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

88 IMPERFECTIONS NOT STATED Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 553. Bourke (Richard Southwell) St. Petersburg and Moscow, A Visit to the Court of the Czar. 2 vols. Lond. 1846. First Edn., 2 hf. titles, 24pp Cat. end of Vol. I orig. embossed green cloth with central gilt coat of arms, covers only somewhat faded on fore-edges. (1) * The author was born in 1822 and went on to become Chief Secretary of Ireland and 6th Earl of Mayo. He was an experienced politician and a keen sportsman & retired to his family home at Palmerstown, Naas, Co. Kildare. He was elected as M.P for Co. Kildare, and hunted with the Kildare Foxhounds. He was later in life appointed Viceroy of India. While inspecting a penal settlement in the Andaman Irelands, he was stabbed to death by a convict on 8th Feb. 1872. €300 - €400 554. Wolff (Rev. Joseph) Narrative of a Mission to Bokhara, in the Years 1843 - 1845, to Ascertain the Fate of Colonel Stoddard and Captain Conolly. 8vo Lond. (For the Author) 1846. Third Edn., Hf. title, port. frontis, 16pp catalogue at end, orig. green cloth, spine somewhat faded, but a v. good copy. (1) €200 - €300 555. Smith (Worthington G.) Man,The Primeval Savage, His Haunts and Relics from the Hill-tops of Bedfordshire to Blackwall, 8vo Lond. 1894. First Edn., hf. title, frontis, profusely illustrated, recent hf. mor. raised bands, mor. label; also Sollas (W.J.) Ancient Hunters and their Modern Representatives, 8vo Lond. 1911. First Edn., hf. title, lg. fold. frontis plts. maps & illus. orig. cloth, stained. (2) €100 - €150 556. Savary (Claude Etienne) Letters on Egypt... An Account of the Descent of St. Lewis at Damietta. 2 vols. Dublin (for Luke White .. and P. Byrne) 1787. First Dublin Edn., Two fold. maps & 1 fold. plt., L.S.’s in text, cont. Dublin calf, mor. labels. (2) €150 - €220 557. First Dublin Edition Anderson (James) Essays Relating to Agriculture and Rural Affairs, 8vo Dublin (for Messrs. P. Wogan, P. Byrne, and J. Moore) 1797. First Dublin Edn., Hf. title, [6] XXXVIII [2], 368pp, attractive cont. full tree calf, mor. label. Good. (1) €175 - €250 558. Radcliffe (Rev. Thos.) A Report on The Agriculture of Eastern and Western Flanders; Drawn up at the Desire of the Farming Society of Ireland, with an Appendix, L. (for John Harding - &W. Porter) 1819. First Edition, fold. hd. cold. map frontis & 11 engd. plts. (4 fold.), cont. hf. calf, spine worn. V. Scarce. . good. (1) €350 - €500 559. Thomas (Pascoe) A True and Impartial Journal of a Voyage to the South-Seas and Round the Globe, in His Majesty’s Ship the Centurion Under the Commodore George Anson, 8vo L. (S. Birt) 1745. First Edition, 10pp list of subscribers, [XVI], 347 (1), 39, [i]pps, cont. sprinkled calf, dble gilt fillet, new mor. label. Good. Sabin 95437. (1) Provenance: Mount Congreve, Waterford, Signed & with bookplate. €800 - €1200 560. Fine Copy in Original Wrappers Addison (Joseph) Remarks on Several Parts of Italy, etc. In the Years 1701, 1702, 1703, 8vo D. (for T. Walker, at Cicero’s Head..) 1773. 303 + [IX] index pp. uncut, in orig. blue grey wrappers, now in marble clamshell box, mor. label. V. good. (1) €200 - €300 561. Fishing: Drought (J.B.) Green Memory of Days with Gun & Rod, 8vo Lond. 1937. First Edn.; also A Sportsman Looks at Eire, 8vo Lond. n.d. First Edn., illus. by D. Watkins - Pitchford; Mc Crea (D.F.) Fisherman’s Forum, Contentions on Trout and Salmon. 8vo Lond. 1961. First Edn., illus.; & Luce (A.A.) Fishing and Thinking, Shrewsbury 1990, illus. All with orig. dust wrappers, v. good. (4) €130 - €180 553 560 556 559