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

78 IMPERFECTIONS NOT STATED Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 439. Album: Thornton (Dr.) The Sexual System of Plants, lg. folio Lond. 1800 - 1810, 57 full page engd. bl. & white, & 1 hd. cold. plt., 21 full page portraits of botanists, scientists, etc., the entire disbound, as a coll. of plts., loose, w.a.f. (1) Provenance: Birr Castle Estate. €200 - €300 440. Atlas: Danville (Mons.) An Atlas of Ancient Geography, large atlas folio Lond. (Published by R.H. Laurie) n.d. 12 lg. dble page hand cold. maps, by Laurie & Whittle, dated 1794, all v. clean, orig. hf. calf, marble boards, spine dam. As an Atlas, w.a.f. (1) Provenance: Birr Castle Estate. €300 - €400 441. Atlas: D’Anville (Mons.) A Complete Body of Ancient Geography, V. lg. atlas, folio Lond. (Robert Laurie and James Whittle) 1808. 13 lg. dble. page maps hand-cold. in outline, cont. hf. calf, marble sides, worn. As an Atlas, w.a.f. (1) Provenance: Birr Castle Estate. €200 - €300 442. Atlas: Hall (Sidney) A New General Atlas, with the Divisions and Boundaries Carefully Coloured. V . Lg. Atlas folio Lond. (Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green) 1830. First Edn. Damp Damage. With 42 full page maps only, some frayed at edges, many still frameable. As a coll. of maps. w.a.f. (1) Provenance: Birr Castle Estate. €350 - €500 443. Presentation Copy to the Earl of Rosse, President Royal Society Astronomy: Carrington (Rich. Christopher) Nine Draft Maps, (Printed by The Anastatic Process) containing All the Stars above The Eleventh Magnitude Situated within Nine Degrees of the North Pole, Laid Down for the Year 1853. V. large folio n. place with 9 lg. folio plts., & 1 page of letterpress. In orig. printed sleeve, with m/ss presentation inscription to ‘ The Earl of Rosse, President Royal Society,’ (1) * This collection consisted of Only 50 Copies printed. About forty-five copies were sent to various astronomers & friends. Carrington was born in May 1826 & died in November 1875. Very Rare. (1) Provenance: Birr Castle Estate. €350 - €500 444. Hansteen (Chr.) Magnetischer Atlas gehorig zumMagnetismus der Erde, lg. oblong atlas folio Christiania 1819. First Edn., engd. title, 7 full page plts. (44cms x 56cms approx.) sewn. Printed title cover, dust stained. V. Rare. (1) Provenance: Birr Castle Estate. €350 - €400 445. Johnston (W. & A.K.) The Cosmographic Atlas of Political, Historical, Classical, Physical and Scriptural Geography and Astronomy, Lg. folio Edin. & L. 1889 Third Edn., 66 cold. engd. map plts., decor. gilt & bl. boards. As an atlas, w.a.f. Good. (1) Provenance: Birr Castle Estate. €200 - €300 446. Atlas: Johnston (Alex. Keith) The Royal Atlas of Modern Geography, Lg. Atlas folio Edin. & L. (Wm. Blackwood & Sons) 1861. First Edn.,, 48 dble page coloured engraved maps, a.e.g., cont. hf. mor. raised bands gilt decor. spine. V. good solid copy. (1) * Prize Bookplate from T.C.D. to Ld. Oxmantown, 1863. Provenance: Birr Castle Estate. €300 - €400 447. Atlas: Johnston (Alex. Keith) The Physical Atlas of Natural Phenomena, v. large atlas folio Edin. & Lond. (Wm. Blackwood & Sons) 1856. New and Enlarged Edition (Second), 35 dbl. page cold. maps, plus 7 cold. engd. plts., title & preface damp stained,& some lesser occasional damp stains, fine strongly bound hf. crimson mor. tooled gilt spine, raised bands. As an Atlas, w.a.f. (1) * V. large T.C.D. Prize bookplate, approx. 36cms x 26cms. Provenance: Birr Castle Estate. €220 - €350 442 444 448. [Wood (Robert)] The Ruins of Palmyra, otherwise Tedmor, in the Desart. Atlas folio London 1753. First Edn., 57 engd. plts. after G.B. Borra, Plate I on three sheets forming large panorama, 3 full page engravings of inscriptions, approx. 570mms x 385mms, some small water-stains, uncut, orig. hf. calf, marble boards, spine dam. Generally clean text. (1) Provenance: Birr Castle Estate. €1750 - €2500