8 December 2009 - Book Sale

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Lot 340/0198

SOLD Hammer price €650

Reprint – The Irish Fiants of the Tudor Sovereigns, 4 vols roy 8vo D. (E. de Burca) 1994. LIM. EDN., 98 (350), cloth & slip case. Good. (4)
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Lot 341/0198

SOLD Hammer price €220

Property of Female Book Collector
Carte (Thomas) An History of the Life of James Duke of Ormonde, 3 vols. folio L. 1736. FIRST EDN., ex. Coll. De Vesci, inscribed on titles, & with contemporary bookplates of ‘Mrs. Ann Drelincourt’, cont. mottled calf, worn, joints cracked, tooled gilt spines. (3)

Lot 342/0198

SOLD Hammer price €1700

With Valuable Manuscript Notes
[Richardson] Wm. Ld. Bishop of Derry, The Irish Historical Library, 8vo D. 1724. FIRST EDN., title, & each page cut out, and neatly remounted on larger 4to pages, & with valuable cont. & later manuscript notes on most pages, recent mor. backed boards, mor. label. An very interesting lot. (1)
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Lot 343/0198

SOLD Hammer price €200

Plowden (Francis) An Historical Review of the State of Ireland, 2 vols. in 3, 4to L. 1803, FIRST EDN., engd. port. frontis Vol. I, cont. full tree calf, raised bands, mor. labels, spine heads dam. (3)
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Lot 344/0198

Petrie (G.) The Ecclesiastical Architecture of Ireland .., sm. folio, D. 1845, SECOND EDN., hf. title, illus. throughout, orig. cloth. Good. (1)

Lot 345/0198

SOLD Hammer price €400

Lewis (Samuel) A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, 2 vols. lg. 4to L. 1837, FIRST EDN., also Atlas comprising The Counties of Ireland, 4to L. 1837, engd. title, dedit, lg. fold. engd. map of Ireland, & 32 full page engd. maps, all v. clean, 3 vols. cont. uniform cloth. Good set. (3)
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Lot 346/0198

SOLD Hammer price €800

Keating (Jeoffry) The General History of Ireland…, folio, Westminister (Cluver & Campbell) 1726, SECOND EDN., engd. port. frontis, red & black t.p., dedit, 40 plts. (correct but appears to lack plt. No. 27), 1 fold. map, contemp. full calf, some wear & loose. otherwise fine. (1)
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Lot 347/0198

SOLD Hammer price €500

Co. Wicklow: Griffith (Richard) General Valuation of Rateable Property in Ireland – Co. Wicklow – Union of Shillelagh, folio D. 1853, FIRST EDN., VII, 79pp, orig. wrappers, full cloth; = also loosely inserted, related items; = & a photocopied example of same for Union of Rathdrum;= O’Donovan (J.) Letters Containing Information relative to the Antiquities of the County of Wicklow… Collected during … Ordnance Survey in 1838, ed. by Rev. M. O’Flanagan in 1928, a photocopied example, cloth; = & 3 other folders of notes, offprints, cuttings etc., made by late Dr. C. O’Brien. Interesting material. As a lot, w.a.f. (6)

Lot 348/0198

SOLD Hammer price €120

Ireland – Public Records: Reports from the Commissioners .. Respecting the Public Records of Ireland, With Supplements and Appendixes 1810 – 1815 and 1816 – 1820, 2 vols. lg. folio L. 1819 1820, fine lg. engd. plts. of Four Courts, others Dublin Castle, etc., some hd. cold., uncut, some damp stains, bindings, dam. As a coll., w.a.f. (2)

Lot 349/0198

SOLD Hammer price €800

Rathdrum Parochial Records
Co. Wicklow: Archivium Parochiale de Rathdrum, Liber I & II, 2 folio volumes, containing detailed parochial records relating to the parish of Rathdrum, Co. Wicklow. the entire in fac-simile, and photocopy, save only a few items of original manuscript, & Dr. O’Brien manuscript notes. Original letters and documents extracts from account books, parish maps, bill heads, receipts, newscuttings etc., both recent cloth. As Albums, w.a.f. Rare.
* A treasure house for the local historian. (2)
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Lot 350/0198

