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119 Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 833. Stokes (Margaret) Early Christian Architecture in Ireland, folio Lond. 1878. First Edn., illus. thro.-out orig. cloth, gilt; Crawford (H.S.) Handbook of Carved Ornament from Irish Monuments ... 4to Dublin 1926. First Edn., preface by R.A.S. Macalister, decor. cloth; 1 other item. (3) €100 - €150 834. The Royal Collection: Laking (Guy F.) The Furniture of Windsor Castle, lg. sq. folio Lond. (Bradbury, Agnew & Co.) 1905; also same author, Sevres Porcelain of Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle, lg. sq. folio Lond. 1907. Two Volumes. Fine coloured plates thro.-out, uncut, orig. calf backed buckram with cipher of Edward VII on each cover. V. good. (2) €150 - €200 835. Nelson (E. Charles) Irish Gardening and Horticulture, folio Dublin 1979; and The Brightest Jewel .. Botanic Gardens, Dublin, folio Kilkenny 1987. Both First Edns, cold. illus. etc; Margaret Mee’s Amazon, folio Lond. 2004; Heritage Irish Plants, 2 vols., & The Native Dogs of Ireland, 1984. First Edn., As a lot. (6) €80 - €120 836. Special Limited Editions Sex (Susan) & Sayers (Brendan) Ireland’s Wild Orchids, lg. atlas folio Dublin 2004. Special Lim. Edition No. 62 of 700 Signed & Numbered Copies. 35 full page cold. plts. & other cold. illus., in fine heavy crushed hf. green mor. with sim. gilt label, & cloth slipcase. Together with Ireland’s Wild Orchids - A Field Guide, 8vo D. 2008. Special Lim. Edn. No. 20 of 50 Copies for Patrons, Signed by Both, with original watercolour of an Orchid, cold. plts., in tan calf pouch binding; and a general edition of same work, Signed Pres. Copy. A very fine set. (3) €700 - €1000 837. Sowerby (James) & Smith (Sir J. Ed.) English Botany: or, Coloured Figures of British Plants, Ed. by John T. Bowell, 12 vols. thick 8vo L. 1877-73-86. Third Edn., hf. titles, & 1934 hd. cold. plts. (A few dbl. page), adverts at end of each vol., t.e.g., orig. green cloth, gilt decor. upr. covers & spines. A very good clean set. (12) €800 - €1000 838. [Walsh (Wendy)] Wilkinson (Nick) Wendy Walsh A Lifetime in Painting - A Memoir, Folio Dublin 2007. First Edn., Signed Copy, d.w.; also Nelson (E.C.) &Walsh (W.) Trees of Ireland Native and Naturalized, folio Dublin 1993. First Edn., coloured illus. d.w. V. good. (2) €100 - €150 839. Triggs (H. Inigo) Garden Craft in Europe, lg. 4to Lond. (Batsford) 1913. First Edn., illus. gilt buckram. V. good. (1) €100 - €150 840. Humphreys (Arthur L.) Old Decorative Maps & Charts, lg. 4to Lond. 1926. Limited Edition, cold. plts., buckram; 2 other items. (3) €70 - €100 841. Routhier (A.-B.) Quebec et Levis, A L’Aurore du XXe Siecle, folio Montreal 1900. First Edn., profusely illustrated, in full gilt lettered morocco binding. (1) €80 - €120 842. Lewis (Samuel) A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, 2 vols. v. lg. 4to London 1837. First Edn., List of subscribers, cont. fine hf. crimson morocco. V. good. (2) * With details of every village, town, parish, etc. in Ireland. €220 - €350 843. Irish Famine: Crowley Smyth & Murphy, Editors, Atlas of the Great Irish Famine 1845-1852, Lg. sq. folio Cork 2012. First Edn., profusely illus. orig. cloth, pict. d.w. V. good. (1) €40 - €75 844. Georgian Society - The Georgian Society Records of Eighteenth Century Domestic Architecture and Decoration in Dublin, Vol.V, 4to Shannon (I.U.P.) 1969- profusely illustrated, orig. cloth. (1) €100 - €150 836 837 841 838