9 December 2014 - Rare Book Sale

#0232

Lot 29/0232

SOLD Hammer price €400

All Inscribed to Frank Mc Evoy

Heaney (Seamus) Station Island, L. 1984. First, signed and inscribed ‘To Frank – le meas mor – Seamus Heaney, 2 March 1995.’; The Haw Lantern, L. 1987. First, signed & inscribed, ‘To Frank with affection and high regard – Seamus, 15.X.’88’; also First, American Edition of The Haw Lantern, N.Y. 1987. Signed. All cloth & with orig. d.w. V. good. Brandes & Durkan, A360; A41a; & A41c.; & 7 other First Editions by Seamus Heaney. (10)

Lot 30/0232

SOLD Hammer price €220

Burke (Ed.) Political Tracts and Speeches of Edmund Burke, Esq., D. 1777. Hf. title, cont. tree calf, mor. label. (1)

Lot 31/0232

SOLD Hammer price €170

Republican: Gallagher (F.) The Indivisible Island… The Partition of Ireland, L. 1957, First, d.w.; Ferguson (Sir. J.) The Curragh Incident, L. 1964; O’Donovan (D.) Kevin Barry and His Time, 8vo D. 1989. First Signed Pres. Edn., d.w.; Seoighe (M.) Maraiodh Sean Sabhat Areir, D. 1964. First, illus. d.w.; & 6 pamphlets sim. A lot. (10)

Lot 32/0232

SOLD Hammer price €140

Home Rule: Home Rule Pamphlets, 22 separate pamphlets, by J. Dillon, J.E. Redmond, J.J. Clancy & others, 8vo L. 1886 – 1888, later cloth; Redmond (John E.) Historical and Political Addresses 1883 – 1897, D. & L. 1898, First, orig. cloth. (2)

Lot 33/0232

SOLD Hammer price €230

Irish House Sale Catalogues: Clonbrook, Ballinasloe; Newtown Park House, Dublin, Malahide Castle (2); Donacomper, Co. Kildare; Charleville, Co. Wicklow; Bettyglen, Rahey; Coolattin House, Co. Wicklow; Birr Castle, Co. Offaly; & 5 others sim., c. 1976 – 1996. As a lot. (1)

Lot 37/0232

SOLD Hammer price €190

Irish Travel: Head (Sir. F.B.) A Fortnight in Ireland, L. 1852. First, fold. map frontis, recent hf. mor.; Wilde (Sir W.R.) Lough Corrib, its Shores and Islands, D. 1867. First, fold. map, text illus. orig. cloth, recased; Roney (Sir C.P.) How to Spend a Month in Ireland, What it Will Cost, sm. 8vo L. & D. [1861] First, fold. map, pict. adverts, recent cloth. (3)

Lot 40/0232

SOLD Hammer price €100

Presentation Copies to Frank Mc Evoy

Montague (John) Poisoned Lands & Other Poems, 8vo L. 1961, and Tides, L. 1970. Both Signed First Edns, & each with a signed m/ss postcard, one A.L.s. from Author to Frank Mc Evoy, both d.w.’s; and A Slow Dance, Dolmen Press 1975. Lim. Edn. 139 (150). Signed & with signed frontis by Jack Coughlin, specially bound with leather back & slipcase. All v. good. (3)

Lot 41/0232

SOLD Hammer price €170

Meadows (J. Mc C.) A Review of the Peat Question, its Position and Prospects, D. 1873, cloth worn & loose; Select Proverbs, sm. 8vo L. 1707, calf; Cotton (Rev. S.G.) The Three Whispers and other Tales, 12mo D. 1870 cloth; & 4 other items, include. a small m/ss commonplace book. As a lot, w.a.f. (7)

Lot 42/0232

SOLD Hammer price €625

Presentation Copy to Thos. Mc Greevy, Signed by W. B. Yeats

Yeats (W.B.) Later Poems, N. York 1924. Inscribed,’T. Mac Greevy, Yours W.B. Yeats, April 24, 1924,’; also London Edition of 1924 of same work; and The Wild Swans at Coole, L. 1919. First Edn., all orig. cloth. (3)

