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Hand-Coloured & Other Plates: Moore (Thos.) A Popular History of the British Ferns …, sm. 4to L. n.d. [c. 1870] 22 cold. plates, orig. cloth, gilt; Cooke (M.C.) A Plain and Easy Account of the British Fungi, 12mo L. 1871. Hd. cold. title page, & 21 hd. cold. plts., cloth, gilt; Boulger (G.S.) Familiar Trees, L. n.d. 40 fine cold. plts., orig. attractive decor. cloth. Good lot. (3)
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Coloured Plates: Pratt (Anne) The Poisonous Noxious and Suspected Plants of Our Fields and Woods, 12mo L. n.d., 43 cold. plts., blue cloth; also Our Native Songsters, 12mo L. 1852, frontis & 70 cold. plts., orig. cloth. Both Scarce. (2)
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Binding: Royal Hospital: Charter of the Royal Hospital of King Charles II etc., near Dublin, sm. 8vo D. (G. Faulkner) 1760, Ed. by George Burston, XII, 119pps., contemp. sprinkled calf, tooled gilt borders and attractive armorial stamp on front cover, clean copy. (1)
SOLD Hammer price €220
D.M.P.: [Jones (J.J.)]ed. Royal Irish Constabulary List and Directory, sm. 8vo D. 1894. 185pp., recent mor. backed marble boards, v. good. Scarce. (1)
SOLD Hammer price €200
Fold. Maps – 19th Century: Bacon (W.) New Plan of Dublin and Suburbs; W.H. Smith & Son – Plan of London; Stanford (Ed.) Asiatic Archipelago; The ‘Daily Mail’ Special Map of the Far East, also ‘The Daily Mail’ War Map of the Balkan Peninsula, 6 varied coloured linen backed maps, in orig. cloth bindings. As a coll. of maps, w.a.f. (6)
SOLD Hammer price €600
Map: Stanford (Ed.) Publ. Geological Map of Ireland, by Edward Hull. Lg. hand-coloured linen backed folding map, approx. 100cms x 78cms (39 1/2″ x 30 3/4″), published by Stanford, London c. 1878, in orig. slipcase. Good. (1)
SOLD Hammer price €480
Irish Travel: Wilde (Sir W.R.) Lough Corrib, its Shores and Islands, with Notices of Lough Mask. 8vo D. 1872. Second Edn., text illus. thro-out, orig. cloth, gilt Shand (Alex. Innes) Letters from The West of Ireland 1884, Sm. 8vo Edin. & L. 1885. First Edn. in Bk. Form, orig. decor. cloth, gilt; Lacy (Thom.) Home Sketches on Both Sides of the Channel, 8vo L. 1852 First Edn. 1500 Copies Only, errata slip, orig. cloth. All good. (3)
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Earliest Medical Directory of IrelandDirectory: Medical Directory for Ireland, 1852, Uniform with the London & Provincial Medical Directory. Sm. 8vo L. (J. Churchill) n.d. [1853] First Edn., 245pp., numerous pps. of adverts. (some illustrated), orig. cloth. Very Scarce. (1)
SOLD Hammer price €360
Complete Set of Irish Guide BooksHall (Mr. & Mrs. S.C.)eds. Fine set of four Hand-Books for Ireland, as follows:* “Dublin & Wicklow,” L. 1853* “The North and The Giant’s Causeway,”* “The South and Killarney” L. 1853& * “The West and Connemara,” L. 1853.each with engd. frontis & wd. cut illus. thro-out, & engd. map hd. cold. in outline, in original uniform gilt decorated cloth. a very good set. Rare.(4)
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First American EditionJoyce (James) Dubliners, 8vo N. York (B.W. Huebsch) 1916. First U.S. Edition, (English Sheets with the American cancel page). Finely bound in full green mor. by The Chelsea Bindery, gilt rule to boards & gilt tooled inner dentelles, marbled end papers, all edges gilt. A very fine copy. (1)
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First English & American EditionsBehan (Brendan) Borstal Boy, L. 1958; and Borstal Boy, Adapted for the Stage by Frank Mc Mahon. N. York 1971; also Confessions of An Irish Rebel, L. 1965; and American Edition of same N.Y. 1965. All First Edns., all in original d.w.’s. Very good. Scarce. (4)
