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

67 Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 408. Lawrence Photographs: Guinness Family - St. Anne’s & Ashford, a large oblong folio Photograph Album, with 23 full page interior and exterior views, c. 11” x 14”, & 8½” x 11”, in a full cont. mor. gilt decor. & gilt lettered with above title, & with label of ‘W. Lawrence Artist & Photographer, 51 Upr. Sackville St., Dublin,’ as photographs, w.a.f. Rare. (1) €400 - €600 409. Siren (Osvald) Chinese Paintings in American Collections, 2 vols. lg. folio Paris and Brussels (Les Editions G. Van Oest) 1928. First Edn., Hf. title, red & bl. titles, 200 full page illus., 109 pps. some spotting in last couple of plts. Vol. I, t.e.g. orig. blue cloth, good except for Vol. II not as tight as first volume, and damage to cover. (2) Provenance: Birr Castle Estate. €700 - €1200 410. Encumbered Estates Court, Ireland Counties of Dublin, Kildare, & Meath Rental and Particulars of Sale, .. Part of the Property of John Rorke, Esq., ... Sold by Public Auction .. on Tuesday 5th day of July, 1864, 6 lg. hd. cold. maps (1 fold.), recent hf. green cloth marble boards, mor. label. Scarce. (1) €180 - €250 411. [Hill (John)] Eden: or A Compleat Body of Gardening, Folio Lond. 1757. First Edn., engd. frontis, 59 engd. full page plts (ex 60), 2 leaves with fore-edge cut away (not affecting text) one hf. page of text torn away, and one plt. No. 52 lacking, 19th Century full tree calf, with large tooled gilt borders, recent reback, profusely tooled gilt spine in panels, mor. label. Attractive copy. (1) Provenance: Birr Castle Estate. €300 - €400 412. With Fine Coloured Plates Nelson (E. Chas.) & Sayers (B.) Orchids of Glasnevin, lg. folio D. (Strawberry Tree) 2002. Lim. Edn 750 Copies Only With fine tipped in coloured plts., cloth. (1) €180 - €250 413. Coloured Plates: Notes on Tulip Species, Edited and illustrated by E. Katherine Dykes. Intro. by Sir A. Daniel Hall. Lg. folio Lond. (Herbert Jenkins) 1930. First Edn. 54 full page cold. plates, uncut, orig. cloth. (1) Provenance: Birr Castle Estate. €300 - €500 413 408 414. Limited Edition, 1000 Copies Bakst - The Designs of Leon Bakst for The Sleeping Princess, A Ballad in Five Acts after Perrault, Music by Tchaikovsky, Preface by Andre Levinson. Folio London (Benn Brothers) 1923. Limited Edition, No. 299 of 1000 Copies. Hf. title, two coloured vignettes, & 54 coloured plates, each plt. with tissue guards, t.e.g. orig. vellum backed blue cloth, some stains, but a good copy. (1) Provenance: Birr Castle Estate. €900 - €1200 409 411