Lot 43/0232

SOLD Hammer price €580

Inscribed Presentation Copies to Thomas Mc Greevey

Yeats (Jack B.) Ah Well. A Romance in Perpetuity,” L. 1942. First Edn., illus. frontis; also And To You Also, L. 1944. First Edn., illus. Both inscribed by Jack B. Yeats to T,. Mc Greevy, each with d.w.; also Pearson (H.) Beerbohm Tree, L. 1956. First Edn., d.w. With Long Presentation inscription to Thos. Mc Greevy, Signed by Jack B. Yeats; and Eliot (T.S.) After Strange Gods, L. 1934. First Edn., Inscribed Pres. Copy from Author to Tom Mac Greevy, d.w. with tears. (4)

Lot 44/0232

SOLD Hammer price €90

Healy (John) History of The Diocese of Meath, 2 vols. roy 8vo D. 1908, First Edn., orig. cloth. (2)

Lot 45/0232

SOLD Hammer price €200

Periodical: Ryan (John)ed. Envoy, A Review of Literature and Art. Vol. I No. 1 – Vol. 5 No. 20. together 20 illus. [All Published] D. 1949 – 1951. All orig. ptd. wrappers. V. good set. (1)

Lot 46/0232

SOLD Hammer price €220

From Library at Derrynane Abbey, 1844

Kane (Robert) The Industrial Resources of Ireland, 8vo D. 1844. First Edn., orig. cloth, recased with new spine. Inscribed by ‘John D.M. O’Connell,’ and further inscribed on title, ‘Library – Derrynane Abbey, Oct. 1844 per T.M. Ray.’; also with Lough (T.) England’s Wealth Ireland’s Poverty, L. [1896], fold. tables & diagrams, cloth. (2)

Lot 47/0232

SOLD Hammer price €370

Shaw Mason (Wm.) A Statistical Account or Parochial Survey of Ireland, Vols. I & II ex. 3, 2 vols., 8vo D. 1814 – 1816. First Edn., 2 hf. titles & 23 fold. map, plts. etc. (ex. 25), hf. calf, recent rebacks, mor. labels. (2)

Lot 48/0232

SOLD Hammer price €90

Petty (Sir Wm.) The Petty Papers, Some Unpublished Writings … edited by the Marquis of Lansdowne. 2 vols. L. 1927. 2 frontis. orig. crimson cloth. Good. (2)

Lot 49/0232

SOLD Hammer price €130

Catholic Interest: O’Leary (Rev. A.) A Defence of the Conduct and Writings of … during late disturbances in Munster. Written by Himself. L. 1787. First, hf. mor.; Hippisley (Sir. J.C.) The Substance of Additional Observations .. in the Debate on the Petition of the Roman Catholics of Ireland … 1805, L. 1806. orig. calf, rebacked; Milner (Rev. J.) A Vindication of The End of The Religous Controversy, L. 1822, cont. diced calf, gilt spine, mor. label. (3)

Lot 50/0232

SOLD Hammer price €230

Brewer (J.N.) The Beauties of Ireland, 2 vols. L. 1825. First Edn., 14 engd. plts. cont. blind tooled calf with gilt fillet borders, & matching reback, mor. labels. (2)

Lot 51/0232

SOLD Hammer price €130

Alison (Sir A.) Lives of Lord Castlereagh and Sir Charles Stewart, 3 vols. Edin. & L. 1861. First Edn. cont. hf. green mor. mor. labels, by Carswell, Belfast. (3)

Lot 52/0232

SOLD Hammer price €240

1798: Crofton Croker (T.) Memoirs of Joseph Holt, General of the Irish Rebels in 1798, 2 vols. L. 1838. First Edn. 2 frontis (1 port), recent qtr. mor., mor. labels. Good. (2)

Lot 53/0232

SOLD Hammer price €280

With Original Irish Sketches

Sketch Books: (Charles Wilmot) Artist. An Irish Start, Lady Chatterton’s Rambles in Ireland, oblong 4to c. 1850’s, 7 full page pencil sketches depicting a Tralee Street Scene on market day; Drunken Scene; and others showing Lord Guillmore in his Carriage / Chaises, with m/ss commentary, orig. leather backed boards, unique; together with a 19th Century Scrap Album, with some fine original drawings and watercolours various cut-outs, sketches, etc, in fine cont. full crimson morocco with tooled gilt borders, & inscribed on front cover ‘Miss Jackson’. As Albums, w.a.f. (2)