SOLD Hammer price €700

Stafford (Thomas) Pacata Hibernia, Ireland Appeased and Reduced. Folio L. 1633. FIRST EDN., 2 engd. ports & title laid down, lacks lg. map of Munster & 15 (ex 16) fold. & other maps, recent hf. calf, mor. label. (1)
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Lot 351/0198

SOLD Hammer price €370

Craig (Maurice) Irish Bookbindings 1600 – 1800, lg. 4to L. 1954. FIRST EDN., Signed by Author, cold. & other illus., marbled ends, & fine full recent green panel mor. tooled gilt wavy border, & slip case. V. good. (1)
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Lot 352/0198

Wicklow’s Claim: Minutes of Evidence taken before The Committee for Privileges on The Earl of Wicklow’s Claim to Vote for Representative Peers for Ireland, Folio L. 1869. FIRST EDN., 527pp. recent full green cloth, v. good. (1)
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Lot 353/0198

Irish Coffee Table Books: A Day in the Life of Ireland, lg. folio San Francisco 1991, v. fine illus., cloth & slip case; = & 8 others sim. V. good lot. (9)

Lot 354/0198

SOLD Hammer price €170

Irish Art & Archaeology etc: Crookshank (A.) & Knight of Glin – The Painters of Ireland, folio L. 1978. FIRST EDN; = Harbison Potterton & Sheehy, Irish Art & Architecture, lg. 4to L. 1978; = Bence-Jones (M.) Burke’s Guide to Irish Country Houses, folio L. 1978; = Sheehy (J.) the Rediscovery of Ireland’s The Celtic Revival 1830 – 1930, 4to L. 1980; = Dágenhardt (R.K.) Belleek – The Complete Collector’s Guide and Illustrated Reference, folio N.Y. 1978; = & 1 other sim. ALL FIRST EDNS, & d.w.’s. (6)

Lot 355/0198

SOLD Hammer price €400

Irish Silver: Delamer (Ida) & O’Brien (Dr. C.) 500 Years of Irish Silver, An Exhibition, folio Bray 2005. With some m/ss. notes & annots, by Dr. O’Brien; = Sweeney (Tony) Irish Stuart Silver – Catalogue Raisonne, folio D. 1995; = & English, Irish & Scottish Silver at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, folio N.Y. 1997, all illus. Good. (3)

Lot 356/0198

SOLD Hammer price €250

Barrington (Sir J.) Historic Memoirs of Ireland, 2 vols., lg. 4to L. (H. Colburn) 1835, 2 port. frontis, 32 port. plts., & 4 facsimile letters, contemp. full diced calf, blind tooled & dbl. gilt fillet borders, mor. labels. V. good set. (2)
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Lot 357/0198

SOLD Hammer price €240

Photographs: Irish Scenery etc: A large folio album containing orig. mounted photos of Queenstown, Blarney, Glengariff, Killarney, Ross Castle, On the Blackwater, Co. Waterford, St. Finbarr’s Cathedral, Cork, Co. Wicklow, Lismore, Cappoquinn, Kenmare, Youghal, etc., and a couple of non-Irish. Together approx. 56 photos, 6 large (21cmx 27cms – 8 1/4″ x 10 1/2″), and 50 small (10.25cms x 17.25cms, 4″ x 6 3/4″), all circa 1860/70, and in very good condition, some posed with figures, some leaves loose, album damaged. As a coll., w.a.f. (1)

Lot 358/0198

SOLD Hammer price €110

Portfolio: Engraved Irish Portrait & Caricatures: Full page engd. portrait of Henry Grattan after Alex Pope, L. c. 1814; = a Gillray Print United Irishmen in Training, c. 1827-30; = Irish Gratitude, published by H. Humphrey, c. 1782, An Irish Union, as a lot, w.a.f. (4)

Lot 359/0198

SOLD Hammer price €200

Trinity Closet Press: A good group of varied publications from The Trinity Closet Private Press, Dublin c. 1976-1992, including Evasions, by Brendan Kennelly, 8vo D. 1979, and The Merits of Printing, lg. folio broadside, D. 1983, 10 items in all. Scarce Collection. As a lot, w.a.f. (1)
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