10 December 2019 - 0315 Rare Books & Literature Sale
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Stillorgan Hotel, Dublin
10 December 2019 - 0315 Rare Books & Literature Sale
#0315
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Lot 859/0315
SOLD Hammer price €190
A Victorian CellistMusic For Violoncello: A collection of nine Victorian music albums, quarto, mostly strongly bound in hf mor., four with mor. title label of Rev. Richard Barton on upper covers, mostly containing a selection of separately printed pieces for piano and violoncello; also a green cloth album once the property of Wilhelm Elsner, Professor of Cello at the Royal Irish Academy of Music from 1856, including a piece inscribed to Elsner by the Irish-born composer G.A. Osborne; and a few more. An interesting collection, w.a.f. (1)
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Lot 860/0315
SOLD Hammer price €180
An B¡obla Naofa [The Holy Bible in Irish] Arna aistri£ ¢n mbuntacs faoi threoir ¢ Easpaig na hireann, maille le Ramhr agus Brollaigh. An Sagart, Maigh Nuad 1981. Intro. by Cardinal Tomas ? Fiaich, ed. P draig ? Fiannachta. First edition of this new translation from the original Greek, thick quarto, one of a small number bound by Newman’s of Dublin in full red faux-mor. gilt over bevelled boards, a.e.g., gilt doublures, six marker ribbons, a handsome production in mint condition. (1)
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Lot 861/0315
SOLD Hammer price €120
Eliott (T.S.) The Cocktail Party, 8vo L. (Faber & Faber) 1950, First, green cloth gilt lettered spine, d.j. (some wear). (1)* With identification note confirming First Edition on page 29, line 1 reads “Here” not “Her.”
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Lot 862/0315
SOLD Hammer price €300
Lee (Harper) To Kill a Mockingbird, 8vo N.Y. (J.B. Lippincott) 1960, Variant Edition, leather backed boards, d.j. designed by Shirley Smith, worn; Go Set a Watchman, 8vo L. (W. Heinemann) 2015, two variant editions with corrections, cloth, d.j. Clean Copies. (3)
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