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Attractive Illustrated Volumes[Limited Editions Club] Tindall (W.Y.) The Poems of W.B. Yeats, 8vo N.Y. 1970, cold. illus., leather backed cloth, with inset medallion profile of Yeats, slipcase; Joyce (James) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, 8vo N.Y. 1968, leather backed boards. (2)
SOLD Hammer price €300
Shearman (Rev. J.F.) Loca Patriciana An Identification of Localities, Chiefly in Leinster, visited by St. Patrick. roy 8vo D. 1879. First Edn. frontis fold. tables, orig. mor. backed cloth; Hogan (Ed.) Onomasticon Gaedelicum, 4to D. 1910. First Edn., map frontis,cloth. Both v. good. (2)
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Ruskin (John)ed. Roadside Songs of Tuscany, trans & illus. by Francesca Alxander. Lg. 4to Orpington 1885. 20 lg. plts., cont. hf. crushed mor. by Southeran; also the Art of England, Lectures given in Oxford 4to Orpington 1884, uncut & unopened, cont. hf. crimson mor., tooled gilt spine; and Praeterita, Outlines of Scenes and Thoughts, 3 vols. in Two, roy 8vo Orpington 1885-1888. First Edns., engd. illus., unopened, t.e.g., cont. hf. purple mor. All v. good. (4)
SOLD Hammer price €440
1798: Musgrave (Richard) Memoirs of the Different Rebellions in Ireland, from the Arrival of the English …, 4to D. (John Milliken) 1801, First Edn., large fold. map frontis, & 9 fold. plts. & plans, recent mor. backed marble boards. Good. (1)
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Pardoe (Julie) The Beauties of the Bosphorus, 4to L. 1839, port. frontis, add. engd. title, engd. map & 78 engd. plts. (v. clean), needs rebinding; Shepherd (Thos. H.) & Elmes (J.) Metropolitan Improvements or London in the Nineteenth Century, 4to L. 1817. Add. engd. title, & 80 engd. plts. each with dble views, cloth; The Gallery of One Hundred British Engravings, 4to L. n.d. add. engd. title, frontis & 99 engd. plts. orig. mor. worn. (3)
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Foppens (Joh. Francisci) Bibliotheca Belgica, 2 vols. thick 4to Brussels 1739. Engd. port. frontis, red & bl. titles, engd. heads & 145 engd. ports (approx. 8 fold.), cont. mottled calf, v. good. (2)
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Duhamel du Monceau, A Practical Treatise of Husbandry, ed. & trans. John Mills, 4to L. 1762. Second Edn., red & black title, fold. table, 6 engd. plts. (some lg. fold.) orig. sprinkled calf, mor. label. (1)
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Map: Stanford’s Library Map of London and its Suburbs, in 24 sheets, scale 6″ to a mile, lg. fold. linen backed map, London 1862, hand coloured throughout, in four sections, orig. slip case, v. good. As a map, w.a.f. (1)
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Illustrated by Rackham[William Shakespeare] Rackham (A.)illus. A Midsummer Nights Dream, 4to L. (Wm. Heinemann) 1908, frontis, illus. t.p., & 39 cold. plates, gilt decor. cloth, clean copy. (1)
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Special Edition of 25 Copies Only, by ZaehnsdorfMountbatten – Eighty Years in Pictures, lg. 4to L. 1979. Sole Edn., No. 13 of 25 copies Only specially bound. illus. through-out, a.e.g., with fine gilt & silver heightened armorial on verso of front cover, in full crushed crimson mor., the front cover with inset original miniature of Mountbatten, with single gilt fillet borders & raised bands, by Zaehnsdorf, London, and mor. backed cloth box, gilt. V. fine. (1)
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Pool (Robert) and Cash (John) Views of the Most Remarkable Public Buildings, Monuments and other Edifices, in the City of Dublin, 4to D. (J. Williams) 1780, large fold. map, engd. t.p., list of subs., fold. plan, & 29 engd. plts., contemp. hf. calf, marble boards, recent mor. labels, clean copy. (1)
