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

79 Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 449. A. Durer: Dodgson (Campbell)ed. Durer’s Drawings in Colour, Line and Wash, lg. elephant folio, Lond. (Batsford) 1928. With 56 lg. plates. (25 in colour) mostly mounted, orig. cloth, fold over flaps loose. As a coll. of plts. (very clean), w.a.f. (1) Provenance: Birr Castle Estate. €200 - €300 450. McLean (Thos.) Publisher. Large Scrap Album, containing 47 pages with approx. 77 engd. illustrations after H.B., [Richard Doyle] political illustrator, printmaker, painter etc. There are 13 full page illus., & 68 hf. page ditto, all of a political nature, featuring Wellington, Peel, Daniel O’Connell etc. (1) Provenance: Birr Castle Estate. €200 - €300 451. Portfolio of Original Watercolours & Drawings, mostly of landscapes & seascapes principally by family members, earliest dated June 1849, approx. 17 items, as a lot, w.a.f. (1) Provenance: Birr Castle Estate. €120 - €180 453. Atlas: Irish Railway Commission - Atlas to Accompany 2nd Report of the Railway Commissioners of Ireland, 1838, V. lg. folio 1838 First Edn., Six large dble. page maps, include one hand-coloured Geological map, in orig. mor. backed cloth, with mor. label. As an Atlas, w.a.f. (1) Provenance: Birr Castle Estate. €220 - €350 454. Sitwell (S.), Buchanon (H.) & Fisher (J.) Fine Bird Books 1700 - 1900, lg. folio L. (Collins & Van Nostrand) 1953. Hf. title, cold. frontis, & 6 cold. plts (ex 16) 22 black & white plates, hf. cloth, marble boards, w.a.f. (1) €170 - €220 455. Anglesea (M.)ed. Birds of Ireland, Paintings by Richard Dunscombe Parker (1805-81), oblong folio, Belfast (The Blackstaff Press Ltd.) 1983, Limited Edn. No. 64 (250) Copies, illus. plts., hf. calf, marble boards, mor. labels, bound by Sidney Aiken, in matching slipcase. (1) €300 - €400 455 452. Chambers (William) A Treatise on Civil Architecture, lg. atlas folio Lond. (For the Author, by J. Haberkorn) 1759. First Edn., list of subscribers, 50 full page plts., some slight browning or dust stains, stamp removed from title, rebound full calf, raised bands, with orig. tooled gilt panels mostly laid down, new label. (1) €1600 - €2200 451 453