5 May 2020 - #0319 Timed Auction

#0319

Lot 199/0319

Dewar (Daniel) Observations on the Character, Customs and Superstitions of the Irish…, 8vo L. 1812. First Edn., Hf. title, 8pp Cat. at end, Ex. Libris Copy with L.S.s., uncut, orig. boards. (1)

Lot 200/0319

SOLD Hammer price €60

[Bush (J.)] Hibernia Curiosa – A Letter from a Gentleman in Dublin to his Friend at Dover in Kent … Manners, Customs Dispositions of the Inhabitants of Ireland, 12mo D. (J. Potts) 1769, First, dedit page XVI, 174pps, 3 fold. plts., contemp. full calf (F.C. loose, lacks map) mor. label. (1)

Lot 201/0319

With Original Photograph Tipped-In Co. Kildare interest: Mc Gann (Andy) Voices of the Night. By ‘The Above Mentioned’ Andy McGann. sometime Night Watchman, Star Gazer, Comet Observer, and Astronomer Royal, at Clongoweswood, to which is Prefixed The Great Homeric Cryptogram. 16mo D. (Keating & Co.) 1888. Sole Edition, orig. photographic portrait frontis, 24pp. orig. gilt lettered green cloth, v. good copy. Extremely Rare. (1)

Lot 202/0319

The Summer Azzises in Meath 1881 Co. Meath: Schedules of the Several Presentment Applied for and of the Several Accounts of Expenditure, Examined at the Special Sessions held Preparatory to Summer Assizes, 1881 in the Towns of Old Castle, Kells, Drumconrath, Navan, Slane etc., 8vo d. (John Warren) 1881, 128pps, limp calf, gilt letter grant cover ‘The High Sheriff – John N. Coddington – Sec. Grand Jury’ fine Association Copy. (1)

Lot 203/0319

SOLD Hammer price €380

Important Irish Library Catalogue: Co. Waterford Interest, Catalogue of the Library of John Ussher Congreve Esq., Mount Congreve MDCCCXXVII (1827), First and Only, 4to Waterford (John Bull) 1827, hf. title, 34pps., ptd. boards. Clean Copy. (1)

Lot 204/0319

SOLD Hammer price €60

Limerick Author O’Meara (Barry) An Exposition of some of The Transactions, that have taken place at St. Helena, Since the Appointment of Sir Hudson Lowe, 8vo L. 1819. Second. Hf. title, XVIII, [216]pp. cloth. Scarce. (1)

Lot 205/0319

Co. Louth: Leslie (Rev. James B.) History of Kilsaran, Union of Parishes in the County of Louth, 8vo Dundalk (Wm. Tempent) 1908, hf. title, fold. map frontis, & 4 other maps, photo illus. throughout, red cloth, gilt lettered spine. Clean Copy. (1) Ex. Libris Pat Murray, Dublin.

Lot 206/0319

Children’s Interest: Drummond (Charles) The Story of Mr. Shepherd and His Bush, 4to Privately Printed Typescript n.d. circa 1928, signed and dedicated ‘Oliver Beresford with Best Wishes from the Author, Charles Drummond April 28th 1928,’ unpublished blue cloth, gilt lettering to front cover, possibly Unique Copy. (1)

Lot 207/0319

SOLD Hammer price €400

Signed Limited Edition Gardner (Phyllis) The Irish Wolfhound, A Short Historical Sketch, 8vo Dundalk (The Dundalgan Press) 1931, Signed Ltd. Edn. No. 19 (50) copies, (Lady Gregory’s Copy), illus., cloth backed boards, decor. d.j. Scarce. (1)

Lot 208/0319

SOLD Hammer price €100

Co. Dublin: Figgis (T.F.), Drury (T.W.E.) comp. & eds. Rathmines School Ora et Labora – The School Roll, from the Beginning of the School in 1858 till its close in 1899, 8vo D. (University Press) 1932, First, hf. title, port. frontis, illus., green cloth, gilt lettering. Scarce. (1)

Lot 209/0319

SOLD Hammer price €180

1798 Interest: Co. Sligo – Sligo Ladies ’98 Club – Programme of Grand Irish Concert in the Town Hall, 17th March 1898 (St. Patrick’s Night) under the Distinguished Patronage and Presence of Most Rev. Dr. Clancy, Lord Bishop, 4to Sligo (Alex Gillmor) 1898, 2pps., ptd. wrappers. Scarce. (1)

Lot 210/0319

SOLD Hammer price €60

Co. Dublin Interest: Prospectus for: College of S. Columba – Founded 1843, illus., detailed information on the History, Education and Recreation, and Preparation for further Schooling in College, etc., ptd. wrappers. (1)

