WHYTE'S THE ECLECTIC COLLECTOR TIMED ON-LINE AUCTION 17 MAY TO 7 JUNE 2024

21 History THE ECLECTIC COLLECTOR · FRIDAY 7 JUNE 2024 39 1813 Appointment of Edward Smith to faithfully perform as Taster of Butter andWeigh Master. With Penny Farthing revenue stamp and embossed seal. “Know all men by these Presents that we Edward Smith of Bagenalstown and Robert Burrows and Charles Burrows of same”. Appointment approved by Thomas Gurly, Seneschal of the manor of Ballymoon and Dunleckney. Signed, sealed and delivered by Richard Phelan and Edward Smyth, Robert Burrows, Charles Burrows. 12 by 10in. (30.5 by 25.4cm) Condition: Some edge tears and stains away from text, very good. Estimate €150-€200 (approx £130-£170) Click here for more images and to bid on this lot 39 40 1825. ‘A Peep at the Esquimaux; or, Scenes on the Ice. ToWhich is Annexed, a Polar Pastoral... By a Lady’. 1825, H.R. Thomas, London, Westley & Tyrell, Dublin. Second Edition. octavo, 40 hand-coloured woodcut illustrations (20 full-page), 4pp. of advertisements at end. Rare. 7 by 4.50in. (17.8 by 11.4cm) Provenance: Thought to be the work of Lady Louisa FitzGerald Lyon (1798-1826), daughter of Lord Edward FitzGerald, Irish revolutionary killed in 1798. She was the wife of Captain George Lyon who travelled with Sir William Edward Parry on his Polar expeditions, or written by Mary Love, a Canadian; both attributions are without firm evidence. The ilustrations are derived from the illustrations by George Lyon published in Parry’s Journal Of A Second Voyage For The Discovery Of A North-WEst Passage. Condition: Quarter calf gilt, marbled boards, rubbed, bumped , stained, some pencil annotations and slight stains to some pages, otherwise very good. Estimate €300-€500 (approx £260-£430) Click here for more images and to bid on this lot 40