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Signed Artists ProofsSir John Lavery, R.A., R.H.A. (1856 – 1941)[Collins & Griffith] A pair of Portrait Prints depicting both Arthur Griffith and Michael Collins, T.D.s, Artists Proof, after J. Lavery, published by Wilson Hartnell & Co., Dublin, c. 1921, each Signed by Artists and Sitter, each approx. 51cms x 41cms (20″ x 16″), framed. (2)
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Signed by the Leader of the Easter Rebellion Pearse (Patrick H.) An original printed cheque for the Royal Bank of Ireland, Ltd., Terenure Branch, signed by Padraic Mac Piarais and dated 25th October 1913, for ?2, framed with a portrait of the leader. (1)
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[MacDonagh (Thomas), 1916 signatory] A receipt on Irish Volunteers paper, printed form with manuscript details, completed and signed by [Mcheÿl] Ua Rathghaille, Hon. Treasurer, numbered 48, dated 4.4.1914, acknowledging receipt from MacDonagh (whose name is given in Irish, Tomÿs MacDonnchadha) of the sum of ?1-5-9d., with a note at foot saying a separate receipt has issued to amonn Tuathail for 5/- sub.Presumably the sum received from MacDonagh represented the proceeds of an event or collection. MacDonagh, from Cloughjordan, Co. Tipperary, was a published poet and critic, a UCD graduate and assistant, and formerly a teacher at Pearse’s St. Enda’s school. He joined the Irish Volunteers on their formation, and quickly became a most enthusiastic soldier. He joined the IRB in 1915, and became a member of the military council which planned the Rising. He signed the Proclamation, and took his place as Volunteer commander in Jacob’s factory in Bishop Street, leaving behind his young wife and their two small children. He was executed on 3 May 1916.Michael O’Rahilly, a successful businessman, was a founder and Treasurer of the Volunteers, and the main organiser of the Howth gun-running. He thought the Rising was premature, but took part anyway, reportedly saying ‘I have helped to wind the clock, I may as well hear it strike.’ He died in action, leading a sortie from the GPO on the Friday of Easter week.Original documents linking the prime movers in the 1916 Rising are now very scarce. (1)
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Mac Diarmada (Seÿn), 1916 signatory. A short A.L.S. to ‘Cathal’ (possibly Brugha), dated 26/1/1915, 1 page, on headed paper of ‘ire (Ireland) / The National Daily Bulletin’ (a Republican newsletter), about plans for an Emmett celebration. ‘I was talking to a few of the Com[mittee] and we think it would be a mistake to drop the celebration’, and proposing a meeting on Thursday night. ‘Tom [Clarke], [Seÿn] McGarry & myself are notified. I’ll send word to Peadar McNally. Could you let the others know’, signed ‘Do chara / Seÿn MacDiarmada’, with a PS: ‘Could you get that small a/c. for [Irish] Freedom’. In a careless hand, evidently written in haste.A typical letter from MacDiarmada, a tireless organiser, hoping to sort out an overdue account as well as arranging a meeting, all with a single letter.Born in Co. Leitrim, MacDiarmada joined the IRB in 1906, and soon moved to Dublin as a full-time organiser. A close colleague of Tom Clarke, he was founder-manager of the IRB paper Irish Freedom. An attack of polio in 1912 left him lame, but it did not slow him down much, and he became Secretary of the IRB Supreme Council. With Clarke he was one of the chief architects of the Rising. He signed the Proclamation, served in the GPO and was executed on 12 May 1916.Significant documents in MacDiarmada’s hand are now very scarce. (1)
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“The Greatest of All Time”Ali (Muhammad) a framed collage of two action black and white action photographs, with a manuscript note and signature “Mahammad Ali – Love is the Wet where heats are caught like fish,” as an autograph. (1)
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Signed by the AstronautsThe Eagle Has LandedSpace Exploration: [Apollo II], a framed collage including a first day cover, Photograph and a card with head shots of the astronauts and signed by “Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins,” as autographs. (1)
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Maps: Petty (Sir Wm.) Hibernian Delineatio, Three maps from the 1685 Edition, The County of Londonderry; The County of Fermanagh, & The County of Monaghan, all approx. 54cms x 44cms (21 1/2″ x 17 1/2″), all v. good, unframed. As maps, w.a.f. (3)
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Map: Co. Down: Benn (John) Surveyor, A Map of Part of Tullylish, the Property of James Christy, Esq., situate in the County of Down, 1793, An attractive hand coloured m/ss map with fine cartouche, approx. 53cms x 35.5cms (21″ x 14″) linen backed, rolled. As a map, w.a.f. (1)
