15 July 2020 - #320 Timed Auction July 15th, 2020

#320

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Lot 1/320

Co. Wicklow Interest: Walsh (Rev. W.J.) Evidence Given in the Case of O’Keeffe V. M’Donald at the Wicklow Summer Assizes 1875, 8vo D. (McGlashan & Gill) 1875, First, 71pps., contemp. hf. leather, buckram boards. Clean copy. Scarce. (1)

Lot 2/320

Chalmers (George)ed. Historical Tracts by Sir John Davies, Attorney General and Speaker of the House of Commons in Ireland, consisting of …, 8vo D. (William Porter) 1787, First, XXXVIII, 313pps., contemp. full mottled calf, mor. label, worn. (1)

Lot 3/320

Parnell (Henry) M.P. A History of the Penal Laws against the Irish Catholics from the Treaty of Limerick to the Union, 8vo D. (H. Fitzpatrick) 1808, First, 226pps & Appendix (XXXII), contemp. full calf, mor. label, worn. (1)

Lot 4/320

SOLD Hammer price €70

Irish Medical Interest: Butler’s Medicine Chest Directory and Family Catalogue of Drugs, Chemicals etc.,.. 8vo D. 1832, Third, engd. frontis, uncut, original cloth, ptd. label, some wear. Good reference copy. (1)

Lot 5/320

Signed by S. T. O’Kelly Leahy (E.) Epoch of Irish History, Brian Boiroihme, A Sketch of his Life and Times, f.e.p. ‘Seaghain T. O’Ceallaigh,’ bound together, green cloth, gilt lettering. (1) * Other works on MacMurrogh Kavanagh, Hugh O’Neill, O’Connell etc.

Lot 6/320

SOLD Hammer price €130

[Taylor (Emily)] The Irish Tourist; or, Tales of the People and the Provinces of Ireland, sm. 8vo, L. (Harvey and Darton) [1843] engd. frontis, fold. map, XII, 271pps & 4pps of adverts., recent mor. backed cloth. Clean copy. (1)

Lot 7/320

SOLD Hammer price €60

[Walsh (John Edward)] Sketches of Ireland Sixty Years Ago, sm. 8vo D. (J. Mc Glashan) 1847, First, frontis, blind decor., green cloth with gilt lettering. Clean copy. (1)

Lot 8/320

SOLD Hammer price €380

Mitchel (John) Jail Journal; or Five years In British Prisons, 8vo New York (Office of the Citizen) 1854, First, blind decor cloth, with central gilt design, and gilt lettering on spine, some staining, otherwise good and Scarce. (1)

Lot 9/320

Molyneaux (William) The Case of Ireland’s being bound by Acts of Parliament in England Stated, 12mo [London 1719] 102pps, contemp. full calf, mor. label (worn), otherwise good copy. (1)

Lot 10/320

American Travel: Sutcliff (Robert) Travels in Some Parts of North America in the Years 1804, 1805 & 1806, 8vo York (C. Peacock) 1811, First., engd frontis, & 5 plts (complete), contemp. full calf, mor. label. Good copy. (1)

Lot 11/320

Michel (Francisque) & Wright (Thomas) Anglo-Norman Poem on the Conquest of Ireland by Henry the Second, 12mo L. (Wm. Pickering) 1837, First, hf. title, in contemporary full green mor. with gilt fillet borders and corner motifs, decor. spine. Good Copy. Scarce. (1)

Lot 12/320

Duffy (Sir Charles Gavan)et al – The Revival of Irish Literature – Addresses Delivered before the Irish Literary Society of London by Sir Charles Gavan Duffy, George Sigeson and Douglas Hyde, 1892 & 1893, 8vo L. (Fisher, Unwin) 1894, First. Inscribed by Sigerson to W.J. Doherty Historian of Donegal, profusely annotated (possibly by Doherty) cloth backed boards, gilt lettered front cover. Nice Association Copy. (1)

Lot 13/320

SOLD Hammer price €200

Only 26 Copies Botanical Interest: Nelson (Charles) John Lyons and his Orchid Manual, 12mo Kilkenny (Boethius Press) 1988, Ltd. Edn., 26 copies, Signed by the Author, illus., full blue calf, blind decor. on front cover, mor. labels. Good copy. (1)

Lot 14/320

Gray (Thomas) Poems by Mr. Gray, sm. 8vo D. (Wm. Sleater, Castle Street) 1775, First Dublin Edn., engd. frontis, and vignettes on t.p., and text illus., (bound in at back “Elegia Inglese del Signor Tommasa Gray ..,” In Eblana (G. Sleater) 1776, engraved t.p., 1 – 211 pps., [190 – 211], contemp. full calf, professional reback. (1) * This rare publication was issued and printed in Dublin during the poet’s lifetime.

Lot 15/320

Quaker Interest: [Neale (J.)] Some Account of the Life and religious Labours of Samuel Neale, sm. 8vo, D. (Robert Napper) 1805, First, VIII, 92pps, full calf, pps. loose, otherwise. Scarce. (1)

Lot 16/320

SOLD Hammer price €120

Shackleton (Betsy) Ballitore and Its Inhabitants Seventy years Ago, 12mo D. (Richard D. Webb & Son) 1862, First, hf. title, inscribed on f.e.p. ‘S. Wilfred Naughton from ?, Carlow April 23, 65’ original cloth. Scarce. (1)

Lot 17/320

SOLD Hammer price €420

[French (Nicholas) Bishop of Ferns] Attributed, Recit Exact et Fidele de la Vente et Partage du Roiaume d’Irlande Fait Sous Charles II par le Comte de Clarendon Chanceller d’Angleterae, 12mo, Milan (Chez Charles Joseph Quinto) 1724, XII, 98pps., and fold. plt., contemp mottled calf, gilt decor. spine, mor. label. Good Copy. Scarce. (1)

Lot 18/320

Joseph (Pierce) La Vie de Nastradamus, 12mo Aix (Chez la Veuve de Charles David and Joseph David) 1711, XII, 186pps., engd. vignettes, in fine quality gilt fillet and panel decorated full leather, with mor. label. Scarce. (1)

Lot 19/320

Chapbook: Illustrated Volume – The Natural History of Remarkable Beasts, 12mo, D. (J. Jones) 1820, engd. frontis and t.p., 6 illus., contemp full calf, worn. (1)