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 60/0315
Mead (Richard) The Medical Works of Richard Mead, M.D., 8vo D. (for Thos. Ewing) 1767. First Edn., 5 fold. plts., orig. calf, joints cracked, worn. (1)
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Lot 61/0315
SOLD Hammer price €660
O’Flaherty (Roderick) Ogygia: Seu rerum Hibernicarum Chronologia, 4to Lond. 1685. First Edn., title within double ruled border, cont. mottled calf, raised bands, spine gilt in panels. An extremely fine copy of the Rare First Edn. (1)
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Lot 62/0315
SOLD Hammer price €100
Dickson (Wm.) A Narrative of the Confinement and Exile of William Steel Dickson, D.D., 8vo D. 1812. First Edn., 371 + 118pp. recent attractive full antique panel calf, raised bands, mor. label. V. good. (1)
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Lot 63/0315
SOLD Hammer price €120
Wilde (Wm. R.) The Beauties of the Boyne, and its Tributary, The Blackwater. D. 1850. Second Edn., hf. title, vignette title, text illus. & fold. map recent quarter green mor. raised bands etc by J.F. Newman; also Lough Corrib, its Shores and Islands: with Notices of Lough Mask. D. 1867. First Edn., text illus. & fold. map frontis (Reprod.), cont. hf. mor. mor. label. (2)
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Lot 64/0315
SOLD Hammer price €90
Dolmen Press: Brown (T.) & Reid (A.) Time Was Away – The World of Louis Mac Neice, D. 1974, cloth & d.w.; Clarke (Austin) Old Fashioned Pilgrimage, D. 1967; O’Donovan (John) Shaw and the Charlatan Genius, D. 1965 d.w.; Mc Auley (James J.) A New Address – Poems, D. 1965, d.w.; Montague (John) Patriotic Suite, D. 1966. Lim. Edn., wrappers; & 11 others by Dolmen. A lot. (16)
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Lot 65/0315
SOLD Hammer price €300
Kavanagh (Patrick) A Soul for Sale, Poems 8vo L. (Macmillan) 1947. First Edn., Inscribed on ff. blank ‘P.H. Stephenson, 1947’ orig. green cloth & unclipped d.w.; Come Dance with Kitty Stobling and other Poems, L. (Longmans) 1960. First Edn., orig. brown cloth; The Green Fool, L. 1971, Second, cloth & d.w.; Collected Pruse, L. 1967, First, lacks d.w. (4)
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Lot 66/0315
SOLD Hammer price €110
Lever (Chas.) Our Mess – Tom Burke of ‘Ours’, 2 vols. D. 1844. First Edn., 2 engd. frontis & 42 other plts. by Phiz, cont. hf. blue mor. profusely tooled gilt spine in panels, mor. labels. Good. (2)
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Lot 67/0315
SOLD Hammer price €280
Leet (Ambrose) A Directory to the Market Towns, Villages, Gentleman’s Seats and other Noted Places in Ireland, 8vo, D. (Brett Smith) 1814, First, contemporary tooled gilt full calf. (1)
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Lot 68/0315
SOLD Hammer price €100
Joyce (P.W.) A Social History of Ancient Ireland, 2 vols. L. 1903. First Edn., illus. thro-out, plts. etc., orig. green cloth, gilt Celtic decorations. V. good. (2)
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Lot 69/0315
SOLD Hammer price €60
Genealogy etc: Jennings (Rev. B.) Michael O’Cleirigh and His Associates, D. 1936, d.w.; Walsh (Rev. Paul) Leabhar Chlainne Suibhine, … Mac Sweeney Families in Ireland. D. 1920, wrappers; Carney (James)ed. A Genealogical History of the O’Reillys, roy 8vo Cavan 1959, d.w.; Pender (S.)ed. The O’Clery Book of Genealogies, roy 8vo D. (Anelecta Hibernica) 1951, wrappers; Ryan (D.) The Sword of Light, L. 1939. First, d.w. (5)
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Lot 70/0315
SOLD Hammer price €120
