23 July 2013 - Rare Book & Collectors Sale

#0224

Lot 30/0224

SOLD Hammer price €90

Antiquities etc: Coffee (George) Guide to the Celtic Antiquities of the Christian Period, roy 8vo D. 1909, cloth; Wilde (W.R.) Catalogue of the Antiquities in the Museum of the R.I.A., 2 vols. 8vo D. 1861, one inscribed by G.N. Count Plunket; R.S.A.I. – Illustrated Guide to the Northern, Western and Southern Islands and Coast of Ireland, roy 8vo D. 1905, illus. & cloth; & 3 others sim. Also a collection of empty envelopes addressed to G.N. Count Plunket, postally used with stamps. As a lot. (1)

Lot 31/0224

SOLD Hammer price €150

Children’s interest: O’Colmain (M.) In Oige an tSaoghail, Sean-sgeal Gaodhlacha, 4to D. n.d. c. 1920, Illustrated by Austin Molloy, decor. wrappers; & 3 others Chinese etc. (5)

Lot 32/0224

SOLD Hammer price €110

Co. Offaly: The King’s County Directory, 8vo Parsonstown (Birr) 1890. FIRST EDN., dbl. page map at front, hf. title, wd.-cut illus. through-out 344pp & 24pp. of adverts etc., recent cloth. Clean. Scarce. (1)

Lot 34/0224

SOLD Hammer price €50

Clarke (Austin) The Collected Works of, …, L. 1936. First, d.w.; Higgins (F.R.) Island Blood, L. 1925, d.w.; The Gap of Brightness, L. 1940, d.w.; The Dark Breed, L. 1927, All First Edns.,; Mac Donagh (D.) The Hungry Grass, L. 1947. First Edn., d.w.; & 3 others by A. Clarke. (8)

Lot 35/0224

SOLD Hammer price €240

Co. Clare Assizes: – County of Clare, Undischarged Queries with Abstracts of Presentments, Granted at Summer Assizes, 1876, held in Ennis, 8vo Ennis (‘Clare Journal’) 1876., 205pp, interleaved thro-out with m/ss notes, cont. cloth, lacks front & end blanks & paste downs. V. Scarce. (1)

Lot 36/0224

SOLD Hammer price €110

Burke (Edmund) The Political Tracts and Speeches of …, 8vo D. (Wilson) 1777. Hf. title, title with engd. vignette, contents leaf loose; Bound with, A Letter from Edmund Burke, Esq…. to John Farr and John Harris Sheriffs of Bristol,.. on the Affairs of America, D. 1777. First Edn., 55pp, cont. calf, spine worn. (1)

Lot 39/0224

SOLD Hammer price €190

Dublin Printing: The Book of Common Prayer,… According to the Use of the Church of Ireland. 4to D. (Geo. Grierson) 1739. Title within dbl. ruled border, add. m/ss Contents sheets & other m/ss annots, attractive panel calf, blind tooled borders,mor. label. (1)

Lot 40/0224

SOLD Hammer price €160

Irish Art etc: O’Driscoll (W. Justin) A Memoir of Daniel Maclise, R.A., 8vo L. 1871. First Edn., port. frontis. orig. cloth; Orpen (Sir. W.) Stories of Old Ireland & Myself, 4to 1924. First Edn., illus. orig. cloth; Lavery (J.) The Life of a Painter, L. 1940, First; Curran (C.P.) Dublin Decorative Plasterwork, 4to L. 1967, First; & 2 on Hugh Lane. (6)

Lot 41/0224

SOLD Hammer price €80

All From the Library of Dermod O’Brien R.H.A.

