Adam's Country House Collections 12th & 13th October 2020

291 Country House Collections|12 th & 13 th October 2020 753 FIVE FIRST EDITION VOLUMNS OF ‘THE ODYSSEY OF HOMER’ TRANSLATED BY ALEXANDER POPE, London, printed for Bernard Lintot, 1725/6, original calf., Vols I, II & III dated 1725, vols IV and V dated 1726, each volume with gilded crests of Trinity College, Dublin on the front and back covers, and with a book plate award from Trinity to Car- olo Hendrick signed by officials and dated 1734 on the inside cover; together with THE ILIAD OF HOMER, TRANSLATED BY ALEXAN- DER POPE, printed for Bernard Lintot, MDCCXXXII, Vols I, II, IV, V, VI (All Third Editions), these volumes also with gilded crests of Trinity College, Dublin on the front and back covers, and with a book plate award from Trinity; together with Vol IV (Forth Edition) of The Iliad translated by Pope (Without Trinity Crest but with same award plate on the inside cover; together with a 19th Century TCD prize binding, ‘The Bride of Cornith; the first Walpurgis Night’ (12) € 4,000 - 6,000 754 PERSIAN SCHOOL (18TH CENTURY) A collection of sixty-eight illuminated manuscript leaves (double sided), inscribed with the poetry of Hafez, with painted vignettes and gilt highlights, each leaf with fifteen lines of calligraphy text with gilt floral divisions and compartments, each 19 x 12.5cm € 2,000 - 3,000 Day II LIVE AUCTION: Tuesday 13 th October 2020 starting at 11am