosophical Transactions, Symons Meteorological Magazine etc. The collection also includes a few lots by Otto Boeddicker, G. Johnstone Stoney and John L.E. Dreyer. Several are illustrated with plts. Fold. tables & original photographs. Works include, Observations of Nebulae and Clusters of Stars made with the Six-foot and Three-foot Reflectors at Birr Castle, from the Year 1848 up to the Year 1878. Lg. 4to D. (R.D.S.) 1880, 6 plates; Notes on the Physical Appearance of the Planet Jupiter during the Season 1880-1. Accompanied by Sketches Made at …Birr Castle, by Otto Boeddicker, with plate, Observations of the Planet Jupiter, Made with the Reflector of Three-feet Aperture, at Birr Castle.. by Otto Boeddicker, PhD, Dublin 1889; Notes to Chromolithographs from Drawings of the Planet Jupiter made with the Six-foot Reflector at Parsonstown in the Years 1872 and 1873 , 8vo Lond. 1874 16illus; Notes to Accompany Photographs of Drawings of the Planets, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn made at Parsonstown during the Years 1856 to 1868, 8vo Lond. 1873., 45 orig. sm. Photos; On The Construction of Specula of Six-feet Aperture and a Selection from the Observations of Nebulae made with them , 4to Lond. (Phil. Transactions) 1862; An Account of Experiments on the Reflecting Telescope, by the Rt. Hon. Lord Oxmanton, 4to Lond. 1840; etc. etc. Also includes some newscuttings etc. The entire bound in one 8vo and two large 4to volumes, full cont. crushed uniform mor. in the style of Riviere, raised bands, gilt spines in panels. V. good. As a coll. of Papers, w.a.f. (3) Provenance: Birr Castle Estate. €1000 - €1500 366 369. With fineWood-cut Illustrations Holinshed (Raphael) & Stanyhurst (R.) The Historie of Ireland from the First Inhabitation thereof, unto the Yeare 1509, collected by Raphael Holinshed, and continued until the Year 1547, by Richard Stanyhurst. Folio, Lond. (George Bishop / John Harrison) 1577, First Edn., Black Letter throughout. Attractive engd. title, with coat of arms verso, [2] 28 folios, 116pps, [L.], woodcut initials and 62 woodcut illus., device on last leaf, contemp. full calf, rebacked, new spine. Good Copy. Extremely Rare. (1) €1000 - €1500 367