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Voyage of H.M.S. BeagleFine Facsimile Reprint: Royal Geographical Society – Darwin (C.) & Owen (R.) The Zoology of The of The Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, under the Command of Captain Fitzroy, R.N., 4 vols. lg. 4to L. 1994. Commemorative Edition, Limited No. 546 of 1000 Sets, with coloured & other illus. thro-out, in attractive hf. calf bindings with tooled gilt decor., & in original table top reading box. (5)
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Fine Facsimile Reprint: Metropolotan Museum, New York – Das Stundenbuch der Jeanne d’Evreux, The Cloisters, Acc. No. 54.1.2 Facsimile reprint, 20mo n.d., n.p. [1999 Luzarn] Printed on vellum with colouring, in fine tooled gilt binding, with booklet, and in orig. cloth bound presentation box, with magnifying glass. V. good. (1)
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With Magnificent Coloured PlatesThe Folio Society: The British Museum – The Surinam Album, lg. atlas folio L. 2006. Limited Edition No. 816 of 1000 Copies, 91 full page mounted plates, in orig. sumptuous mor. backed binding with large silver & gilt insert design on front cover, in orig. cloth box. a truly wonderful production. (1)
** This Lot has been WithdrawnGower Family ArchiveThis archive consists of the papers of three generations of the Gower family, Dublin solicitors, who had property at Glasthule and resided at Roundwood Park on Co. Wicklow. Henry gower of Dublin died c. 1835. His son John Gower married in 1823 Mary Hill and died in 1861 leaving three children: Maria, James and Henry. In the 1901 census the elder son James (aged 68) and his wife Lucie (aged 29!) were living at Roundwood Park; Lucie survived her husband and the latest documents in the collection are in her name.The collection comprises a large mass of legal and financial correspondence, papers relating to cases in which the Gower firm was involved, deeds of various kinds, and documents relating to their investments.The most interesting aspects of the collection are: (a) letters dating from the early years of the postal service and other postal marks; (b) several small notebooks containing household expenses for the early years of the 19th Century. As an Archive, w.a.f. (1)
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The Papers of Patrick O’ConnellCo. Cavan Interest: Patrick O’Connell was a native of Kilnaleck, Co. Cavan, where his family rented a farm from the Orpen estate. he joined the Suffolk Regiment, from which he retired in 1892 with the rank of Sergeant-Major. He then joined the police force of the Leeward Islands, but was forced to take prolonged sick leave in 1912. he retired as Captain and Inspector of Prisons on Dominica. He then lived near Bath until he died in 1924, leaving a widow Eva. The papers consist of official correspondence regarding his military and police service, particularly the circumstances of his retirement, his pension, his widow’s finances, and the purchase under the land acts of the farm at KIlnaleck and its subsequent resale, As a coll., w.a.f. (1)
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The Papers on Frank Phelan, N.T.Co. Tipperary Interest: Frank Phelan was a teacher at the boy’s National School in Roscrea in the 1930s. There are documents regarding his qualifications and career and attempts to obtain a life insurance policy.Evidently quite a character, he invented a method of spacing the seed of root crops, “a device for preventing the headlight of a motor-car from dazzling the eyes of an approaching fellow road user,” and – with greater success – a cogwheel for improving the speed of bicycles, which he submitted for a patent in 1939-40. The file also includes several marches and songs he composed.Much of the collection, however, and by far the most interesting part, consists of a series of letters (mainly 1939 – 1941) from female friends who are either besotted with him or bitterly disillusioned (hell hath no fury …). there are also several letters from relatives and well-wishers warning him about his indiscreet conduct; together with Letters from an Anxious Mother – This is a small collection of letters written in 1900 by a Mrs. Kirwan to her daughter Mollie, a pupil at the Loreto Abbey in Rathfarnham, and to her sister Mrs Anna Cullinan, the school secretary or bursar. As a coll., w.a.f. (2)
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The Greatest Irish Coloured Plate BookOriginal Coloured CopyMalton (James) A Picturesque and Descriptive View of the City of Dublin Described. In a series of the most Interesting Scenes taken in the year 1791. By James Malton. With a brief authentic history from the earliest accounts to the present time. Engraved titlepage and dedication, Arms of Dublin, A Correct Survey of Dublin as it stood in the year 1610, A Correct Survey of the Bay of Dublin 1795, A Folding Map of the City of Dublin (not present in most copies) and twenty-five plates of views in original colour. London: 1803. Oblong folio. pp. ii, 18, [48], 25 (plates), 3 (maps), 3. Original grey papered boards, spine in later quarter morocco, title printed on original large paper label on upper cover. A very good set of this exceedingly