15 December 2015 - Rare Book Sale

#0237

Lot 1/0237

West (Mrs. Frederick) A Summer Visit to Ireland in 1846, L. 1847. First Edn., 3 litho plts. (include. frontis) & text illus., gilt cloth, v. good. Scarce; Dewar (Daniel) Observations on the Character, Customs and Superstitions of The Irish, L. 1812. First, hf. title, recent cloth; Wright (G.N.) Scenes in Ireland, sm. 8vo L. 1834. First Edn., orig. printed paper boards. Good. (3)

Lot 2/0237

Association Copy: Reports … of the Loyal National Repeal Association of Ireland, Vol. II only, D. 1845. Inscribed on title by Thomas Clooney, Historian of 1798, & states ‘Bought at Rev. Martin Doyle’s Auction Oct. 1st, 1861,’ author, cloth; also Fitz-Simon (Ellen) Derrynane in Eighteen Hundred and Thirty-Two and Other Poems, D. 1863, cloth. As a lot, w.a.f. (2)

Lot 3/0237

Kilkenny Born Author

Hackett (Francis) Ireland: A Study in Nationalism 8vo N.Y. 1919. Third Edn. of the Author’s First Book. Pres. Copy signed to [Senator] James Douglas, with a photocopy of a large 4pp letter by Hackett dated 1922; The Invisible Censor, N.Y. 1921. First Edn.; The Senator’s Last Night, N.Y. 1943. First Edn., & d.w.; Henry the Eight, L. 1929. First Edn., Signed Pres. Copy, d.w.; On Judging Book, N.Y. 1947; That Nice Young Couple, L. 1925. First London Edn.,; & 4 others. (10)

Lot 4/0237

[Wilkinson] A Philosophical Survey of the South of Ireland, in a Series of Letters to John Watkinson. 8vo D. 1778. First Edn., engd. frontis & 5 plts. (2 fold.) in recent calf backed marble boards, v. good copy. (1)

Lot 5/0237

Ware (James) De Hibernia & Antiquitatibus ejus, Disquisitiones, Sm. 8vo L. 1654. First Edn., title re-backed 6 leaves in fac-simile, engd. map & illus., orig. calf, rebacked & re-cased. (1)

Lot 6/0237

[Collins (Michael)] Beaslai (Piaras) Michael Collins and the Making of a New Ireland, 2 vols. L. n.d. cold. & other (lacking 1 frontis), cloth; Talbot (Hayden) Michael Collins’ Own Story, L. n.d. First, port. frontis. cloth; 2 others, by J. Mackay & M.J. Foy, hardbacks, & 3 paperbacks all on Collins. (8)

Lot 7/0237

Behan (Brendan) The Hostage, L. 1958, First, d.w.; also Poems & A Play in Irish, Gallery Press 1981. First, d.w.; O’Brien (Flann) The Hard Life, L. 1961, First, d.w.; Heaney (Seamus) Station Island, L. 1984; also Sweeney Astray, L. 1984, and Seeing Things, L. 1991, All First English Edns., d.w.’s etc; & 1 other vol. All v. good. (7)

Lot 8/0237

Dublin & other Printings: An Act for Preventing, for the future Tumultuous risings of Persons within this Kingdom… 12mo D. 1766, together with other Acts; Smith (W.) Dionysuis Longinus on the Sublime, 12mo D. 1777; Butler (S.) Hudibras, 12mo Edin 1784, 2 plts.; Thompson (J.) The Seasons, 12mo L. 1777, ed. by G. Wright, engd. frontis, title & 5 fold. plts.; & 1 other volume,all orig. calf. (5)

Lot 9/0237

Almanacs: Watson Stewart (J.) Treble Almanac’s, etc. for 1803, 1807, 1815, 1823, 1826, 1827, & 1832, also The Dublin Almanac, 8vo D. (Pettigrew & Oulton) 1835; & Thomas Directory, 1853, together 9 vols., some with maps, all orig. calf or mor. Almanacs, w.a.f. (9)

