5 May 2020 - #0319 Timed Auction

#0319

Lot 119/0319

Numismatics: Lindsay (John) A View of The Coinage of Ireland, 4to Cork (Luke H. Bolster) 1839, First Edn., 8 tables & 9 plts. ( & 5 supplementary) cloth backed boards. Good copy. (1)

Lot 120/0319

SOLD Hammer price €950

Travel: Graham (Maria) Journal of a Residence in Chile, during the Year 1822., and a Voyage from Chile to Brazil in 1823. 4to L. 1824. First Edn., 14 full page plts. (include. frontis) text illus. Inscribed ‘With the author’s Compls.,’ with a 16pp pamphlet tipped-in at front, later hf. green mor., gilt spine. (1)

Lot 121/0319

SOLD Hammer price €55

Ball (F.E.) A History of the County of Dublin, 6 vols. roy 8vo D. 1979. Sackville Library Edition, illus. thro-out, cloth, slipcase. Ex. good set. (6)

Lot 122/0319

SOLD Hammer price €100

The Whoseday Book. Irish Hospice Foundation 1999. With signatures of many (but not all) of the featured artists and writers at their respective contributions, including John Banville, Heaney, Le Brocquy and others., oblong quarto black cloth, slipcase, w.a.f. (1)

Lot 123/0319

Parnell (Thos.) late Archdeacon of Clogher, Poems on Several Occasions, 4to D. (T. Ewing) 1773. New Edn. one engd. oval portrait vignette, contents leaf at end, cont. full calf; Mickle (Wm. Julius) The Lusiad; or The Discovery of India, An Epic Poem. Trans from The Original Portuguese of Luis de Camoens. 4to Oxford 1776. First Edn., list of subscribers, cont. tree calf, tooled single floral border, spine gilt in panels, mor. label. (2)

Lot 124/0319

SOLD Hammer price €100

Weld (Isaac) Illustrations of the Scenery of Killarney and the Surrounding Country, Lg. 4to L. 1807. First Edn., engd. title with vignette, engd. map, engd. vignette & 18 plts. (complete) cont. full tree calf, multiple gilt fillet borders. V. good copy. (1)

Lot 125/0319

SOLD Hammer price €100

Mary Lavin’s Copy Dolmen Edition II: Montague (John) All Legendary Obstacles, roy 8vo D. (Dolmen) 1966. Lim. Edn. 350 Copies, Signed by Author and Mary Lavin March 1966, full page illus., boards & decor. d.w. after Barrie Cooke (stained). Miller 9 (1)

Lot 126/0319

SOLD Hammer price €100

Dolmen Press Editions X: Gregory (Lady) Coole, Completed from the Manuscript. Sm. folio D. 1971. Lim. Edn. 1050 Copies, decor. end papers, cloth backed boards & red & bl. d.w. (1)

Lot 127/0319

Signed Presentation Copy Queen’s Royal Theatre: de Burca (Seamus) The Queen’s Royal Theatre, Dublin 1829 – 1969, Lg. 4to D. (S. de Burca) 1983. Lim. Edn. No. 910 of 1000 Copies. This copy signed Presentation Copy to Marcus, Jane, Blathnaid, Lorraine. The Television Crew of Trinity, dated March 20th, 1992. Illus., orig. cloth, with the inset label in gilt. (1)

Lot 128/0319

SOLD Hammer price €150

Ross (Martin) & Somerville (E.O.E.) A Patrick’s Day Hunt, oblong 4to, L. Archibald Constable and Co. Ltd.) n.d. 8 cold. plts. (complete) text illus., decor. cloth, some fading, otherwise good copy. (1)

Lot 129/0319

SOLD Hammer price €60

All First Editions Toibin (Colm) The Sign of the Cross – Travels in Catholic Europe, L. 1994; The Blackwater Lightship, L. 1999; Lady Gregory’s Toothbrush, L. 2002; The Master, L. 2004; Mother and Sons, L. 2006, all orig. boards & d.w.’s; also Brooklyn, L. 2009, First, soft back, Signed by author. (6)

