9 December 2020 - 0322 Christmas Rare Book Sale

#0322

Lot 100/0322

SOLD Hammer price €400

Dean (G.A.) A Series of Selected Designs for Country Residences, Entrance Lodges, Farm Offices, Cottages, etc., Folio Worthing 1867. First Edn., cold. litho frontis & 34 other plts. (some dbl. page, 1 litho) complete, good, orig. cloth, some damp stains, spine dam. (1)

Lot 101/0322

SOLD Hammer price €140

Inscribed Presentation Copy, LimitedStar (Maria) Terre des Symboles, lg. folio Paris (Gazette des Beaux-Arts) 1903. First Edn., No. 67 of Edition of 310 Copies Only, with 14 full page mtd. cold. plts. & other cold. & other text illus. by R. Mainella, uncut, orig. attractively decor. cream boards. (1)* Inscribed presentation Copy to Madame la Duchesse de Marchena, 1917.

Lot 102/0322

SOLD Hammer price €30

Ashton (John) Real Sailor Songs, folio L. (Leaden Hall Press) 1891. First Edn. red & bl. title, reproduced ballad sheets thro-out, many with wd.-cut illus., orig. hf. vellum. (1)

Lot 103/0322

SOLD Hammer price €160

Very Fine Set Radnor (Helen Matilda, Countess of Radnor) & Barclay Squire (Wm.) Catalogue of the Pictures in the Collection of the Earl of Radnor, 2 vols. folio L (Chiswick Press) 1909. Privately Printed Limited Edition No. 58 of 200 Copies Only. Full page plts., uncut, very fine hf. crushed green mor. by Hatchards. (2)

Lot 104/0322

SOLD Hammer price €120

I.M.C. MacAlister (RAS) The Book of U¡ Maine, otherwise called The Book of the O’Kelly’s, lg. folio D. (Stationary Office) 1942. Facsimiles in Collotype of Irish Manuscripts, [217] full page facsimile leaves, later hf. mor. V. good; R.I.A.: Best (R.I.) The Commentary on the Psalms with Glosses in Old Irish Preserved in the Ambrosian Library (Ms C.301 inf.). Atlas folio D. 1936, First Edn., unopened, uncut, 146 +10+2 full page facsimiles, orig. cloth backed boards. V. Good. (2)

Lot 105/0322

SOLD Hammer price €280

Public Records of Ireland: Reports from the Commissioners,… Respecting the Public Records of Ireland, With Supplements and Appendixes 1810 – 1820. With all the engraved folding and other plts., of facsimiles, buildings (Four Courts) etc., uncut, recent mor. backed crimson cloth boards. (2)

Lot 106/0322

SOLD Hammer price €130

Flags: Drawings of the Flags in Use at the Present Time by Various Nations, Lg. folio L. Admiralty Jan. 1875. Litho title, over 200 cold. illus. orig. cloth, gilt. Good. (1)

Lot 107/0322

SOLD Hammer price €140

[Lutyens] Weaver (Lawrence) Houses and Gardens, by E.L. Lutyens Lg. folio Lond. (Country Life) 1913. First Edn., illus. thro-out, decor. ends, orig. buckram backed boards. (1)

Lot 108/0322

SOLD Hammer price €120

Jekyll (Gertrude) Garden Ornament, Folio Lond. (Country Life) 1918. First Edn., cold. frontis., full page & other illus. thro-out, orig. cloth stained; also Jekyll (G.) & Weaver (Sir L.) Gardens for Small Country Houses, sm. folio L. (Country Life) 1927, illus., thro-out, cloth, gilt. (2)

Lot 109/0322

SOLD Hammer price €100

Pugilists: Edwards (Billy) The Portrait Gallery of Pugilists of England, America, Australia from James J. Corbett running back to Tom Sayers, Folio L. & Philadelphia 1894. First Edn., 80 full page photogravure plts., orig. cloth backed boards, loose. (1)

Lot 110/0322

SOLD Hammer price €240

Vellum Bindings: Critici Sacra: Sive Doctissimorum Virorum in S.S. Biblia Annotationes, and Tractatus Opus Summ cura recognitum, & In Novem Totos divisum. 9 vols. folio L (J. Flesher) 1660 red & bl. title, in full cont. blind stamp vellum. (9)

