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

93 Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 594. India: Dubois (Abbe J.A.) A Description of the Character, Manners and Customs of the People of India; and of their Institutions,Religious & Civil, roy 8vo Madras 1862. Second Edn. ed. by Rev. G.U. Pope. Port. photo frontis, later buckram. Good. (1) €120 - €220 595. Property of Sir OtwayWheeler-Cuffe, Lyrath, Co. Kilkenny With His Notes and Original Photographs Association Copy: Ward (Rowland) Records of Big Game, With Their Distribution Characteristics, Dimensions, Weights, and Measurements of Horns, Antlers, Tusks & Skins. Thick roy 8vo Lond. 1899. Third Edn., hf. title, port. frontis vignette title, & approx. 215 illustrations, attractive end papers, orig. green buckram, gilt lettered, stained overall. (1) * Sir Otway Wheeler-Cuffe’s, noted big game hunter, this, his copy from Lyrath, Co. Kilkenny, Signed by him. In addition there are annotations and comments thro.-out text, and several notes by him, loosely inserted, together with orig. photographs of specimens he captured. V. Rare. €400 - €600 596. Hogarth (D.G.) The Life of Charles M. Doughty, roy 8vo Lond. (Oxford Uni Press) 1928. First Edn., Hf. title, port. frontis & 9 plts. fold. map at end of volume, orig. green buckram, spine faded; Doughty (C.M.) Travels in Arabia Deserta, 2 vols. Lond. (Medici Society) 1923, portrait frontis, maps & illus. cloth; & 1 other later Edn. of same. (4) €150 - €200 597. Beaslaí (Piaras) Michael Collins and the Making of a New Ireland, 2 vols. thick, 4to Dublin 1926. First Edn., 2 hf. title, 2 cold. frontis & 16 bl. & white plts., orig. gilt decor. green cloth. V. good copy. (2) €150 - €220 598. Hedin (Sven) Trans Himalaya Discoveries and Adventures in Tibet, Vols. I & II (ex. 3) 8vo L. 1900. First Edn., profusely illustrated, orig. cloth. v. clean set. (2) €100 - €150 599. Americana: Townshend (Capt. F. Trench) Ten Thousand Miles of Travel, Sport & Adventure, 8vo Lond. (Hurst & Blackett) 1869. First Edn., Hf. title, frontis, vignette title in red & black, 16pp cat. at end, orig. orange / yellow cloth. V. good. (1) €150 - €200 600. Heaney (Seamus) North, N.Y. 1976, OUP, First US Edn., orig. cloth in orig. d.w., fine copy; with a Second Copy of same, orig. cloth (marked) in orig. d.w. (torn at upper corner), name on prelim., a few pencil marks, and a copy of the First Paperback Edition, 1977, Signed on t.p. (3) €300 - €500 601. Heaney (Seamus) Preoccupations, Selected Prose 1968-1978. L. Faber 1980, First Edn., orig. cloth in d.w., Fine copy; with the same, N.Y. 1980, First US Edn., orig. cloth in d.w. Fine. (2) €100 - €150 602. Heaney (Seamus) The Haw Lantern, N.Y. 1987, First US Edn., No. 13 of 200 copies, specially bound and Signed, slipcase; also the First Regular US Edition, N.Y. 1987, orig. cl. in d.w. (2) €250 - €300 603. Heaney (Seamus) Electric Light, L. 2001, Faber, First Regular Edn., cl. in d.w.,; with the First Paperback Edn., L. 2001, wrappers; also the First U.S. Edn., N.Y. 2001, and the First Paperback Edn., N.Y. 2001, all fine. (4) €100 - €200 604. Heaney (Seamus) Finders Keepers, Selected Prose 1971-2001, L. 2002, Faber, First Edn., orig. cl. in d.w., with the First U.S. Edn., N.Y. 2002, cl. in d.w.; and the paperback version, N.Y. 2002, all fine. (3) €100 - €200 598 600 602