Art: British Art, An Illustrated Souvenir of The Exhibition of British Art at the Royal Academy of Art, London, 4to L. 1934. First, illus., wrappers, inscribed by Dermod O’Brien; & 4 other vols. sim. (5)

Lot 42/0224

SOLD Hammer price €30

Bryan (D.) Gerald Fitzgerald, The Great Earl of Kildare (1456 – 1513, D. (Talbot Press) 1933, cloth; Raftery (J.) Prehistoric Ireland, 8vo L. [1951] m/ss letter from Author, cloth & d.j.; Bradley (J.)ed. Settlement and Society In Medieval Ireland, thick 8vo Kilkenny (Boethius Press) [1988], cloth & d.j.; Hogan (E.) Onomasticon Goedelicum, thick 8vo, D. 1993, reprint, cloth. (4)

Lot 44/0224

SOLD Hammer price €170

[Wilson] The Post Chaise Companion: or Travellers Directory through Ireland, 8vo D. n.d. Fourth Edn., Lg. engd. fold. map frontis, 2 engd. plts. (1 fold.) fold. plan uncut, orig. boards., v. good; O’Callaghan (J. Corn) History of the Irish Brigades, roy 8vo Glasgow 1886, cloth. (2)

Lot 45/0224

SOLD Hammer price €130

Nolan (Wm.) Fassadinin Land, Settlement & Society in South-East Ireland 1600 – 1850, 8vo D. 1979. First; Langrishe (R.)ed. Handbook of the Cathedral Church of St. Canice, Kilkenny, 8vo Kilkenny 1879, cloth; & 3 others of Kilkenny interest. (5)

Lot 46/0224

SOLD Hammer price €60

Irish Fishing interest etc: O’Reilly (Peter) Rivers of Ireland A Fly Fisher’s Guide, 2004; also Fly Fishing in Ireland, 2000, and Loughs of Ireland, 1998, Signed by Author; & 3 others sim. (6)

Lot 47/0224

SOLD Hammer price €280

Plummer (Charles) Vitae Sanctorum Hiberniae, 2 vols. Oxford 1910. First Edn., orig. cloth; also Bethada Naem nErann, Lives of Irish Saints. 2 vols. Oxford 1968, cloth & d.w.’s; also Micellanea Hagiographica Hibernica, roy 8vo Brussels 1925. First Edn., later hf. mor. All Scarce. (5)

Lot 48/0224

SOLD Hammer price €70

Ronan (Myles V.) The Reformation in Dublin, 1536 – 1558, also The Reformation in Ireland Under Elizabeth 1558 – 1580, 2 vols. L. 1926 & 1930. Both First Edns., & orig. cloth. Clean copies. (2)

Lot 50/0224

SOLD Hammer price €50

O’Donovan (John) Miscellany of The Celtic Society, roy 8vo D. 1849, First, hf. calf; Kelly (M.)ed. Cambrensis Eversus, Vols. I & II (ex. 3), 8vo D. 1848, orig. cloth, good; & 1 other item sim. (4)

Lot 51/0224

SOLD Hammer price €200

Presentation Copy

Genealogy: O’Conor Don (Rt. Hon. C.O.) The O’Conors of Connaught: An Historical Memoir, 4to D. 1891. First Edn., illus. orig. cloth. Inscribed Pres. Copy, good. (1)

Lot 52/0224

SOLD Hammer price €180

Gilbert (John T.) Register of The Abbey of St. Thomas, Dublin, roy 8vo L. 1889; Mills (J.) & Mc Enery (M.J.) Calendar of the Gormanston Register, D. 1916; Wood (H.)ed. Court Book of the Liberty of Saint Sepulchre, D. 1930; Mc Neill (C.) Calendar of Archbishop Alan’s Register, D. 1950. (4)

Lot 53/0224

SOLD Hammer price €2000

The Complete Set

Georgian Society Records: The Georgian Society. Records of Eighteen Century Domestic Architecture and Decoration in Dublin, Vols. I – V, together 5 vols. All Published, lg. 4to D. 1909 – 1913. Lim. Edns. (300 – 600), illus. etc.; also Sadlier (T.U.) & Dickinson (Page L.) Georgian Mansions in Ireland, lg. 4to D. 1915. Lim. Edn. 156 (700), illus. all orig. decor. cloth, in a later slip case. (6)

Lot 54/0224

SOLD Hammer price €110

Simon (James) An Essay towards an Historical Account of Irish Coins, and of the Currency of Foreign Monies in Ireland, 4to D. 1810. 11 engd. full page plts., later cloth. Good. (1)