8 December 2009 - Book Sale

#0198

Lot 657/0198

Webster (Rev. C.A.) The Church Plate of the Diocese of Cork, Cloyne and Ross, lg. 4to Cork 1909. FIRST EDN., illus., pencil annots. throughout, orig. cloth, rebacked; = Buckley (J.J.) Some Irish Altar Plate, roy 8vo D. 1943. FIRST EDN., with add. notes in m/ss., & cutting etc., loosely inserted, cloth. (2)
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Lot 658/0198

SOLD Hammer price €260

Bennett (Douglas) Irish Georgian Silver, 4to L. 1972 FIRST EDN., photo plts. orig. cloth & pict. d.w. V. good. (1)
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Lot 659/0198

SOLD Hammer price €300

Plumptre (A.) Narrative of a Residence in Ireland during The Summer of 1814 and that of 1815, lg. 4to L. (Henry Colburn) 1817, FIRST EDN., port. frontis, & 11 plts. (1 fold. & 1 loose) complete, contemp. hf. calf, recent professional reback, new spine, and mor. label. Good. (1)
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Lot 660/0198

SOLD Hammer price €270

[Stafford (Th.)] Pacata Hibernia or a History of the Wars in Ireland, 2 vols., roy 8vo D. (Hibernia Press) 1810, 2 engraved ports, & 18 plts. (18 fold.), complete, contemp. tree calf, with orig. spine laid down, mor. label, otherwise nice set. (2)
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Lot 661/0198

SOLD Hammer price €550

Association Copy
Pausanias – Huhnius (J.)ed. Pausaniae Graeciae Descriptio Accurata, Folio Leipzig 1696. Hf. title, red & bl. title with engd. vignette, text in Latin & Greek, in fine full vellum, gilt borders & panels, & with gilt armorials in centre of each cover. This is regarded as the best edition of Pausanias.
* With bookplate of Daniel O’Connell, The Liberator, & with lengthy manuscript notes signed by Daniel O’Connell (not The Liberator), & dated 1871. (1)
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Lot 662/0198

SOLD Hammer price €825

With Louis le Brocquy Illustrations
Dolmen Press: Kinsella (Thos.) trans. The Tain, folio D. (Dolmen Press) 1969. LIM. EDN. 1750 Copies Only, with fine brush drawings by L. le Brocquy, map, cloth, & orig. decor. d.w. & slip case. V. good copy. (1)
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Lot 663/0198

SOLD Hammer price €1000

Presentation Copy
Genealogy: Powerscourt (Mervyn Ed., Seventh Viscount) Muniments of the Ancient Saxon Family of Wingfield, v. lg. 4to L. 1894. Privately Printed, 58 full page plts. (2 cold.), title & a few leaves frayed at edges, some repaired, orig. cloth, gilt, recased professionally. V. Scarce.
* One of the rarest of Irish Family historians. (1)
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Lot 664/0198

SOLD Hammer price €1000

Fine Hd. Cold. Maps: Municipal Corporation Boundaries (Ireland), Reports and Plans. L. (House of Commons) 1837. Gen. map of Ireland, hd. cold. in outline, & 75 hd. cold. maps (9 lg. fold.), recent hf. calf, marble sides, spine with raised bands & gilt lettered. V. good copy. (1)
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Lot 665/0198

Irish Art: Crookshank & Knight of Glin – The Painters of Ireland, 1978; = also The Watercolours of Ireland, folio L. 1994; = Laffan (Wm.)ed. Painting Ireland – Topographical Views from Glin Castle, 4to D. 2006; = Irish Watercolours and Drawings – National Gallery of Ireland, 4to D. 1991; = Kinmonth (Claudia) Irish Rural Interiors in Art, lg. 4to New Haven (Yale) 2006; = & 1 other. (6)

Lot 666/0198

SOLD Hammer price €200

Interesting Association
Co. Limerick – Bodyke interest: Royal Commission of Inquiry into The Procedure and Practice and the Methods of Valuation… Under The Land Acts and The Land Purchase Acts, Vol. III (only) appendices to Minutes of Evidence. Folio D. 1898, cont. hf. mor. mor. label.
* Capt. G. O’Callaghan, Westropp was a witness in this Enquiry, and this was his copy, and is inscribed by him ‘G. O’Callaghan – Westropp, Coolreagh, Bodyke, Jan. 1899. A copy of The Bodyke Evictions, by John S. Kelly, relating to this famous incident during the Land War accompanies this lot. (2)

