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38 IMPERFECTIONS NOT STATED 32 IMPERFECTIONS NOT STATED 182. Capel - Letters written by His Excellency Arthur Capel, Earl of Essex, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, in the Year 1675, Lg. 4to London 1770. Hf. title, cont. full calf, tooled gilt borders & circular armorial bearing of the Earl of Gosford, with motto 'Vigilantibus,' gilt flat spine with mor. label. (1) €80-€120 183. Illustrated by W. Heath Robinson Rabelais - The Works of Mr. Francis Rabelais, 2 vols. Lond. 1904. Hf. titles, 2 frontis illus. plts. & text illus. thro.-out, uncut, gilt decor. white buckram. (2) €50-€75 184. Heaney (Seamus) Beowulf, A Verse Translation. Sm. folio Lond. (The Folio Society) 2010. Text decorated thro.-out, orig. mor. backed gilt decor. cloth, in orig. slipcase. V. good. (1) €120-€170 185. Fine Presentation Item Le Brocquy (Louis) The Irish Landscape. Gandon Editions, Dublin 1992. Oblong folio grey cloth, titled in silver, black morocco spine, slipcase. With an interview in several languages and 36 full colour reproductions (two folding) of original watercolours by Le Brocquy. (1) Limited edition, numbered and signed by the artist, no. 56 of 250 copies specially bound by Kenny’s of Galway. A superb production, one of the finest Irish books of the period. Fine copy, rare; together with Le Brocquy (Sybil) Cadenus & Swift’s Most Valuable Friend . Reissued with two images by Louis le Brocquy and an intro. by Andrew Carpenter. Lilliput, D. 2003, orig. illus. d.w. One of a small number of copies SIGNED by Louis le Brocquy on title page. Fine. (2) €250-€350 186. Architecture: Leask (H.G.) Irish Churches and Monastic Buildings, 3 vols. Dundalk 1955-60. First Edn., illus. d.w.'s; Fleming (J.S.) The Town-Well Fortifications of Ireland, 4to Paisley 1914; Killeen (R.) Ireland Brick and Stone, The Island's History and its Buildings , D. 2012; Manning (C.)ed. From Ringforts to Fortified Houses, .. Studies .. in honour of David Sweetman. Sm. folio 2007; & 3 others sim. V. good. (9) €75-€125 187. Carrigan (Canon Wm.) The History and Antiquities of the Diocese of Ossory, 4 vols. 4to Freshford 1981 reprint of 1905 Edn., illus. cloth, & slipcase, v. good copy; also Holahan (Rev. J.) Notes and Antiquities of the United Parishes of Ballycallan, Kilmanagh & Killaloe,... 8vo Kilkenny 1875. Sole Edn., orig. ptd. wrappers. Scarce. (2) €200-€300