SOLD Hammer price €200
Quincy (J.) Pharmacopaeia Officinalis Extemporanea, Or, A Complete English Dispensatory… 8vo L. 1742. Full calf, raised band,s mor. label; Johnson (J.) An Essay on Indigestion, 8vo L. 1840, cloth. Good. (2)
SOLD Hammer price €590
Extremely Rare Irish Illustrated Children’s BookSomerville (E.O.E.) The Story of the Discontented Little Elephant, told in Pictures and Rhyme, Oblong sm. folio L. (Longmans Green & Co.) 1912. Sole Edn., decor. title, & decor. & illus. text, plus 7 full page cold. plts., some tears repaired, some v. slight soiling, orig. decor. cloth backed boards, with crease marks. Scarce in any condition. (1)* Edition limited to 1500 copies only, but as a children’s book very few copies have survived.
SOLD Hammer price €750
Periodical: Co. Donegal: Journal of the Co. Donegal Historical Society, Vol. I Nos. 1 – 4, 1947 – 1950, continued as The Donegal Annual, Vol. 2 No. 1 – No. 63, together 61 issues, lacking issue for 1961, covering period 1947 – 2011, illus. thro.-out, orig. ptd. wrappers. As a periodical, w.a.f. Scarce. (4)
SOLD Hammer price €60
Dublin Printings: [Knox (Wm] Extra Official State Papers Addressed to the Rt. Hon. Lord Rawden, 8vo D. Reprinted 1789; Paley (Wm.) A View of the Evidences of Christianity, D. 1802, both cont. hf. calf. (2)
SOLD Hammer price €300
Bell (Sam Hanna) Summer Loanen and other Stories, Newcastle (Mourne Press) 1943. First Edn., port. frontis with Signed Christmas Card, orig. portrait photograph of the author, loosely inserted, orig. boards; also December Bride, L. 1941, First Edn., lacks f.f.e. cloth; and Erin’s Orange Lily, L. 1956. First Edn., Signed Pres. Copy to his Mother, 11th Sept. 1956, illus., cloth & d.w. All Scarce. (3)
SOLD Hammer price €100
Fine Dublin PrintingDublin Printing: [Wolleaston (Wm.)] The Religion of Nature Delineated, 4to D. (George Grierson) 1726. in cont. blind tooled sprinkled calf, mor. label, raised bands. V. good copy. (1)
SOLD Hammer price €130
Sporting etc: Herbert (H. Wm.) Frank Forester’s Fish and Fishing of the United States, N.Y. 1850. First Edn., frontis & 10 plts. text illus. throughout, 16pp cat. at end; Radcliffe (F.P. Delme) The Noble Science: A Few General Ideas on Fox-Hunting, roy 8vo L. 1875, cold. plts., all cloth, gilt. (4)
SOLD Hammer price €420
Exceptionally Fine Copy[Thackeray (W. Makepiece)] The Irish Sketch-Book, 2 vols. sm. 8vo L. 1843. First Edn., 2 hf. titles, 2 frontis, text illus. thro-out, orig. embossed cloth, gilt lettered spine, both vols. in later outer protective cloth fold-overs, & in mor. backed slip case. A most desirable copy. (2)
SOLD Hammer price €180
Signed by Author, With CorrectionsSomerville (E.O.E.) & Ross (Martin) Stray-aways, roy 8vo L. (Longmans) 1920. First Edn., hf. title, frontis & 33 plts. & illus. (complete) XIV, 280pp. Signed by Author on front free end, & with notes & corrections, orig. blue cloth black & white lettering, & with pictorial front of d.w., pasted to verso of front cover. Scarce. (1)
SOLD Hammer price €400
Heaney (Seamus) Hughes (Ted ) The School Bag, (Faber 1997) First Edn. Fine. No 228 of Ltd Edn. of 300 copies. Signed to limitation page By Both Authors. In protective cover. (1)
SOLD Hammer price €180
Signed First EditionHeaney (Seamus) Human Chain, 8vo L. 2010. First Edn., Signed with presentation inscription. ‘ for John O’Donovan – a link for the bridge – Seamus Heaney, 17th March 2013,’ on title, orig. boards & d.w. Good. (1)** NOT FIRST EDITION – LATER IMPRESSION
SOLD Hammer price €360
Seymour (Rev. St. John D.) The Diocese of Emly, 8vo D. 1913. First Edn., frontis & other plts., uncut, orig. cloth. Scarce. (1)
SOLD Hammer price €300
Rare Irish Manuscript GenealogyGiffard: The Genealogy of the Family of Giffard or Gifford which was variously written, approx. 145pp in a very clear early 19th Century hand, with pedigrees, coats of arms, & copies of documents, copies of correspondence from Thos. Fitzgerald, Geo. Adron & others to Gifford Family members at Castlejordan, Co. Meath, & other locations, also touching on other families include Barnsley etc; & particularly The Genealogy of the Pickering Family, 20pp In a cont. 4to notebook, hf. mor., joints worn. Interesting work. As a m/ss, w.a.f. (1)
SOLD Hammer price €600
Earliest Illustrated Book with Photo-StereographsSmyth (C. Piazzi) Teneriffe, An Astronomer’s Experiment, or Specialities of a Residence above the Clouds. 8vo L. (Lovell Reeve) 1858, First Edn., hf. title, engd. map & 20 original photo-stereographs (include. frontis), complete, XVI, 451pp cont. hf. calf, raised bands, mor. label. An extremely fine copy of this rarity. (1)
SOLD Hammer price €160
de Manstein (Gen. C.H.) Memoires Historiques Politiques et Militaires sur La Russie, 2 vols. 8vo Lyon 1772. New Edn., hf. title Vol. II, 10 lg. fold. maps & plans, cont. calf, raised bands,mor. labels. Good. (2)
SOLD Hammer price €100
Scott (J.) The Christian Life, 5 vols. L. 1739; Locke A Paraphrase and Notes on the Epistles of St. Paul, D. 1738; Paley (Wm.) The Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy, D. 1788; [Lyttleton (George Lord)] Dialogue of the Dead, L. 1765; 1 other. All calf. (9)
SOLD Hammer price €400
Fine Hand-Coloured SetBinding: Hall (Mr. & Mrs. S.C.) Ireland: its Scenery, Character, Etc., 3 vols. sm. folio L. 1841. First Edn., 3 hd. cold. engd. frontis 3 decor. title, 19 hand cold. maps & 46 hd. cold. engd. plts., text illus., a.e.g. in fine cont. full green mor., attractive tooled gilt design. V. good set. (3)
SOLD Hammer price €120
Co. Clare: Armstrong (John Simpson) A Report of Trials under a Special Commission for the County of Clare, roy 8vo D. n.d.[1848]. Sole Edn., lacks front loose blank, cloth backed boards, soiled. (1)
SOLD Hammer price €500
Rare Provincial PrintingIrish Bibliography: [Co. Waterford] Mount Congreve, Catalogue of the Library of John Ussher Congreve Esq., Mount Congreve MDCCCXVII, 4to, Waterford (John Bull) 1827, Sole Edn., hf. title, 35pps., orig. boards. Scarce. (1)
SOLD Hammer price €70
O’Reilly (ed.) An Irish-English Dictionary, ed. by John O’Donovan. 4to D. 1864. Hf. title, cont. hf. mor. mor. label. Good. (1)