Lot 111/0322

SOLD Hammer price €620

Fleming (Ian) For Your Eyes Only, 8vo L. (Jonathan Cape) 1960, First Edn., black cloth with painted eye on front cover, gilt lettered spine, d.j. design by Richard Chopping with eye looking through hole in door, titled in black and red (only one of the Bond Series with glossy d.j.). Good Copy; Thunderball, 8vo (Jonathan Cape) 1961, First Edn., black cloth with blind stamped skeleton hard and wrist on front cover, gilt letters spine, jacket designed by Richard Chopping with skeleton hand and wrists, clasp knife and playing cards, title in black d.j., clipped (not priced). Good copy; On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, 8vo L. (Jonathan Cape) 1963, First Edn., black cloth with silver / white swirl design, silver text on spine, d.j. design by Richard Chopping, decorated with hand sketching a crest, d.j. clipped (not priced). Good Copy; You Only Live Twice, 8vo, L. (Jonathan Cape) 1964, First Edn., black cloth, titled in silver on spine and Japanese Characters in gilt on front cover, d.j. designed by Richard Chopping with toad, dragonfly and pink chrysanthemum design on front cover, title in black, clipped (not priced). Clean Copy; Goldfinger, 8vo L. (Jonathan Cape) 1959 (Second Impression), black cloth with blind stamped skull and gold coins as eyes in gilt front cover, d.j. design by Richard Chopping, clipped not priced. Clean Copy; & The Man with the Golden Gun, 8vo L. (Jonathan Cape) 1965, First, (Second Binding), plain black cloth, gilt lettered spine, d.j. by Richard Chopping with animal skull, gun and flies, clipped (not price clipped). Clean Copy. (6)

Lot 112/0322

SOLD Hammer price €280

Huxley (Aldous) Brave New World, A Novel, 8vo L. (Chatto & Windis) 1932. First Edn., hf. title, orig. blue cloth, gilt lettered spine; Orwell (George) [Blair (Eric)] The Lion and the Unicorn, 8vo L. (Secker & Warburg) 1941. First of Searchlight Books. First Edn., oatmeal cloth & orig. d.w. (2)

Lot 113/0322

SOLD Hammer price €460

White (Patrick) The Aunt’s Story, A Novel. 8vo L. (Routledge & Kegan Paul) 1948. First Edn. neat presentation inscription, black cloth, gilt lettered spine, orig. decor. pictorial d.w. V. good. (1)

Lot 114/0322

SOLD Hammer price €80

Mel (Coenrad) De Lust der Heiligen in Jehovah, of Gebede-Boek, 12mo Amsterdam (Dirk Onder de Linden) 1760. Hf. title, add. engd. title & engd. title vignette, partly black letter, orig. full vellum. (1)

Lot 115/0322

Binding: Steele (Sir Richard) The Christian Hero: An Argument Proving that no Principles but those of Religion Are sufficient to make a Great Man, 12mo L. (For Jacob Tonson) 1722. Seventh, in full cont. crimson mor. with dble gilt fillet borders with tooled floral band, spine gilt in panels, worn. (1)

Lot 116/0322

SOLD Hammer price €320

Italian Plays: A rare collection of 23 early 19th Century Italian Plays printed in Corfu and Malta c. 1830-1840, including:1. Otello Ossia Il Moro di Venezia Dramma per Musica de Rappresentars nel Nolile Theatro di S. Giacomo in Corfu l’Antunno dell ‘anno 1830, 12mo Corful 1830, 39pp; 2. Sogner (P.) Elizabetta o sia il Castello di Kenilworth, Melo-Dramma Istorico, Poesia e Musica Scritta e composta Pel Real Teatro di Malta, 12mo Malta (dalla Stamperia del Governo) 1830; & 23 others sim., cont. hf. calf. A very unusual collection. As a lot. (1)

Lot 117/0322

SOLD Hammer price €410

With Hand-Coloured Fore-Edge PaintingBinding: Young (Edward) The Complaint; or Night Thoughts, 12mo L. 1813. New Edn., engd. port. frontis & 9 plts., a.e.g., cont. straight grained crimson mor. with gilt tooled fillet & decorated borders, spine gilt in panels. V. good. (1)* With fine watercolour fore-edge painting of Eton College & Chapel.

Lot 118/0322

SOLD Hammer price €580

With Hand-Coloured Fore-Edge Painting of HobartBinding: Gehrig (J.M.) Gott ist die Reinste Liebe, 12mo Wurzburg 1825. Hf. title, engd. frontis & 1 plt., cont. green mor. with attractive gilt draped curtain border & tooled gilt spine. (1)* With very fine watercolour fore-edge Painting of Hobart Settlement, [Tasmania] looking in from the water, with boats, inscribed ‘Hobart 1830’.

Lot 119/0322

SOLD Hammer price €100

Algarotti (Count) An Essay on Painting, Written in Italian. 12mo D. (for T. & J. Whitehouse at the State Lottery Office in Parliament St.) 1765. First Dublin Edn., in fine cont. tree calf, decor. roll border, gilt spine in panels, mor. label. V. good. Scarce. (1)