SOLD Hammer price €480
Fine Bindings: Mommsen (Theodore) The History of Rome, 4 vols. 8vo L. 1868. Full crimson mor., tooled gilt spines; The Works of Lord Byron, include. The Suppressed Poems, roy 8vo Paris 1831. Full green mor. pouch binding; Mac Pherson (James)ed. The Poems of Ossian, roy 8vo L. 1807, full mor.; Tighe (Mary) Psyche, with Other Poems, L. 1812, full tooled gilt calf; Duncan (A.) The Edinburgh New Dispensatory, Edin. 1819, hf. calf, mor. label; Bingley (Wm.) Useful Knowledge .. Account of the Various Productions of Nature, 3 vols. L. 1816. First Edn., illus. cont. diced calf, gilt; The Ingoldsby Legends, 8vo L. 1843, engd. plts., full tree calf, gilt spine; Collier (J. Payne) The Poetical Decameron, 2 vols. Edin. 1820, First, diced calf gilt; & 14 others sim., 28 vols. in all, as bindings, w.a.f. (28)
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Cuala Press: Masefield (John) Some Memories of W.B. Yeats, D. 1940. Lim. Edn. No. 48 of 370 Copies, frontis, orig. cloth backed blue boards, lettered in black, paper label on spine & glassine d.w. (paste downs with 2 cellotape marks), Miller 66; Florence Farr, Bernard Shaw and W.B. Yeats, Edited by Clifford Bax. D. 1941. Lim. Edn. No. 147 of 500 Copies, orig. cloth backed blue boards, lettered in black, & with paper label. Miller 68: Wade 327. Both v. good. (2)
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Cuala Press: Yeats (W.B.) Two Plays for Dancers, Dundrum 1919. Lim. Edn. 400 Copies Only, decor. title, orig. cloth backed blue boards, lettered in black, & upper label, fore-edges faded, otherwise v. good copy. Miller 28: Wade 123. (1)
SOLD Hammer price €200
O’Faolain (Sean) A Nest of Simple Folk, L. 1963. First Edn., orig. pict. d.w.; A Purse of Coppers, L. 1937. First Edition, d.w.; Come Back to Erin, L. 1940. First Edn., decor. d.w.; Teresa and other Stories, L. 1947, First Edn., d.w. (4)
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Trevor (William) The Boarding House, L. 1965. First Edn.; The Love Department, L. 1966. First Edn.; Mrs. Eckdorf in O’Neill’s Hotel, L. 1969. First Edn., all orig. pict. d.w.’;s. V. good copies. (3)
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Signed Presentation Copy from F.R. HigginsCuala Press: Yeats (W.B.) Dramatis Personae, D. 1935. Lim. Edn. 400 Copies. Pres. Copy from F.R. Higgins ‘To Victor [Brown] my friend .. Xmas ’35’ signed on title, orig. cloth backed blue boards, lettered in black, paper label on spine. V. good. Miller 54: Wade 183. (1)
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Dun Emer Press: Yeats (W.B.) Stories of Red Hanrahan, Dundrum 1904. Lim. Edn. 500 Copies, one wd.-cut illus., ptd. in black & red, orig. cloth backed blue boards, paper labels on front cover & spine. Good. Miller 4: Wade 59. (1)
SOLD Hammer price €300
Cuala Press: Yeats (W.B.) Stories of Michael Robartes and His Friends, An Extract from a Record Made by his Pupils: and a Play in Prose. D. 1931. Lim. Edn. 450 Copies. One plt., title somewhat browned, printed cloth backed blue boards; also If I were Four-and-Twenty, D. 1940. Lim. Edition No. 117, of 450 Copies, orig. cloth backed blue boards, paper label. V. good copies. Miller 47: Wade 167 and Miller 65: Wade 205. (2)
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Gregory (Lady Augusta) The Kiltartan History Book, sm. 8vo D. (Maunsel & Co.) 1909. First Edn., Signed by Author on f.f.end, 4 cold. illus. plts. by author’s son Robert, adverts at end, orig. cloth backed boards. V. good. (1)