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

61 Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 370. China Travels: Bouillard (G.)ed. Peking et Ses Environs, 4th - 8th Series, in 5 vols. plus 14th & 15th Series also, & 2 others sim. together 9 vols. Text in French, 4to Peking (Albert Nachbaur, Editor) 1923-1924. Profusely illustrated with maps, plans, views, descriptions, & photogravures, some fold. maps in pockets at end, all later uniform hf. black mor. Incomplete, but v. good. As a coll., w.a.f. (9) Provenance: Birr Castle Estate. €350 - €500 371. In Fine Binding Coloured Plates: Our Native Land: It’s Scenery and Associations, lg. 4to L. (Marcus Ward) 1880. First Edn. A series of 36 mtd. cold. plts. after Rowbotham, Read, Needham etc., a.e.g., cont. full gilt decor. crimson mor. binding. Fine copy. (1) * Twelve cold. plts. of Killarney & North of Ireland. €200 - €300 372. Irish Telephone Directory - Eolaí an Telefoín, thick 4to Dublin 1955. 280pp + Supplement, 20pp., orig. cloth backed yellow boards. (1) €70 - €100 373. A Complete File Periodical: Duffy (James) Publishers . Duffy’s Hibernian Magazine, A Monthly Journal of Literature, Science and Art. Vol. I No. 1 July 1860 - No. 18 December 1861. Together 18 Numbers, Complete in 3 vols. lg. 4to D. 1860-1861. Each volume with decorated title, orig. green cloth, gilt decor. A v. clean complete Set. (3) €200 - €300 374. Hill (Rev. George) The Montgomery Manuscripts: (1603-1706) Compiled from Family Papers, Vol. I 4to Belfast 1869. Red & bl. title, fine rebacked cloth gilt lettered; also An Historical Account of the Plantation in Ulster... 1608 - 1620, 4to Belfast 1877. First Edn., recent hf. mor. raised bands. Both v. good. (2) €120 - €180 375. Mitchell (Flora) Vanishing Dublin, 4to D. (Allen Figgis) 1966, First Edn., illus., green cloth, decorative d.j. Clean Copy. (1) €250 - €320 376. With Illustrations by Louis le Brocquy Kinsella (Thomas)trans. The Tain, from the Irish Tain Bó Cuailnge, sm. folio, D. (Dolmen Edn.) 1969, First Limited Edn., illustrations by le Brocquy, black cloth, silvered lettered spine, d.j., matching slipcase. (1) €400 - €600 377. Presentation from Author to The Earl of Rosse Astronomy: Herschel (Sir John F.W.) A New General Catalogue of Nebulae and Clusters of Stars. Being the Catalogue of the late Sir John F.W. Herschel, Bart. Revised, Corrected and Enlarged by J.L.E. Dreyer, Astronomer of the Armagh Observatory. Lg. 4to Lond. (Royal Astronomical Society) 1888. First Edn. Thus, 237pp partly unopened, title stamped ‘Birr Castle,’ orig. ptd. boards with Birr stamp, some damp stains. (1) Front loose blank, inscribed, ‘ The Rt. Hon. The Earl of Rosse with J.L.E. Dreyer’s compliments.’ Provenance: Birr Castle Estate. €220 - €350 378. Capron (J. Rand) Aurorae: Their Characters and Spectra, 4to Lond. & N.W. 1879. First Edn., 18 full page plts. (4 coloured), text illus., attractive orig. pict. cloth decor. in silver & gold, stained all over. (1) The Author’s second book. Provenance: Birr Castle Estate. €200 - €300 370 377 378 375 376