rare topographical work in original colour. James Malton (d.1803) architectural draughtsman, came to Ireland with his father, Thomas Malton, senior, and was for nearly three years, during the building of the Custom House, employed as a draughtsman in the office of James Gandon, the architect, but for breaches of confidence and many irregularities he was dismissed. The first mention of his name as an artist occurs in 1790, when he sent, from Dublin, two drawings to the Society of Artists in London. In 1791 he completed a series of drawings of Dublin buildings, from which the well-known set of views were engraved. Twenty-five were reproduced in etching and aquatint, done by Malton himself, and their publication began in 1792. The preface says: “The entire of the views were taken in 1791 by the author, who, being experienced in the drawing of architecture and perspective, has delineated every object with the utmost accuracy; the dimensions, too, of the structures described were taken by him from the originals, and may be depended upon for their correctness.” Though all the views were taken in the year 1791, yet, as the work was in hand till the year 1797, such alterations as occurred in each subject between the taking and publishing of any view of it have been attended to; to the end that it might be as perfect a semblance as possible of the original at the time of the completion of the work.The volume has an engraved title-page, an engraved dedication, dated at London, 1st June, 1794, “to the Lord Mayor, Sheriffs, Common Council, Freemen and Citizens of Dublin.” The work begins with a preface, followed by a brief history of Dublin, and an article “On the Castle Walls and Increase of the City.” The plates are as follows: Great Courtyard, Dublin Castle; The Parliament House; Trinity College; College Library; Provost’s House; St. Patrick’s Cathedral; West Front of St. Patrick’s Cathedral; Royal Exchange; Custom House; View of the Law Courts, looking up the Liffey; Tholsel; Old Soldiers Hospital, Kilmainham; Royal Infirmary, Phoenix Park; Blue Coat Hospital; Lying-in Hospital; Rotunda New Rooms; St. Catharine’s Church; Marine School; Leinster House; Charlemont House; Powerscourt House; View of Capel Street, looking over Essex Bridge; St. Stephen’s Green; Barracks; View of Dublin from the Magazine, Phoenix Park. Dedicated to the Governors and Directors of the Hospital, including the College Library, dedicated to Edmund Burke. Besides the above twenty-five views the bound volume contains the Arms of Dublin, as frontispiece; Survey of the City of Dublin as it stood in 1610, taken from Speed’s Map; Survey of the Bay of Dublin, 1795, and a folding map of Dublin that does not appear in this or most copies. At the end of the volume is a plate with two outline Keys – one of the smaller View of Dublin from the Park, the other of the smaller view of the Barracks. All the plates are inscribed James Malton del. et fecit. He published them himself; in some his name is joined with George Cowen of Grafton Street, Dublin. Malton’s views are the most important series of engravings of Dublin. Most of the principal buildings are represented, and groups of figures and little scenes of the daily life of the people add a charm and variety, the whole forming a valuable pictorial record of old Dublin at the close of the eighteenth century.
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Co. Westmeath Grand JuryMap: Larkin (Wm.) A Map of the County of Westmeath, a lg. fold. hand cold. engraved map, approx. 68cms x 86cms (27″ x 34″), published by Allen’s Dublin, c. 1800. As a map, w.a.f. Good & Scarce. (1)
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Map: Campbell (Thos.) & Taylor (Major) City of Dublin, 1811, lg. folio linen backed engd. map, approx. 77cms x 125cms (30 1/2″ x 49″), a few stains, but good, as a map, w.a.f. (1)
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Coloured Plates: Gandee (B.F.) The Artist, or Young Ladies Instructor, in Ornamental Painting, Drawing etc., … 12mo L. 1835. cold. frontis & add. cold. t.p., plts. etc., a.e.g., cloth; Thomson (S.) Wanderings among The Wild Flowers, L. 1857; and Atkinson (Rev. J.C.) British Birds, Eggs and Nests, 12mo L. 1867, both with cold. plts. & cloth. (3)
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Fine Early Printing[Petit (Jean), Prevel (Jean) & Gregory (Pope)] [Gregorius] Compendium Textuale Compillationis decretalium Gregorri noni sine qua (ut est Vulgaris prudendum sententia) omnis cetamacti, sm. 8vo, Paris (Poncet Le Preux) [Dec. 1524] red & black t.p., woodcut printers device, red & black txt throughout, t.p., index, & 238 pps. (Roman numerals), some mispagination pp. 116, minor tear with loss to page 207 & 208 (text not effected), notes, sketches and underlining on pps 64 & reverse, woodcut letterhead throughout, later vellum, mor. label. (1)
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Kavanagh (Patrick) Tarry Flynn:, 8vo L. (The Pilot Press) 1948, First Edn., original orange cloth, d.j. (worn), otherwise fine copy. (1)