10 December 2019 - 0315 Rare Books & Literature Sale
#0315
Stillorgan Hotel, Dublin
10 December 2019 - 0315 Rare Books & Literature Sale
#0315
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Lot 220/0315
SOLD Hammer price €200
[Mahony (Rev. Francis)] The Reliques of Father Prout, Late P.P. of Waterglasshill in the County of Cork, Ireland. 2 vols. sm. 8vo L. 1836. First Edn., illustrations by Alfred Croquis [Daniel Maclise] 2 hf. titles, 2 frontis 2 add. engd. red & bl. titles, cont. hf. crimson mor. V. clean copy. Scarce. (2)
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Lot 221/0315
SOLD Hammer price €460
Molloy (Fr. Francis) Lucerna Fidelium, seu Fasciculus Decerptus ab Authoribus magis versatis, qui tractarunt de Doctrina Christiana: 8vo Rome (Congr. of the Faith) 1676. First Edn., wd. cut medallion, recent quarter calf, raised bands, mor. label. An extremely fine copy. (1)
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Lot 222/0315
SOLD Hammer price €300
Scarce Provincial PrintingCastlehaven: The Earl of Castlehaven’s Memoirs: or, His Review of the late Wars of Ireland, With his own Engagement and Conduct their in… The Whole Enlarged and Corrected by himself. 8vo Waterford (Jer Calwell) 1753. XII, 164pp later hf. calf, mor. label. V. good. Rare. (1)
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Lot 223/0315
SOLD Hammer price €210
Dermody (Thomas) The Harp of Erin, containing the Poetical Works of the late Thomas Dermody, 2 vols. tall 12mo Lond. (R. Phillips) 1807 First Edn. (pp. XVI: 287:VII, 312). An unsually clean and crisp copy. (1)
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Lot 224/0315
SOLD Hammer price €230
Leadbeater (Mary) Cottage Dialogues Among the Irish Peasantry, with Notes and a Preface by Maria Edgeworth, tall 12mo L. (J. Johnson) 1811, First Edn., hf. title, pp.[IX], 343, later nineteenth-century cloth. A crisp clean copy, complete with half-title.Intended for the improvement of the peasantry and to inculcate in them a desire for neatness and sobriety, this was later translated into Irish, and distributed throughout Connemara. This original edition is very scarce. (1)
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Lot 225/0315
SOLD Hammer price €120
Plummer (Chas.) Venerabilis Baedae Historica, 2 vols. 8vo Oxford (Clarendon Press) 1896. First Edn., in fine prize binding, full calf, dbl. gilt fillet & blind borders, profusely gilt spines in panels, red & blue mor. labels, with armorial of Glasgow University on front covers. V. good. (2)
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Lot 226/0315
SOLD Hammer price €170
Maxwell (W.H.) Erin-go-Bragh; or Irish Life in Pictures, thick 8vo, 2 vols in one, London, R. Bentley 1859, First Edn. (pp. xii: 358: 268) orig. cloth. The binding a little faded, and sometime rebacked with the original spine laid down, but a very clean copy. (1)
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Lot 227/0315
The Drapiers Letters[Swift (Jonathan):] The Hibernian Patriot: being a collection of the Drapiers Letters to the People of Ireland, concerning Mr. Woods Brass Half Pence. together with Considerations on the Attempts to pass that Coin, and Reasons for the People of Ireland’s refusing it. To which are added, Poems and Songs relating to the same subject. 8vo L. Reprinted (A. Moor) 1730. First Lond. Edition Pp. 111/112 sm. tear with some loss, end papers somewhat soiled, but nice copy, cont. sheep, single borders, worn at joints, old paper label. (1)
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Lot 228/0315
SOLD Hammer price €190
Republican interest: Le Roux (L.) Tom Clarke and the Irish Freedom Movement, D. 1936, d.w.; Connolly O’Brien (Nora) Portrait of a Rebel Father, D. 1935, d.w.; Ryan (Desmond) James Connolly, His Life Work & Writings, D. 1924; Clarke (Tom J.) Glimpses of an Irish Felon’s Prison Life, D. 1922; Norstedt (Johann A.) Thomas Mac Donagh, A Critical Biography, tall 8vo 1980., d.w. All First Edns., & 1 other item. (6)
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Lot 229/0315
SOLD Hammer price €130
