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

73 Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 429. Astronomy - Photograph: Roberts (Isaac) Stars in Cygnus, AR 20h - 4m Dec! 35 - 30’, see Monthly Notices RAS, Nov. 1886. Signed & inscribed on reverse by Isaac Roberts. approx. 28cms x 24cms (11” x 9 ½ ”), mounted, as a photograph, w.a.f. V. Scarce. (1) Provenance: Birr Castle Estate. €350 - €500 430. Astronomy - Photograph: Roberts (Isaac) Photograph of the Cluster 13M Hercules taken on the 22nd May 1887 by Isaac Roberts - Exposure 60M - Enlarged twenty diameters - Nebula seems to cover the cluster. Inscribed on reverse by the Artist, approx. 29cms x 24cms (11 ½ ” x 9 ½ ”), mounted. As a photograph, w.a.f. V. Scarce. (1) Provenance: Birr Castle Estate. €400 - €600 431. Astronomy - Photograph: Roberts (Isaac) Nebulae in the Pleiades, see papers in the Monthly Notices RAS Nov. 1886 and January 1887. Isaac Roberts. Signed and inscribed on reverse, approx. 29.5cms x 24cms (11 ½ ” x 9 ½ ”), mounted. As a photograph, w.a.f. V. Scarce. (1) Provenance: Birr Castle Estate. €400 - €600 432. Astronomy - Photograph: The Southern Cross, taken at the Union Observatory, Johannesburg, Exposure 160mms with the Franklin Adams 10” Star Camera. Date 1910 June 11, Inscribed on reverse, approx. 30.5cms x 25.5cms (12” x 10”), some folding cracks & dam., mounted. As a photograph, w.a.f. (1) Provenance: Birr Castle Estate. €200 - €300 429 431 430 432