Lot 10/0237

Cuala Press: A collection of 19 books by Yeats, Synge, & others, I.U.P. 1970’s (Reprints) including Mosada, The Words Upon the Window Pane, New Poems, & Poems & Translations, together with other reprints; all 8vo cloth backed boards, as a collection. (16)

Lot 11/0237

Duke of Ormonde: Carte (Thos.) A Collection of Original Letters and Papers Concerning the Affairs of England… 1641 – 1660, Found among the Duke of Omronde’s Papers, 2 vols. 8vo L. 1739. First Edn. 2 title vignettes, orig. calf, gilt fillets, spines worn; Burghclere (Lady) The Life of James First Duke of Ormonde, 2 vols. L. 1912. First Edn., illus., cloth & d.w.’s. V. good. (4)

Lot 12/0237

Leland (Thos.) The History of Ireland, 3 vols. 8vo D. 1814. Cont. hf. mor. mor. labels; Froude (J.A.) The English in Ireland in the Eighteenth Century, 3 vols. Sm. 8vo L. 1887, mor. backed cloth boards. (6)

Lot 13/0237

Gale (Peter) An Inquiry into the Ancient Corporate System of Ireland, 8vo L. 1834. First Edn., L.S.’s, recent hf. green mor. Bookplate of John Bradley. (1)

Lot 14/0237

O’Gallagher (Felix) An Essay on the Investigation of the First Principles of Nature, 2 vols. D. 1784. First Dublin Ed., list of subs., 3 fold. plts. cont. calf, mor. labels. Clean copy. (2)

Lot 15/0237

Staunton (George) An Authentic Account of An Embassy from The King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China, 2 vols. 8vo D. 1798. 26 engd. plts. & fold. table, cont. tree calf, somewhat rubbed, & mor. labels. (2)

Lot 16/0237

Ludlow (Edmund) Memoirs of Edmund Ludlow Esq., Lt. Gen. of the Horse, Commander in Chief of the Forces in Ireland,… 3 vols. L. 1722. Second Edn., port. frontis. Vol. I, & hf. title, cont. panel calf, not uniform. Wm. Worth’s copy, inscribed by him. (3)

Lot 17/0237

Joyce (James) Dedalus Portrait de l’Artiste Jeune par Lui-mame, 8vo Paris (editions de la Sirene) 1924. First French Edn. uncut, orig. wrappers, v. good; Beckett (Sam.) How it is, L. 1964. First, d.w.; also That Time, L. 1976. First Edn., boards; Gogarty (Oliver) An Offering of Swans, L. (Cuala Press) 1923. Lim. Edn. 300 Copies; & 2 other items. (6)

Lot 18/0237

Binding: Higham (Chas. Frederick) Looking Forward Mass Education through Publicity. 8vo L. 1920 First, hf. title, a.e.g. cont. straight grained green mor. gilt decor. covers, profusely tooled gilt spine with overlays and label, by Zaensdorf, London. Fine.

* The Author was Director of Irish Propaganda, 1921. (1)

Lot 19/0237

Northern Ireland: Marcus Ward & Co. Publishers – Burns (Robert) The Cotter’s Saturday Night, oblong 8vo L. Belfast & N. York n.d. [c. 1880], intro. by Rev. J. Hall, illus. thro-out, orig. cloth with overlaid pict. wooden panel. Unusual; Queen’s College, Belfast – The Book of the Fair, 8vo Belfast 1894, also The Book of the Fete, 8vo Belfast 1907, both illus., & cloth backed pict. boards. (3)

Lot 20/0237

Taylor (George) & Skinner (Andrew) Maps of the Roads of Ireland, roy 8vo L. 1778, First Edn., lg. engd. fold. Map of Ireland frontis, engd. t.p., dedit, list of subs (at verso), 288 engd. maps of the Roads of Ireland, recent leather backed marble boards. (1)