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With Hand Coloured MapsScale (Bernard) An Hibernian Atlas or General Description of the Kingdom of Ireland, 4to, L. (Robert Sayer) 1776, First Edn., dedit., 37 maps hand coloured (complete) later leather backed, marble boards, mor. label. Clean Copy. (1)
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Some Presentation CopiesLeslie (Rev. J.B.) Armagh Clergy and Parishes, roy 8vo Dundalk 1911. First, fold. map & plts.; also Biographical Succession Lists of the Clergy of Down, Enniskillen 1936, First,; History of Kilsaran Union of Parishes in the County of Louth, Dundalk 1908. First, fold. map, & numerous plts. all orig. cloth. V. good. (3)
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One of 25 Special Signed EditionsCarrigan (Rev. Wm.) The History and Antiquities of the Dioceses of Ossory, 4 vols. Wellbrook Press Reprint 1981. Lim to 25 Copies, Signed by Publisher etc., illus. special green mor. bindings, v. good. (4)
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Queen Elizabeth: Certain Sermons or Homilies Appointed to be Read in Churches, in the time of Queen Elizabeth – of Famous Memory, Folio Oxford (.. at the Theatre) 1683. Wd. cut device on title, cont. full calf, tooled gilt spine in panels, lacks label, worn. (1)
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Shannon Navigation: Letter from Col. John F. Burgoyne to the Rt. Hon. Sir John Cam Hobhouse, Bart; and Further Reports to Mr. Rhodes, on the Improvement of the Navigation of the River Shannon. Folio L. (House of Commons) 1833. 42 lg. hand. cold. engraved maps & plans (complete), cont. full calf, spine dam. otherwise a good copy of this scarce work. (1)
With Maps & PlatesHobbs (Thomas) trans. The History of the Grecian Wars, In Eight Books. Written by Thucydides. Folio L. 1676. Second Edn., add engd. title, printed title in red & black, 2 dble page fold. map one with (small tear, with some loss), 3 engd. plts. (1 dbl. pge), cont. calf, gilt spine, worn; also Edmonds (Clement) The Commentaries of C. Julius Caesar, of His Wars in Gallea, folio L. (Savoy) 1677 Red. & bl. title, & 14 plts. (mostly dbl. page) many loose, cont. calf, spine worn. (2)
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Polano (P. Soave) The History of the Council of Trent, Folio L. (J. Macock for Sam. Mearne…) 1676. Imprim. leaf at front, red & bl. title, cont. calf, joints cracked & worn, otherwise a clean copy. (1)
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Printers: Pattison (Mme Mark) Claude Lorrain sa Vie et ses Oeuvres d’Apres des documents inedits, Folio Paris 1884. Profusely illustrated with etched plts. etc., cont. hf. mor.; Moreau-Vaulthier (C.) Les Portraits de l’Enfant, folio Paris n.d. c. 1900. Profusely illustrated, a.e.g., in fine attractive tooled gilt decor. full green mor. in Art Nouveau style; Duret (Th.) Histoire d’Edouard Manet et de son oeuvre, 4to Paris 1901. Fine plts. unopened, decor. wrappers; Bazin (Germain) L’Epoque Impressioniste, lg. 4to Paris 1947, cold. & bl. & white plts., cloth faded. (4)
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Miniatures & Miniturists: Lamberger (Ernest) Portrait Miniatures of Five Centuries, lg. 4to L. n.d. 75 mtd. cold. plts. unopened & uncut, ful vellum; Williamson (G.C.) Richard Cosway, R.A. and his Wife and Pupils, folio L. 1897. First Edn., numerous plts. & illus., orig. cloth; Mauclair (Camille) Les Miniatures du XVIII Siecle (Portraits de Femmes) lg. 4to Paris [1912], fine plts. & illus. uncut, orig. ptd. wrappers; 1 other sim. (4)