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

85 Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 529. American interest: Stanford (Ed.) Publisher, The Englishman’s Guide Book to the United States and Canada, 12mo L. & N.Y. 1884, fold. maps & plans & plts, full mor; Appleton’s General Guide to the United States and Canada, 12mo N.Y. 1891, fold. maps & plans (1 in pocket) full mor; also Appleton’s Hand-Book of American Travel, Northern and Eastern Tour, 8vo N. York 1873. Fold. maps, hd. cold. full cloth; & 1 other sim. As a lot, w.af.. Scarce. (4) €130 - €180 530. Lord Bloomfield’s Copy Cary (John) New Itinerary of the Great Roads, Both Direct and Cross throughout England andWales; With many of ... Scotland, 8vo Lond. (G. & J. Cary) 1828. Eleventh Edn., Engd. title & dedit, 6 fold. & 42 full page maps, all hd. cold. in outline, all lg. fully hd. cold. linen backed map of England &Wales, and a large fold. linen backed Map of Yorkshire (loose) in pocket at end. In orig. full crimson mor. pouch type binding, gilt lettered ‘Lord Bloomfield,’V. good copy. As an Atlas, w.a.f. (1) * Lord Bloomfield (1802 - 1879 ) was Ambassador to Berlin in 1851, & in 1860 was made Ambassador to Vienna. On his retirement in 1871 he was created Baron Bloomfield, of Ciamaltha in Co. Tipperary. He died in 1879 without a legitimate heir, and is buried near Loughton Demesne, near Moneygall in Co. Offaly. €300 - €400 531. Chinese & Japanese interest: Picture Story of Silkworm and Raw Silk, 8vo n.d. 10 hd. cold. Chinese drawing on silk, on a concertina action volume, wooden covers, Twenty-five Views of Mt. Fuji by Katsushika Hokusai, Miniature Edn., 25 cold. wd. blocks, in a concertina action, printed in Tokyo, cloth covers & in orig. cloth box; Amsden (Dora) Impressions of Ukiyo-Ye The School of the Japanese Colour-Print Artists, Sm. 8vo San Francisco & New York 1905. Illus. plts. orig. decor. cloth; & a small Album of Chinese postcards & stamps, cloth. As a coll., w.a.f. (4) €120 - €180 532. Hickson (Mary Agnes) Selections from Old Kerry Records, 8vo, L. (Watson & Hazell) 1872, First Edn., (first series) interior text v. clean and good, endpapers and cloth dam. (1) €100 - €150 533. With Signatures of Maria Edgeworth Female Authors: Elizabeth (Charlotte) Letters from Ireland MDCCCXXXVII , 8vo Lond. 1838. First Edn., hf. title, later blind tooled green mor.; Gatty (Mrs. Alfred) The Old Folks from Home; or, A Holiday in Ireland in 1861, 8vo Lond. 1862 Second Edn., hf. orig. cloth; also [Croker (T.C.)] Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland, Parts II & III only, 12mo London 1828. Both titles inscribed ‘ Miss Edgeworth,’ with engd. plts., cont. hf. calf, mor. labels. (4) €130 - €180 534. Italian Travel: Condor (Josiah) Italy, 3 vols. 12mo Lond. (For James Duncan .. Thos. Tegg & Son) 1834. Two fold. maps & 9 engd. views; Valery (M.) Voyages Historiques Litteraires et Artistique en Italie, Guide Raisonne et Complet du Voyageur et de l’Artiste. 3 vols. 8vo Paris 1838. Second Edn., Three hf. titles, lg. fold.cold. map. All full vellum, tooled gilt spines, mor. labels. Good. (6) €130 - €180 535. Possibly a Dublin Piracy Costigan (Arthur William) Sketches of Society and Manners in Portugal. In a series of Letters from ... Costigan late a Captain in the Irish Brigade, in the Service of Spain to his Brother in London. 2 vols. sm. 8vo [L.] 1788. First Edn., Vol. I [VIII], 358, Vol. II, IV, 322, & errata leaf at end, cont. tree calf, Vol. I rebacked, cont. mor. labels. Scarce. (2) €250 - €400 536. Americana - Franklin: The Works of the late Doctor Benjamin Franklin: Consisting of His Life, written by himself, together with Essays, Humorous, Moral and Literary, chiefly in the Manner of Spectator, 12mo Dublin (P. Wogan) 1802. Ed. by Richard Price VI, [2], 316pp, title dam. where name was erased, full cont. tree calf, mor. label. Scarce Edition. (1) €140 - €200 529 532 535