Irish Texts Society: Mc Grath (Rev. M.)ed. Cinnlae Amhlaoibh u¡ Shuileabh in – The Diary of Humphrey O’Sullivan, 4 vols. 8vo L. 1936 – 1937, gilt dec¢r. orig. green cloth. V. good. (4)
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Lot 71/0315
SOLD Hammer price €120
Huddleston (R.) A New Edition of [John] Toland’s History of the Druids: with an Abstract of his Life and Writings, 8vo Montrose (James Watt) 1814. Unopened, orig. boards. V. good. Scarce. (1)
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Lot 72/0315
SOLD Hammer price €140
Wilde (W.R.) A Descriptive Catalogue of The Antiquities in the Museum of the Royal Irish Academy, Vol. I – Articles of Stone, Earthen, Vegetable, and Animal Materials; and of Copper and Bronze. Thick 8vo D. 1863; bound with .. The Antiquities of Gold… 8vo D. 1862. Both First Edns., illus. thro-out, recent quarter green mor., raised bands, & blind decor. Celtic designs in panels. V. good. (1)
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Lot 73/0315
SOLD Hammer price €450
T.C.D. Prize Binding: Craik (Geo. L.) A Compendious History of English Literature, and of The English Language, from The Norman Conquest. 2 vols. roy 8vo L. 1871. Full green mor., blind tooled borders with oval gilt T.C.D. stamp, & prize labels, spine profusely gilt in panels, mor. labels. V. good set. (2)
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Lot 74/0315
SOLD Hammer price €360
From Carton LibraryStokes (Margaret) Early Christian Art in Ireland, 8vo L. 1887. First Edn. frontis & wd. cut illus. thro-out, Carton bookplate, full calf, dble gilt fillet borders, spine profusely gilt, with Carton motif, and mor. labels. V. good. (1)
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Lot 75/0315
SOLD Hammer price €110
Fahey (J.) The History and Antiquities of the Diocese of Kilmacduagh, 8vo D. 1898. First Edn., hf. title, 7 full page litho illus., recent qtr. green mor. gilt lettered spine & blind Celtic decor. in panels. V. good. (1)
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Lot 76/0315
SOLD Hammer price €130
Genealogy: Trench (Charlotte Violet) The Wrays of Donegal, Londonderry and Antrim, 8vo Oxford 1945. First Edn., illus. maps, charts, cloth, good; Mullin (T.H. & J.E.) The Ulster Clans O’Mullan, O’Kane and O’Mellan, Belfast 1966. Illus., d.w.; Walsh (Paul) The O’Cleirigh Family of Tir Conaill, D. 1938. First Edn., with O’Cleirigh genealogies, boards. (3)
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Lot 77/0315
SOLD Hammer price €100
Genealogy: Rait (Robert) The Story of an Irish Property [Gough’s of Lough Cutra Castle etc.] 8vo Oxford 1908. First Edn., port. & illus., gilt decor. cloth; Gregory (Vere R.T.) The House of Gregory, D. 1943. First Edn., illus. qtr. cloth; 2 other small histories, The O’Briens & The Rochfords. (4)
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Lot 78/0315
SOLD Hammer price €400
Binding: O’hEochaidh (San) Siscealta O Thir Chonaill – Fairy Legends from Donegal, Trans. by Maire Mac Neill. 8vo D. 8vo D. (U.C.D.) 1977. First Edn., Irish texts edited by Seamas O’Cathain, and Signed by him, illus. & maps, recent quarter green mor., raised bands, blind tooled spine in panels, mor. labels, & mor. bound slipcase. V. good. (1)
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Lot 79/0315
SOLD Hammer price €120
Henry (Francoise) L’Art Irlandais, 3 vols. 4to Paris (Zodiaque) 1963 – 64. Le nuit de temps 18-19-20. Profusely illustrated thro.-out, cold. plts. etc., cloth & orig. pict. d.w.’s. V. good. (3)
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