Special Limited EditionDublin Naturalists’ Field Club: Flora of County Dublin, compiled & ed. by Declan Doogue, D. Nash, J. Parnell, Sylvia Reynolds & Peter Wyse Jackson. 8vo D. 1998. First Edn., Lim. Edn. No. 60 of 100 Copies only, maps, cold. & other plts. illus. etc. t.e.g. fine quarter orange mor. raised bands, mor. label & orig. slipcase. Fine Copy. (1)
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Lot 230/0315
SOLD Hammer price €190
Binding: I.A.S. – Hardiman (James)ed. A Chorographical Description of West or hIar Connaught, by Roderick O’Flaherty. 4to D. (I.A.S.) 1846. First Edn., thus, engd. map frontis, vign. title, lg. fold. pedigree, & litho plt. attractive recent strongly bound hf. green mor., raised bands, with gilt Celtic decorations. V. good. (1)
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Lot 231/0315
SOLD Hammer price €120
Gaelic Society: Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Dublin, Established for the Investigation and Revival of Ancient Irish Litertature. Vol. I [All Published] D. (John Barlow) 1808. First Edn., uncut, in recent quarter calf, raised bands. V. fine copy. (1)
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Lot 232/0315
SOLD Hammer price €80
Madden (R.R.) The History of Irish Periodical Literature, 2vols. 8vo L. 1867. First Edn., orig. cloth, good copy. (2)
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Lot 233/0315
SOLD Hammer price €170
Rare First EditionCo. Galway: Harrington (T.) M.P. The Maamtrasna Massacre, Impeachment of the Trials. 8vo D. 1884. First Edn., IX, 43pp + Appendix 46pp., orig. ptd. purple wrappers bound in, fine recent blue quarter mor. mor. label. A very good copy. (1)
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Lot 234/0315
SOLD Hammer price €280
Inscribed Presentation Copy, Waterford InterestBinding: Biographies of The Bonapartes, Being Memoirs with Portraits 8vo L. (S. O. Beeton) n.d. c. 1860. 15 full page ports., orig. royal blue mor. with wide multiple borders, tooled gilt spine in panels. V. good. (1)* Pres. Copy inscribed, ‘To Lucien Wm. Bonaparte Wyse, From his afft. Papa, on his Birthday, 1881.’
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Lot 235/0315
SOLD Hammer price €190
Vallancey (Lt. Col. Charles) An Essay on the Antiquity of the Irish Language: Being a Collation of The Irish with the Punic Language. 8vo L. 1818. Third Edn., with a Catalogue of Works Relative to the History, Antiquities and Language of the Irish.., added at end, plus advert leaf, cont. full sprinkled calf, mor. label. V. good. (1)
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Lot 236/0315
SOLD Hammer price €500
Inscribed Presentation CopyCarrigan (D.J.) Lectures on the Nature and Treatment of Fever, 8vo D. 1853. First Edn., advert. at front, recent qtr. calf. V. good. (1)* Inscribed on hf. title ‘Dr. O’Kelly with the Author’s kindest regards.’
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Lot 237/0315
SOLD Hammer price €170
Atkinson (A.) Ireland Exhibited to England in a Political and Moral Survey of her Population, and in a Statistical and Scenographic tour of Certain Districts, comprehending specimens of her Political and Social System.. Pleas for softening down those inequalities,and for uniting all classes of the people… for the improvement of their Country, 2 vols. 8vo L. 1823, First Edn., also Atkinson (A.) Ireland in the Nineteenth Century, 8vo L. 1833. First Edn., all recent cloth. (2)
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Lot 238/0315
SOLD Hammer price €170
Cuala Press: Higgins (F.R.) Arable Holdings. Poems, 8vo D. 1933. Lim. Edn. 300 Copies, cloth backed boards; Mac Donagh (Donagh) Veterans and Other Poems, 8vo D. 1941. Lim. Edn. 270 copies, cloth backed boards; Rossi (M.M.) Pilgrimage in the West, Trans. by J.M. Hone. 8vo D. 1933. Lim. Edn. 300 Copies, cloth backed boards. V. good. (3)
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Lot 239/0315
SOLD Hammer price €300
Cuala Press: Gregory (Lady) Coole, 8vo D. 1931. Lim. Edn. 250 Copies, cloth backed boards; Synge (J.M.) Poems and Translations, ed. by W.B. Yeats. 8vo D. 1909. Lim. Edn. 250 Copies, cloth backed boards, Wade 243, both v. good. (2)
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