Lot 211/0319

SOLD Hammer price €50

Trimble (W. Copeland)ed. The Inner History of Enniskillen During the Revolution, 8vo Enniskillen (Wm. Trimble) 1927, First, ptd. wrappers, dust wrappers. Clean Copy. (1)

Lot 212/0319

Co. Wexford Interest: Official Opening of O’Hanrahan Bridge, New Ross, constructed for the County Councils of Wexford and Kilkenny by the Irish Engineering and Harbour Construction Co. – Monday 27th February 1967, Dinner Menu, listing various political figures (including Paudge Brennan T.D.), as Ephemera, w.a.f. (1)

Lot 213/0319

SOLD Hammer price €50

Ephemera: Dublin Interest – The Lady Mayoress requests the Pleasure of the Company of Miss Margaret Ryan at a Children’s Fancy Dress Ball in the Mansion House, on Thursday 3rd January 1901… numbered at back No. 277, printed by Waller & Co., Dublin, engraved cartouche. (1)

Lot 214/0319

SOLD Hammer price €300

Maud Gonne McBride (1866 – 1953) [The Legion of Mary] Our Lady Blessing the Faith of Ireland, approx. 14 1/2″ x 11″, mounted on card, unsigned (this is an alternative version to the illustration in Ella Young’s – Celtic Wonder Tales published in 1910), together with a m/ss Letter to Miss McDermott (Madame Mc Dermott, Coolavin, Co. Sligo) from the founder of the Legion of Mary Frank Duff (stating he has finally retrieved it back to return dated 7 January 1944). As a lot, w.a.f. (1) Provenance: By Family Tradition gifted by Maud Gonne McBride, to the McDermott Family, and by Direct Family descent.

Lot 215/0319

SOLD Hammer price €180

Proposals for a Mother and Child Health Service, with Comments of the Irish Medical Association, 1950 Typescript issued by the Department of Health and dated Meitheamh [June] 1950. Pp [4], 21, [3], with a typed letter issued by the Medical Association of ire to its members. 3 pp. The principal document is entitled “Proposals for a mother and child health service under part III of the Health Act, 1947” and is stamped “Confidential”. It outlines the scheme proposed by the Minister (Dr Noel Browne) for modernizing the Irish health service and tackling the poor health of many children, and the high incidence of infant mortality. The Fianna F il Health Act of 1947 had provided the mechanism for dealing with this, but it fell to the incoming coalition government to implement its proposals. Section 5 reads: “In general, the scheme will provide for safeguarding the health of women in respect of motherhood and for attendance to the health of children up to 16 years of age. No portion of the scheme is compulsory ? There will be no means test.” The covering letter to members of the IMA lists points of concern that had been raised at a meeting between their representatives and the Department, summing up that “the Association was in full agreement with the desire to provide Improved Medical Services but was definitely opposed to the socialization of medicine”. The scheme was scuppered by a combination of factors: the hostility of the IMA, the paranoia of the Catholic hierarchy, and the intransigence of Dr Browne. The controversy it caused was one of the factors that led to the fall of the inter-party government in 1951. The incoming Fianna F il government introduced a modified version in the Health Act of 1953, which led to the establishment of the present two-tier system, in which private and public systems exist side by side. As a typescript, w.a.f. (1)

Lot 216/0319

Insult to Roman Catholics Irish Manuscript, Browne, (Samuel, G.) Als. written to the actor Thomas Robson, the actor accusing him of insulting the Roman Catholics at a performance at the Olympia Theatre? in Dublin. 2 Johns Lane, Dublin, Jan. 6 1853. 8vo, 3 pages with integral blank, entirely holograph, written in blue ink. The writer attacks Robson for insulting the Roman Catholics, in a performance, probably at the Olympia Theatre, threatening to use his influence to stop him performing in future. This seems to have had little effect because he remained in Ireland until his death in 1864. Browne claims that he was a priest, not a cobbler. (1)

Lot 217/0319

Manuscripts, Documents: Co. Dublin: A group of documents c. 1890 – 1920, relating to The Mullingar Hotel & Houses, Chapelizod, Co. Dublin, indentures, valuations, leases etc., also some other earlier documents relating to Lucan, Kilmainham etc. As manuscripts, w.a.f. Interesting lot. (1)

Lot 218/0319

SOLD Hammer price €320

Mitford (M.M.) Writer. An Autograph signed Letter, 4pp., from Two Mile Cross, dated Nov. 16th, 1827, to Mrs. (Anna Maria) Hall, saying that at present she will have no excuse to be in town on the 24th, but a piece is going on Monday to Charles Kemble (the producer), and if he should want her for alterations, she will certainly avail herself of the opportunity of seeing Mrs. Hall, also enquires about the success of ‘The Amulet’, says a piece of hers printed there has reportedly also been printed in another magazine, and says she would never send the same piece to two magazines, etc. Postally used, with markings, seal etc. As a m/ss., w.a.f. (1)