TIMED ONLINE RARE BOOK SALE 24th April 2024

32 IMPERFECTIONS NOT STATED 26 IMPERFECTIONS NOT STATED 146. Flower (Robin) Eire and Other Poems, 8vo Lond. 1910, First Edn., wrappers; The Western Island or The Great Blasket, Oxford 1944, and The Irish Tradition, Oxford 1947, both First Edns., orig. cloth; & 3 other items by or on Flower. A lot. (6) €40-€70 147. Travel - Du Chaillu (Paul B.) Explorations and Adventures in Equatorial Africa, 8vo Lond. 1861 [Second] fold. frontis vignette title, numerous plts. & text illus., large fold. map at end (repaired) & 32 pp. catalogue, orig. cloth, with gilt decor. V. good. (1) €200-€300 148. Beechey (Capt. F.W.) Narrative of a Voyage to the Pacific and Beerings Strait,... 2 vols. 8vo Lond. 1831. First Edn., 2 hf. titles, 22 plts. (ex. 23) & 2 fold. charts (ex. 3), frontis chart in Vol. I, & plate at p. 462 lacking, an extra plate at p. 149, not called for in 'Directions,' a few gatherings loosening, cont. drab cloth. Scarce. (2) €250-€350 149. Gaelic: Atkinson (R.) The Passions and the Homilies from Leabhar Breac, Thick 8vo Dublin (R.I.A.) 1887 First Edn., cloth; Pokorny (Julius) Die Seele Irlands. (P.H. Pearse's Novel) Halle (Saale) 1922 First Edn., hf. mor. (2) €70-€120 150. Illustrated Plates: Gay (John) Fables, 2 vols. 8vo Lond. 1737-38. Two engd. vignette titles, engd. frontis & 16 plts. in Vol. II, & 51 engd. hf. page vignette illus. by G. Van de Gucht in Vol. I, late full tree calf, worn. As a coll. of plts., w.a.f. (2) €35-€50 151. Edgeworths (Maria & Richard Lovell) Essay on Irish Bulls, 8vo Lond. 1802. First Edn., title re-lined, II, 316pp two engd. vignettes, ex libris copy (blind stamp) uncut, recent blue boards. (1) €50-€80