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

98 IMPERFECTIONS NOT STATED Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 638. Brydone (P.) A Tour through Sicily and Malta, In a Series of Letters to William Beckford, Esq., of Somerly in Suffolk, 2 vols. 12mo Dublin (for J. Potts, J. Willimas, R. Moncrieffe, and T. Walker) 1775. Third. Both titles Signed by Thos. Moore, a previous owner, cont. calf, raised bands, gilt decor. in panels, mor. labels. V. good copy. (2) €150 - €200 639. Moore (John) A Journal During a Residence in France, from the beginning of August to the Middle of December, 1792... 2 vols. 12mo Dublin (For J. Moore) 1793. First Dublin Edn., 2 hf. titles, 3 fold. maps (1 hd. cold.) cont. sprinkled Dublin calf, gilt decor. mor. labels. V. good copy. (2) €200 - €300 640. Very Rare Belfast Printing Americana: Corry (John) The Life of George Washington, late President and Commander in Chief of the Armies of The United States of America, 12mo Belfast (J. Smyth) 1800. First Edn., engd. port. frontis (loose), 216pp, cont. full tree calf, worn, mor. label. (1) €300 - €400 641. First Hand Accounts of The French Revolution Williams (Helen Maria) Letters from France, containing a Great Variety of Original Information concerning the Most Important Events .. in that Country in the Years 1790, 1791, 1792 & 1793, 2 vols. 12mo Dublin (J. chambers) 1794. First Dublin Edn.,; also Letters Containing A Sketch of the Politics of France, from the thirty-first of May 1793, till the twenty- eight of July 1794, and of The Scenes which have passed in the Prisons of Paris, 12mo Dublin (J. Chambers) 1795. First Dublin Edn., hf. title, contemporary and uniform sprinkled calf, mor. labels in red & green. Good. (3) * Bookplates of William & Caroline Acton. €300 - €400 642. Early Dublin Edition Burnet (Bishop Gilbert) Travels through Switzerland, Italy, some Parts of Germany, etc, 12mo D. (J. Watts) 1725, pages XXIV, 238pp advert leaf at end, cont. panel calf, mor. label. V. good copy. (1) €180 - €250 643. Glas (Capt. George) The History of the Discovery and Conquest of the Canary Islands, 2 vols. 12mo D. (for D. Chamberlain and James Williams ..) 1767. First Dublin Edn. Lg. fold. map Vol. I, [IV], VIII [XII], 227pp; Vol. II, 223pp orig. full calf, raised bands, recent mor. labels. V. good set. Ex. Rare. (2) €500 - €700 644. L’E[strange] M: Heligoland: or Reminiscences of Childhood, a genuine narrative of facts by .. an Officer’s Daughter. Edited by Mrs. C. W[ilmot]. Sm. 8vo L. 1850. First Edn., Pp. VIII: 66 litho frontis & 1 plt. 4pp ct. at end. Front blank inscribed “Alice & Fanny Wilmot, 1850” Orig. cloth, stained. (1) * A fine copy with the two charming lihtographs. The pathetic tale of how Miss L’Estrange and her two very young sisters were orphaned when their mother and father (an Irish officer in the British garrison on Heligoland during the Napoleonic War), died within weeks of each other, and how with the help of regimental friends, the three children managed the hazardous journey to Dublin, where they met their grandmother and aunts, for the first time. €200 - €300 644 643 638 640 642