8 December 2009 - Book Sale

#0198

Lot 41/0198

Dublin Charities: Williams (G.D.) Dublin Charities being a Handbook of Dublin Philanthropic Organisations and Charities, 8vo D. n.d. c. 1902. FIRST EDN. THUS, adverts front & back, some L.S.s., orig. cloth backed boards. Scarce. (1)
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Lot 42/0198

SOLD Hammer price €170

Jameson’s & others – Truths about Whisky,” 8vo L. 1878. with 4 fold. litho plts. of Dublin distilleries (1 torn with loss), J. Jameson, Wm. Jameson, J. Power & George Roe & Co., cloth, worn, w.a.f. (1)

Lot 43/0198

SOLD Hammer price €100

Belfast Catalogue: Catalogue of The Library belonging to The Belfast Society for Promoting Knowledge, In the Central Room of the White Linen Hall. 8vo Belfast (Hugh Clarke & Co.) 1836, damp dam. & stained, cloth. Scarce. (1)
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Lot 44/0198

House of Commons: [Thorp (C.)] Debates, Evidence, and Documents, connected with the Investigation of the Charges Brought by the Attorney-General for Ireland, against Charles Thorp, Esq., High Sheriff of Dublin, …. 8vo L. 1823. FIRST EDN., CXI, 416pp, good hf. green mor., raised bands, gilt decor. spine. (1)

Lot 45/0198

SOLD Hammer price €220

O’Suilheabhain (Sean) A Handbook of Irish Folklore, 8vo D. 1942. FIRST EDN., frontis, cloth. V. good. (1)

Lot 46/0198

SOLD Hammer price €170

Genealogy: Mc Carthy (S. Trout) The Mac Carthys of Munster – The Story of a Great Irish Sept. Dundalk 1922. FIRST EDN., illus.; = O’Brien (Hon. D.) History of the O’Briens, 4to L. 1949. FIRST EDN., plts., cloth. Both good. (2)
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Lot 47/0198

SOLD Hammer price €130

Railways: Roney (Sir Cusack) Trinity College. Rambles on Railways, With Maps, Diagrams and Appendices. 8vo L. 1868. FIRST EDN., 11 fold. & other maps & plts., orig. cloth, re-backed. Scarce. (1)
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Lot 48/0198

SOLD Hammer price €180

Bagwell (Richard) Ireland Under the Tudors, 3 vols. L. 1885 – 1890. FIRST EDNS., orig. brown cloth, 1 vol. with joints worn. (3)

Lot 49/0198

SOLD Hammer price €220

Military: The Royal Inniskilling Fusilier’s, Being the History of the Regiment from December 1688 to July 1914, 8vo L. 1934; = also Fox (Sir F.) The Royal Inniskilling Fusilier’s in the World War, L. 1928, BOTH FIRST EDNS., & illus. with maps etc., orig. cloth gilt. Good. (2)
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Lot 50/0198

Patterson (Rob. Lloyd) The Birds, Fishes and Cetacea Commonly Frequenting Belfast Lough, 8vo L. 1880. FIRST EDN., Pres. Copy inscribed ‘From the Author,’cold. map frontis, cloth, gilt. (1)

Lot 51/0198

SOLD Hammer price €100

MacNamara Genealogy: MacNamara (N.C.) The Story of An Irish Sept, Their Character & Struggle to Maintain their Lands in Clare. 8vo L. 1896. FIRST EDN., port. frontis, map & plts., facsimile & fold. table, complete, uncut, buckram. (1)
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Lot 52/0198

SOLD Hammer price €600

Signed by W.B. Yeats
Yeats (Wm. Butler) A Vision. An Explanation of Life founded upon the Writings of Giraldus and upon Certain Doctrines attributed to Kusta Ben Luka. 8vo L. (T. Werner Laurie) 1925. Privately Printed for Subscribers Only. No. 225 (600) Limited & Signed by Author. Port. frontis, & 1 plt., uncut, vellum backed boards, orig. d.w. V. good. (1)
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Lot 53/0198

Bodkin (Thos.) Four Irish Landscape Painters, sm. 4to D. & L. 1920. FIRST EDN., illus., orig. buckram.
* Details the work of George Barrett, James A. O’Connor, Walter Osborne, & Nathaniel Hone, & gives lists and prices of most of their works. (1)

Lot 54/0198

SOLD Hammer price €230

Children’s interest: Praeger (Rosamond) Old Fashioned Verses and Sketches, Dundalk 1947. FIRST, cold. frontis & other illus; = de Valera (S.) The Magic Girdle and other Stories, D. n.d. FIRST EDN., illus., d.w.; = Dunsany (Lord) The Gods of Pegana, L. 1911. FIRST EDN., illus. by S.H. Sime, uncut; = Lynch (P.) Long Ears – The Story of a Little Grey Donkey, L. 1947, illus; = & 1 other. All good. (5)

Lot 55/0198

Hill (E. Darley) The Northern Banking Company – An Historical Sketch…. 1824 – 1924., 4to Belfast 1925. FIRST EDN., fine cold. & other illus., decor. cloth; = Owen (D.J.) History of Belfast, Belfast & L. 1921. FIRST EDN., illus; = Lowry (Mary) The Story of Belfast and its Surroundings, L. n.d. FIRST EDN., Inscribed Pres. Copy, illus., d.w.; = & 1 other mod. vol. sim. (4)

Lot 56/0198

SOLD Hammer price €190

Frost (James) The History and Topography of The County of Clare, 8vo D. 1893. FIRST EDN., cold. frontis & 16 litho & other plts., orig. cloth, gilt lettered spine. V. good. (1)
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Lot 57/0198

SOLD Hammer price €180

Butt (Issac) The Irish People and the Irish Land: A Letter to Lord Lifford; with Comments on the Publications of Lord Dufferin and Lord Ross. 8vo D. 1867. FIRST EDN.; = Blunt (W. Scawen) The Land War in Ireland, 8vo L. 1913. SECOND EDN., unopened; = Leet (E.F.) & Mc Cutcheon (R.R.) A Sketch of The Law of Property in Land in Ireland, D. 1937, all cloth. (3)

Lot 58/0198

Joyce (P.W.) Old Irish Folk Music and Songs, 4to D. 1909. FIRST EDN., adverts at end, orig. gilt decor green cloth, v. good; = Grattan Flood (Wm. H.) A History of Irish Music, sm. 8vo D. 1913, THIRD EDN., cloth. (2)

Lot 59/0198

SOLD Hammer price €280

American Editions: Conyngham (D.P.) Lives of the Irish Saints: and Martyrs, thick 8vo N.Y. 1870, engd. & wd. cut views & ports., a.e.g., orig. gilt decor. cloth, re-cased; = also Sanderson (J.), Finlay (J. Borland) The Story of Saint Patrick, & Ireland – The Irish, 4to Boston & N.Y. 1895, orig. cloth, gilt, both good & scarce. (2)

Lot 60/0198

Shirley (E. Philip) Some Account of English Deer Parks, sm. 4to L. 1867. FIRST EDN., frontis plt. & text illus., orig. cloth, re-cased. Scarce.
* The author was from Co. Monaghan, & author of “The History of Monaghan.” (1)