Lot 667/0198

SOLD Hammer price €550

Irish Gazetteer: The Parliamentary Gazetteer of Ireland, 3 vols. imp. 8vo D.L. & Edin. 1846. FIRST EDN., cold. armorial frontis Vol. I, 11 engd. maps (9 lg. fold.) & 10 engd. plts., cont. hf. mor. mor. labels. Good. (3)
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Lot 668/0198

SOLD Hammer price €550

Hore (O Herbert) History of the Town and County of Wexford, 6 vols. 4to Oxford Reprint 1979. Illus. etc., full green cloth. V. good. (6)
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Lot 669/0198

Geography Publication: Nolan (Wm.) & other editors, Cork History & Society, D. 1993; = Wicklow, History & Society, D. 1994; = & Donegal History & Society, D. 1995, 3 vols., illus., etc., cloth & d.w.’s. Good. (3)

Lot 670/0198

SOLD Hammer price €500

Periodical: Millet (B.) & others, editors, Collectanea Hibernica, Sources for Irish History. No. 1 – Nos 39/40 in 32 vols. complete to date, 8vo D. 1958 – 1998. FIRST EDNS., orig. ptd. wrappers, good. As a periodical, w.a.f. (1)
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Lot 671/0198

SOLD Hammer price €250

Periodical: Carroll (Donald), Arnold (Bruce) etc., editors, The Dubliner, later, The Dublin Magazine, Vol. I No. 1 – Vol. 3, No. 4, & Vol. 4 No. 1 – Vol. 10 No. 4, together 37 nos. All Published., including the large format first number, D. Nov./Dec. 1961 – Spring/Summer 1974. All orig. printed wrappers, v. good. Scarce. As a periodical. (1)
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Lot 672/0198

SOLD Hammer price €70

Hughes (Ted) Crow From the Life and Songs of a Crow. 8vo L. (Faber & Faber) 1970. FIRST EDN., cloth, & v. clean d.w.; = also Graves (Robert) Colophon to Love Respelt, roy 8vo Barnet 1967. Privately Printed, LIM. EDN. 124 (386), signed by Author, d.w. Both v. clean copies. (2)

Lot 673/0198

SOLD Hammer price €240

Rare Tract by Limerick Author
Nihell (James) Novae Raraeque Observationes Circa Variarum Crisium ex Pulsu millo habito Respectu ad signa critica Antiquorum: 8vo Amsterdam 1746. FIRST EDN., In two Parts, [XVI] 152, 48pp., cont. vellum, mor. labels. Good. V. Scarce. (1)
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Lot 674/0198

SOLD Hammer price €180

Moryson (Fynes) An Itinerary Containing His Ten years Travell through … France, England, Scotland & Ireland, 4 vols. 8vo Glasgow 1907. Fold. & other illus., maps etc., uncut, orig. gilt decor. red cloth. V. clean set. (4)
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Lot 675/0198

SOLD Hammer price €70

Modern Irish First Edns: Cronin (Anthony) Dead as Doornails, D. 1976. Signed; = Leonard (H.) Home before Night, L. 1979; = Doyle (Roddy) Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha, L. 1993; = Stephens (James) James, Seumas & Jacques, Unpublished Writings…. . L. 1964; = Plunkett (J.) Farewell Companions, L. 1977; = Byrne (J.F.) Silent Years, An Autobiography with Memoirs of James Joyce and Our Ireland, N.Y. 1953; = Donleavy (J.P.) Are You Listening Rabbi Low, 1987; = all d.w.’s; = & 2 others. All First Edns. (9)

Lot 676/0198

Talbot (Poter) Archbishop of Dublin, A Treatise of Religion and Government; With Reflections upon the Cause and Cure of England Late Distempers and Present Dangers, 4to [Ghent] 1670. FIRST EDN., title [17], 614, 34, [7] & contents [14], & errata leaf, some pp. badly browned, & 2 pps with some text cut out (pages repaired in blank), title inscribed Wm. Talbot, & Richard Coyne 1811, cont. calf, blind tooled panel, tooled gilt spine, mor. label, upr. joint broken. Sweeney 4909. Rare. (1)
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