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63 Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 384. Heaney (Seamus) and others. Poems for Alan Hancox, Whittington, Herefordshire 4to 1993, Limited No. 146 of 350 Copies, cloth p.o. name and address on hf. title, else v.g. Includes Heaney’s A Sofa in the Forties. (1) €200 - €250 385. Heaney (Seamus) Keeping Going, Harvard 1993 (wrongly dated MCM111 on t.p.)., 4to cloth. Poems, with illus. by Dimitri Hadzi, Limited No. 28 of 50 copies in boards, Signed at rear by Heaney, Hadzi and designer Gino Lee, fine; with a Second Copy, wrappers, fine. (2) €400 - €600 386. Highly Important and Astronomical Journal Astronomy: Gould (Benj. Apthorp) Editor. The Astronomical Journal, lg. 4to Cambridge 1851-1854, Vol. I No. 1 - Vol. III No. 24, together 72 issues, between Vol. I, No. 1, Nov. 2, 1849 and No. 24, Vol. III, June 1854. First Edns., 4 full page plts.; 132 bound with original parts. V. good cont. hf. mor. mor. label. As a periodical, w.a.f. (1) * The rare first three vols. of this important journal, Gould & The Cambridge Astronomical Society founded in 1854, & was the forerunner of this American Astronomical Society. Provenance: Birr Castle Estate. €500 - €700 387. Astronomy: Rosse (The Rt. Hon. The Earl of,) 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. Sm. folio Dublin (Royal Dublin Society) 1880. 6 full page plts., text illus. 178 + V pp Appendix, orig. hf. calf, gilt lined spine. V. Good. (1) * From The Scientific Transaction of the Royal Dublin Society, Vol. 2, Series II. Provenance: Birr Castle Estate. €400 - €600 388. Astronomy: Memoirs of The Astronomical Society of London, Volume I, only, 4to London (Baldwin, Cradock & Joy) 1822. First Edn., 6 engd. plts. (some fold.), fold. table, cont. hf. calf, pce. from top of spine lacking. As a periodical, w.a.f. Good Scarce. (1) * Charles Babbage was one of the founders of the Society. Provenance: Birr Castle Estate. €200 - €300 387 384 385 388 386