19 May 2015 - Rare Book Sale

#0234

Lot 22/0234

SOLD Hammer price €70

Connemara: Lyne (Pat) Out of the Mist, … Connemara Pony, 4to 1990 Signed Lim. Edn.; & other pamphlets etc. on Connemara, The Burren etc. A lot. (1)

Lot 23/0234

SOLD Hammer price €120

Genealogy: Seaver (Geo.) History of The Seaver Family, 4to Dundalk 1950. For Private Circulation Only, illus. & fold. tables, cloth; Clarke (G. T.) The Earls, Earldom and Castle of Pembroke, 8vo Tenby 1880 plts. cloth. Good. (2)

Lot 24/0234

SOLD Hammer price €210

Kilkenny interest: Wright (Thos.)ed. A Contemporary Narrative of the Proceedings against Dame Alice Kyteler.. in 1324. 4to L. 1843, First; and two others from Camden Society, all uniform cloth. Good. (3)

Lot 25/0234

SOLD Hammer price €190

Genealogy: Irish Family History The Journal of the Irish Family History Society. Vol. 1 – Vol. 23, together 23 vols. 8vo Tullamore 1985 – Naas 2007, unbroken, profusely illustrated, all orig. pict. wrappers. Scarce. As a periodical, w.a.f. (1)

Lot 26/0234

SOLD Hammer price €170

Carlow & Kilkenny: Ryan (John) The History and Antiquities of the County of Carlow, D. 1833. First, recent mor. backed marble boards; Healy (Rev. Wm.) History and Antiquities of Kilkenny (County and City), Vol. I [Al Published] Kilkenny (P.M. Egan) 1893. First, plts. cloth; [Healy (Fr. Wm.)] G.P.O. – Criticism of History and Antiquities of the Diocese of Ossory, D. 1905. Sole Edn., orig. boards. All v. good. (3)

Lot 26A/0234

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Sharkey (P.A.) The Heart of Ireland, Boyle [1927] First, illus., gilt cloth, v. good; Ryle (M.P.) The Kingdom of Kerry, D. 1899, First, illus. decor. cloth; Ua Rioghbhardain (M.) ‘Twix Skellig and Scattery, Tralee 1932, illus. wrappers; King’s History of Kerry, parts 1,2,4 & 6, 4 parts, Liverpool n.d. wrappers; & 2 other items. As a lot. (1)

Lot 27/0234

SOLD Hammer price €90

Genealogy: de Lacy – Bellingari – The Roll of the House of Lacy, Baltimore 1928. First, Signed, illus. & extra notes; Grubb (W.G.) The Grubbs of Tipperary, Cork 1972. First, illus., d.w.; Warren (Rev. F.) A History and Genealogy of the Warren Family, 1982, reprint. (3)

Lot 28/0234

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Stack (Rev. J.) A Short System of Optics, D. 1820. Third, 6 fold. plts., uncut, recent cloth; Priestley (Jos.) Lectures on History and General Policy, D. 1791, Third, recent cloth; Wright (G.N.) A Historical Guide to the City of Dublin, 12mo L. 1825, 14 plts. (lacks plan), mor.; & 1 other on Science. (4)

Lot 29/0234

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Beaslai (Piaras) Michael Collins and the Making of a New Ireland, 2 vols., thick 4to D. 1926. Second Printing, 2 cold. frontis & 16 illus. (complete), orig. cloth; & 1 other Irish book. Good. (3)

Lot 30/0234

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Yeats (W.B.) – Wade (Allan) A Bibliography of The Writings of W.B. Yeats, 8vo L. 1958. Second Edn., cloth & d.w.; & 5 others on Yeats. Good. (6)

Lot 31/0234

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Reprints: Ball (F.E.) A History of the County of Dublin, 6 vols. Sackville Library Edn., 1979, illus.; Joyce (P.W.) Irish Names of Places, D. (de Burca) 1995, all cloth & slipcases. V. good. (9)

Lot 32/0234

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Wright (Thos.) & Rutty (John) A History of the Rise and Progress of the People called Quakers in Ireland, 4to D. 1751, cont. sprinkled calf, upr. cover loose. (1)
* Ex Collection R.C.P.

Lot 34/0234

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Grattan Flood (W.H.) History of the Diocese of Ferns, 4to Waterford 1916. First, map frontis, recent cloth; Godkin (J.) The Land-War in Ireland, L. 1870, hf. mor.; Education in Ireland, L. & D. 1862; & The Religious History of Ireland, L. 1873, All First Edns. (4)

Lot 35/0234

SOLD Hammer price €230

Irish Economics: Longfield (Ada K.) Anglo-Irish Trade in the Sixteenth Century, L. 1929; Maguire (W.A.) The Downshire Estates in Ireland 1801 – 1845, Oxford 1972; Bottigheimer (K.S.) English Money and Irish Land, Oxford 1971; Webb (J.J.) The Guilds of Dublin, L. 1929; First Annual Report of The Commissioners for .. Relief of the Poor in Ireland, D. 1848, fold. plts. (some hd. cold.), cloth; & 3 others. (8)

Lot 36/0234

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Engraved Folding Maps: The Present State of Europe, Vol. II, 4to [L.] c. 1727, with 6 engd. plts. (some fold.) & 17 fold. maps of Europe by H. Moll, orig. calf, worn. As a coll. of maps. (1)

Lot 37/0234

SOLD Hammer price €210

Co. Waterford etc: Flynn (Paul J.) The Book of The Galtees and The Golden Vein, D. 1926. First, map & illus. buckram & d.w.; Egan (P.M.) History, Guide & Directory of County and City of Waterford, Kilkenny n.d. [1894], First, illus. plts. cloth; & 2 others on Waterford. (4)

Lot 38/0234

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Kilkenny, Callan interest: Irish Texts – Cinnlae Amhlaoibh ui Shuileabhain (The Diary of Humphrey O’Sullivan), 4 vols. L. 1936 – 1937. Illus., orig. green cloth, gilt. Good. (4)

Lot 40/0234

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Kipling (Rudyard) The Irish Guards in the Great War, 2 vols. N.Y. 1923. First American Edn. dbl. page & other maps, orig. hf. green mor., tooled gilt spine. Good. (2)

Lot 41/0234

SOLD Hammer price €220

Gaughan (J. Anthony) Listowel and its Vicinity, Cork 1974, Second Edn.; Livingstone (P.) The Monaghan Story, Enniskillen 1980, First; Gillespie (R.) & Moran (G.) Longford: Essay in County History, D. 1991, First, all d.w. (3)

Lot 43/0234

SOLD Hammer price €240

R.D.S.: Berry (Henry F.) A History of the Royal Dublin Society, L. 1915. First Edn., illus. cloth; Mollan (Charles) It’s Part of What We Are, Science and Irish Culture, 2 vols. D. (R.D.S.) 2007. First, Signed by Author, illus. cloth & slipcase; also two other vols. in Science & Irish Culture Series, Vols. I & II, each volume signed. A lot, all v. good. (6)