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Mealy Auctioneers will hold an auction of rare books, manuscripts and maps on
10th December in Dublin. They offer absentee, telephone and on-line bidding.
Catalogue available here
Some highlights to be auctioned:
Lot 909: Rare Book of Hours, Printed on vellum Illuminated Book of Hours, printed in Paris, c. 1508 The book is printed on vellum in octavo, each page having coloured borders. In addition to the device on the title-page, there is a full-page coloured illustration of the Raising of Lazarus, together with several other small illustrations. The text is in French and Latin. The binding and endpapers are later and date from c. 1700; the boards are of black morocco with blind tooling and gold tooled spine. Unfortunately, this copy has suffered from mutilation. Several pages are missing, including part of the almanac with which the book commences, while at least three illustrations, and the borders of two pages, have been cut out. However, despite its imperfections this book is a stunning example of the combined arts of the printer, metal-cut illustrator and illuminator in the early 16th century, w.a.f.€2000 – 3000
Lot 718: Beckett (Samuel) Whoroscope (poem). The
Hours Press, Paris 1930, First Edition, one of 100 copies, original red printed
wrappers. This copy signed and inscribed by Beckett on colophon page to his
college friend Billy Cunningham, in purple ink, dated Dec. 1930 (year of
publication). A little dusty, stitching perished but a good copy of a rare
item, Beckett's first separately printed work. With a photographic print. With
a related note from Sean O Mordha concerning his Beckett documentary. As a
collection. (1) €3000 – 5000
Lot 581: With Signed Presentation Inscription Beckett (Samuel) Oh les beaux jours: pièce en deux Acts, 8vo Paris (Les Editions de Minuit) 1963. Limited first French Edition With Signed Presentation Inscription, dated Paris March 1963, on half title, uncut, orig. white ptd. wrappers. (1) €400 – 500
Lot: 543 Map - British Isles Jansson, (J.) Insularum Britannicarum Acurata Delineatio ex Geographicus Conatibus Abrahami Ortelii., c.1650, Amsterdam., 40cms x 51cms. Large Jansson map of the British Isles based on the earlier Ortelius map with both island oriented to the East. hd.cold. German letterpress text verso. w.a.f. (1) €500 – 700
Lot 754: Egyptian Photographs: A good group of six original Photographs by Longhi, of Pyramids at Giza, The Sphinx, The Nile & Bedouin Arabs and Camels, each approx. 22cms x 27.5cms (8¾" x 10¾"), and mounted on card, as photos, w.a.f. (6) €200 – 300
———————————Catalogue available here
Some highlights to be auctioned:
Lot 909: Rare Book of Hours, Printed on vellum Illuminated Book of Hours, printed in Paris, c. 1508 The book is printed on vellum in octavo, each page having coloured borders. In addition to the device on the title-page, there is a full-page coloured illustration of the Raising of Lazarus, together with several other small illustrations. The text is in French and Latin. The binding and endpapers are later and date from c. 1700; the boards are of black morocco with blind tooling and gold tooled spine. Unfortunately, this copy has suffered from mutilation. Several pages are missing, including part of the almanac with which the book commences, while at least three illustrations, and the borders of two pages, have been cut out. However, despite its imperfections this book is a stunning example of the combined arts of the printer, metal-cut illustrator and illuminator in the early 16th century, w.a.f.€2000 – 3000
Lot 718: Beckett (Samuel) Whoroscope (poem). The
Hours Press, Paris 1930, First Edition, one of 100 copies, original red printed
wrappers. This copy signed and inscribed by Beckett on colophon page to his
college friend Billy Cunningham, in purple ink, dated Dec. 1930 (year of
publication). A little dusty, stitching perished but a good copy of a rare
item, Beckett's first separately printed work. With a photographic print. With
a related note from Sean O Mordha concerning his Beckett documentary. As a
collection. (1) €3000 – 5000 Lot 581: With Signed Presentation Inscription Beckett (Samuel) Oh les beaux jours: pièce en deux Acts, 8vo Paris (Les Editions de Minuit) 1963. Limited first French Edition With Signed Presentation Inscription, dated Paris March 1963, on half title, uncut, orig. white ptd. wrappers. (1) €400 – 500
Lot: 543 Map - British Isles Jansson, (J.) Insularum Britannicarum Acurata Delineatio ex Geographicus Conatibus Abrahami Ortelii., c.1650, Amsterdam., 40cms x 51cms. Large Jansson map of the British Isles based on the earlier Ortelius map with both island oriented to the East. hd.cold. German letterpress text verso. w.a.f. (1) €500 – 700
Lot 754: Egyptian Photographs: A good group of six original Photographs by Longhi, of Pyramids at Giza, The Sphinx, The Nile & Bedouin Arabs and Camels, each approx. 22cms x 27.5cms (8¾" x 10¾"), and mounted on card, as photos, w.a.f. (6) €200 – 300
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