Lot 130/0319

Bigelow (J.R.) The Americans Own Book; or The Constitutions of the Several States in the Union, roy 8vo New York 1848. Second Edn., with wd. cut circular illus. of the seals of the different States, some browning, orig. sheep, mor. label. Scarce. (1)

Lot 131/0319

Periodical: Scientific American, An Illustrated Journal of Arts, Science & Mechanics. Vol. 53, lg. folio N.Y. 1885. Profusely illustrated thro-out, hf. mor., joints cracked, otherwise v. good. As a periodical, w.a.f. Scarce. (1)

Lot 132/0319

SOLD Hammer price €30

Bieler (L.) Ireland Harbinger of the Middle Ages, folio L. 1963; Mitchel (G. Frank) & others Treasures of Irish Art 1500 B.C. – 1500 A.D., folio N.Y. 1977; Brailsford (John) Early Celtic Masterpieces from Britain in the British Museum, L. 1975; & 3 others sim. A lot, v. good. (6)

Lot 133/0319

SOLD Hammer price €50

[Yeats (W.B.)] The Dome – A Quarterly containing Examples of All the Arts. A collection including nos. 1-5, boards, 1897-8, some unopened, with second copies of Nos. 2 and 5, and with Vol. 1 No. 1 (New Series), wrappers, Oct. 1898, Nos. 2, 5, and Vol. 1 No. 1 contain contributions by W.B. Yeats. As a collection, w.a.f. (1)

Lot 134/0319

SOLD Hammer price €20

Vidal (Gore) Myra Breckinridge, 8vo L. 1968; Live from Golgotha, 8vo N.Y. 1992; Palimpsest – A Memoir, 8vo L. 1995; The Smithsonian Institution – A Novel, 8vo L. 1998; Point to Point Navigation, 8vo L. 2006, all cloth and d.j., as a lot, w.a.f. (5)

Lot 135/0319

SOLD Hammer price €50

Greene (Graham) Loser Takes All, 8vo, L. 1955; A Burnt-Out Case, 8vo L. 1961; A Burnt-Out Case, N.Y. 1961; The Comedians, 8vo, L. 1966; May We Barrow Your Husband? & Other Comedies of the Sexual Life, 8vo L. 1967; Travels With My Aunt, 8vo L. 1969; A Sort of Life, 8vo L. 1971; The Honorary Counsel, 8vo L. 1973; The Human Factor, 8vo L. 1978; Doctor Fischer of Geneva or The Bomb Party, 8vo L. 1980; Getting to Know the General, 8vo, N.Y. 1984; The Tenth Man, 8vo L. 1985; The Captain and the Enemy, 8vo L. 1988, mostly First UK / American Editions, all cloth & d.j.s., as a collection, w.a.f. (13)

Lot 136/0319

SOLD Hammer price €50

Genealogy: Fox-Davies (A.C.) Armorial Families, thick sm. folio Edin. 1902. Fourth, attractive & unusual heavily bound two colour mor. tooled gilt decor., mor. label & raised bands. V. good. (1)

Lot 137/0319

SOLD Hammer price €250

Georgian Society Record: The Georgian Society Records of 18th Century Domestic Architecture and Decoration in Dublin, 5 vols. 4to Shannon (I.U.P.) 1969, (reprint) numerous full page illus., original buckram backed boards. Clean set. (5)

Lot 138/0319

SOLD Hammer price €35

Racing & Hunting: [The Sportsman] British Sports and Sportsmen – Racing Coursing and Steeplechasing, folio L. 1911, Part 1, Ltd. Edn. 422 (1000) copies, illus.; Hunting, folio L. 1912, defective, illus., matching cloth; Elliott (E.C.) Fifty Leaders of British Sport, lg. 4to L. 1904, illus., gilt decor., cloth, as a lot, w.a.f. (3)